Coordinates: 27°31′30.12″S 153°0′26.06″E / 27.5250333°S 153.0072389°E / -27.5250333; 153.0072389
The 2010 men's singles runner-up,
Radek Štěpánek, won the first edition of the event held in Brisbane
2008 Gold Coast runner-up
Victoria Azarenka eventually won her first career title one year later in Brisbane
Former World No. 1
Lleyton Hewitt reached four finals from 1998-2000 and 2014, winning on three occasions (1998, 2000, 2014)
Ai Sugiyama won the singles title twice and the doubles title once, reaching an additional singles final in Gold Coast
Patty Schnyder won the singles title twice in Gold Coast, in 1999 and 2005
Dinara Safina was successful at the event, winning the singles once, and the doubles three consecutive times between 2006 and 2008
Inside of Pat Rafter Arena during a day session
The
Brisbane International is a professional
tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts in
Brisbane,
Queensland. It is currently 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. It is owned by
Tennis Australia.
History
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 1880, 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.[1]
The tournament had a chaotic history over the following years, taking place on the professional tour again in 1974, in 1977, as the Marlboro-sponsored South Australian Men's Tennis Classic,[2] and in 1979, as the South Australian Open,[3] before it started a regular run in 1981 under the latter title. Moved from January to December in the Grand Prix circuit calendars of the early 1980s, the South Australian Open sealed its place as the opening event of the season in 1987, when it was scheduled again in January, following the return of the Australian Open as the first Grand Slam event of the year. After the surface change of the Australian Open, the tournament also switched to hard courts, starting with the 1988 edition. During the 1980s, the event saw the victories of Australian players as Wally Masur, Mark Woodforde, Mark Kratzmann or Darren Cahill. The taking over of the tour's organization in 1990 by the Association of Tennis Professionals led to several changes, when the tournament, an ATP World Series event, became the Australian Men's Hardcourt Championships, and the prize money increased from $93,000 to $125,000.
In 1997, the Corel WTA Tour created a new event –played on outdoor hardcourts– in Gold Coast, Queensland.[4] The Tier III Gold Coast Classic was added the three preexisting tournaments of Auckland, Sydney and Hobart, and became one of the two events held in the first week of the women's calendar, parallel to the men's Adelaide tournament. Various players, among which Ai Sugiyama, Justine Henin, Patty Schnyder or Venus Williams found success over the years at the low tier tune-up event for the Australian Open. The Gold Coast Classic became the Thalgo Australian Women's Hardcourts in 1998, took the sponsorship of Uncle Tobys in 2003, becoming Uncle Tobys Hardcourts, and changed names again in 2006 to Mondial Australian Women's Hardcourts.[4]
Meanwhile, the ATP International Series Adelaide, which had evolved into the AAPT Championships in 1999, Next Generation Hardcourts in 2005, and Next Generation Adelaide International in 2006 had become one of the three stops of the calendar's first week, alongside the Qatar ExxonMobil Open of Doha, Qatar, and the Chennai Open of Chennai, India. Many popular players added their names to the honor roll in the 1990s and the early 2000s, with Thomas Muster, Goran Ivanišević, Jim Courier, Lleyton Hewitt, Tommy Haas, Tim Henman, Nikolay Davydenko or Novak Djokovic winning the singles - and Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde, Bob and Mike Bryan, Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram reaching the doubles finals.
As both the men's and the women's tour calendars were to undergo important changes from 2008 to 2009, with the WTA inaugurating its new roadmap of International and Premier tournaments, and the ATP Tour becoming the ATP World Tour, with new Masters 1000, 500 and 250 events, it was decided in 2006 to merge the Next Generation Adelaide International and the Mondial Australian Women's Hardcourts into a larger ATP-WTA joint tournament in Brisbane, leading, similarly to the joint Medibank International Sydney, to the Australian Open.[5] Tennis Australia chief Steve Wood commented on the shift: "One of the reasons we are doing this is that there's a rise of more lucrative overseas tournaments in the lead-up to the Australian Open offering increasingly attractive alternatives to the top players looking to prepare for the first Grand Slam. [...] So we really wanted them to invest in having them continue to prepare here in Australia, on the road to the Australian Open."[5] The first Brisbane International took place in Brisbane's newly built Tennyson Tennis Centre – and its Patrick Rafter-named Centre Court – in January 2009.[6][7] In time for the 2012 event the tournament was promoted to a premier event on the WTA tour.[8]
Past finals
In the men's singles, Lleyton Hewitt (1998, 2000, 2014) holds the record for most titles with three. Mike Bauer (1982–83), Mark Woodforde (1988–89), Nicklas Kulti (1991, 1993), Yevgeny Kafelnikov (1994, 1996) and Andy Murray (2012–13) each have two titles. Bauer, Woodforde and Murray co-hold the record for most consecutive titles. Hewitt alone holds the record for most finals with four (1998–2000, 2014).
