Every year thousands of people flock to Melbourne Australia for the Australian Open. The host this tournament in the Melbourne Park every January. It is the first of four tournaments concidered the Grandest Tournaments tennis. All serious players strive to play in this amazing setting. The start of the Tennis Open was in 1905, originally on grass courts until 1987 when the tournament was held on hard courts. There is one player who has ever one on both the grass court and the hard court, Mats Wilander. In 2008, the courts were reserfaced again with a cushioned, medium-paced, acrylic known as Plexicushion Prestige. Seems to be a nice way to save the joint and structual health of the players. There are many games played with in the tournament. Players of all ages and genders compete here. There are junior and master tournaments.

After visitors check into an Australia spa resort, they can find their way down to the park and witness history in the making. Usually, these games have a very high attendance even during these famous hot days. The 2009 Australian Open gained the highest attendence record of any Grand Slam tournament with a whapping 66,018 people filling the stands. The even generates about 38 million to the countries economy.

There is some money to be won in these tournaments. It goes by round and finalists. In the men’s and women’s singles tournaments both paid the same and was divided up in gaining amounts. 1st round got $19,400, 2nd round received $31,000, 3rd round received $51,000 and 4th round won $88,000. Then you had the finalists. Quarterfinalists won $182,250, Semifinalists got $365,000, Runners up took home $1,000,000 and the winners made off with $2,000,000. Not a bad day on the court. In 2009 the singles winners were Rafael Nadal and Serena Williams.

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