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{{GrandSlamTournaments
| Name = Australian Open
| Logo = Australian_Open.jpg
| Logo size = 200px
| Bar Color = #F9D251
| City = [[Melbourne]]
| Country = {{AUS}}
| Venue = [[Melbourne Park]]
| Surface = [[Plexicushion]]
| Men Draw = 128S / 128Q / 64D
| Women Draw = 128S / 96Q / 64D
| Prize Money = [[A$]]20,600,000 <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.australianopen.com/en_AU/news/articles/2007-10-02/200710021191353382343.html |title=Australian Open - where the world comes to play|publisher=Australian Open|accessdate=2008-01-25|date=[[2 October]] [[2007]]}}</ref>
| Web site = http://www.australianopen.com/
| Notes =
}}
The '''Australian Open''' is one of the four [[Grand Slam (tennis)|Grand Slam]] [[tennis]] [[tournaments]] held each year. It is held each January at [[Melbourne Park]]. The tournament was held for the first time in 1905. Like the other three Grand Slam events, it was contested by top-ranked amateur players and known as the '''Australasian Championships''' until 1926 then the '''Australian Championships''' until the advent of open era in 1968. Originally based at the [[Tennis court#Grass courts|grass courts]] at [[Kooyong Stadium|Kooyong]] in the city of [[Melbourne]]'s inner south-east, the tournament was in danger of fading into irrelevance before being revived in 1988 with a shift to [[Melbourne Park]] (then called Flinders Park), a new ([[Rebound Ace]]) [[Tennis court#hard courts|hardcourt]] venue next to the [[Melbourne Cricket Ground]] on the southern fringe of the central business district. [[Mats Wilander]] was the only player to win the tournament both on grass and on Rebound Ace.
Like all the Grand Slam tournaments, there are men's and women's singles competitions, men's, women's, and mixed doubles, as well as junior and master's competitions.
The Australian Open was held in December from 1977 through to 1985, returning to its original January date in 1987. In 1986, because of the return to January, no tournament was held.
The two main courts used in the tournament are [[Rod Laver Arena]] and [[Vodafone Arena]] and feature retractable roofs, which can be shut in case of rain or extreme heat. It is the only Grand Slam tournament that features indoor play. However, work has already commenced on a retractable roof for Wimbledon's Centre Court, which is expected to be completed by 2009.
Held in the middle of the Australian summer, the Australian Open is famous for its notoriously hot days. An [[Extreme heat policy|extreme-heat policy]] is often put into play when temperatures (and humidity) reach dangerous levels.
The Australian Open typically has very high attendance, with the 2008 Australian Open achieving the highest ever day/night attendance record for any Grand Slam tournament of 62,885. <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.australianopen.com/en_AU/news/articles/2008-01-17/200801171200571304801.html?promo=hp_toparticles |title=AO 2008 achieves Grand Slam world record |publisher=Australian Open|date=[[17 January]] [[2008]]|accessdate=2008-01-25}}</ref>
In 2008, the [[Rebound Ace]] surface, which had been in place for the past 20 years at Melbourne Park, was replaced by a cushioned acrylic surface known as [[Plexicushion]]. The main benefits of the new surface: better consistency and less retention of heat (due to a thinner top layer). This change was accompanied by changes in the surfaces of all lead-up tournaments to the Australian Open. Work began on the removal of the old surface on 4 June 2007. The decision has been met with much controversy, primarily due to the new surface's similarity to [[DecoTurf]], the surface already being utilised by the [[US Open (tennis)|US Open]].
The [[2008 Australian Open|most recent tournament]] was held in from [[14 January]] through [[27 January]], [[2008]]. The singles winners were [[Novak Đoković]] and [[Maria Sharapova]].
==History==
[[Image:Ausopen margaret court arena medium.jpg|thumb|300px|Margaret Court Arena at the Australian Open with the old Rebound Ace surface. Rod Laver Arena, the centre court, in the background.]]
[[Image:Rod laver arena.jpg|thumb|300px|Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne Park, Melbourne. The main location of play.]]
