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Australian Open
Australian Open Logo 2017.png
Official website
Founded 1905; 113 years ago (1905)
Editions 106 (2018)
Location Melbourne (since 1972)
Australia
Venue Melbourne Park (since 1988)
Surface Grass – outdoors (1905–87)
Hard – outdoors[a][b] (since 1988)
Prize money A$55,000,000 (2018)
Men's
Draw 128S / 128Q / 64D
Current champions Roger Federer (singles)
Oliver Marach
Mate Pavić (doubles)
Most singles titles 6
Roy Emerson
Novak Djokovic
Roger Federer
Most doubles titles 10
Adrian Quist
Women's
Draw 128S / 96Q / 64D
Current champions Caroline Wozniacki (singles)
Tímea Babos
Kristina Mladenovic (doubles)
Most singles titles 11
Margaret Court
Most doubles titles 12
Thelma Coyne Long
Mixed doubles
Draw 32
Current champions Gabriela Dabrowski
Mate Pavić
Most titles (male) 4
Harry Hopman
Colin Long
Most titles (female) 4
Daphne Akhurst Cozens
Nell Hall Hopman
Nancye Wynne Bolton
Thelma Coyne Long
Grand Slam
Last completed
2018 Australian Open

The Australian Open is a tennis tournament held annually over the last fortnight of January in Melbourne, Australia. First held in 1905, the tournament is chronologically the first of the four Grand Slam tennis events of the year – the other three being the French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open. It features men's and women's singles; men's, women's and mixed doubles and junior's championships; as well as wheelchair, legends and exhibition events. Prior to 1988 it had been played on grass courts, but since then two types of hardcourt surfaces have been used at Melbourne Park – green coloured Rebound Ace up to 2007 and, afterwards, blue Plexicushion.[1]

The Australian Open is the largest annual sporting event in the Southern Hemisphere. The tournament holds the record for the highest attendance at a Grand Slam event, with 743,667 people attending the 2018 Australian Open. It was also the first Grand Slam tournament to feature indoor play during wet weather or extreme heat with its three primary courts, the Rod Laver Arena, Hisense Arena and the refurbished Margaret Court Arena equipped with retractable roofs.

History[edit]

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. This facility is now known as the Albert Reserve Tennis Centre.[2]

The tournament was first known as the Australasian Championships and then became the Australian Championships in 1927 and the Australian Open in 1969.[3] Since 1905, the Australian Open has been staged in five Australian and two New Zealand cities: Melbourne (55 times), Sydney (17 times), Adelaide (14 times), Brisbane (7 times), Perth (3 times), Christchurch (1906) and Hastings (1912).[3] Though started in 1905, the tournament was not designated as being a major championship until 1924, by the International Lawn Tennis Federation (ILTF) at a 1923 meeting. The tournament committee changed the structure of the tournament to include seeding at that time.[4] In 1972, it was decided to stage the tournament in Melbourne each year because it attracted the biggest patronage of any Australian city.[2] The tournament was played at the Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club from 1972 until the move to the new Melbourne Park complex in 1988.

The new facilities at Melbourne Park (formerly Flinders Park) were envisaged to meet the demands of a tournament that had outgrown Kooyong's capacity. The move to Melbourne Park was an immediate success, with a 90 percent increase in attendance in 1988 (266,436) on the previous year at Kooyong (140,000).[5]

Because of Australia's geographic remoteness, very few foreign players entered this 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 boats were the US Davis Cup players in November 1946.[5] Even inside the country, 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 3,000 kilometres (1,900 mi) 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.[6]

Margaret Court Arena at the Australian Open with the old Rebound Ace surface. Rod Laver Arena, the centre court, in the background

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 organised in 1880 in Melbourne and called the Championship of the Colony of Victoria (later the Championship of Victoria).[7] 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 came 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.

