The Australian Open, the first of the world's four Grand Slam tennis tournaments during the year,
it's scheduled to open at Melbourne Park on January 16-29, 2012. This year will the 100th edition of this tournament, the staging of the event is marked by a special coin and the 2012 Champion will receive a special medallion. There are other events that will take place for this anniversary, Hawk eye will be use on the Margaret Court Arena for the first time and Ken Flecther will be inducted into the Australian Tennis Hall of Fame. This event is also the 50th annivesary since Rod Laver won his first Grand Slam.
The 2012 Australian Open will be the richest Grand Slam tournament in history, with the singles champions pocketing 2.3 million dollars.(australian dollars)
Men's and Women's Singles
- Winners: $2,300,000
- Runners-up: $1,150,000
- Semi-finalists: $437,000
- Quarter-finalists: $218,500
- Fourth round: $109,250
- Third round: $54,625
- Second round: $33,300
- First round: $20,000
Main Draw Wildcard Entries for 2012 Men's Singles
- James Duckworth
- Lleyton Hewitt
- Tatsuma Ito
- Jesse Levine
- Marinko Matosevic
- Benjamin MitchellKenny de Schepper
Previous tournaments' winners;
Novak Djokovic won the men's Australian Open and Maria Sharapova won the women's Australian Open in 2008. It was the
third time each player had won the title.
Mens Australian Open Betting
Today Australian Open tennis betting odds keep growing as the youngest of the grand
slam tournaments raises its greatness with every passing year. It is the first of the world's four
major tournaments which together constitute the Grand Slam. It now occurs during the last two weeks
of January but was formerly held in December. Held in the middle of the Australian summer, the
Australian Open is famous for its notoriously hot days. An extreme-heat policy is often put into
play when temperatures (and humidity) reach dangerous levels.
The Australian Open started in 1905, which means that it is a few years younger than the French Open (1891),
Wimbledon (1877) and US Open (1881), but now it gets much more attention than it did before the tennis competition
moved to Melbourne Park in 1988.
Traditionally, accomplishing a slam is to win all four majors in a calendar year; recently tennis fans
have adopted the shorthand of referring to each of the four parts of the Slam (Australian, French,
Wimbledon and US Opens) as a slam in itself. The Australian Rod Laver was the last man to complete a
Grand Slam in men's singles in 1969. On the women's side, Steffi Graf was the last woman to win a
Grand Slam in 1988, and she also won the Olympic Gold in Seoul in the same year, making it a Golden Slam.
Australian Open 2012 at Sportbet continues with the Grand Slam tradition, with a range of tennis betting
options to suit everyone from the serious tennis betting fan to the curious visitor that just
wants to lay down $20 bucks on the matchup, the Australian Open is definitely the tennis match
to be betting on in January.
2009 Australian Open Results
- Men's Singles: Rafael Nadal (Spain)
Runner-up: Roger Federer (Switzerland)
- Women's Singles: Serena Williams (US)
Runner-up: Dinara Safina (Russia)
2010 Grand Slam Results
Roger Federer of Switzerland holds the Australian Open trophy for the fourth time Sunday after capturing the singles title in Melbourne. It's the 16th time overall he has ended up on top in a Grand Slam. Federer defeated Andy Murray of Scotland 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (13-11). |
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2011 Australian Open Results
Men' Singles
| Champion |
Runner-up |
| Novak Djokovic [3]6–4, 6–2, 6–3. |
Andy Murray [5] |
| Semifinals out |
| David Ferrer [7] |
Roger Federer [2] |
| Quarterfinals out |
| Rafael Nadal [1] |
Alexandr Dolgopolov |
Tomáš Berdych [6] |
Stanislas Wawrinka [19 |
Women' Singles
| Champion |
Runner-up |
| Kim Clijsters [3] |
Li Na [9] |
| Semifinals out |
| Caroline Wozniacki [1] |
Vera Zvonareva [2] |
| Quarterfinals out |
| Francesca Schiavone [6] |
Andrea Petkovic [30] |
Agnieszka Radwańska [12] |
Petra Kvitová [25] |
The Australian Open is one of only four of the Grand Slam tournaments. It’s a tournament loved by players and tennis bettors as well.
The Australian Tennis championships started in 1905 and toured Australia. In 1969 the Open era began and in 1972 the tournament
found a permanent home in Melbourne where it has stayed ever since. These days those partaking in tennis betting can catch the
Australian Open action in January.
In 1972, it was decided to stage the Tournament in the one city each year, as opposed to visiting various states across
the nation, and the Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club was selected due to Melbourne attracting the biggest patronage.
Melbourne Park (formerly Flinders Park) was constructed in time for the 1988 Open to meet the demands of the evolving
tournament that had outgrown Kooyong's capacity. |
