Australian Open
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The Australian Open (stylized ΛO) is a tennis tournament organised by Tennis Australia annually at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is chronologically the first of the four Grand Slam tennis events every year, held before the French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open.
The Australian Open typically starts around the middle of January and continues for two weeks, concluding with the men's final traditionally held on the last Sunday of the month. It features men's and women's singles, men's, women's and mixed doubles, juniors’ championships, wheelchair, legends, and exhibition events.
Until 1987, it was played on grass courts, but since then three types of hardcourt surfaces have been used: green-coloured Rebound Ace up to 2007 and blue Plexicushion from 2008 to 2019. Since 2020, it has been played on blue GreenSet.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
First held in 1905 as the Australasian championships, the Australian Open has grown to become one of the biggest sporting events in the Southern Hemisphere.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Nicknamed "the happy slam",<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> the Australian Open is the highest attended Grand Slam event, with more than 1,200,000 people attending the 2025 tournament, including qualifying. It was also the first Grand Slam tournament to feature indoor play during wet weather or extreme heat with its three primary courts, Rod Laver Arena, John Cain Arena and the refurbished Margaret Court Arena equipped with retractable roofs.
The Australian Open is known for its fast-paced and aggressive style of play. The tournament has been held at the Melbourne Park complex since 1988 and is a major contributor to the Victorian economy; the 2020 Australian Open injected Template:Australian dollar into the state's economy, while over the preceding decade, the Australian Open had contributed more than Template:Australian dollar in economic benefits to Victoria and generated 1775 jobs for the state, with these jobs being predominantly in the accommodation, hotels, cafés and trade services sectors.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
HistoryEdit
<section begin=GrandSlamArticle/> The Australian Open is managed by Tennis Australia, formerly the Lawn Tennis Association of Australia (LTAA), and was first played at the Warehouseman's Cricket Ground in Melbourne in November 1905. The facility, now known as the Albert Reserve Tennis Centre, was a grass court.<ref name=jazzsports>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The tournament was first known as the Australasian Championships. It became the Australian Championships in 1927. Then, in 1969, it became the Australian Open.<ref name=OfficialHist>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Since 1905, it has been staged 110 times in five Australian cities: Melbourne (66 times), Sydney (17 times), Adelaide (15 times), Brisbane (7 times), Perth (3 times), and two New Zealand cities: Christchurch (1906) and Hastings (1912).<ref name=OfficialHist />
Although it began in 1905, the International Lawn Tennis Federation (ILTF) did not designate it a major championship until 1924, following a meeting held in 1923. The tournament committee changed the tournament structure to include seeding at that time.<ref name=majorstatus>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In the period of 1916–1918, no tournament was organised due to World War I.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
During World War II, the tournament was not held from 1941 to 1945.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 1972, it was decided to stage the tournament in Melbourne each year because it attracted the biggest patronage of any Australian city.<ref name=jazzsports /> The tournament was played at the Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club from 1972 until its move to the new Flinders Park complex in 1988.<section end=GrandSlamArticle/>
The new facilities at Flinders Park were envisaged to meet the demands of a tournament that had outgrown Kooyong's capacity. The move to Flinders Park was an immediate success, with a 90 percent increase in attendance in 1988 (266,436) on the previous year at Kooyong (140,000).<ref name=TheAge>Template:Cite news</ref>
Because of Australia's geographic remoteness, very few foreign players entered the tournament in the early 20th century. In the 1920s, the trip by ship from Europe to Australia took about 45 days. The first tennis players who came by boat were the US Davis Cup players in November 1946.<ref name=TheAge/> Even inside Australia, many players could not travel easily. When the tournament was held in Perth, no one from Victoria or New South Wales crossed by train, a distance of about Template:Convert between the east and west coasts. In Christchurch in 1906, of a small field of 10 players, only two Australians attended and the tournament was won by a New Zealander.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The first tournaments of the Australasian Championships suffered from the competition of the other Australasian tournaments. Before 1905, all Australian states, and New Zealand, had their own championships; the first being organised in 1880 in Melbourne and called the Championship of the Colony of Victoria (later the Championship of Victoria).<ref name=tennis.com.au>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In those years, the best two players – Australian Norman Brookes (whose name is now written on the men's singles cup) and New Zealander Anthony Wilding – almost did not play this tournament.