Inside Rod Laver Arena prior to an evening session in 2007

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.[8] Nevertheless, except for the 1969 and 1971 tournaments, many of the best players missed this 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.[9]

In 1983, Ivan Lendl, John McEnroe and Mats Wilander entered the tournament. Wilander won the singles title[10] and both his Davis Cup singles rubbers in the Swedish loss to Australia at Kooyong shortly after.[11] 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).[12] 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.[13] 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,[14] 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.[13] 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.[15]

Rafael Nadal vs Philipp Kohlschreiber at the 2010 Australian Open

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 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.[16] Such a change, however, would move the tournament outside the summer school holiday period, potentially impacting attendance figures.

Another change of venue was proposed in 2008, with New South Wales authorities making clear their desire to bid for hosting rights to the tournament once Melbourne's contract expireed in 2016.[17] In response, Wayne Kayler-Thomson, the head of the Victorian Events Industry Council, was adamant that Melbourne should retain the event. In a scathing attack of the New South Wales authorities, he said, "It is disappointing that NSW cannot be original and seek their own events instead of trying to cannibalise other Australian cities."[18] Since the proposal was made, a major redevelopment of Melbourne Park has been announced, which is expected to run into the hundreds of millions of dollars. Melbourne Park will include upgraded and increased seating in major venues, a roof over Margaret Court Arena, improved player facilities, a new headquarters for Tennis Australia and a partly covered "town square" area featuring large televisions showing current tennis play.[19] A year later, these plans were largely approved, with former Premier of Victoria John Brumby confirming the state government's willingness to commit A$363 million to complete the renovations, a move which guaranteed there will be no change of venue until at least beyond 2036.[20]

Television coverage[edit]

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.[21] 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.[22][23]

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.[24]

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.[25] 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 Asia-Pacific region, the tournament is broadcast on Fox Sports Asia through 2021.[26]

Panorama of Margaret Court Arena during the 2008 Australian Open

Attendance[edit]

The following record of attendance provides a consistent year-to-year comparison given that since 1987 all tournaments have been played in the January period of the year (the immediate preceding tournament was Dec 1985). 1987 was the last year that the Kooyong Tennis Club was host to the grand slam and since 1988 Melbourne Park has hosted all tournaments. The average growth rate over the period covered below is 7% compared to 3% for the same period for the US Open attendance.

Prize money and trophies[edit]

The prize money awarded in the men's and women's singles tournaments is distributed equally. The total prize money for the 2018 tournament is AUD $55,000,000. In 2018 the prize money is to be distributed as follows:[57]

Event W F SF QF Round of 16 Round of 32 Round of 64 Round of 1281 Q3 Q2 Q1
Singles A$4,000,000 A$2,000,000 A$880,000 A$440,000 A$240,000 A$142,500 A$90,000 A$60,000 A$30,000 A$15,000 A$7,500
Doubles A$700,000 A$350,000 A$175,000 A$90,000 A$49,000 A$29,500 A$18,500 N/A N/A N/A N/A
Mixed Doubles A$150,500 A$75,500 A$37,500 A$18,750 A$9,000 A$4,500 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

* per team

Note: All amounts in Australian dollars. (The winner's prize money approximates to GBP £2,271,000; EUR €2,612,000; USD $2,797,000.)

On 4 October 2011, when they launched Australian Open 2012, the tournament director announced that the prize money was increased to A$26,000,000. It is the highest prize money for a tennis tournament. It was announced the prize money will be increased to AUD $40 million from 2015 onwards.

The names of the tournament winners are inscribed on the perpetual trophy cups.

  • The women's singles winner is presented with the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup.
  • The men's singles winner is presented with the Norman Brookes Challenge Cup.

Ranking points[edit]

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 4R 3R 2R 1R Q Q3 Q2 Q1
Singles Men 2000 1200 720 360 180 90 45 10 25 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 – – – – –

Champions[edit]

Past champions[edit]

Australian Open champions listed by event:

Current champions[edit]

  • Roger Federer was the winner of the Men's Singles in 2018. It was his 20th Major Singles title and his sixth at the Australian Open.

  • Caroline Wozniacki was the winner of the Women's Singles in 2018. It was her 1st Grand Slam singles title.

  • Oliver Marach was part of the winning Men's Doubles in 2018. It was his 1st Grand Slam men's doubles title.

