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Right here’s a take a look at the Australian Open, certainly one of 4 competitions that make up the “Grand Slam” in skilled tennis. The opposite three are Wimbledon, the French Open and the US Open.
January 13-28, 2024 – The 112th Australian Open is scheduled to happen.
January 16-29, 2023 – The 111th Australian Open takes place.
The match is performed at Melbourne Park, in Melbourne, Australia.
The Australian Open is performed on laborious courts with a blue floor.
Novak Djokovic defeated Stefanos Tsitsipas in straight units to win a 10th Australian Open title and a record-equaling 22nd grand slam.
Belarusian-born Aryna Sabalenka defeated Elena Rybakina in three units, changing into the primary participant competing below a impartial flag to safe a grand slam.
Whole prize cash for 2024 was a document excessive $86.5 million AUD, a 13% enhance from $76.5 million AUD in 2023.
Youngest winners – males’s singles – Ken Rosewall (18); ladies’s singles – Martina Hingis (16)
Oldest winners – males’s singles – Rosewall (37); ladies’s singles – Thelma Lengthy (35)
Most consecutive singles wins – males’s – Roy Emerson (5) 1963-1967; ladies’s – Margaret Courtroom (seven) 1960-1966
Most singles titles general – males’s – Djokovic (10); ladies’s – Margaret Courtroom (11)
1905 – The Australasian Championships are performed in Melbourne.
1927 – The title is modified to the Australian Championships.
1954 – Thelma Lengthy wins the Girls’s Singles Championship at 35 years and eight months, changing into the oldest feminine to take action.
1969 – The title is modified to the Australian Open.
1972 – Ken Rosewall wins the Males’s Singles Championship at age 37, changing into the oldest male participant to win the Australian Open. Rosewall additionally holds the document for youngest champion, profitable at age 18 in 1953.
2001 – Begins paying women and men equal prize cash.
January 15-16, 2022 – World No. 1 and 2021 males’s singles champion Novak Djokovic is detained and deported from Australia over a visa and Covid-19 vaccination dispute, lacking the match.
November 15, 2022 – Australia’s Immigration Ministry declares the repeal of Djokovic’s three-year ban from coming into the nation, paving the way in which for the nine-time singles champion to enter the 2023 Australian Open.