Brisbane International

Brisbane International
Tournament information
Event name	Brisbane International
Founded	2009 (2009)
Location	Adelaide, SA (1880–2008) Brisbane, Queensland (since 2009)
Venue	Queensland Tennis Centre
Surface	Hard (Plexicushion) – outdoors
Website	brisbaneinternational.com.au
Current champions (2020)
Women's singles	Karolína Plíšková
Women's doubles	Hsieh Su-wei Barbora Strýcová

The 2010 men's singles runner-up, Radek Štěpánek, won the first edition of the event held in Brisbane

Victoria Azarenka won her first career title one year later in Brisbane in 2009, and would win the tournament once again in 2016

Former world No. 1 Lleyton Hewitt won the tournament once in (2014)

Inside of Pat Rafter Arena during a day session

The Brisbane International established in 2009 is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hardcourts in Brisbane, Queensland in Australia. It is a WTA Premier tournament of the WTA Tour and was part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the ATP World Tour until 2019, when it was dropped from the ATP Tour.

The tournament is held annually in January at the Queensland Tennis Centre just before the first Grand Slam tournament of the season, the Australian Open (part of the Australian Open Series). It is owned by Tennis Australia.

History

See also: Australian Hard Court Championships § History

In 1997, the Corel WTA Tour created a new event –played on outdoor hardcourts– in Gold Coast, Queensland. The Tier III Gold Coast Classic was added to the three preexisting tournaments of Auckland, Sydney and Hobart, and became one of the two events held in the first week of the women's calendar, parallel to the men's Adelaide tournament. Various players, among which Ai Sugiyama, Justine Henin, Patty Schnyder or Venus Williams found success over the years at the low tier tune-up event for the Australian Open. The Gold Coast Classic became the Thalgo Australian Women's Hardcourts in 1998, took the sponsorship of Uncle Tobys in 2003, becoming Uncle Tobys Hardcourts, and changed names again in 2006 to Mondial Australian Women's Hardcourts.

Meanwhile, the ATP International Series Australian Hard Court Championships in Adelaide, which had evolved into the AAPT Championships in 1999, Next Generation Hardcourts in 2005, and Next Generation Adelaide International in 2006 had become one of the three stops of the calendar's first week, alongside the Qatar Open of Doha, and the Chennai Open in India.

As both the men's and the women's tour calendars were to undergo important changes from 2008 to 2009, with the WTA inaugurating its new roadmap of International and Premier tournaments, and the ATP Tour becoming the ATP World Tour, with new Masters 1000, 500 and 250 events, it was decided in 2006 to merge the Next Generation Adelaide International and the Mondial Australian Women's Hardcourts into a larger ATP-WTA joint tournament in Brisbane, leading, similarly to the joint Medibank International Sydney, to the Australian Open. Tennis Australia chief Steve Wood commented on the shift: "One of the reasons we are doing this is that there's a rise of more lucrative overseas tournaments in the lead-up to the Australian Open offering increasingly attractive alternatives to the top players looking to prepare for the first Grand Slam. [...] So we really wanted them to invest in having them continue to prepare here in Australia, on the road to the Australian Open." The first Brisbane International took place in Brisbane's newly built Tennyson Tennis Centre – and its Patrick Rafter-named Centre Court – in January 2009. In time for the 2012 event the tournament was promoted to a premier event on the WTA tour.

Following the 2019 edition, the tournament was no longer recognised as an ATP event, due to the creation of the ATP Cup (played at the same venue). The tournament continued as WTA-sanctioned event for female tennis players.

Past finals

In the men's singles Andy Murray (2012–13) holds the record for most titles with two and Murray concurrently holds the record for most consecutive titles. In the women's singles, Karolína Plíšková (2017,2019–20) owns the record for most titles with three.

Women's singles

Location	Year	Champion	Runner-up	Score
Brisbane	2009	Victoria Azarenka	Marion Bartoli	6–3, 6–1
	2010	Kim Clijsters	Justine Henin	6–3, 4–6, 7–6(8–6)
	2011	Petra Kvitová	Andrea Petkovic	6–1, 6–3
	↓  Premier tournament  ↓
	2012	Kaia Kanepi	Daniela Hantuchová	6–2, 6–1
	2013	Serena Williams	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	6–2, 6–1
	2014	Serena Williams (2)	Victoria Azarenka	6–4, 7–5
	2015	Maria Sharapova	Ana Ivanovic	6–7(4–7), 6–3, 6–3
	2016	Victoria Azarenka (2)	Angelique Kerber	6–3, 6–1
	2017	Karolína Plíšková	Alizé Cornet	6–0, 6–3
	2018	Elina Svitolina	Aliaksandra Sasnovich	6–2, 6–1
	2019	Karolína Plíšková (2)	Lesia Tsurenko	4–6, 7–5, 6–2
	2020	Karolína Plíšková (3)	Madison Keys	6–4, 4–6, 7–5