The Australian Open is managed by [[Tennis Australia]], formerly the Lawn Tennis Association of Australia (LTAA), and was first played at the Warehouseman's Cricket Ground in [[St Kilda Road, Melbourne]] in 1905.<ref name=jazzsports>{{cite web|url=http://www.jazzsports.com/tennis-odds-grand-slam-events/australian-open-tennis-odds/australian-open-tennis-history.php |title=Australian Tennis Open History |publisher=Jazzsports|accessdate=2008-01-22}}</ref>
The tournament was first played in 1905 as The Australasian Championships, became the Australian Championships in 1927 and the Australian Open in 1969.<ref name=OfficialHist>{{cite web|url=http://www.australianopen.com/en_AU/event_guide/history.html |title=History of the Australian Open – the Grand Slam of Asia/Pacific|author= Tristan Foenander|publisher=Australian Open|accessdate=2008-01-22}}</ref> Since 1905, the Australian Open has been staged in five different cities as follows: Melbourne (50 times), [[Sydney]] (17 times), [[Adelaide]] (14 times), [[Brisbane]] (8 times), [[Perth, Western Australia|Perth]] (3 times), as well as in [[New Zealand]], (2 times) in 1906 [[Christchurch]] and 1912 [[Hastings, New Zealand|Hastings]].<ref name=OfficialHist /> In 1972 it was decided to stage the tournament in the same city each year, the Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club was selected due to Melbourne attracting the biggest patronage.<ref name=jazzsports />
[[Melbourne Park]] (formerly Flinders Park) was constructed in time for the 1988 Open to meet the demands of the evolving tournament that had outgrown Kooyong's capacity. The move to Melbourne Park was an immediate success, with a 90 per cent increase in attendance in 1988 (266,436) on the previous year at Kooyong (140,000).<ref name=TheAge>{{cite web|url=http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23049738-5015682,00.html |title=Open began as Aussie closed shop|publisher=[[news.com.au]]|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|author=Frank Cook|date=[[14 February]] [[2008]]|accessdate=2008-01-22}}</ref>
Because of its geographic remoteness very few foreign players entered this tournament at the beginning. (In the 1920s it took about 45 days to make the trip by ship from [[Europe]] to Australia.) The first tennis players who came by aircraft were the US [[Davis Cup]] players in November 1946.<ref name=TheAge /> Even inside the country many players couldn't travel easily; when the Championships were held in Perth, no Victorians or New South Welshers crossed by train, a distance of approximately 3,000 kilometres between the east and west coasts. In 1906, in Christchurch, New Zealand, of a small field of 10 players, only two Australians attended, and the tournament was won by a New Zealander.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tennisfame.com/famer.aspx?pgID=867&hof_id=100 |title=Anthony Frederick Wilding "Tony"|publisher=[[International Tennis Hall of Fame]]|accessdate=2008-02-01}}</ref>
The first tournaments of the Australasian Championships suffered from the competition of the other Australasian tournaments, and before 1905 all of the Australian states and New Zealand had their own championships, the first being organised in 1880 in Melbourne and called the Championship of the Colony of Victoria (later become the Championship of Victoria).<ref name=tennis.com.au>{{cite web|url=http://www.tennis.com.au/pages/default.aspx?id=21&pageId=878 |title=History of Tennis - From humble beginnings|publisher=[[Tennis Australia]]|accessdate=2008-01-25}}</ref>. In those years the best two players by far, from "Down Under" the Australian [[Norman Brookes]] (whose name is now written on the men's singles cup) and the New Zealander [[Anthony Wilding]], almost didn't play this tournament. Brookes came once and won in 1911 and Wilding entered and won the competition twice (1906 and 1909). Their meetings in the Victorian Championships (or at Wimbledon) were the summits that helped to determine the best Australasian players. Even when the Australasian Championships were held in Hastings, New Zealand, in 1912, Wilding, though three times Wimbledon champion, didn't come back to his home country. It was a recurrent problem for all of the players of the era; Brookes went to Europe only three times, where he reached the Wimbledon Challenge Round once and then won Wimbledon twice. Thus many players had never played the Austral(as)ian amateur or open championships: the Renshaws, the Dohertys, [[William Larned]], [[Maurice McLoughlin]], [[Beals Wright]], [[Bill Johnston]], [[Bill Tilden]], [[René Lacoste]], [[Henri Cochet]], [[Bobby Riggs]], [[Jack Kramer]], [[Ted Schroeder]], [[Pancho Gonzales]], [[Budge Patty]], [[Manuel Santana]], [[Jan Kodes]] and others, while Brookes, [[Ellsworth Vines]], [[Jaroslav Drobny]], [[Manuel Orantes]], [[Ilie Năstase]] at 35 years old, and [[Bjorn Borg]] just came once. Due to this former lack of top player participation, the Australian Open has often been seen as the least prestigious of the four tennis grand slam open tournaments.