Brookes took part once and won in 1911, and Wilding entered and won the competition twice (1906 and 1909). Their meetings in the Victorian Championships (or at Wimbledon) helped to determine the best Australasian players. Even when the Australasian Championships were held in Hastings, New Zealand, in 1912, Wilding, though three times Wimbledon champion, did not come back to his home country. It was a recurring problem for all players of the era. Brookes went to Europe only three times, where he reached the Wimbledon Challenge Round once and then won Wimbledon twice.
Thus, many players had never played the Austral(as)ian amateur or open championships: the Doherty brothers, William Larned, Maurice McLoughlin, Beals Wright, Bill Johnston, Bill Tilden, René Lacoste, Henri Cochet, Bobby Riggs, Jack Kramer, Ted Schroeder, Pancho Gonzales, Budge Patty, and others, while Brookes, Ellsworth Vines, Jaroslav Drobný, came just once. Even in the 1960s and 1970s, when travel was less difficult, leading players such as Manuel Santana, Jan Kodeš, Manuel Orantes, Ilie Năstase (who only came once, when 35 years old) and Björn Borg came rarely or not at all.
Open eraEdit
Beginning in 1969, when the first Australian Open was held on the Milton Courts at Brisbane, the tournament was open to all players, including professionals who were not allowed to play the traditional circuit.<ref name=Ausstadiums>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Nevertheless, except for the 1969 and 1971 tournaments, many of the best players missed the championship until 1982, because of the remoteness, the inconvenient dates (around Christmas and New Year's Day) and the low prize money. In 1970, George MacCall's National Tennis League, which employed Rod Laver, Ken Rosewall, Andrés Gimeno, Pancho Gonzales, Roy Emerson and Fred Stolle, prevented its players from entering the tournament because the guarantees were insufficient. The tournament was won by Arthur Ashe.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
In 1983, Ivan Lendl, John McEnroe and Mats Wilander entered the tournament. Wilander won the singles title<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and both his Davis Cup singles rubbers in the Swedish loss to Australia at Kooyong shortly after.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Following the 1983 Australian Open, the International Tennis Federation prompted the Lawn Tennis Association of Australia to change the site of the tournament, because the Kooyong stadium was then inappropriate to serve such a big event. In 1988 the tournament was first held at Flinders Park (later renamed Melbourne Park).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The change of the venue also led to a change of the court surface from grass to a hard court surface known as Rebound Ace.<ref name="nyt2008">Template:Cite news</ref>
Mats Wilander was the only player to win the tournament on both grass and hard courts. In 2008, after being used for 20 years, the Rebound Ace was replaced by a cushioned, medium-paced,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> acrylic surface known as Plexicushion Prestige. Roger Federer and Serena Williams are the only players to win the Australian Open on both Rebound Ace and Plexicushion Prestige. The main benefits of the new surface are better consistency and less retention of heat because of a thinner top layer.<ref name="nyt2008"/> This change was accompanied by changes in the surfaces of all lead-up tournaments to the Australian Open. The change was controversial because of the new surface's similarity to DecoTurf, the surface used by the US Open.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Before the Melbourne Park stadium era, tournament dates fluctuated as well, in particular in the early years because of the climate of each site or exceptional events. For example, the 1919 tournament was held in January 1920 (the 1920 tournament was played in March) and the 1923 tournament in Brisbane took place in August when the weather was not too hot and wet. After a first 1977 tournament was held in December 1976 – January 1977, the organisers chose to move the next tournament forward a few days, then a second 1977 tournament was played (ended on 31 December), but this failed to attract the best players.