  • Mate Pavić was part of the winning Men's Doubles team in 2018. It was his 1st Grand Slam men's doubles title. He was also part of the winning Mixed Doubles team in 2018. It was his 2nd Grand Slam mixed doubles title, making him having two Australian Open titles.

  • Tímea Babos was part of the winning Women's Doubles team in 2018. It was her 1st Grand Slam women's doubles title.

  • Kristina Mladenovic was part of the winning Women's Doubles team in 2018. It was her 2nd Grand Slam women's doubles title and her 1st at the Australian Open.

  • Gabriela Dabrowski was part of the winning Mixed Doubles team in 2018. It was her 2nd Grand Slam mixed doubles title and her 1st at the Australian Open.

Event Champion Runner-up Score
2018 Men's Singles Switzerland Roger Federer Croatia Marin Čilić 6–2, 6–7(5–7), 6–3, 3–6, 6–1
2018 Women's Singles Denmark Caroline Wozniacki Romania Simona Halep 7–6(7–2), 3–6, 6–4
2018 Men's Doubles Austria Oliver Marach
Croatia Mate Pavić		 Colombia Juan Sebastián Cabal
Colombia Robert Farah		 6–4, 6–4
2018 Women's Doubles Hungary Tímea Babos
France Kristina Mladenovic		 Russia Ekaterina Makarova
Russia Elena Vesnina		 6–4, 6–3
2018 Mixed Doubles Canada Gabriela Dabrowski
Croatia Mate Pavić		 Hungary Tímea Babos
India Rohan Bopanna		 2–6, 6–4, [11–9]

Courts[edit]

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 3 of the courts used 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,[58] as well as at Courts 7–15, 19 and 20 from small accessible viewing positions.[59]

Construction of a new 5,000 seat capacity stadium will start in 2019 as part of a $271 million redevelopment of the precinct.[60]

Since 2008, all of the courts used during the Australian Open are hard courts with Plexicushion acrylic surfaces (though Melbourne Park does have 8 clay courts not used for the tournament). This replaced the Rebound Ace surface used from the opening of Melbourne Park. The ITF rates the surface's speed as medium.[61]

Court Image Opened Capacity Arena Roof Ref.
Rod Laver Arena Rod Laver Arena 2015 Australian Open.jpg 1988 14, 820 Retractable [62]
Melbourne Arena
(Melbourne Park Multi-Purpose Venue) 		Hisense Arena January 2016.jpg 2000 10, 500 Retractable [63]
Margaret Court Arena
(Formerly Show Court 1) 		Margaret Court Arena (Australian Open 2017).jpg 1988 7, 500 Retractable [64]

Records[edit]

Unlike the other three Grand Slam tournaments, which became open in 1968, the Australian tournament opened to professionals in 1969. Thus, the records here break at the 1969 tournament. Citations for these records.[65]