In the women's singles, Ai Sugiyama (1998, 2004), Patty Schnyder (1999, 2005), and Serena Williams (2013, 2014) share the record for most titles with two. Sugiyama also holds the record for most finals appearances (1997–98, 2004).
Men's singles
Location |
Year |
Champion |
Runner-up |
Score |
Brisbane |
2014 | Lleyton Hewitt | Roger Federer | 6–1, 4–6, 6–3 |
2013 | Andy Murray | Grigor Dimitrov | 7–6(7–0), 6–4 |
2012 | Andy Murray | Alexandr Dolgopolov | 6–1, 6–3 |
2011 | Robin Söderling | Andy Roddick | 6–3, 7–5 |
2010 | Andy Roddick | Radek Štěpánek | 7–6(7–2), 7–6(9–7) |
2009 | Radek Štěpánek | Fernando Verdasco | 3–6, 6–3, 6–4 |
Adelaide |
2008 | Michaël Llodra | Jarkko Nieminen | 6–3, 6–4 |
2007 | Novak Djokovic | Chris Guccione | 6–3, 6–7(6–8), 6–4 |
2006 | Florent Serra | Xavier Malisse | 6–3, 6–4 |
2005 | Joachim Johansson | Taylor Dent | 7–5, 6–3 |
2004 | Dominik Hrbatý | Michaël Llodra | 6–4, 6–0 |
2003 | Nikolay Davydenko | Kristof Vliegen | 6–2, 7–6(7–3) |
2002 | Tim Henman | Mark Philippoussis | 6–4, 6–7(6–8), 6–3 |
2001 | Tommy Haas | Nicolás Massú | 6–3, 6–1 |
2000 | Lleyton Hewitt | Thomas Enqvist | 3–6, 6–3, 6–2 |
1999 | Thomas Enqvist | Lleyton Hewitt | 4–6, 6–1, 6–2 |
1998 | Lleyton Hewitt | Jason Stoltenberg | 3–6, 6–3, 7–6(7–4) |
1997 | Todd Woodbridge | Scott Draper | 6–2, 6–1 |
1996 | Yevgeny Kafelnikov | Byron Black | 7–6(7–0), 3–6, 6–1 |
1995 | Jim Courier | Arnaud Boetsch | 6–2, 7–5 |
1994 | Yevgeny Kafelnikov | Alexander Volkov | 6–4, 6–3 |
1993 | Nicklas Kulti | Christian Bergström | 3–6, 7–5, 6–4 |
1992 | Goran Ivanišević | Christian Bergström | 1–6, 7–6(7–5), 6–4 |
1991 | Nicklas Kulti | Michael Stich | 6–3, 1–6, 6–2 |
1990 | Thomas Muster | Jimmy Arias | 3–6, 6–2, 7–5 |
1989 | Mark Woodforde | Patrik Kühnen | 7–5, 1–6, 7–5 |
1988 | Mark Woodforde | Wally Masur | 6–2, 6–4 |
1987 | Wally Masur | Bill Scanlon | 6–4, 7–6 |
1986 | Not Held |
1985 | Eddie Edwards | Peter Doohan | 6–2, 6–4 |
1984 | Peter Doohan | Huub van Boeckel | 1–6, 6–1, 6–4 |
1983 | Mike Bauer | Miloslav Mečíř | 3–6, 6–4, 6–1 |
1982 | Mike Bauer | Chris Johnstone | 4–6, 7–6, 6–2 |
1981 | Mark Edmondson | Brad Drewett | 7–5, 6–2 |
1980 | Non-Tour Event |
1979 | Kim Warwick | Bernard Mitton | 7–5, 6–4 |
1978 | Non-Tour Event |
1977 | Victor Amaya | Brian Teacher | 6–1, 6–4 |
1976 | Non-Tour Event |
1975 | Non-Tour Event |
1974 | Dick Stockton | Geoff Masters | 6–2, 6–3, 6–2 |
1973 | Non-Tour Event |
1972 | Alex Metreveli | Kim Warwick | 6–3, 6–3, 7–6 |
Women's singles
Location |
Year |
Champion |
Runner-up |
Score |
Brisbane |
2014 | Serena Williams | Victoria Azarenka | 6–4, 7–5 |
2013 | Serena Williams | Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova | 6–2, 6–1 |
2012 | Kaia Kanepi | Daniela Hantuchová | 6–2, 6–1 |
↑ Premier tournament ↑ |
2011 | Petra Kvitová | Andrea Petkovic | 6–1, 6–3 |
2010 | Kim Clijsters | Justine Henin | 6–3, 4–6, 7–6(8–6) |
