Brisbane International (tennis)
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| Event name | Brisbane International | ||||||||
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Adelaide, SA (1972–2008) Brisbane, Queensland (2009–present) |
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| Venue | Queensland Tennis Centre | ||||||||
| Surface | Plexicushion | ||||||||
| Website | brisbaneinternational.com.au | ||||||||
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| Category | ATP World Tour 250 series |
| Draw | 32M/32Q/16D |
| Prize money | $461,330 |
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| Category | WTA Premier tournaments |
| Draw | 32M/32Q/16D |
| Prize money | $1,000,000 |
Coordinates: 27°31′30.12″S 153°0′26.06″E / 27.5250333°S 153.0072389°E
The Brisbane International is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts in Brisbane, Queensland. It is part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) World Tour and of the WTA Premier tournaments of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Tour. It is held annually in January at the Queensland Tennis Centre just before the first Grand Slam tournament of the season, the Australian Open as part of the Australian Open Series. It is owned by Tennis Australia.
The origins of the Brisbane International trace back to the early 1970s, when the Grand Prix tennis circuit, formed in 1970, and which ran concurrently with other tours as the World Championship Tennis circuit, decided to feature on its calendar an event in Queensland to develop a South West Pacific season around the Australian Open - then taking place in Brisbane - alongside other Oceanian events of Sydney, New South Wales; Hobart, Tasmania; and Auckland, New Zealand. The Adelaide-based South Australian Tennis Championships, running as an amateur, then as a State championship, since 1889, were brought to the professional circuit in 1972. The first professional edition of the men's event, played, like the Australian Open, on outdoor grass courts, saw the victory of Soviet Alex Metreveli over Kim Warwick, while the women's event, still not featured in either the Commercial Union Grand Prix circuit or the Virginia Slims circuit, saw Australian Evonne Goolagong win the title.
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