From 1982 to 1985, the tournament was played in mid-December. Then it was decided to move the next tournament to mid-January (January 1987), which meant no tournament was organised in 1986. Since 1987, the Australian Open date has not changed (except for 2021, when it was postponed by three weeks to February due to the COVID-19 pandemic). Some top players, including Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, have said in the past that the tournament is held too soon after the Christmas and New Year holidays, and expressed a desire to consider shifting the tournament to February.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Such a change, however, would move the tournament outside Australia's summer school holiday period, potentially impacting attendance figures.
Prior to 1996, the Australian Open rewarded fewer ATP rankings points than the other three Grand Slam tournaments. The reason cited by the ATP was the prize money offered by the Australian Open was far less than the other three majors.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Melbourne Park expansionEdit
New South Wales and overseas authorities proposed becoming the new hosts of the tournament in 2008, though such a move never materialised.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In any case, it was around this time the Melbourne Park precinct commenced upgrades which enhanced facilities for players and spectators.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The precinct also aimed to provide more options of refreshments especially coffee to entertain the growing number of local and international visitors.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Notably a retractable roof was placed over Margaret Court Arena, making the Open the first of the four Grand Slams to have retractable roofs available on three of their main courts.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The player and administrative facilities, as well as access points for spectators, were improved and the tournament site expanded its footprint out of Melbourne Park into nearby Birrarung Marr.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> A fourth major show court, seating 5,000 people was completed in late 2021, along with the rest of decade-long redevelopment, which included the Centrepiece ballroom, function and media building, as well as other upgraded facilities for players, administrators and spectators.<ref name="Austadiums">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In December 2018, tournament organisers announced the Australian Open would follow the examples set by Wimbledon and the US Open and introduce tie-breaks in the final sets of men's and women's singles matches. Unlike Wimbledon and the US Open, which initiated conventional tie-breaks at 12–12 games and 6–6 games respectively, the Australian Open utilises a first to 10 points breaker at 6 games all.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2020, the tournament organisers decided to replace the official court manufacturer to GreenSet, though retained the iconic blue cushioned acrylic hardcourt.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In 2021, in an effort to reduce the number of staff on-site due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all matches used electronic line judging. It marked the first-ever Grand Slam tournament to exclusively use electronic line judging; the 2020 US Open used it for matches outside of the two main stadium courts.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
The Australian Open produced a range of NFTs in 2022.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Starting in 2024, the Australian Open began on a Sunday, one day earlier than usual. Day sessions on Rod Laver Arena and Margaret Court Arena featured a minimum of two matches (down from three) in an effort to reduce the possibility of matches finishing in the early hours of the following morning.
The 2025 Australian Open was the first Australian Open to present pickleball. From January 24 to the 26th the AO Pickleball Slam tournament was held on Court 3 at Melbourne Park. The invitational tournament awarded one hundred thousand dollars in prize money to some of Australia's top players and international participants.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
CourtsEdit
The Australian Open is played at Melbourne Park, which is located in the Melbourne Sports and Entertainment Precinct; the event moved to this site in 1988. Currently three of the courts have retractable roofs, allowing play to continue during rain and extreme heat. As of 2017, spectators can also observe play at Show Courts 2 and 3, which have capacities of 3,000 each,<ref name="australianopen1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> as well as at Courts 4–15, 19 and 20 with the aid of temporary seating grandstands of capacity anywhere from 50 to 2,500.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Construction of a new 5,000 seat capacity stadium began in 2019 as part of a Template:Australian dollar redevelopment of the precinct.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The new stadium, Kia Arena, was unveiled by Australian Open officials on 22 November 2021.<ref name=22Nov>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="Austadiums"/>
From 2008 to 2019, all of the courts used during the Australian Open were hard courts with Plexicushion acrylic surfaces (though Melbourne Park does have eight practice clay courts which are not used for the tournament). This replaced the Rebound Ace surface used from the opening of Melbourne Park. The ITF rated the surface's speed as medium.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Since 2020, the courts have used a GreenSet surface.
