Record attendance at Australian Open
Submitted by Keval Sharma on Mon, 01/30/2012 - 07:35.
Melbourne, Jan 30 - The 2012 Australian Open witnessed a record attendance: 686,006 fans at the Melbourne Park.
The figure smashed the previous record attendance of 653,860 of 2010.
The Jan 21 attendance also broke the all-time daily record of a Grand Slam event. There were 80,649 fans on site, up from 77,121 in 2011. (IANS)
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