FACTS ABOUT AUSTRALIAN OPEN PRIZE MONEY !

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The Australian open is a tennis tournament held yearly over the last fortnight   of January in Melbourne, Australia. It was founded in 1905; the contest is consecutively the first of the four Grand Slams of annual tennis events. Which are the French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open.

It includes male’s, female’s singles; men’s, women’s and mixed doubles and junior’s tournaments as well as wheelchair, icons and exhibition affairs.

Earlier in 1988 the content had been played on grass courts, but since then two types of Hard Court surfaces have been used at Melbourne Park –Green pigmented rebound Ace up to 2007 and thereafter, blue plexicushion.

RogerFederer, 20 Grand Slam winners, branded it ‘’Happy Slam’’. It is the hugest yearly sporting championship in the Southern Hemisphere, and it has a history for the highest attendance at a Grand Slam championship.

The Australian opened to professionals in 1969 and the champions of highest Male’s Singles titles are Roy Emerson, Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer (each have 7 Grand Slam). Victors of the most Doubles titles are Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan (each have 6 Grand Slam).

In women champions of the highest singles titles Margaret Court with 11 Grand Slam while Serena William has 7 Grand Slam. In winner of Female’s Double titles Thelma Coyne Long takes the lead with 12 Grand Slam followed by Martina Navratilova 8 slams.
Total prize money of Australian Open is AUD $ 55 Million roughly (USD $42.7 M).
The prize money is being breakdown this way, From winners, Runner-ups, Semi finalists, Quarter-finalists, 4th Round, 3rd Round, 2nd Round, 1st round.  I will only give you the prize money of the Winner, which is $4million, and Runners-up reward is $2million.

In the Men’s and Women’s Doubles $750,000 and $375,000 respectively.




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