Current courtsEdit
| Court | Opened | Capacity | Arena Roof | Ref. | ||
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| Rod Laver Arena | Template:Sort | 1988 | 14,820 | Retractable | citation | CitationClass=web
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| John Cain Arena | Template:Sort | 2000 | 10,300 | Retractable | citation | CitationClass=web
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| Margaret Court Arena (Formerly Show Court 1) |
Template:Sort | 1988 | 7,500 | Retractable | citation | CitationClass=web
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| Show Court Arena (Kia Arena) |
Template:Sort | 2021 | 5,000 | No | citation | CitationClass=web
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| Show Court 2 (1573 Arena) |
Template:Sort | 1988 | 3,000 | No | citation | CitationClass=web
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| Show Court 3 | Template:Sort | 1988 | 3,000 | No | <ref name=capacity2020/> | |
Ranking pointsEdit
Ranking points for the men (ATP) and women (WTA) have varied at the Australian Open through the years but presently players receive the following points:
| Event | W | F | SF | QF | R16 | R32 | R64 | R128 | Q | Q3 | Q2 | Q1 | |
| Singles | Men | 2000 | 1300 | 800 | 400 | 200 | 100 | 50 | 10 | 30 | 16 | 8 | 0 |
| Women | 2000 | 1300 | 780 | 430 | 240 | 130 | 70 | 10 | 40 | 30 | 20 | 2 | |
| Doubles | Men | 2000 | 1200 | 720 | 360 | 180 | 90 | 0 | – | – | – | – | – |
| Women | 2000 | 1300 | 780 | 430 | 240 | 130 | 10 | – | – | – | – | – | |
Prize money and trophiesEdit
The prize money awarded in the men's and women's singles tournaments is distributed equally. The total prize money for the 2025 tournament in Australian Dollars is Template:Australian dollar.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The prize money distribution is as follows:
| AO 2025 | W | F | SF | QF | 4R | 3R | 2R | 1R | Q3 | Q2 | Q1 |
| Singles | A$3,500,000 | A$1,900,000 | A$1,100,000 | A$665,000 | A$420,000 | A$290,000 | A$200,000 | A$132,000 | A$72,000 | A$49,000 | A$35,000 |
| Doubles | A$810,000 | A$440,000 | A$250,000 | A$142,000 | A$82,000 | A$58,000 | A$40,000 | Template:N/a | Template:N/a | Template:N/a | Template:N/a |
| Mixed doubles | A$175,000 | A$97,750 | A$52,500 | A$27,750 | A$14,000 | A$7,250 | Template:N/a | Template:N/a | Template:N/a | Template:N/a | Template:N/a |
- Doubles prize money is per team.
TrophiesEdit
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The names of the tournament winners are inscribed on the perpetual trophy cups. In 2013 ABC Bullion, a Pallion company, was awarded the rights to make the Cups. The cups are produced by W. J. Sanders, a sister division within Pallion and takes over 250 hours to produce.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
- The women's singles winner is presented with the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- The men's singles winner is presented with the Norman Brookes Challenge Cup.
