Photos: Australian Open 2007

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All the technology action at the Australian Open Tennis Championships 2007 in Melbourne.

Fans file in for the start of another day's play at the 2007 Australian Open.

Published: January 18, 2007 -- 00:03 GMT (16:03 PST)
Photo by: Steven Deare, ZDNet Australia

Caption by: Steven Deare
Underneath Rod Laver Arena, an IBM blade server (on right) runs the scoring database for the tournament.

Published: January 18, 2007 -- 00:03 GMT (16:03 PST)
Photo by: Steven Deare, ZDNet Australia

Caption by: Steven Deare
The fast spinning page views counter is just one indicator of the tremendous load on the servers managing australianopen.com. Tournament organisers expect an increase on the 4.2 million unique visitors who visited the site last year.

Courtesy of IBM

Published: January 18, 2007 -- 00:03 GMT (16:03 PST)
Caption by: Steven Deare
For the first time at the Open, each singles player in Rod Laver Arena receives a match analysis DVD after play to review their performance.

Courtesy of IBM

Published: January 18, 2007 -- 00:03 GMT (16:03 PST)
Caption by: Steven Deare
The DVD includes video footage which is indexed by point and combined with statistical data. This allows players to view footage of just, for example, their aces, or forehand winners etc. Close-ups on the next page.

Courtesy of IBM

Published: January 18, 2007 -- 00:03 GMT (16:03 PST)
Caption by: Steven Deare
Close-up of players' match statistics.

Courtesy of IBM

Published: January 18, 2007 -- 00:03 GMT (16:03 PST)
Caption by: Steven Deare
Close-up of detailed serve statistics.

Courtesy of IBM

Published: January 18, 2007 -- 00:03 GMT (16:03 PST)
Caption by: Steven Deare
The Australian Open island in the digital world, Second Life.

Courtesy of IBM

Published: January 18, 2007 -- 00:03 GMT (16:03 PST)
Caption by: Steven Deare