Record Open Era* Player(s) Count Years
Men since 1905
Winner of most
Men's Singles titles 		Before 1969: Australia Roy Emerson 6 1961, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967
After 1968: Serbia Novak Djokovic
Switzerland Roger Federer 		6 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016
2004, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2017, 2018
Winner of most
consecutive
Men's Singles titles 		Before 1969: Australia Roy Emerson 5 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967
After 1968: Serbia Novak Djokovic 3 2011, 2012, 2013
Winner of most
Men's Doubles titles 		Before 1969: Australia Adrian Quist 10 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950
After 1968: United States Bob Bryan
United States Mike Bryan 		6 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013
Winner of most
consecutive
Men's Doubles titles 		Before 1969: Australia Adrian Quist 10 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950[66]
After 1968: United States Bob Bryan
United States Mike Bryan 		3 2009, 2010, 2011
Winner of most
Mixed Doubles titles -
Men 		Before 1969: Australia Harry Hopman
Australia Colin Long 		4 1930, 1936, 1937, 1939
1940, 1946, 1947, 1948
After 1968: United States Jim Pugh
India Leander Paes
Canada Daniel Nestor 		3 1988, 1989, 1990
2003, 2010, 2015
2007, 2011, 2014
Winner of most
Championships (total:
singles, men's doubles,
mixed doubles) – Men 		Before 1969: Australia Adrian Quist 13 1936–1950 (3 singles, 10 men's doubles, 0 mixed doubles)
After 1968: United States Bob Bryan
United States Mike Bryan
Serbia Novak Djokovic
Switzerland Roger Federer 		2006–2013 (6 men's doubles)
2006–2013 (6 men's doubles)
2008–2016 (6 men's singles)
2004–2018 (6 men's singles)
Women since 1922
Winner of most
Women's Singles titles 		In Total: Australia Margaret Court 11 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973
Before 1969: Australia Margaret Court 7 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966
After 1968: United States Serena Williams 7 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2015, 2017
Winner of most
consecutive
Women's Singles titles
Before 1969: Australia Margaret Court 7 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966
After 1968: Australia Margaret Court
Australia Evonne Goolagong Cawley
Germany Steffi Graf
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia/Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Monica Seles
Switzerland Martina Hingis 		3 1969, 1970, 1971
1974, 1975, 1976
1988, 1989, 1990
1991, 1992, 1993
1997, 1998, 1999
Winner of most
Women's Doubles titles
Before 1969: Australia Thelma Coyne Long 12 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1956, 1958
After 1968: United States Martina Navratilova 8 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1989
Winner of most consecutive
Women's Doubles titles
Before 1969: Australia Thelma Coyne Long
Australia Nancye Wynne Bolton 		5 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940
After 1968: United States Martina Navratilova
United States Pam Shriver 		7 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1989
Winner of most
Mixed Doubles titles -
Women 		Before 1969: Australia Daphne Akhurst Cozens
Australia Nell Hall Hopman
Australia Nancye Wynne Bolton
Australia Thelma Coyne Long 		4 1924, 1925, 1928, 1929
1930, 1936, 1937, 1939
1940, 1946, 1947, 1948
1951, 1952, 1954, 1955
After 1968: Czechoslovakia Jana Novotná
Latvia Larisa Savchenko Neiland
Switzerland Martina Hingis 		2 1988, 1989
1994, 1996
2006, 2015
Winner of most
Championships (total:
singles, women's doubles,
mixed doubles) – Women 		Before 1969: Australia Nancye Wynne Bolton 20 1936–1952 (6 singles, 10 women's doubles, 4 mixed doubles)
After 1968: United States Martina Navratilova 12 1980–2003 (3 singles, 8 women's doubles, 1 mixed doubles)
Miscellaneous
Youngest winner Men's singles: Australia Ken Rosewall 18 years and 2 months (1953)
Men's doubles: Australia Lew Hoad 18 years and 2 months (1953)
Women's singles: Switzerland Martina Hingis 16 years and 4 months (1997)
Women's doubles: Croatia Mirjana Lučić 15 years and 10 months (1998)
Oldest winner Men's singles: Australia Ken Rosewall 37 years and 2 months (1972)
Men's doubles: Australia Norman Brookes 46 years and 2 months (1924)
Women's singles: Australia Thelma Coyne Long 35 years and 8 months (1954)
Women's doubles: Australia Thelma Coyne Long 37 years and 7 months (1956)
Mixed doubles (men): Australia Horace Rice 52 years (1923)
Mixed doubles (women): United States Martina Navratilova 46 years and 3 months (2003)

See also[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Rebound Ace was used from 1988–2007 and since 2008 Plexicushion is used.
  2. ^ Except for Rod Laver Arena, Margaret Court Arena and Hisense Arena during rain delay.
  3. ^ Last Australian Men's Singles champion: Mark Edmondson (1976).
  4. ^ Last Australian Women's Singles champion: Chris O'Neil (1978).

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  66. ^ From 1941 through 1945, no Australian Championships were held because of World War II

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Preceded by
US Open 		Grand Slam Tournament
January 		Succeeded by
French Open

Coordinates: 37°49′18″S 144°58′42″E / 37.82167°S 144.97833°E / -37.82167; 144.97833

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