Kooyong Classic

Kooyong Classic
venue	Melbourne Australia
First run	1988
Game surface	Hard court
draw	8E, round robin
Center Court	8,500 spectators
Website	Official website
As of February 6, 2016

Old tournament logo of the AAMI Classic

Kooyong Classic (also named Priceline Pharmacy Classic after the main sponsor ) is an international invitation tournament in men's and women's tennis that is held in the Melbourne district of Kooyong . It takes place annually in January at the Kooyong Stadium of the Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club , shortly before the Australian Open . It was created after the Australian Open in 1988 moved from Kooyong to the newly built Melbourne Park . While it was played on grass in the first few years , it has been played on hard courts (currently Plexicushion ) since 1995 . After an edition in 1993, women have been taking part in the tournament at the Kooyong Classic again since 2017 .

The tournament is not part of the ATP World Tour (men) and WTA Tour (women), which means that the players do not win any points for the tennis world rankings . Nevertheless, it is often used by top players to prepare for the Australian Open. It will not be played in the knockout system . Instead, each participant plays three matches in a preliminary round, before the winner, second and third place finishers are determined in the final round.

In 1990 the tournament bore its first sponsor name. Until 1992 the event was organized by the insurance company Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society Ltd. known as the Colonial Mutual Classic . From 1993 to 2001 it was only called Colonial Classic . It followed from 2002 to 2004 the Commonwealth Bank with the Commonwealth Bank International . After a year under the old name Kooyong Classic , the namesake from 2006 to 2014 was AAMI (Australian Associated Motor Insurers Ltd.), an Australian motor insurer that belongs to the Suncorp-Metway Group. Since 2015, the event has borne the name of the drugstore retail company Priceline , which is part of Australian Pharmaceutical Industries (API).

Men's final list

year	winner	Final opponent	result	third place
1988	Pat Cash	Wally Masur	6: 4, 7: 6 (7: 4)
1989	Mark Kratzmann	Wally Masur	6: 4, 1: 6, 7: 6
1990	Darren Cahill	Todd Woodbridge	6: 2, 6: 3
1991	Goran Prpić	Richard Fromberg	6: 4, 6: 7 (6: 8) , 6: 3
1992	Neil Borwick	Richard Fromberg	6: 7 (5: 7) , 7: 6 (13:11) , 7: 6 (7: 5)
1993	Thomas Muster	Alexander Volkov	6: 3, 1: 6, 7: 6 (7: 1)
1994	Not carried out
1995	Michael Chang	Pete Sampras	7: 6 (7: 4) , 6: 3
1996	Michael Chang	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	7: 5, 6: 1
1997	Michael Chang	Pete Sampras	4: 6, 6: 4, 6: 2
1998	Mark Philippoussis	Andre Agassi	6: 3, 7: 6 (7: 3)	Gustavo Kuerten
1999	Thomas Enqvist	Mark Philippoussis	6: 4, 6: 1	Andre Agassi
2000	Andre Agassi	Mark Philippoussis	without a fight	Pete Sampras
2001	Andre Agassi	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	6: 3, 3: 6, 6: 3	Juan Carlos Ferrero
2002	Pete Sampras	Andre Agassi	7: 6 (8: 6) , 6: 7 (6: 8) , 6: 3	Scott Draper
2003	Andre Agassi	Sébastien Grosjean	6: 2, 6: 3	Richard Gasquet
2004	David Nalbandian	Andre Agassi	6: 2, 6: 3	Roger Federer
2005	Roger Federer	Andy Roddick	6: 4, 7: 5	Tim Henman
2006	Andy Roddick	Tommy Haas	6: 3, 7: 6 (8: 6)	Guillermo Coria
2007	Andy Roddick	Roger Federer	6: 2, 3: 6, 6: 3	Andy Murray
2008	Andy Roddick	Marcos Baghdatis	7: 5, 6: 3	Marat Safin
2009	Roger Federer	Stanislas Wawrinka	6: 1, 6: 3	Fernando Verdasco
2010	Fernando Verdasco	Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	7: 5, 6: 3	Bernard Tomic
2011	Lleyton Hewitt	Gaël Monfils	7: 5, 6: 3	Jürgen Melzer
2012	Bernard Tomic	Mardy Fish	6: 4, 3: 6, 7: 5	Jürgen Melzer
2013	Lleyton Hewitt	Juan Martín del Potro	6: 1, 6: 4	Tomáš Berdych
2014	Kei Nishikori	Tomáš Berdych	6: 4, 7: 5	Luke Saville
2015	Fernando Verdasco	Oleksandr Dolhopolov	7: 6 (7: 3) , problem Dolgopolov	Richard Gasquet
2016	David Goffin	Feliciano López	6: 4, 6: 2	Pablo Carreño Busta
2017	David Goffin	Ivo Karlović	7: 6 2	Gilles Simon
2018	Pablo Carreño Busta	Matthew Ebden	6: 7 (6: 8) , 6: 4, 6: 2
2019	Bernard Tomic	Jack Sock	5: 7, 6: 4, 10: 6

Women's final list

year	winner	Final opponent	result
1993	Rachel McQuillan	Nicole Provis	6: 2, 3: 6, 7: 5
2017	Yanina Wickmayer	Sorana Cîrstea	6: 4
2018	Belinda Bencic	Andrea Petković	3: 6, 6: 4, 10: 4 ( match tie-break )

Web links

• kooyongclassic.com.au: Official website of the Kooyong Classic (English)
• kooyong.com.au: Official website of the Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ kooyongclassic.com.au: Event History (English)