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The 2009 Australian Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 97th edition of the Australian Open, and the first Grand Slam event of the year. It took place at the Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia, from 19 January through 1 February 2009. The 2009 men's tournament is considered to be one of the best Grand Slam tournaments in open era history.〔(Australian Open 2009 Tennis Championship Winners ), australianopen4u.com〕 It is remembered for containing many of the best matches of the 2009 year,〔(10 most memorable matches of 2009 ), www.tennis.com〕 including the Nadal v Verdasco semi final and the Nadal v Federer final.〔 It was the first hard court Grand Slam in which Nadal made the final or won.〔(Nadal calls for fewer hard court events ), sports.espn.go.com/sports/tennis, 2 February 2009.〕 Novak Djokovic and Maria Sharapova were the defending champions. Djokovic was forced to retire in his quarter-final match against Andy Roddick due to heat stress, ending his title defence, whilst Sharapova chose not to defend her title due to long lasting shoulder surgery;〔(Sharapova out after shoulder fails to recover - Tennis - Sport - theage.com.au )〕 the withdrawal subsequently dropped her out of the WTA's Top 10 for the first time since July 2004. Second seeded Serena Williams retained the women's singles title and recorded her fourth Australian Open title and tenth Grand Slam title overall after defeating third seed Dinara Safina in straight sets. Serena, partnering her sister Venus, also won the women's doubles tournament. First seeded Rafael Nadal defeated Roger Federer in five sets to win the men's singles title. This was Nadal's first hard court grand slam title, having previously only won on clay at Roland Garros four times and grass at Wimbledon once. He also became the first Spaniard to ever win the Australian Open. This tournament featured 23 five-set men's singles matches, the most since 1988. In men's doubles, another sibling pair took the title as Bob and Mike Bryan defeated Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles. This tournament was notable for being the warmest tournament weather-wise; the average daily maximum temperature throughout the tournament was 34.7 degrees Celsius, nine degrees above normal. The coolest Australian Open was in 1986, when the maximum temperature averaged just 22.5 degrees Celsius, 3.5 degrees below normal.〔(Melbourne set to sizzle for Australian Open 2014 ), ''Australian Open official website'', 1 December 2013〕 ==Seniors== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2009 Australian Open」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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