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In January, Melbourne is stuffed with tennis games fans around the world to watch this top tennis event, the Foreign Open. This is the first championship of the global tennis Grand Throw circuit of the season.

The best names of international tennis love coming to Melbourne. They love Melbourne's sporting spirit and support, and almost all of the time the weather.

This twelve-monthly Hydronic Heating Melbourne tennis event allures large crowds and is also ornamented by a party atmosphere, with the major game titles being broadcast on a sizable screen at Federation Pillow, Melbourne's public place.

The Australian Open is one of Melbourne's great athletic events - attendance is over 550, 000 and hotels tend to get booked out during this time. Melbourne was chosen over the other Foreign cities for its capacity to draw great locations and muster support and enthusiasm for this sport.

Melbourne tennis follows the good old English traditions of being played in summer. While most times are pleasurable and sunlit in the mid twenties, Melbourne also has some extremely hot days in January with winds from the desert that make you feel you are in a giant strike dryer. Which means that some of the games are played out in 35-45 degree temperature.

With on court temps at times around 60 degrees (yes Celsius), the Australian Open can be taxing on the players and quiet a few have suffered the symptoms of heat exhaustion.

To handle this problem, golf Australia introduced an Great Heat Policy: Once the thermometer hits 35 deg - while matches in progress must be completed - the roof within the Rod Laver and the Vodafone Arenas - the key courts - get shut and no matches are commenced on outside process of law.

It had been so popular that Wimbledon has become introducing a removable roof - to handle the rainy weather.

The Australian Open, then called the Australasian Competition, had followed Wimbledon in the early 1900s to embraced the new sport of lawn tennis. Following that it has grown into one of the very popular world tennis events.

In this year's Australian Open 08, Roger Federer, Swiss, is seeking to defend his title, which would make him one of 3 men who have gained the Australian Open four times. The mediocre are Jack Crawford, Australian, who played in the 1930s, and Andre Agassi, US, who received title in the nineties and 2000s.

For the women, Serena Williams, ALL OF US, is attempting the same. She would join the other tennis champions who have achieved a multiply by 4 win, namely Steffi Graf, German, and Monica Seles, Yugoslavia & US.