ChampionsEdit
Former championsEdit
Current championsEdit
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Most recent finalsEdit
| 2025 Event | Champion | Runner-up | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's singles | Template:Flagicon Jannik Sinner | Template:Flagicon Alexander Zverev | 6–3, 7–6(7–4), 6–3 |
| Women's singles | Template:Flagicon Madison Keys | Template:Flagicon Aryna Sabalenka | 6–3, 2–6, 7–5 |
| Men's doubles | Template:Flagicon Harri Heliövaara Template:Flagicon Henry Patten |
Template:Flagicon Simone Bolelli Template:Flagicon Andrea Vavassori |
6–7(16-18), 7–6(7-5), 6–3 |
| Women's doubles | Template:Flagicon Kateřina Siniaková Template:Flagicon Taylor Townsend |
Template:Flagicon Hsieh Su-wei Template:Flagicon Jeļena Ostapenko |
6–2, 6–7(4–7), 6–3 |
| Mixed doubles | Template:Flagicon Olivia Gadecki Template:Flagicon John Peers |
Template:Flagicon Kimberly Birrell Template:Flagicon John-Patrick Smith |
3–6, 6–4, [10–6] |
RecordsEdit
- Unlike the other three Grand Slam tournaments, which became open in 1968, the Australian tournament opened to professionals in 1969.<ref name=tennisHistory>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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Era | Player(s) | Count | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men since 1905 | |||||
| Most singles titles | Open Era | Template:Flagicon Novak Djokovic | 10 | 2008, 2011–2013, 2015–2016, 2019–2021, 2023 | |
| Amateur Era | Template:Flagicon Roy Emerson | 6 | 1961, 1963–1967 | ||
| Most consecutive singles titles | Open Era | Template:Flagicon Novak Djokovic | 3 | 2011–2013, 2019–2021 | |
| Amateur Era | Template:Flagicon Roy Emerson | 5 | 1963–1967 | ||
| Most doubles titles | Open Era | Template:Flagicon Bob Bryan Template:Flagicon Mike Bryan |
6 | 2006–2007, 2009–2011, 2013 | |
| Amateur Era | Template:Flagicon Adrian Quist | 10 | 1936–1940, 1946–1950 | ||
| Most consecutive doubles titles | Open Era | Template:Flagicon Bob Bryan Template:Flagicon Mike Bryan |
3 | 2009–2011 | |
| Amateur Era | Template:Flagicon Adrian Quist | 10 | 1936–1940, 1946–1950<ref name="ReferenceA">From 1941 to 1945, no Australian Championships were held because of World War II</ref> | ||
| Most mixed doubles titles | Open Era | Template:Flagicon Jim Pugh Template:Flagicon Leander Paes Template:Flagicon Daniel Nestor |
3 | 1988–1990 2003, 2010, 2015 2007, 2011, 2014 | |
| Amateur Era | Template:Flagicon Harry Hopman Template:Flagicon Colin Long |
4 | 1930, 1936–1937, 1939 1940, 1946–1948 | ||
| Most Championships (singles, doubles, mixed doubles) |
Open Era | Template:Flagicon Novak Djokovic | 10 | 2008–2023 (10 men's singles) | |
| Amateur Era | Template:Flagicon Adrian Quist | 13 | 1936–1950 (3 singles, 10 men's doubles, 0 mixed doubles) | ||
| Women since 1922 | |||||
| Most singles titles | All-time | Template:Flagicon Margaret Court | 11 | 1960–1966, 1969–1971, 1973 | |
| Open Era | Template:Flagicon Serena Williams | 7 | 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2015, 2017 | ||
| Amateur Era | Template:Flagicon Margaret Court | 7 | 1960–1966 | ||
| Most consecutive singles titles | Open Era | Template:Flagicon Margaret Court Template:Flagicon Evonne Goolagong Cawley Template:Flagicon Steffi Graf Template:Flagicon/Template:Flagicon Monica Seles Template:Flagicon Martina Hingis |
3 | 1969–1971 1974–1976 1988–1990 1991–1993 1997–1999 | |
| Amateur Era | Template:Flagicon Margaret Court | 7 | 1960–1966 | ||
| Most doubles titles | Amateur Era | Template:Flagicon Thelma Coyne Long | 12 | 1936–1940, 1947–1949, 1951–1952, 1956, 1958 | |
| Open Era | Template:Flagicon Martina Navratilova | 8 | 1980, 1982–1985, 1987–1989 | ||
| Most consecutive doubles titles | Open Era | Template:Flagicon Martina Navratilova Template:Flagicon Pam Shriver |
7 | 1982–1985, 1987–1989 | |
| Amateur Era | Template:Flagicon Thelma Coyne Long Template:Flagicon Nancye Wynne Bolton |
5 | 1936–1940 | ||
| Most mixed doubles titles | Open Era | Template:Flagicon Barbora Krejčíková | 3 | 2019–2021 | |
