Australian Open
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The 2009 Australian Open was played in Melbourne and showed 5 events that took place. The first was the Men’s Singles championship which saw Rafael Nadal claim victory over Roger Federer, then came the Women’s singles championship Serena Williams (defending women’s champion), who regained her title for the fourth time when playing the Australian Open.
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The men’s doubles tournament was won by Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan, the women’s doubles tournament was won for the third time by Serena Williams and Venus Williams and finally the 2009 Australian Open mixed doubles winners were Sania Mirza and Mahesh Bhupathi.
The Australian Open is now always held at the Melbourne Park Stadium as this venue attracted the most visitors and has recently announced a redevelopment to increase seating, along with a roof to be placed over the Margaret Court Arena as well as lots more which is supposed to run into hundreds of millions of dollars.
The Australian Open is not only available to be viewed but also to place bets on as many online betting sites such as Sportingbet.com.au, PaddyPower.com and BetUK.com have the betting odds already available for the Men’s Australian Open Tournament and the Women’s Australian Open tournament which will take place in January 2010. The favourite to win the Men’s singles is currently Roger Federer whose betting odds are 9/4, with the second favourite Rafael Nadel at 3/1 and the third Juan Martin Del Potro at 7/2.
The women’s singles Australian Open betting odds start with Serena Williams at 5/2, then as second favourite Kim Clijsters who’s betting odds are 4/1 and the third favourite which is a joint affair between Venus Williams and Maria Sharapova who are both at 6/1. Bet now at Sportingbet.com.