From 1969, when the first Australian Open was held, on the [[Milton Courts]] at Brisbane, the tournament was open to all players—including professionals, who weren't allowed to play the traditional circuit.<ref name=Ausstadiums>{{cite web|url=http://www.austadiums.com/stadiums/special/milton.php |title=Milton Tennis Centre|publisher=Australian Stadiums|accessdate=2008-01-25}}</ref> Nevertheless, except for the 1969 and 1971 tournaments, many of the best players missed this championship until 1982, because of the remoteness, the wrong dates (Christmas and New Year's Day), and the low prize money — in 1970 the National Tennis League (NTL), which employed [[Rod Laver]], [[Ken Rosewall]], [[Andres Gimeno]], [[Pancho Gonzales]], [[Roy Emerson]] and [[Fred Stolle]], prevented its players from entering the tournament because the guarantees were insufficient, and the tournament was ultimately won by [[Arthur Ashe]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23047855-5001023,00.html |title=Hewitt chases amazing slam win|publisher=[[news.com.au]]|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|author=Nikki Tugwell |date=[[14 January]] [[2008]]|accessdate=2008-01-25}}</ref>
In 1983, [[Ivan Lendl]], [[John McEnroe]] and [[Mats Wilander]] all entered the tournament, with Wilander having to play the [[Davis Cup]] at Kooyong a few days after the tournament. He would go on to win the Open and the Davis Cup.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wilandertribute.com/22.html |title=Australian Open 1983|author=Alan Trengove|publisher=wilandertribute.com |accessdate=2008-02-19}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.daviscup.com/results/tieresult.asp?tie=10000700 |title=World Group 1983 Final|publisher=[[Davis Cup]]|accessdate=2008-02-19}}</ref> Following the 1983 Open, the [[International Tennis Federation]] prompted the [[Tennis Australia|Lawn Tennis Association of Australia]] to change the site of the tournament, because the Kooyong stadium was then inappropriate to serve such a big event, and in 1988 the tournament was first held at Flinders Park (later renamed Melbourne Park) on [[Rebound Ace]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,21131668-5001023,00.html |title=Rebound Ace under review|publisher=[[news.com.au]]|work=[[The Daily Telegraph (Australia)|The Daily Telegraph]]|date=[[29 January]] [[2007]]|accessdate=2008-02-19}}</ref>
Before the Melbourne Park stadium era, tournament dates fluctuated as well, in particular in the early years because of the climate of each site or exceptional events. For example, just after World War I, the 1919 tournament was held in January 1920 (the 1920 tournament was played in March); the 1923 tournament in Brisbane took place in August when the weather is not too hot and wet. After a first 1977 tournament was held in December 1976 – January 1977, the organisers chose to move the next tournament forward a few days, then a second 1977 tournament was played (ended on 31 December) but this failed to attract the best players. From 1982 to 1985 the tournament was played in mid-December, then it was decided to move the next tournament to mid-January (January 1987), thus there was no tournament in 1986. Since 1987 the Australian Open date has not changed.
[[Image:Margaretcourtstitched.jpg|thumb|left|800px|[[Panorama]] of [[Margaret Court Arena]] during the 2008 Australian Open.]]
