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To say the Australian Open has suffered from a identity crisis in the past may be an understatement. The annual tennis championships are now the first Grand Slam Championships of the year. Held since 1905, when it was called The Australasian Championships, all of the biggest names in the history of tennis have played in Australia.
The tournament has actually been held in five different cities in Australia and two cities in New Zealand. In 1972 officials decided to hold the tournament in the same city each year. Melbourne was chosen as the host city and the Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club as the venue. In 1988, a bigger venue was built in Melbourne at what was then Flinder?s Park. The tournament was now a huge draw and had outgrown Kooyong. The new tennis grounds were modern and massive. Attendance doubled from 1987 to 1988. Australian tennis officials now knew they were on to something. This tournament, which once had a hard time attracting top players and even a consistent date on the pro tennis calendar, now was a destination event.
Tennis is the most popular sport in Australia, and to keep up with the increasing attendance, the Melbourne Park center has been constantly upgraded and expanded. Attendance in 2008 and 2009 were over 600,000 for the two weeks.
The list of winners in Australia reads like a who?s who of tennis history. The early years had winners like Norman Brookes and Anthony Wilding. Once the modern era of tennis started in 1968 the likes of Roy Emerson, Ken Rosewall, and Guillermo Vilas claimed titles. Many of the top players still hated to travel to Australia at the end of beginning of the year to play. The best players of the 70?s Bjorn Borg, only came to Australia once. And Ilie Nastase never came. One the women?s side, Australian?s Margaret Court and Evonne Goolagong dominated the tournament in the 60?s and 70?s. Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert dominated in the 80?s and then Steffi Graf had her reign. The 90?s had winners like Monica Seles and Martina Hingis. Since then, American?s Jennifer Capriati, and Venus and Serena Williams won multiple titles.
Recent winners on the men?s side include all the big names. Stefan Edberg, Ivan Lendl, Jim Courier and of course, Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi. Jimmy Connors only won the Australian Open once, and John McEnroe tried numerous times, but never won. Roger Federer has won the title numerous times, Spain?s Rafael Nadal is also on the winners list.
The Australian Open is one of the player's favourite events, and the fans in Australia are always rated the best. It should not be overlooked as one of the top Grand Slam tournaments.
This years Australian Open runs from the 19th of January to the 1st of February. Details of what live Australian Open tennis is being shown between those dates can be found by following the live sports schedules page. Bet365 will also be showing a massive number of games live online to viewers in many different countries around the world, just follow the link
to our Bet365 page for more information.
The Bet365 Tennis Schedule (All Times GMT)
22.04.2019 18:30:00 - David Perez Sanz vs Gastao Elias (Challenger Francavilla)
23.04.2019 00:30:00 - Dennis Novikov vs Emilio Gomez (Challenger Tallahassee)
23.04.2019 02:00:00 - Carlos Gomez-Herrera vs Gerardo L Villasenor (Challenger Leon)
23.04.2019 03:30:00 - Miharu Imanishi vs Olga Doroshina (WTA Anning)
23.04.2019 04:00:00 - Zihao Xia vs Teymuraz Gabashvili (Challenger Nanchang)
23.04.2019 04:00:00 - Hao Wu vs Vaclav Safranek (Challenger Nanchang)
23.04.2019 04:00:00 - Luca Margaroli vs Andrew Harris (Challenger Nanchang)
23.04.2019 05:00:00 - Ashley Kratzer vs Xinyun Han (WTA Anning)
23.04.2019 05:30:00 - Luke Saville vs Jacob Grills (Challenger Nanchang)
23.04.2019 05:30:00 - Saketh Myneni vs Zhizhen Zhang (Challenger Nanchang)
23.04.2019 05:30:00 - Yecong He vs Max Purcell (Challenger Nanchang)
