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Australian Open Tennis 2008

The demand for Australian Open tennis betting odds keeps growing as the youngest of the grand slam tournaments raises its profile with every passing year. 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 it gets much more attention now than it did beforethe competition moved to Melbourne Park in 1988.

The first of the four majors, it's held at the start of the tennis year and so is a benchmark for the rest of the season. The list of previous winners reads like a who's who of tennis legends: Agassi, Sampras, Hingis, Lendl, Seles, Wilander, Navratilova, Connors, Court and Emerson.

Australian Open 2007, presented by Kia Motors in association with Garnier and GE Money, takes place at Melbourne Park, Melbourne, from 14-27 January 2008. The Australian Open has produced some of the most memorable matches in tennis history and 2008 is shaping up to be another mouthwatering prospect.

 

 

Australian Open is one of the world's premier tennis tournaments.

Australian Open Tennis - The Basics

The Australian Open tennis tournament is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments. The Australian Open tennis tournament, now permanently played at Melbourne Park, is the first Grand Slam event of the year. 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.

Like the other Grand Slam events the Australian Open singles champions are the ultimate survivors of a 128-person draw, with doubles titles contested froma 64-team draw and the mixed doubles a 32-team affair.

Many tennis afficenados belive that the Australian Open tennis is the best contest of the year as its scheduling at the start of the tennis year allows for peak player fitness and the entry of nearly all of the world's top players.

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.

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Betting Australian Open futures (for example, Lleyton Hewitt to take out the Australian Open men's singles title) is the simplest example of a futures bet.

Australian Open Match betting (for example, Roger Federer to beat Joachim Johansson in the second round)
to the number of games that the Fed Express loses in eliminating Pim Pim from the prestigious tournament
(for example, 0-5 inclusive, 6-10 inclusive or more than 10).


Tennis betting opportunities start with Australian Open tennis betting in January, then French Open odds
in May, Wimbledon Tennis odds in June/July and US Open betting opportunities in August.

 

The two major associations are described below

ATP Tour
In 1988 members of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) convened a press conference in the parking lot at the US Open to announce to the world that they were taking over control of the game. The use of the parking lot emphasized the point that they were banned from using on-site facilities by the then ruling body, the Men's Tennis Council. By 1990 a significant number of players as well as tournament directors had signed up.


This has evolved into something that is quite unique in the sporting world, an equal partnership between players and tournament organizers. In January 2001 the ATP Tour name was shortened to ATP.

 WTA Tour
The Women's Tennis Association (WTA) went through a similar battle as the ATP to improve the lot of women tennis professionals. Back in 1970, women were being paid only one third of the prize money that men were earning.
 

It took a handful of determined players to buck the system and start up their own 3 tournament circuit.
In the following year this grew to 19 tournaments and the rest is history. Equal prize money for men and women's now the standard for international tennis.

 

Some facts and History of Australian Open

 

The Australasian Tennis Championship were first held in 1905 at the Warehouseman's Cricket
Ground in St Kilda Road, Melbourne, in the same city that it was destined to return to for good.
It was originally organized by the Lawn Tennis Association of Australia, which has since been
renamed to Tennis Australia. After a brief break during the First World War, the women's singles
tournament was added in 1922 and the competition was renamed the Australian Championships in 1927.

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THE EARLY HISTORY OF REAL TENNIS

 Real Tennis as it is called in Britain, Royal Tennis as it is called in Australia, Court Tennis as it is called in the States, Jeu de Paume as it is called in France or Tennis as it is properly known, is the oldest of all the racket games, and unlike most of the others, such as squash or lawn tennis, it is a product of evolution rather than pure invention.

 The game started to form into something recognizable in the 11th century. It started as hand ball, played by monks around the cloisters of monasteries in Italy and France, much as schoolchildren do in any appropriate corner of their school, and rules varied to suit local whims and conditions. Gradually, as monks traveled to other monasteries, the more enjoyable rules were more generally adopted, the more bizarre rules abandoned and people started to add features to their courtyards that improved the pastime, and demolish or modify others that detracted from it. The monks enjoyed the game so much that the Pope banned the playing of it, and by the 14th century the game had spread from cloister to castle and become a game of the nobility.

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2008 Australian open Grand Slam Tennis Winners
Novak Djokovic from Serbia, the 3rd ranked player in the world has toppled sentimental favourite Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in 4 sets to win his first Grand Slam final at the Australian Open at the age of 20. Neither Sharapova, nor Ivanovic played great tennis, and at the end of the day it was the player that made the least unforced error who triumphed, and that was the fifth seed, Maria Sharapova. Maria Sharapova wins her third Grand Slam title, taking out Ana Ivanovic in the final of the Australian Open.

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