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Ksenia Pervak of Russia poses with her Junior Girls' Singles winners trophy at Rod Laver Arena

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Ksenia Pervak

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Ksenia Pervak (Russia) Aus Open Champion 09 Biography
Birth Date: 27/05/1991,
Birth Place: Chelyabinsk, Russia,
Residence: Moscow, Russia,
Nationality: Russia,
Plays: Left Handed
Favourite Surface: Hard
Coach: Pavlov Victor Nicolaevich
Age Started Tennis: 8
Career prize money: US $45,300

Serena Williams has won her fourth Australian Open

Serena Williams of the United States of America poses with the Daphne Akhurst Trophy after winning the women's final match.

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Women's second seed Serena Williams wins her 10th Grand Slam singles title and reclaims the world No.1 ranking after demolishing Dinara Safina

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Roger Federer has breezed through his second round Australian Open 2009 match against Russian Evgeny Korolev 6-2 6-3 6-1, setting up a tantalising third-round clash with Marat Safin.

Jelena Jankovic is through to the third round of Australian Open 2009 after edging past feisty Belgian Kirsten Flipkens 6-4 7-5 at Hisense Arena

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World number one and top seed Rafael Nadal sent out an early warning to his rivals at the Australian Open with a breathtaking performance to beat Christophe Rochus 6-0 6-2 6-2 in the first round.

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India’s Sania Mirza breezed into the second round of the Australian Open tennis with a 6-1, 6-4 win over Poland’s Marta Domachowska at Melbourne Park here Monday.

Sania next plays Russian tenth seed Nadia Petrova who overcame a late challenge from Kazakh Yaroslava Shvedova to win 6-3, 7-6 (3). Nadia and Sania are levelled at 1-1 with the 26-year-old Russian winning in their previous meeting at the Wimbledon last year.

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Australian Open 2009:

The Australian Open is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments held each year. It is held each January at Melbourne Park. The tournament was held for the first time in 1905 and was contested on grass from 1905 to 1987. Since 1988, the tournament has been held on hard courts. Mats Wilander is the only male player to have won the tournament on both grass and hard courts.

Like all other Grand Slam tournaments, there are men's and women's singles competitions; men's, women's, and mixed doubles; and junior's and master's competitions.

The two main courts used in the tournament are Rod Laver Arena and Hisense Arena and feature retractable roofs, which can be shut in case of rain or extreme heat. It is the only Grand Slam tournament that features indoor play. However, work has already commenced on a retractable roof for Wimbledon's Centre Court, which is expected to be completed by 2009.

Held in the middle of the Australian summer, the Australian Open is famous for its notoriously hot days. An extreme-heat policy is put into play when temperatures (and humidity) reach dangerous levels.

The Australian Open typically has very high attendance, with the 2008 Australian Open achieving the highest ever day/night attendance record for any Grand Slam tournament of 62,885. The event is worth around £38 million to the Australian economy.

In 2008, the Rebound Ace surface, which had been in place for the past 20 years at Melbourne Park, was replaced by a cushioned acrylic surface known as Plexicushion. The main benefits of the new surface are better consistency and less retention of heat (because of a thinner top layer). This change was accompanied by changes in the surfaces of all lead-up tournaments to the Australian Open. The change was controversial, primarily because of the new surface's similarity to DecoTurf, the surface already being used by the US Open.

The most recent tournament was held from 14 January to 27 January 2008. The singles winners were Novak Djokovic and Maria Sharapova.

Australian Open 2009 starts today.