Australian Open or the Grand Slam of the Asia Pacific is the first of the four Grand Slam events held every year. This is held in January at the Melbourne Park in Melbourne. This hard court tournament was held in grass courts until 1987 before the hard courts came in 1988. There are men’s and women’s singles competition along with men’s, women’s and mixed doubles competition. There is also a junior’s and master’s competition.

The Australian open is rich in its tradition being held from 1905 and the heat of the Australian summer brings the best out of the players. The open has typically high attendance and is worth around 38 million pounds. The prize money is equal for men’s and women’s singles tournaments with the winners pocketing 2 million Australian Dollars. The women’s singles winner grabs the Daphne Akhurst memorial cup named after the legendary Australian tennis player of the 1920’s. The men’s singles winner gets the Norman Brookes Challenge cup after the Tennis Half of famer Sir Norman Brookes. The centre court of Melbourne Park was renamed Rod Laver arena in honor of the 3 time Australian open winner Rod laver. http://yaytickets.com/ has tickets for all the best sections in the Rod Laver Arena.

Roy Emerson from Queensland, Australia has won the most number of Australian opens with 6 titles to his name. He won his last title in 1967. The Australian open was open to professionals from 1968 and since then Andre Agassi has won 4 titles being the highest. Margaret Court has the honor of winning the most number of women’s titles with a count of 11 of which 7 where in the pre open era. Rafael Nadal won the men’s singles in 2009 becoming the first Spaniard to win the Australian Open and Serena Williams won the women’s singles 2009 to pocket her fourth title.

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