(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) In a sport where players analyse every tiny detail the worlds best cannot agree on the right road to winning the Australian Open.
Brisbane — Plotting a path to the Australian Open has never been trickier or more uncertain. Even the best players are baffled about the best way to prepare for their annual trek Down Under.
In a sport where players analyse every tiny detail in the hope of finding an edge and rigidly stick to tried and tested routes to the other three Grand Slams the world’s best cannot agree on the right road to winning the Australian Open.
Even past champions are not sure which way to go spreading themselves as far apart as the Middle East to the Indian subcontinent China Australia and New Zealand. Some have opted to play only singles some have added doubles. Some are playing mixed team events some are playing exhibitions. Some are playing multiple warm-up events others none at all.
Novak Djokovic has won four of the last seven Australian Opens but even the Serbian cannot decide on the best place to play.
For three of his wins he warmed up at the Hopman Cup in Perth and for the other he did not play at all. This year he is playing the Qatar Open along with Rafa Nadal. For Nadal the Qatar Open could be a good omen as he used that as his warm-up event before he won his only Australian Open title in 2009.
Roger Federer also played at the Qatar Open before he won the Australian Open in 2006 and 2010. But in 2007 he won the Australian Open without playing any warm-up and when he won the Qatar Open in 2005 and 2011 he did not win the Australian Open later that month.
This year Federer is playing the Brisbane International in subtropical Queensland along with Maria Sharapova and Victoria Azarenka. The Brisbane International is a relatively new event having started in 2009 and attracts strong fields but none of the winners so far has gone on and won the Australian Open the same year.
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