Australian Open 2012 – Learn About It Now

Australian Open 2012 is a famous tennis event in the world. The tennis tournament takes place in the Melbourne Park in Australia. Australian Open 2012 would be held from January 16 to 29 in 2012. This would be the 100th edition of the tournament.

In many of the years, Australian Open would be the first event of the Grand Slam in tennis world. Therefore, a lot of tennis athletes would pay attention to this event and they would prepare for the event very early in the year such that they would have the sufficient fitness to fight for championship in the game.

Being one of the Grand Slam events in tennis world, Australian Open 2012 provides attractive reasons for people to work hard for the game. For example, there would be 2000 points awarded for the champions in all categories. This would be very beneficial for the athletes to win the game and then to upgrade their position in the world ranking of tennis player. Many of the people would regard Australian Open 2012 as the start of the year so they would try their best to achieve good result. For the runner up, there would be 1200 points awarded for men and 1400 points awarded for women. These points are also important for the players to remain a good position in the ranking.

The point award differs greatly from the champion to the qualifier. The qualifier would only get around 25 to 60 points depending on genders while the champion, as mentioned above, could get 2000 points. Therefore, some of the tennis players at the top of the ranking would fight very hard in every game to ensure that they would not be left behind in the ranking league. This also explains why some of the match results would be regarded as ‘surprising’ and even ‘shocking’ when the top ranking players fail to win and to enter the next round.

In Australian Open 2012, there are also some of the shocking results. For example, the number one women’s singles tennis player failed to qualify into the semi-finals and this left the competition of upcoming number one in women’s single world ranking open. In other words, some of the current top players are fighting for the champion in this game in order to lead the league of women’s singles. If any of the second to the fourth players in the ranking league succeeds in winning Australian Open 2012, they would be ranked the first in the league after this game is finished.

Apart from the points awarded for ranking in tennis league, there is also prize money which attracts the players. In Australian Open 2012, there would be a total of 2.3 million dollars, in AUD, given as the prize money for the champions. This would be a very attractive thing for the players to join the game.

To conclude, Australian Open 2012 is a very competitive game and people visiting Melbourne should not miss it. Otherwise, they must miss a lot of the fun and excitement.