2009 | Victoria Azarenka | Marion Bartoli | 6–3, 6–1 |
Gold Coast |
2008 | Li Na | Victoria Azarenka | 4–6, 6–3, 6–4 |
2007 | Dinara Safina | Martina Hingis | 6–3, 3–6, 7–5 |
2006 | Lucie Šafářová | Flavia Pennetta | 6–3, 6–4 |
2005 | Patty Schnyder | Samantha Stosur | 1–6, 6–3, 7–5 |
2004 | Ai Sugiyama | Nadia Petrova | 1–6, 6–1, 6–4 |
2003 | Nathalie Dechy | Marie-Gayanay Mikaelian | 6–3, 3–6, 6–3 |
2002 | Venus Williams | Justine Henin | 7–5, 6–2 |
2001 | Justine Henin | Silvia Farina Elia | 7–6(7–5), 6–4 |
2000 | Silvija Talaja | Conchita Martínez | 6–1, 3–6, 6–0 |
1999 | Patty Schnyder | Mary Pierce | 4–6, 7–6(7–5), 6–2 |
1998 | Ai Sugiyama | María Vento-Kabchi | 7–5, 6–0 |
1997 | Elena Likhovtseva | Ai Sugiyama | 3–6, 7–6(9–7), 6–3 |
Men's doubles
Location |
Year |
Champions |
Runners-up |
Score |
Brisbane |
2014 | Mariusz Fyrstenberg Daniel Nestor | Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah | 6-7(4-7), 6-4, [10-7] |
2013 | Marcelo Melo Tommy Robredo | Eric Butorac Paul Hanley | 4–6, 6–1, [10–5] |
2012 | Max Mirnyi Daniel Nestor | Jürgen Melzer Philipp Petzschner | 6–1, 6–2 |
2011 | Lukáš Dlouhý Paul Hanley | Robert Lindstedt Horia Tecău | 6–4 retired |
2010 | Jérémy Chardy Marc Gicquel | Lukáš Dlouhý Leander Paes | 6–3, 7–6(7–5) |
2009 | Marc Gicquel Jo-Wilfried Tsonga | Fernando Verdasco Mischa Zverev | 6–4, 6–3 |
Adelaide |
2008 | Martín García Marcelo Melo | Chris Guccione Robert Smeets | 6–3, 3–6, [10–7] |
2007 | Wesley Moodie Todd Perry | Novak Djokovic Radek Štěpánek | 6–3, 4–6, [15–13] |
2006 | Jonathan Erlich Andy Ram | Paul Hanley Kevin Ullyett | 7–6(7–4), 7–6(12–10) |
2005 | Xavier Malisse Olivier Rochus | Simon Aspelin Todd Perry | 7–6(7–5), 6–4 |
2004 | Bob Bryan Mike Bryan | Arnaud Clément Michaël Llodra | 7–5, 6–3 |
2003 | Jeff Coetzee Chris Haggard | Max Mirnyi Jeff Morrison | 2–6, 6–4, 7–6(9–7) |
2002 | Wayne Black Kevin Ullyett | Bob Bryan Mike Bryan | 7–5, 6–2 |
2001 | David Macpherson Grant Stafford | Wayne Arthurs Todd Woodbridge | 6–7(5–7), 6–4, 6–4 |
2000 | Mark Woodforde Todd Woodbridge | Lleyton Hewitt Sandon Stolle | 6–4, 6–2 |
1999 | Gustavo Kuerten Nicolás Lapentti | Jim Courier Patrick Galbraith | 6–4, 6–4 |
1998 | Joshua Eagle Andrew Florent | Ellis Ferreira Rick Leach | 6–4, 6–7, 6–3 |
1997 | Patrick Rafter Bryan Shelton | Todd Woodbridge Mark Woodforde | 6–4, 1–6, 6–3 |
1996 | Todd Woodbridge Mark Woodforde | Jonas Björkman Tommy Ho | 7–5, 7–6 |
1995 | Jim Courier Patrick Rafter | Byron Black Grant Connell | 7–6, 6–4 |
1994 | Mark Kratzmann Andrew Kratzmann | David Adams Byron Black | 6–4, 6–3 |
1993 | Todd Woodbridge Mark Woodforde | John Fitzgerald Laurie Warder | 6–4, 7–5 |
1992 | Goran Ivanišević Marc Rosset | Mark Kratzmann Jason Stoltenberg | 7–6, 7–6 |
1991 | Wayne Ferreira Stefan Kruger | Paul Haarhuis Mark Koevermans | 6–4, 4–6, 6–4 |
1990 | Andrew Castle Nduka Odizor | Alexander Mronz Michiel Schapers | 7–6, 6–2 |
