Adelaide International (tennis)

The Adelaide International is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts in Adelaide, South Australia at the Memorial Drive Tennis Centre. The tournament is held in January or February, and forms part of the WTA and ATP tours. The event is part of the lead-up to the first Grand Slam tournament of the season, the Australian Open.

Adelaide International
Tournament information
Event nameAdelaide International
Founded2020 (2020)
LocationAdelaide, SA
VenueMemorial Drive Tennis Centre
SurfaceHard (Greenset)[1]
Websiteadelaideinternational.com.au
Current champions (2023)
Men's singlesSouth Korea Kwon Soon-woo
Women's singlesSwitzerland Belinda Bencic
Men's doublesEl Salvador Marcelo Arévalo
Netherlands Jean-Julien Rojer
Women's doublesBrazil Luisa Stefani
United States Taylor Townsend
ATP Tour
CategoryATP 250
Draw28S / 16Q / 24D
Prize moneyUS$642,735 (2023)
WTA Tour
CategoryWTA 500
Draw30S / 24Q / 16D
Prize moneyUS$780,637 (2023)

History

The establishment of the Brisbane International in 2009 saw the city of Adelaide miss out on continuing to host an ATP or WTA lead-up event to the Australian Open. Over the next ten years Adelaide hosted the World Tennis Challenge, an exhibition event played featuring past players. The unveiling of the multi-city ATP Cup competition, held around the same time, resulted in the abolition of the Hopman Cup and the condensing of other tournaments, thereby allowing sufficient room in the calendar for the Adelaide International.[2] In February 2019, the South Australian Government announced it would invest $10 million to construct a canopy-roof structure over the Memorial Drive Tennis Centre, after securing a five-year deal with Tennis Australia to host the new event at the upgraded facility.[3] The new tournament was launched later that year, with then-world number four and two-time Grand-Slam champion Simona Halep being confirmed as the first player to play in the 2020 Adelaide International.[4] The new international tournament was a combined WTA Premier and ATP 250 event.[5]

In 2021, a WTA-only tournament was held after the Australian Open, from February 2227.

In 2022, there were two back-to-back Adelaide Internationals from January 1st to January 14th. The events were combined ATP 250 and WTA 250 tournaments with Gaël Monfils and Ashleigh Barty winning the men's and women's singles in the first tournament, and Thanasi Kokkinakis and Madison Keys winning the men's and women's singles in the second tournament.[6]

Finals

Men's singles

Year Champions Runners-up Score
2020Russia Andrey RublevSouth Africa Lloyd Harris6–3, 6–0
2021Not held
2022 (1)France Gaël MonfilsRussia Karen Khachanov6–4, 6–4
2022 (2)Australia Thanasi KokkinakisFrance Arthur Rinderknech6–7(6–8), 7–6(7–5), 6–3
2023 (1)Serbia Novak DjokovicUnited States Sebastian Korda6–7(8–10), 7–6(7–3), 6–4
2023 (2)South Korea Kwon Soon-wooSpain Roberto Bautista Agut6–4, 3–6, 7–6(7–4)

Women's singles

Year Champions Runners-up Score
2020Australia Ashleigh BartyUkraine Dayana Yastremska6–2, 7–5
2021Poland Iga ŚwiątekSwitzerland Belinda Bencic6–2, 6–2
2022 (1)Australia Ashleigh Barty (2)Kazakhstan Elena Rybakina6–3, 6–2
2022 (2)United States Madison KeysUnited States Alison Riske6–1, 6–2
2023 (1) Aryna SabalenkaCzech Republic Linda Nosková6–3, 7–6(7–4)
2023 (2)Switzerland Belinda Bencic Daria Kasatkina6–0, 6–2

Men's doubles

Year Champions Runners-up Score
2020Argentina Máximo González
France Fabrice Martin
Croatia Ivan Dodig
Slovakia Filip Polášek
7–6(14–12), 6–3
2021Not held
2022 (1)India Rohan Bopanna
India Ramkumar Ramanathan
Croatia Ivan Dodig
Brazil Marcelo Melo
7–6(8–6), 6–1
2022 (2)Netherlands Wesley Koolhof
United Kingdom Neal Skupski
Uruguay Ariel Behar
Ecuador Gonzalo Escobar
7–6(7–5), 6–4
2023 (1)United Kingdom Lloyd Glasspool
Finland Harri Heliövaara
United Kingdom Jamie Murray
New Zealand Michael Venus
6–3, 7–6(7–3)
2023 (2)El Salvador Marcelo Arévalo
Netherlands Jean-Julien Rojer
Croatia Ivan Dodig
United States Austin Krajicek
Walkover

Women's doubles

Year Champions Runners-up Score
2020United States Nicole Melichar
China Xu Yifan
Canada Gabriela Dabrowski
Croatia Darija Jurak
2–6, 7–5, [10–5]
2021Chile Alexa Guarachi
United States Desirae Krawczyk
United States Hayley Carter
Brazil Luisa Stefani
6–7(4–7), 6–4, [10–3]
2022 (1)Australia Ashleigh Barty
Australia Storm Sanders
Croatia Darija Jurak Schreiber
Slovenia Andreja Klepač
6–1, 6–4
2022 (2)Japan Eri Hozumi
Japan Makoto Ninomiya
Czech Republic Tereza Martincová
Czech Republic Markéta Vondroušová
1–6, 7–6(7–4), [10–7]
2023 (1)United States Asia Muhammad
United States Taylor Townsend
Australia Storm Hunter
Czech Republic Kateřina Siniaková
6–2, 7–6(7–2)
2023 (2)Brazil Luisa Stefani
United States Taylor Townsend (2)
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
Kazakhstan Elena Rybakina
7–5, 7–6(7–3)

See also

References

  1. "Greenset worldwide new official court surface supplier". tennis.com.au. 26 July 2019.
  2. "New Adelaide tournament set to first unveil big name". PerthNow. 1 August 2019.
  3. "Adelaide tennis tournaments to replace Sydney International as new roof funded". ABC News. 2 February 2019.
  4. "SA to serve up best in women's tennis". South Australian Tourism Commission. 2 August 2019. Archived from the original on 13 August 2019. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  5. "Adelaide International to star Wimbledon champion Simona Halep in 2020". Adelaide International. 2 August 2019.
  6. "Kokkinakis completes Adelaide fairytale with hometown title". Adelaide International Tennis. 15 January 2022. Retrieved 13 November 2022.
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