The Sydney International (formerly known as the Championship of New South Wales and New South Wales Open, with various title sponsors), formerly sponsored as the Apia International Sydney from 2012 to 2017, is a professional

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in Sydney, Australia, that was last played in January 2019. The tournament was played annually at the

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. It is one of the oldest tennis tournaments in the world, dating to 1885. The tournament did not take place 2020 and 2021 due to the

ATP Cup The ATP Cup was an international outdoor hard court men's tennis team tournament, which ran from 2020 to 2022.The tournament was played across one or three Australian cities over ten days in the lead up to the Australian Open, and featured teams ...

tournament. It resumed in 2022. The Sydney International was last noted as an

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point event on the men's tour and a WTA Premier event on the women's tour. The tournament is held annually in January immediately prior to the

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as a lead up tournament as part of the

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History

The model for the Sydney International was formed in 1885 when colonial officials decided there was a need to discover the best tennis player in each of the colonies and to use the tournament to assist with selection to the

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, however the first time the tournament was played as a permanent annual event was in 1935. Between 1970 and 1989 it was part of the

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and a

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tournament from 1970 to 1971.

Tournament locations

The inaugural edition of the tournament was played in May 1885 at the "Association Ground" in Moore Park, part of the

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. In 1908 control of the tournament was handed over to the NSW Tennis Association and the event moved to its location at

Double Bay Double Bay is a harbourside eastern suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia 4 kilometres east of the Sydney central business district. It is the administrative centre of the local government area of the Municipalit ...

. From 1922 until 1999 the event was hosted at the

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complex, close to the Sydney central business district. Since the 2000 edition, the event was played at the

, in

, a suburb of Western Sydney and formerly part of the suburb of

Homebush Bay Homebush Bay is a bay on the south bank of the Parramatta River, in the west of Sydney, Australia. The name is also sometimes used to refer to an area to the west and south of the bay itself, which was formerly an official suburb of Sydney, ...

, which was constructed for the tennis events at the

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. The venue consists of 15 outdoor courts and a centre court along with an administrative building, for the whole of Tennis NSW. The tournament was not included on the men's or women's schedule for the 2020 and 2021 seasons, as the new

took place in the same period. It resumed in 2022.

Past finals

Men's singles

Women's singles

Men's doubles

Women's doubles

References

External links

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ATP tournament profile

WTA tournament profile
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