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The Brisbane International established in 2009 is a professional

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tournament played on outdoor hardcourts in

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in Australia. It is a WTA 500 tournament and an ATP 250 tournament. The tournament is held annually in January at the

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just before the first

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tournament of the season, the

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(part of the

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). It is owned by

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History

In 1997, the

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WTA Tour created a new event –played on outdoor hardcourts– in

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. The Tier III Gold Coast Classic was added to 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

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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. Meanwhile, the

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in 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 Open of

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, and the

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in India. 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

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tournaments, and the ATP Tour becoming the ATP World Tour, with new

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events, it was decided in 2006 to merge the

Next Generation Adelaide International The Australian Hard Court Championships was a former professional tennis tournament established in 1938 and held until 2008. The event was played on clay courts until 1977 when it switched to hard courts. The tournament was a combined event for m ...

and the

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into a larger ATP-WTA joint tournament in Brisbane, leading, similarly to the joint Medibank International Sydney, to the Australian Open. 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." The first Brisbane International took place in Brisbane's newly built

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– and its

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-named Centre Court – in January 2009. In time for the 2012 event the tournament was promoted to a premier event on the WTA tour. Following the 2019 edition, the tournament was no longer recognised as an ATP event, due to the creation of the

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(played at the same venue). The tournament continued as WTA-sanctioned event for female tennis players. As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Brisbane International did not proceed, with the WTA Premier Event moved to Adelaide for the 2021, 2022 and 2023 seasons. The Brisbane International returned in 2024, expanding to 48 players in WTA singles draw, 32 players in the ATP singles draw, and 24 pairs in both men's and women's doubles.

Past finals

In the men's singles Andy Murray and Grigor Dimitrov tie for the record with 2 titles each. In the women's singles,

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(2017, 2019–20) owns the record for most titles with three.

Women's singles

Men's singles

Women's doubles

Men's doubles

References

External links

Official website

ATP Tour tournament profile

WTA Tennis tournament profile
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