| Amateur Era | Template:Flagicon Daphne Akhurst Cozens Template:Flagicon Nell Hall Hopman Template:Flagicon Nancye Wynne Bolton Template:Flagicon Thelma Coyne Long |
4 | 1924–1925, 1928–1929 1930, 1936–1937, 1939 1940, 1946–1948 1951–1952, 1954–1955 | ||
| Most Championships (singles, doubles, mixed doubles) |
All-time | Template:Flagicon Margaret Court | 23 | 1960–1973 (11 singles, 8 women's doubles, 4 mixed doubles) | |
| Open Era | Template:Flagicon Martina Navratilova | 12 | 1980–2003 (3 singles, 8 women's doubles, 1 mixed doubles) | ||
| Amateur Era | Template:Flagicon Nancye Wynne Bolton | 20 | 1936–1952 (6 singles, 10 women's doubles, 4 mixed doubles) | ||
| Wheelchair: singles since 2002, doubles since 2004, quads since 2008 | |||||
| Most singles titles | Men | Template:Flagicon Shingo Kunieda | 11 | 2007–2011, 2013–2015, 2018, 2020, 2022 | |
| Women | Template:Flagicon Esther Vergeer | 9 | 2002–2004, 2006–2009, 2011–2012 | ||
| Quads | Template:Flagicon Dylan Alcott | 7 | 2015–2021 | ||
| Most consecutive singles titles | Men | Template:Flagicon Shingo Kunieda | 5 | 2007–2011 | |
| Women | Template:Flagicon Esther Vergeer Template:Flagicon Diede de Groot |
4 | 2006–2009 2021–2024 | ||
| Quads | Template:Flagicon Dylan Alcott | 7 | 2015–2021 | ||
| Most doubles titles | Men | Template:Flagicon Shingo Kunieda | 8 | 2007–2011, 2013–2015 | |
| Women | Template:Flagicon Esther Vergeer Template:Flagicon Aniek van Koot |
7 | 2003–2004, 2006–2009, 2011–2012 2010, 2013, 2017, 2019, 2021–2023 | ||
| Quads | Template:Flagicon David Wagner | 9 | 2008–2010, 2013–2017, 2022 | ||
| Most consecutive doubles titles | Men | Template:Flagicon Shingo Kunieda | 5 | 2007–2011 | |
| Women | Template:Flagicon Esther Vergeer Template:Flagicon Diede de Groot |
4 | 2006–2009 2021–2024 | ||
| Quads | Template:Flagicon David Wagner | 5 | 2013–2017 | ||
| Miscellaneous | |||||
| Unseeded champions | Men | Template:Flagicon Mark Edmondson | 1976 | ||
| Women | Template:Flagicon Chris O'Neil Template:Flagicon Serena Williams |
1978 2007 | |||
| Youngest singles champion | Men | Template:Flagicon Ken Rosewall | 18 years and 2 months (1953) | ||
| Women | Template:Flagicon Martina Hingis | 16 years and 4 months (1997) | |||
| Oldest singles champion | Men | Template:Flagicon Ken Rosewall | 37 years and 2 months (1972) | ||
| Women | Template:Flagicon Thelma Coyne Long | 35 years and 8 months (1954) | |||
Media coverage and attendanceEdit
From 1973 to 2018, the Seven Network served as the host broadcaster of the Australian Open. In March 2018, it was announced that the Nine Network had acquired the rights to the tournament beginning in 2020, for a period of five years. The network later bought the rights for the 2019 tournament as well.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The Open's broadcast rights are lucrative in the country, as it occurs near the end of the Summer non-ratings season — which gives its broadcaster opportunities to promote their upcoming programming lineup.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> As of 2022, Nine has extended its rights to the Australian Open until 2029.<ref>Template:Cite press release</ref>
In Europe the tournament is broadcast on Eurosport. Other broadcasters in the region have included the BBC in the United Kingdom, SRG in Switzerland, NOS in Netherlands and RTS in Serbia. In the United Kingdom, the BBC dropped its live coverage of the 2016 tournament just a month before the start due to budget cuts, leaving Eurosport as the exclusive live broadcaster.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Elsewhere, beIN Sports broadcasts it into the Middle East and northern Africa, and SuperSport in sub-Sahara Africa. In the United States, the tournament is broadcast on ESPN2, ESPN3 and the Tennis Channel, with limited highlights airing on ABC.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The championship matches are televised live on ESPN. While it is broadcast on ESPN International in Central and Latin America. It is broadcast on TSN in Canada.
