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Right here’s a take a look at the Australian Open, one among 4 competitions that make up the “Grand Slam” in skilled tennis. The opposite three are Wimbledon, the French Open and the US Open.
January 16-29, 2023 – The 111th Australian Open is scheduled to happen.
January 17-30, 2022 – The a hundred and tenth Australian Open takes place.
The match is performed at Melbourne Park, in Melbourne, Australia.
The Australian Open is performed on onerous courts with a blue floor.
Rafael Nadal defeated Daniil Medvedev within the males’s remaining, clinching a record-breaking twenty first Grand Slam title.
Ashleigh Barty grew to become the primary dwelling Australian Open champion since 1978 after beating Danielle Collins within the girls’s remaining.
Whole prize cash for 2022 was $75 million AUD. Whole prize cash for 2023 is $76.5 million AUD (a 3.4% enhance).
Youngest winners – males’s singles – Ken Rosewall (18); girls’s singles – Martina Hingis (16)
Oldest winners – males’s singles – Rosewall (37); girls’s singles – Thelma Lengthy (35)
Most consecutive singles wins – males’s – Roy Emerson (5) 1963-1967; girls’s – Margaret Court docket (seven) 1960-1966
Most singles titles general – males’s – Djokovic (9); girls’s – Margaret Court docket (11)
1905 – The Australasian Championships are performed in Melbourne.
1927 – The identify is modified to the Australian Championships.
1954 – Thelma Lengthy wins the Ladies’s Singles Championship at age 35, turning into the oldest feminine to take action.
1969 – The identify is modified to the Australian Open.
1972 – Ken Rosewall wins the Males’s Singles Championship at age 37, turning into the oldest male participant to win the Australian Open. Rosewall additionally holds the file 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 broadcasts 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.