===Recent attendances===
*[[2008 Australian Open|2008]] - 605,735<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.australianopen.com/en_AU/event_guide/attendance_history.pdf |title=The Australian Open - History of Attendance|publisher=Australian Open|accessdate=2008-01-30|format=[[PDF]]}}</ref>
*[[2007 Australian Open|2007]] - 554,858<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tennisaustralia.com.au/pages/News.aspx?id=4&pageId=11478&HandlerId=2&archive=false&newsid=2696 |title=AO 2007: The Final Word|publisher=[[Tennis Australia]]|accessdate=2008-01-25}}</ref>
*[[2006 Australian Open|2006]] - 550,550
*[[2005 Australian Open|2005]] - 543,873<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/tennis/specials/australian_open/2005/01/30/notebook.sunday.ap/ |title=Safin credits Lundgren for resurgence|publisher=[[CNN]]|work=[[Sports Illustrated]]|date=[[30 January]] [[2005]]|accessdate=2008-01-25}}</ref>
*[[2004 Australian Open|2004]] - 521,691
==Trophies and prize money==
Names of the winners are inscribed on the perpetual [[trophy]] Cups.
*The Women's Singles winner is presented with the [[Daphne Akhurst]] Memorial Cup.
*The Men's Singles winner is presented with the [[Norman Brookes]] Challenge Cup.
In 2008 the prize money awarded in the Men's and Women's singles tournaments was equal and distributed as follows<ref>[http://www.australianopen.com/en_AU/news/dailylog/20080118.html Australian Open Tennis Championships 2008 - The Grand Slam of Asia/Pacific - Official Site by IBM<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>:
*'''1st Round:''' A$19,400
*'''2nd Round:''' A$30,250
*'''3rd Round:''' A$50,000
*'''4th Round:''' A$85,625
*'''Quarter finalist:''' A$171,250
*'''Semi finalist:''' A$342,500
*'''Runners-up:''' A$685,000
*'''Winners:''' A$1,370,000 (US$1,197,739.20)
==Records==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! '''Record'''
! '''Open Era'''
! '''Player(s)'''
! '''Count'''
! '''Years'''
|-
|colspan=5|'''''Men since 1905'''''
|-
|rowspan=4| Winner of most Men's Singles titles
|rowspan=2|Before 1968:
| {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Roy Emerson]]
| 6
| 1961, 1963-67
|-
| {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Jack Crawford (tennis)|Jack Crawford]] <br/><br/> {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Ken Rosewall]]
| 4
| 1931-33, 1935 <br/><br/>1953, 1955, 1971-72
|-
|rowspan=2|After 1968:
| {{flagicon|US}} [[Andre Agassi]]
| 4
| 1995, 2000-01, 2003
|-
| {{flagicon|SWE}} [[Mats Wilander]] <br/><br/> {{flagicon|CH}} [[Roger Federer]]
| 3
| 1983-84, 1988 <br/><br/> 2004, 2006-07
|-
|rowspan=2|Winner of most consecutive Men's Singles titles
| Before 1968:
| {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Roy Emerson]]
| 5
| 1963-67
|-
| After 1968:
| {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Ken Rosewall]] <br/><br/> {{flagicon|ARG}} [[Guillermo Vilas]] <br/><br/> {{flagicon|South Africa|1928}} [[Johan Kriek]] <br/><br/> {{flagicon|SWE}} [[Mats Wilander]] <br/><br/> {{flagicon|SWE}} [[Stefan Edberg]] <br/><br/> {{flagicon|TCH}} [[Ivan Lendl]] <br/><br/> {{flagicon|US}} [[Jim Courier]] <br/><br/> {{flagicon|US}} [[Andre Agassi]] <br/><br/> {{flagicon|SUI}} [[Roger Federer]]
| 2
| 1971-72 <br/><br/> 1978-79 <br/><br/> 1981-82 <br/><br/> 1983-84 <br/><br/> 1985-87<ref>In 1986 there was no Australian Open held</ref> <br/><br/> 1989-90 <br/><br/> 1992-93 <br/><br/> 2000-01 <br/><br/> 2006-07
|-