In the Asia–Pacific region, the tournament is broadcast on five television networks in China, including national broadcaster CCTV, provincial networks Beijing TV, Shanghai Dragon TV and Guangdong TV and English language Star Sports, as well as online on iQIYI Sports. Elsewhere in the region, it is broadcast in Japan by national broadcaster NHK, and pay-TV network Wowow. In the Indian subcontinent, Sony Six has broadcast since 2015 and, in the rest of Asia, it is broadcast on Fox Sports Asia until the network's shutdown in 2021 and the rights is acquired by beIN Sports from 2022 except for Vietnam which will be broadcast on K+.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
AttendanceEdit
The Australian Open is the most attended Grand Slam tournament.<ref name="Reuters-2023">Template:Cite news</ref> The tournament in 2025 set a new attendance record of 1,218,831 while the single-day attendance record is 97,132, recorded on the 17 January 2025.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The following record of attendance begins in 1987, when the tournament moved from being held in December to in January (the immediate preceding tournament was December 1985). 1987 was the last year that the Kooyong Tennis Club hosted the tournament; since 1988 it has been held at Melbourne Park. The average growth rate over the period covered below is more than 7%. Note that these figures include attendances for the week of qualifying and pre-main tournament events. Template:Div col
- 2025: 1,218,831<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 2024: 1,110,657<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 2023: 902,312<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 2022: 346,468Template:Efn-lr
- 2021: 130,374Template:Efn-lr
- 2020: 812,174<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- 2019: 796,435<ref name=2019numbers>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 2018: 743,667<ref name=2019and18>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 2017: 728,763<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 2016: 720,363<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 2015: 703,899<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 2014: 643,280<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 2013: 684,457<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 2012: 686,006<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 2011: 651,127<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 2010: 653,860<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 2009: 603,160<ref name="australianopen.com">Template:Cite news</ref>
- 2008: 605,735<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 2007: 554,858<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 2006: 550,550<ref name="ad">Australian Open Tennis Attendance History Template:Webarchive – Altius Directory</ref>
- 2005: 543,873<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
- 2004: 521,691<ref name="ad" />
- 2003: 512,225<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 2002: 518,248<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 2001: 543,834<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 2000: 501,251<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 1999: 473,296<ref name="Clearinghouse for Sports">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 1998: 434,807<ref name="Clearinghouse for Sports" />
- 1997: 391,504<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 1996: 389,598<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 1995: 311,678<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 1994: 332,926<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 1993: 322,074<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 1992: 329,034<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 1991: 305,048<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 1990: 312,000<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 1989: 289,023<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 1988: 244,859<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 1987: 140,089<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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See alsoEdit
- Lists of champions
- List of Australian Open champions (all events)
- List of Australian Open singles finalists during the Open Era, records and statistics
- Other Grand Slam tournaments
NotesEdit
ReferencesEdit
External linksEdit
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