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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 different 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 arduous courts with a blue floor.
Rafael Nadal defeated Daniil Medvedev within the males’s closing, clinching a record-breaking twenty first Grand Slam title.
Ashleigh Barty turned the primary house Australian Open champion since 1978 after beating Danielle Collins within the ladies’s closing.
Total prize cash for 2022 was $75 million AUD. Total prize cash for 2023 is $76.5 million AUD (a 3.4% enhance).
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 Long (35)
Most consecutive singles wins – males’s – Roy Emerson (5) 1963-1967; ladies’s – Margaret Court (seven) 1960-1966
Most singles titles general – males’s – Djokovic (9); ladies’s – Margaret Court (11)
1905 – The Australasian Championships are performed in Melbourne.
1927 – The title is modified to the Australian Championships.
1954 – Thelma Long wins the Women’s Singles Championship at age 35, turning into the oldest feminine to take action.
1969 – The title is modified to the Australian Open.
1972 – Ken Rosewall wins the Men’s Singles Championship at age 37, turning into the oldest male participant to win the Australian Open. Rosewall additionally holds the report for youngest champion, successful 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 publicizes the repeal of Djokovic’s three-year ban from getting into the nation, paving the way in which for the nine-time singles champion to enter the 2023 Australian Open.