Australian Open: Court Surfaces

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The Australian Open typically features a very high rate of attendance. The 2009 Australian Open reached the highest ever day or night attendance record of 66,018.  This is for a single-day event, in any Grand Slam tournament. The Australian Open is worth around £38 million to the Australian economy.

The Rebound Ace surface of the courts was replaced by a cushioned, medium-paced, acrylic surface known as Plexicushion Prestige in 2008.  The most useful benefits of the new surface are better consistency and less retention of heat resulting from a thinner top layer. This change was only one of many changes in the surfaces of all other tennis events which lead up to the Australian Open. The surface had been in place at Melbourne Park for the past 20 years, and the change was controversial, primarily due to similarity of the new surface to DecoTurf, which is the surface already being used by the US Open.

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