sentences:  Then it was decided to move the next tournament to mid-January (January 1987), which meant there was no tournament in 1986.Since 1987, the Australian Open date has not changed.However, some top players, including Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, have said that the tournament is held too soon after the Christmas and New Year holidays, thus preventing players from reaching their best form, and expressed a desire to shift it to February.