1989 | Neil Broad Stefan Kruger | Mark Kratzmann Glenn Layendecker | 6–2, 7–6 |
1988 | Darren Cahill Mark Kratzmann | Carl Limberger Mark Woodforde | 4–6, 6–2, 7–5 |
1987 | Ivan Lendl Bill Scanlon | Peter Doohan Laurie Warder | 6–7, 6–3, 6–4 |
1986 | Not Held |
1985 | Mark Edmondson Kim Warwick | Nelson Aerts Tomm Warneke | 6–4, 6–4 |
1984 | Broderick Dyke Wally Masur | Peter Doohan Brian Levine | 4–6, 7–5, 6–1 |
1983 | Craig Miller Eric Sherbeck | Broderick Dyke Rod Frawley | 6–3, 4–6, 6–4 |
1982 | Pat Cash Chris Johnstone | Broderick Dyke Wayne Hampson | 6–3, 6–7, 7–6 |
1981 | Colin Dibley Chris Kachel | Eddie Edwards Craig Edwards | 6–3, 6–4 |
1980 | Non-Tour Event |
1979 | Colin Dibley John James | John Alexander Phil Dent | 6–7, 7–6, 6–4 |
1978 | Non-Tour Event |
1977 | Cliff Letcher Dick Stockton | Syd Ball Kim Warwick | 6–3, 6–4 |
1976 | Non-Tour Event |
1975 | Non-Tour Event |
1974 | Grover Raz Reid Allan Stone | Mike Estep Paul Kronk | 7–6, 6–4 |
1973 | Non-Tour Event |
1972 | Competition Not Held |
Women's doubles
Location |
Year |
Champions |
Runners-up |
Score |
Brisbane |
2014 | Alla Kudryavtseva Anastasia Rodionova | Kristina Mladenovic Galina Voskoboeva | 6-3, 6-1 |
2013 | Bethanie Mattek-Sands Sania Mirza | Anna-Lena Grönefeld Květa Peschke | 4–6, 6–4, [10–7] |
2012 | Nuria Llagostera Vives Arantxa Parra Santonja | Raquel Kops-Jones Abigail Spears | 7–6(7–2), 7–6(7–2) |
↑ Premier tournament ↑ |
2011 | Alisa Kleybanova Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova | Klaudia Jans Alicja Rosolska | 6–3, 7–5 |
2010 | Andrea Hlaváčková Lucie Hradecká | Melinda Czink Arantxa Parra Santonja | 2–6, 7–6(7–3), [10–4] |
2009 | Anna-Lena Grönefeld Vania King | Klaudia Jans Alicja Rosolska | 3–6, 7–5, [10–5] |
Gold Coast |
2008 | Dinara Safina Ágnes Szávay | Yan Zi Zheng Jie | 6–1, 6–2 |
2007 | Dinara Safina Katarina Srebotnik | Iveta Benešová Galina Voskoboeva | 6–3, 6–4 |
2006 | Dinara Safina Meghann Shaughnessy | Cara Black Rennae Stubbs | 6–2, 6–3 |
2005 | Elena Likhovtseva Magdalena Maleeva | Maria Elena Camerin Silvia Farina Elia | 6–3, 5–7, 6–1 |
2004 | Svetlana Kuznetsova Elena Likhovtseva | Liezel Huber Magdalena Maleeva | 6–3, 6–4 |
2003 | Svetlana Kuznetsova Martina Navratilova | Nathalie Dechy Émilie Loit | 6–4, 6–4 |
2002 | Justine Henin Meghann Shaughnessy | Åsa Svensson Miriam Oremans | 6–1, 7–6(8–6) |
2001 | Giulia Casoni Janette Husárová | Katie Schlukebir Meghann Shaughnessy | 7–6(11–9), 7–5 |
2000 | Julie Halard-Decugis Anna Kournikova | Sabine Appelmans Rita Grande | 6–3, 6–0 |
1999 | Corina Morariu Larisa Neiland | Kristine Kunce Irina Spîrlea | 6–3, 6–3 |
1998 | Elena Likhovtseva Ai Sugiyama | Park Sung-hee Wang Shi-ting | 1–6, 6–3, 6–4 |
1997 | Naoko Kijimuta Nana Miyagi | Ruxandra Dragomir Silvia Farina Elia | 7–6, 6–1 |
References
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