The Brisbane International is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It is currently part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) World Tour and of the WTA International tournaments of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Tour. It is held annually in January at the Queensland Tennis Centre in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, just before the first Grand Slam tournament of the season, the Australian Open. The origins of the Brisbane International trace back to the early 1970s, when the Grand Prix tennis circuit, formed in 1970, and which ran concurrently with other tours as the World Championship Tennis circuit, decided to...