 In 2006 Tennis Australia decided to merge the Gold Coast and Adelaide events into a larger ATP-WTA joint tournament in Brisbane to be first held in 2009.The last edition of the Gold Coast event was held in 2008 and was won by Li Na, who defeated future career rival and rising star Victoria Azarenka in the final in three sets.Silk Road Living History trains in hand to hand combat with blunt and rounded steel weapons from Byzantine/Eastern Roman Empire from the 9th to 12th centuries.