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The Australian Open typically has high attendances, rivalling and occasionally exceeding the US Open. The tournament holds the record for the highest attendance in 2017 with over 728,000 people who come across the barriers. The tournament is very important for the players; it covers over 50 Million Dollars of prize money including 3.7 Million dollars for the singles winner Men and Women. Losing in the first round of the tournament will already make you 50,000 dollars. These are huge amounts of money that makes the life of a tennis player pretty comfortable. Although, the prize money is quite high, the players travel all around the world, so they need to pay a lot of fares, travel with coaches, so the money they earn doesn’t always go straight to their pockets. That is why if you want to make some money in tennis you will need to be at least in the top 100 players in the world and that is something very hard to achieve and something these players work for everyday of their lives.

 

A bit of History:

The Australian Open is a major tennis tournament held annually over the last fortnight of January in Melbourne, Australia. First held in 1905, the tournament is chronologically the first of the four Grand Slam tennis events of the year – the other three being the French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open. It features men's and women's singles; men's, women's and mixed doubles and junior's championships; as well as wheelchair, legends and exhibition events. Prior to 1988 the tournament had been played on grass surface tennis court. Since 1988 two types of hardcourt surfaces have been used at Melbourne Park – green Rebound Ace to 2007 and blue Plexicushion from 2008.  It was the first Grand Slam tournament to feature indoor play during wet weather or extreme heat with its three primary courts, the Rod Laver Arena, Hisense Arena and the refurbished Margaret Court Arena equipped with retractable roofs.

 

 

Considering all the efforts and the money in this tournament, it has a great atmosphere, the Australian open is a very large venue that can hold numerous amounts of people and has a lot of activities for others that aren’t necessarily tennis. The tournament is held during the Australian summer so it is obviously very hot but the Australian summer gives such a special vibe to the tournament, you don’t even feel the heat so you can just sit back, relax and watch the matches been played.

 

Samuel.A