Men's singles

Location	Year	Champion	Runner-up	Score
Brisbane	2009	Radek Štěpánek	Fernando Verdasco	3–6, 6–3, 6–4
	2010	Andy Roddick	Radek Štěpánek	7–6(7–2), 7–6(9–7)
	2011	Robin Söderling	Andy Roddick	6–3, 7–5
	2012	Andy Murray	Alexandr Dolgopolov	6–1, 6–3
	2013	Andy Murray (2)	Grigor Dimitrov	7–6(7–0), 6–4
	2014	Lleyton Hewitt	Roger Federer	6–1, 4–6, 6–3
	2015	Roger Federer	Milos Raonic	6–4, 6–7(2–7), 6–4
	2016	Milos Raonic	Roger Federer	6–4, 6–4
	2017	Grigor Dimitrov	Kei Nishikori	6–2, 2–6, 6–3
	2018	Nick Kyrgios	Ryan Harrison	6–4, 6–2
	2019	Kei Nishikori	Daniil Medvedev	6–4, 3–6, 6–2

Women's doubles

Location	Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score
Brisbane	2009	Anna-Lena Grönefeld Vania King	Klaudia Jans Alicja Rosolska	3–6, 7–5, [10–5]
	2010	Andrea Hlaváčková Lucie Hradecká	Melinda Czink Arantxa Parra Santonja	2–6, 7–6(7–3), [10–4]
	2011	Alisa Kleybanova Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	Klaudia Jans Alicja Rosolska	6–3, 7–5
	↓  Premier tournament  ↓
	2012	Nuria Llagostera Vives Arantxa Parra Santonja	Raquel Kops-Jones Abigail Spears	7–6(7–2), 7–6(7–2)
	2013	Bethanie Mattek-Sands Sania Mirza	Anna-Lena Grönefeld Květa Peschke	4–6, 6–4, [10–7]
	2014	Alla Kudryavtseva Anastasia Rodionova	Kristina Mladenovic Galina Voskoboeva	6–3, 6–1
	2015	Martina Hingis Sabine Lisicki	Caroline Garcia Katarina Srebotnik	6–2, 7–5
	2016	Martina Hingis (2) Sania Mirza (2)	Angelique Kerber Andrea Petkovic	7–5, 6–1
	2017	Bethanie Mattek-Sands (2) Sania Mirza (3)	Ekaterina Makarova Elena Vesnina	6–2, 6–3
	2018	Kiki Bertens Demi Schuurs	Andreja Klepač María José Martínez Sánchez	7–5, 6–2
	2019	Nicole Melichar Květa Peschke	Chan Hao-Ching Latisha Chan	6–1, 6–1
	2020	Hsieh Su-wei Barbora Strýcová	Ashleigh Barty Kiki Bertens	3–6, 7–6(9–7), [10–8]

Men's doubles

Location	Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score
Brisbane	2009	Marc Gicquel Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	Fernando Verdasco Mischa Zverev	6–4, 6–3
	2010	Jérémy Chardy Marc Gicquel	Lukáš Dlouhý Leander Paes	6–3, 7–6(7–5)
	2011	Lukáš Dlouhý Paul Hanley	Robert Lindstedt Horia Tecău	6–4, Ret.
	2012	Max Mirnyi Daniel Nestor	Jürgen Melzer Philipp Petzschner	6–1, 6–2
	2013	Marcelo Melo Tommy Robredo	Eric Butorac Paul Hanley	4–6, 6–1, [10–5]
	2014	Mariusz Fyrstenberg Daniel Nestor (2)	Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah	6-7(4–7), 6–4, [10–7]
	2015	Jamie Murray John Peers	Alexandr Dolgopolov Kei Nishikori	6–3, 7–6(7–4)
	2016	Henri Kontinen John Peers (2)	James Duckworth Chris Guccione	7–6(7–4), 6–1
	2017	Thanasi Kokkinakis Jordan Thompson	Gilles Müller Sam Querrey	7–6(9–7), 6–4
	2018	Henri Kontinen (2) John Peers (3)	Leonardo Mayer Horacio Zeballos	3–6, 6–3, [10–2]
	2019	Marcus Daniell Wesley Koolhof	Rajeev Ram Joe Salisbury	6–4, 7–6(8–6)

See also

• Australian Hard Court Championships – men's and women's tournament in various locations (1938–2008)
• South Australian Championships – men's tournament in Adelaide (1889–1989)
• Danone Australian Hardcourt Championships – women's tournament in Brisbane (1987–1994)

External links

• Official website
• ATP World Tour tournament profile
• WTA Tennis tournament profile