2012 Brisbane International

The 2012 Brisbane International was a joint 2012 ATP World Tour and 2012 WTA Tour tennis tournament, played on outdoor hard courts in Brisbane, Queensland. Because of its ongoing success, the WTA decided in 2011 to upgrade the event to a Premier event. It was the 4th edition of the tournament and took place at the Queensland Tennis Centre in Tennyson. It was held from 1 to 8 January. It was part of the Australian Open Series in preparation for the first Grand Slam of the year.

ATP singles main draw entrants

Seeds

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

James Duckworth

Marinko Matosevic

Ben Mitchell

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

Jesse Levine

Igor Andreev

Tatsuma Ito

John Millman

Withdrawals

Kevin Anderson (knee injury)

James Blake (personal reasons)

Tommy Haas (calf injury)

Donald Young (personal reasons)

Retirements

Florian Mayer (groin injury)

ATP doubles main draw entrants

2013 Brisbane International

The 2013 Brisbane International was a joint 2013 ATP World Tour and 2013 WTA Tour tennis tournament, played on outdoor hard courts in Brisbane, Queensland. It was the 5th edition of the tournament and took place at the Queensland Tennis Centre in Tennyson. It was held from 30 December, 2012 to 6 January, 2013. It was part of the Australian Open Series in preparation for the first Grand Slam of the year.

Points and prize money

Point distribution

Prize money

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ATP singles main draw entrants

Seeds

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

Matthew Ebden

Lleyton Hewitt

Ben Mitchell

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

Ryan Harrison

Denis Kudla

Jesse Levine

John Millman

The following player received entry as lucky loser:

Igor Kunitsyn

Withdrawals

Paul-Henri Mathieu (personal reasons)

Radek Štěpánek (eye infection)

Retirements

Jarkko Nieminen (migraine)

Kei Nishikori (left knee injury)

2011 Brisbane International

The 2011 Brisbane International was a joint ATP and WTA tennis tournament, played on outdoor hard courts in Brisbane, Queensland. It was the 3rd edition of the tournament and took place at the Queensland Tennis Centre in Tennyson. It was held from 2 to 9 January. It was part of the Australian Open Series in preparation for the first grandslam of the year.

During the tournament, $10 was donated for every ace to the fund supporting the current Queensland floods, which was unfolding during the tournament.

ATP entrants

Seeds

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

Marinko Matosevic

John Millman

Bernard Tomic

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

Ričardas Berankis

Matthew Ebden

Ryan Harrison

Adrian Mannarino

The following players received entry as a lucky loser into the singles main draw:

Peter Luczak

WTA entrants

Seeds

Other entrants

Brisbane International

Coordinates: 27°31′30.12″S 153°0′26.06″E / 27.5250333°S 153.0072389°E / -27.5250333; 153.0072389

The Brisbane International is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts in Brisbane, Queensland. It is part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) World Tour and of the WTA Premier tournaments of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Tour. It is held annually in January at the Queensland Tennis Centre just before the first Grand Slam tournament of the season, the Australian Open as part of the Australian Open Series. It is owned by Tennis Australia.

History

The origins of the Brisbane International trace back to the early 1970s, when the Grand Prix tennis circuit, formed in 1970, and which ran concurrently with other tours as the World Championship Tennis circuit, decided to feature on its calendar an event in Queensland to develop a South West Pacific season around the Australian Open - then taking place in Brisbane - alongside other Oceanian events of Sydney, New South Wales; Hobart, Tasmania; and Auckland, New Zealand. The Adelaide-based South Australian Tennis Championships, running as an amateur, then as a State championship, since 1889, were brought to the professional circuit in 1972. The first professional edition of the men's event, played, like the Australian Open, on outdoor grass courts, saw the victory of Soviet Alex Metreveli over Kim Warwick, while the women's event, still not featured in either the Commercial Union Grand Prix circuit or the Virginia Slims circuit, saw Australian Evonne Goolagong win the title.

Brisbane

Brisbane (ⁱ/ˈbrɪzbən/) is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland, and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of 2.3 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred on Brisbane, encompasses a population of more than 3.4 million. The Brisbane central business district stands on the original European settlement and is situated inside a bend of the Brisbane River, about 15 kilometres (9 miles) from its mouth at Moreton Bay. The metropolitan area extends in all directions along the floodplain of the Brisbane River Valley between Moreton Bay and the Great Dividing Range, sprawling across several of Australia's most populous local government areas (LGAs), most centrally the City of Brisbane, which is by far the most populous LGA in the nation. The demonym of Brisbane is Brisbanite.

One of the oldest cities in Australia, Brisbane was founded upon the ancient homelands of the Indigenous Turrbal and Jagera peoples. Named after the Brisbane River on which it is located – which in turn was named after Scotsman Sir Thomas Brisbane, the Governor of New South Wales from 1821 to 1825 – the area was chosen as a place for secondary offenders from the Sydney Colony. A penal settlement was founded in 1824 at Redcliffe, 28 kilometres (17 mi) north of the central business district, but was soon abandoned and moved to North Quay in 1825, opening to free settlement in 1842. The city was marred by Aboriginal conflict between 1843-1855, and development was partly set back by the Great Fire of Brisbane, and the Great Brisbane Flood. Brisbane was chosen as the capital when Queensland was proclaimed a separate colony from New South Wales in 1859. During World War II, Brisbane played a central role in the Allied campaign and served as the South West Pacific headquarters for General Douglas MacArthur.

Brisbane (surname)

Brisbane is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Brisbane (disambiguation)

Brisbane is the capital city of Queensland, Australia.

Brisbane may also refer to:

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