|rowspan=4|Winner of most Men's Doubles titles
|rowspan=2|Before 1968:
| {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Adrian Quist]] & [[John Bromwich]]
| 8
| 1938-40, 1946-50
|-
| {{flagicon|AUS}} [[John Newcombe]] & [[Tony Roche]]
| 5
| 1965, 1967, 1971, 1976 - 1973 [[John Newcombe]] with [[Mal Anderson]], 1976 (December) [[Tony Roche]] with [[Arthur Ashe]]
|-
|rowspan=2|After 1968:
| {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Mark Edmondson]]
| 4
| 1980-81 (with [[Kim Warwick]]), 1983 (with [[Paul McNamee]]) 1984 (with [[Sherwood Stewart]])
|-
| {{flagicon|AUS}} [[John Newcombe]] & [[Tony Roche]] <br/><br/> {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Kim Warwick]] <br/><br/> {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Todd Woodbridge]] <br/><br/> {{flagicon|SWE}} [[Jonas Björkman]]
| 3
| ''see above'' <br/><br/> 1978 (with [[Wojtek Fibak]]), 1980-81 <br/><br/>
1992, 1996 (with [[Mark Woodforde]], 2001 (with [[Jonas Björkman]]) <br/><br/> 1998 (with [[Jacco Eltingh]]), 1999 (with Patrick Rafter), 2001
|-
|rowspan=2|Winner of most consecutive Men's Doubles titles
| Before 1968:
| {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Adrian Quist]] & [[John Bromwich]]
| 8
| 1938-40, 1946-50<ref>From 1941-1945 there was no Australian Open held because of World War II</ref>
|-
| After 1968:
| {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Mark Edmondson]] & [[Kim Warwick]] <br/><br/> {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Mark Edmondson]] <br/><br/> {{flagicon|USA}} [[Rick Leach]] & [[Jim Pugh]] <br/><br/>
{{flagicon|FRA}} [[Fabrice Santoro]] & [[Michael Llodra]] <br/><br/> {{flagicon|USA}} [[Bob Bryan]] & [[Mike Bryan]]
| 2
| 1980-81 <br/><br/> 1983 (with [[Paul McNamee]]), 1984 (with [[Sherwood Stewart]]), <br/><br/> 1988-89 <br/><br/> 2003-04 <br/><br/> 2006-07
|-
|rowspan=2|Winner of most Mixed Doubles titles - Men
| Before 1968:
| {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Colin Long]]
| 4
| 1963, 1965-66, 1968 (with [[Nancye Wynne Bolton]])
|-
| After 1968:
| {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Owen Davidson]]
| 4
| 1940, 1946-1948 (with [[Billie Jean King]])
|-
|rowspan=2|Winner of most Championships (total: singles, doubles, mixed) - Men
| Before 1968:
| {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Jack Crawford (tennis)|Jack Crawford]]
| 11
| 1929-1935 (4 singles, 4 doubles, 3 mixed)
|-
| After 1968:
| {{flagicon|USA}} [[Jim Pugh]]
| 5
| 1988-90 (2 doubles, 3 mixed)
|-
|colspan=5|'''''Women since 1922'''''
|-
|rowspan=3|Winner of most Women's Singles titles
|rowspan=2|Before 1968:
| {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Margaret Court]]
| 7
| 1960-66
|-
| {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Nancye Wynne Bolton]]
| 6
| 1937, 1940, 1946-48, 1951
|-
| After 1968:
| {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Margaret Court]] <br/><br/> {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Evonne Goolagong|Evonne Goolagong-Cawley]] <br/><br/> {{flagicon|GER}} [[Steffi Graf]]<br/><br/> {{flagicon|YUG}}/{{flagicon|YUG|FR}}/{{flagicon|USA}} [[Monica Seles]]
| 4
| 1969-71, 1973 <br/><br/> 1974-76, 1977 <br/><br/> 1988-90, 1994 <br/><br/> 1991-93, 1996
|-
|rowspan=2|Winner of most consecutive Women's Singles titles
| Before 1968:
| {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Margaret Court]]
| 7
| 1960-66
|-
| After 1968:
