South Australian Tennis Championships (tennis)
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| Event name | Brisbane International | ||||||||
| Founded | 2009 | ||||||||
| Location |
Adelaide, SA (1880–2008) Brisbane, Queensland (since 2009) |
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| Venue | Queensland Tennis Centre | ||||||||
| Surface | Hard (Plexicushion) - outdoors | ||||||||
| Website | brisbaneinternational.com.au | ||||||||
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| Men's singles |
 Grigor Dimitrov
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| Women's singles |
 Karolína Plíšková
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| Men's doubles |
 Thanasi Kokkinakis Jordan Thompson
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| Women's doubles |
 Bethanie Mattek-Sands Sania Mirza
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| ATP World Tour | |
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| Category | 250 series |
| Draw | 28S / 16Q / 16D |
| Prize money | US$437,380 (2017) |
| WTA Tour | |
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| Category | WTA Premier |
| Draw | 30S / 32Q / 16D |
| Prize money | US$890,100 (2017) |
Coordinates: 27°31′30.12″S 153°0′26.06″E / 27.5250333°S 153.0072389°E
The Brisbane International established in 2009 is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts in Brisbane, Queensland. It is 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 just before the first Grand Slam tournament of the season, the Australian Open as part of the Australian Open Series. It is owned by Tennis Australia.
In 1997, the Corel WTA Tour created a new event –played on outdoor hardcourts– in Gold Coast, Queensland. 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.
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