23.04.2019 06:30:00 - Andreea Rosca / Shilin Xu vs Shuo Feng / Jiaqi Kang (WTA Anning WD)
23.04.2019 07:00:00 - Akira Santillan vs Aleksandr Nedovyesov (Challenger Nanchang)
23.04.2019 07:00:00 - Adam Pavlasek vs Yunseong Chung (Challenger Nanchang)
23.04.2019 07:00:00 - Di Wu vs James Duckworth (Challenger Nanchang)
23.04.2019 08:30:00 - Jason Kubler vs Ben Patael (Challenger Nanchang)
23.04.2019 08:30:00 - Nikola Milojevic vs Sasi Kumar Mukund (Challenger Nanchang)
23.04.2019 09:00:00 - Javier Barranco Cosano vs Giulio Zeppieri (Challenger Francavilla)
23.04.2019 09:00:00 - Xin Gao / Zhizhen Zhang vs Teymuraz Gabashvili / Uladzimir Ignatik (Challenger Nanchang MD)
23.04.2019 09:00:00 - Alexey Vatutin vs Nam Hoang Ly (Challenger Francavilla)
23.04.2019 09:00:00 - Andrea Pellegrino vs Andrea Vavassori (Challenger Francavilla)
23.04.2019 10:00:00 - Pierre-Hugues Herbert vs Damir Dzumhur (ATP Budapest)
23.04.2019 10:00:00 - Andrej Martin / Toshihide Matsui vs Jie Cui / Yecong He (Challenger Nanchang MD)
23.04.2019 10:00:00 - Peter Gojowczyk vs Lloyd Harris (ATP Budapest)
23.04.2019 10:00:00 - John Millman vs Miomir Kecmanovic (ATP Budapest)
23.04.2019 10:00:00 - Nicola Kuhn vs Federico Delbonis (ATP Barcelona)
23.04.2019 10:00:00 - Makoto Ochi vs Enrique Lopez-Perez (Challenger Nanchang)
23.04.2019 10:00:00 - Taylor Fritz vs Kei Nishikori (ATP Barcelona)
23.04.2019 10:00:00 - Malek Jaziri vs Guido Andreozzi (ATP Barcelona)
23.04.2019 10:30:00 - David Perez Sanz vs Gastao Elias (Challenger Francavilla)
23.04.2019 10:30:00 - Quentin Halys vs Norbert Gombos (Challenger Francavilla)
23.04.2019 11:00:00 - Yan Bai / Fajing Sun vs Alex Bolt / Akira Santillan (Challenger Nanchang MD)
23.04.2019 11:30:00 - David Ferrer vs Mischa Zverev (ATP Barcelona)
23.04.2019 11:30:00 - Martin Klizan vs Christian Garin (ATP Barcelona)
23.04.2019 11:30:00 - Aldin Setkic vs Thomaz Bellucci (Challenger Francavilla)
23.04.2019 11:30:00 - Robin Haase vs Thomas Fabbiano (ATP Budapest)
23.04.2019 11:30:00 - Albert Ramos-Vinolas vs Cameron Norrie (ATP Barcelona)
23.04.2019 12:00:00 - Attila Balazs vs Hubert Hurkacz (ATP Budapest)
23.04.2019 12:00:00 - Tallon Griekspoor vs Pavel Kotov (Challenger Francavilla)
23.04.2019 12:00:00 - Gerard Granollers vs Gian Marco Moroni (Challenger Francavilla)
23.04.2019 13:00:00 - Radu Albot / Nikoloz Basilashvili vs Kevin Krawietz / Andreas Mies (ATP Budapest MD)
23.04.2019 13:00:00 - Guido Pella vs Joao Sousa (ATP Barcelona)
23.04.2019 13:00:00 - Jaume Munar vs Frances Tiafoe (ATP Barcelona)
23.04.2019 13:00:00 - Matteo Viola vs Mikael Ymer (Challenger Francavilla)
23.04.2019 13:00:00 - Nicolas Jarry vs Alexander Zverev (ATP Barcelona)
23.04.2019 13:30:00 - Ernests Gulbis vs Laslo Djere (ATP Budapest)
23.04.2019 13:30:00 - Riccardo Bonadio vs Kimmer Coppejans (Challenger Francavilla)
23.04.2019 13:30:00 - Tomislav Brkic vs Gianluigi Quinzi (Challenger Francavilla)
23.04.2019 14:30:00 - Pablo Carreno-Busta / Feliciano Lopez vs Nikola Mektic / Franko Skugor (ATP Barcelona MD)
23.04.2019 14:30:00 - Andrea Del Federico / Stefano Travaglia vs Quentin Halys / Gleb Sakharov (Challenger Francavilla MD)
23.04.2019 14:30:00 - David Goffin vs Jan-Lennard Struff (ATP Barcelona)
23.04.2019 14:30:00 - Dominic Thiem vs Diego Schwartzman (ATP Barcelona)
23.04.2019 15:00:00 - Viktor Galovic / Andrea Pellegrino vs Guillermo Duran / David Vega Hernandez (Challenger Francavilla MD)
23.04.2019 15:00:00 - Julian Ocleppo vs Rudolf Molleker (Challenger Francavilla)
23.04.2019 15:30:00 - Dusan Lajovic vs Mate Valkusz (ATP Budapest)
23.04.2019 16:00:00 - Jean-Julien Rojer / Horia Tecau vs David Marrero / Fernando Verdasco (ATP Barcelona MD)
23.04.2019 16:00:00 - Ivan Dodig / Edouard Roger-Vasselin vs Jamie Murray / Bruno Soares (ATP Barcelona MD)
23.04.2019 16:00:00 - Marton Fucsovics vs Stefanos Tsitsipas (ATP Barcelona)
23.04.2019 18:30:00 - Matteo Donati vs Lorenzo Musetti (Challenger Francavilla)
24.04.2019 09:00:00 - Marco Cecchinato / Andreas Seppi vs Roman Jebavy / Andres Molteni (ATP Budapest MD)
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