| {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Margaret Court]] <br/><br/> {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Evonne Goolagong|Evonne Goolagong-Cawley]] <br/><br/> {{flagicon|GER}} [[Steffi Graf]]
<br/><br/> {{flagicon|YUG}}/{{flagicon|YUG|FR}}/{{flagicon|USA}} [[Monica Seles]] <br/><br/> {{flagicon|SUI}} [[Martina Hingis]]
| 3
| 1969-71 <br/><br/> 1974-76 <br/><br/> 1988-90 <br/><br/> 1991-93 <br/><br/> 1997-99
|-
|rowspan=3|Winner of most Women's Doubles titles
|rowspan=2|Before 1968:
| {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Thelma Coyne Long]]
| 13
| 1936-40, 1947-49, 1951-52 (with [[Nancye Wynne Bolton]]), 1954, 1956, 1958 (with [[Mary Bevis Hawton]])
|-
| {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Nancye Wynne Bolton]]
| 10
| 1936-40, 1947-49, 1951-52
|-
| After 1968:
| {{flagicon|TCH}}/{{flagicon|USA}} [[Martina Navrátilová]]
| 8
| 1980 (with [[Betsy Nagelsen]]), 1982-85, 1987-89 (with [[Pam Shriver]])
|-
|rowspan=2|Winner of most consecutive Women's Doubles titles
| Before 1968:
| {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Thelma Coyne Long]] <br/><br/> {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Nancye Wynne Bolton]]
| 5
| 1936-40
|-
| After 1968:
| {{flagicon|TCH}}/{{flagicon|USA}} [[Martina Navrátilová]] & {{flagicon|USA}} [[Pam Shriver]]
| 7
| 1982-85, 1987-89
|-
|rowspan=2|Winner of most Mixed Doubles titles - women
| Before 1968:
| {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Daphne Akhurst Cozens]] <br/><br/> {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Nancye Wynne Bolton]] <br/><br/> {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Thelma Coyne Long]] <br/><br/> {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Margaret Court]]
| 4
| 1924-25 (with [[John Willard]]), 1928 (with [[Jean Borotra]]), 1929 (with [[Gar Moon]])<br/><br/> 1940, 1946-48 (with [[Colin Long]])
<br/><br/> 1951-51, 1955 (with [[George Worthington]]), 1954 (with [[Rex Hartwig]]) <br/><br/> 1963-64 (with [[Ken Fletcher]]), 1965 (with [[John Newcombe]]), 1969 (with [[Marty Riessen]])
|-
| After 1968:
| {{flagicon|TCH}} [[Jana Novotná]] <br/><br/> {{flagicon|Latvia}} [[Larisa Neiland]]
| 2
| 1988-89 (with [[Jim Pugh]]) <br/><br/> 1994 (with [[Andrei Olhovskiy]]), 1996 (with [[Mark Woodforde]])
|-
|rowspan=2|Winner of most Championships (total: singles, doubles, mixed) - women
| Before 1968:
| {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Margaret Court]]
| 22
| 1960-1973 (11 singles, 7 doubles, 4 mixed)
|-
| After 1968:
| {{flagicon|TCH}}/{{flagicon|USA}} [[Martina Navrátilová]]
| 12
| 1980-2003 (3 singles, 8 doubles, 1 mixed)
|-
|}
==Champions==
''Main articles listed by event'':
* [[List of Australian Open Men's Singles champions|Men's Singles]]
* [[List of Australian Open Women's Singles champions|Women's Singles]]
* [[Australian Open champions (Men's Doubles)|Men's Doubles]]
* [[Australian Open champions (Women's Doubles)|Women's Doubles]]
* [[Australian Open champions (Mixed Doubles)|Mixed Doubles]]
==References==
{{Reflist|2}}
==External links==
* [http://www.australianopen.com/ Official Site]
* [http://www.australian-open-tennis.net/ Australian Open Tennis Guide]
* [http://www.tennisaustralia.com.au/ Tennis Australia website]
* [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&t=k&om=0&q=Melbourne&ie=UTF8&ll=-37.820819,144.979448&spn=0.008373,0.020084&z=16&iwloc=addr Satellite image of the venue (Google Maps)]
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