It was a warm-up event for the season, with the ATP World Tour beginning on January 4, 2011.

Seles has not only added a warm-up event next week in Sydney, but she is starting the year with a cram course in competition.

There is also a warm-up event at Yale University, where a certain Miss Wozniacki has won for the past three years.

This year, Hingis did no riding before this tournament but just practiced on the red clay after winning her warm-up event at the German Open.

Serena defied convention again by not playing a warm-up event before the Open.

So far, the warm-up events have generally gone well.

Before the main events in this bilingual literary festival start from Monday 25 October, two smaller warm-up events are planned to whet the appetite.

It is played on outdoor hard courts, as a warm-up event two weeks prior the Australian Open, in the first week of January.

It used to be a warm-up event for the Business Plan Contest held in the spring.

Instead of playing a warm-up event on grass, she rested at home before traveling to England last week.