Before hard court, the Australian Open was played on grass. The tournament was played on grass from 1905 to 1987 and was switched to hard court in 1988 when the Australian Open was forced to move to a bigger venue. A Rebound Ace surface was used from 1988-2007 and Plexicushion is the current surface.

There is a three-way tie for shortest female tennis players. The three players are Jill Craybas, Camille Pin, and Anna Smashnova, who are all 5'3". Anna Smashnova, besides having an awesome last name, has reached world #15, which was her highest ranking in her career. She retired from the WTA tour after Wimbledon in 2007. Camille's highest achievement was probably when she came within two points of defeating top seeded Maria Sharapova in the first round of the 2007 Australian Open. Jill Craybas is best known for her victory at Wimbledon in 2005 over Serena Williams in the 3rd round.

Roger has never won a Grand Slam.

A Grand Slam consists of winning all 4 Major events - Wimbledon, the French Open, the Australian Open and US Open - in the one calendar year.

Only two males have ever achieved it: Rod Laver [twice] and Donald Budge.

If one wants to speak of one of the events, the reference would be a "slam" or "Grand slam event"

Victoria Azarenka won the 2013 Australian Open in Women's singles. She beat Li Na of China in the finals with a score of 4-6, 6-4, 6-3. She is the first Belarusian player to win a Grand Slam singles title, winning the Australian Open in both 2012 and 2013.

Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci of Italy won the 2013 Australian Open in women's doubles. They beat Australians Ashleigh Barty and Casey Dellacqua 6-2, 3-6, 6-2.

There are 128 men and 128 women entered in the singles competitions. In addition to that there are 64 mens and 64 womens doubles teams, whose players can be from the singles events, and 64 mixed doubles teams, whose players can be either from the singles, or from the doubles. In addition to that there are also 128 men and 128 women qualifiers for the main draw. Then there are boys and girls teams, juniors, seniors, and wheelchair teams.

Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan won the 2011 Australian Open Men's Doubles title. They defeated Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes in the final match.

Final Score: 6-3, 6-4

The 2008 Australian Open will be held between January 14 and January 27.

Since the 1980's, the Australian Open has always been held in January. Previously it was held in December.

It's hard to say because she has won so many titles in her career.

In singles, she has won the Australian Open five times, Wimbledon four times, the US Open three times and the French Open once. That's a total of 13 Grand Slam singles titles.

Add to that, 12 more Grand Slam Doubles titles and two more Grand Slam Mixed Doubles titles for a career total of 27 Grand Slam titles!

She has also won two Olympic Gold medals in doubles in the Summer Olympics (2000, 2008).

With a career that impressive, it's hard to pick one thing out and say that's her biggest accomplishment.

According to the Australian Open official website (refer to the link, below), the runners-up (i.e., both men and women) for the 2009 event earned AUS $1 million (approximately US $787,277 and EURO 566,761 as of June 8, 2009).

The prize money increases each year. In 2013, the prize money for winning a singles title was 2.4 million and in 2014 it was 2.6 million. For the runner-up in the singles final was 1.2 million and 1.3 million respectively. The prize money amount will increase in 2015.

For doubles, the winner won $475,000 in 2013 and $520,000 in 2014. Mixed doubles was $135,500 (2013) and $135,500 (2014). Doubles amounts are per team.

Technically the ATP season ends some time after the U.S. Open so it is the last Grand Slam Tournament played, but in the next season the Australian Open is the next Grand Slam tournament played after the US Open.

Tennis is normally an outdoor sport, so the ventilation is good and you do not have odors building up.

For 2011, the winner of the Australian Open are as follows:

Men's Singles: Novak Djokovic

Women's Singles: Kim Clijsters

Men's Doubles: Bob & Mike Bryan

Women's Doubles: Gisela Dulko & Flavia Pennetta

The Women's Singles at the 2009 Australian Open was won by Serena Williams, who beat Dinara Safina in the final.

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He was defeated by Juan Martin del Potro 3-6, 7-6(7-5), 4-6, 7-6(7-4), 6-2

The first winner of the "Australian Open" (men's) was Rod Laver in 1969.
However, the championship, as an amateur tournament (which was the form which originally held the public's attention and had the prestige) was formerly known as "The Australian Championships", and was a lawn tennis event, run from 1905.
In reality, then, the very first winner of the Australian event was R. Heath in 1905, who won the final, 3 sets to 1 against AH Curtis.

Tennis balls are made of a layer of rubber surrounding a hollow center. Then they put a thin layer of adhesive on the rubber and cover it with a layer of felt (usually yellow). The letters that you may see on the felt are just black ink. The air pressure inside the ball is 12 psi (pounds per square inch) greater than ambient air pressure at sea level (the 'normal' air pressure all around you). The ambient air pressure is 14.7 psi, so all together, the pressure inside the ball is 26.7 psi. I'm not quite sure what you mean by the 'amount of air inside the ball,' but you can figure out how much space is in the ball using the equation for the volume of a sphere (4/3*pi*r^3). A tennis ball that I have here is 2 1/4 inches across, with 1/8 inch thick rubber all around. So the open space inside is 2 inches across (the diameter is 2 inches). The radius (r) is half of that, so r=1 inch. So the volume of the inside of the ball is 4/3*pi (pi=3.14) inches^3 = 4.2 inches^3. (You would say this as 4.2 cubic inches of open space.)

Serena Williams

Serena Williams

Serena Williams

No, the Australian Open has not always been on hard court.

Before 1988, the Australian Open featured grass courts, which was common at the time. However, it became very costly to maintain, so in 1988, the Australian Open switched to hard courts.

The men's final of the Australian Open tennis in 1975 was on the 13th of January.