Brisbane International

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Coordinates: 27°31′30.12″S 153°0′26.06″E / 27.5250333°S 153.0072389°E / -27.5250333; 153.0072389

Brisbane International
Event name	Brisbane International
Location	Brisbane, Australia
Venue	Queensland Tennis Centre
Surface	Hard
brisbaneinternational.com.au
ATP World Tour
Category	ATP World Tour 250 series
Draw	32M/32Q/16D
Prize Money	$484,750
WTA Tour
Category	WTA Premier tournaments
Draw	32M/32Q/16D
Prize Money	$220,000

The 2010 men's singles runner-up, Radek Štěpánek, won the first edition of the event held in Brisbane

Former World No. 1 Lleyton Hewitt reached three finals from 1998 to 2000, winning on two occasions

2008 Gold Coast runner-up Victoria Azarenka eventually won her first career title one year later in Brisbane

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

The Brisbane International is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. 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 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, just before the first Grand Slam tournament of the season, the Australian Open.

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 Australia's Queensland region, to develop a South West Pacific season around the Australian Open –then taking place in Brisbane– alongside other Oceanian events of Sydney; Hobart; and Auckland. 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

Men's singles

Location	Year	Champion	Runner-up	Score
Brisbane	2011	Robin Söderling	Andy Roddick	6–3, 7–5
	2010	Andy Roddick	Radek Štěpánek	7–6(2), 7–6(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), 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(3)
	2002	Tim Henman	Mark Philippoussis	6–4, 6–7(6), 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(4)
	1997	Todd Woodbridge	Scott Draper	6–2, 6–1
	1996	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	Byron Black	7–6(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(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	2011	Petra Kvitová	Andrea Petkovic	6–1, 6–3
	2010	Kim Clijsters	Justine Henin	6–3, 4–6, 7–6(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(5), 6–4
	2000	Silvija Talaja	Conchita Martínez	6–1, 3–6, 6–0
	1999	Patty Schnyder	Mary Pierce	4–6, 7–6(5), 6–2
	1998	Ai Sugiyama	María Vento-Kabchi	7–5, 6–0
	1997	Elena Likhovtseva	Ai Sugiyama	3–6, 7–6(7), 6–3

Men's doubles

Location	Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score
Brisbane	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(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(4), 7–6(10)
	2005	Xavier Malisse Olivier Rochus	Simon Aspelin Todd Perry	7–6(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(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), 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	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(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	Zi Yan Jie Zheng	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	Asa Svensson Miriam Oremans	6–1, 7–6(6)
	2001	Giulia Casoni Janette Husárová	Katie Schlukebir Meghann Shaughnessy	7–6(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	Sung-hee Park Shi-ting Wang	1–6, 6–3, 6–4
	1997	Naoko Kijimuta Nana Miyagi	Ruxandra Dragomir Silvia Farina Elia	7–6, 6–1

Sponsors

2011

• Queensland Events
• CSG
• Lexus
• Virgin Blue
• Panasonic
• TransLink
• Sirromet Wines
• Powerade
• Heineken
• Wilson
• Slazenger
• Ticketek
• Nestlé
• Conrad Treasury
• Seven Network
• Godfreys

References

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4. ^ ^{a b} "Sony Ericsson WTA Tour Final Results: 1971-2007". sonyericssonwtatour.com. http://www.sonyericssonwtatour.com/3/global/pdfs/events/2008/tournamentfinals.pdf. Retrieved 2008-12-25. ^{[dead link]}
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8. ^ http://www.worldtennismagazine.com/archives/4513

External links

• Official website
• atpworldtour.com profile
• sonyericssonwtatour.com profile