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 | Australian Open will be one of the strongest in history11-12-2010 |
Australian Open tennis in 2011 will be one of the strongest tournaments in history. The reason for this is that all players of the top 100 male players and 98 of the hundreds of women will take part in the race in Melbourne. Serena Williams remains the only big name in professional tennis, which is unclear at this stage that will miss the first Grand Slam in 2011-a year. Williams, who was the last game of the tournament Wimbledon six months ago, still not recovered from injury in the leg. Besides this, the top 100 and will miss Hungarian Lamb Sovoy. Of course, absent Elena Dementieva, who dropped at the end of the season in professional sports. In males at this stage no major absentees, the first four are in the draw - Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray. Male scheme will be expanded from 16 qualifiers and 8 participants uayldkard. In the women will have 12 qualifying winners and 8 women will get special invitations to demonstrate their abilities in Melbourne. Australian Open tennis will be held from 17 until 30 January and Melbourne Park.