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Tennis in Australia refers to the sport of tennis played in Australia. Tennis in Australia has been administered by Tennis Australia (formerly the Lawn Tennis Association of Australia (LTAA)) since 1904.

Australia hosts the first of the four Grand Slam events of the year, the Australian Open. The Australian Open is managed by Tennis Australia and was first played in Melbourne in 1905. The tournament was first known as the Australasian Championships and then became the Australian Championships in 1927 and the Australian Open in 1969.[1]

History

In the 1950s, Australia became a tennis power, and Australian men won the Davis Cup 15 times from 1950 to 1967, led by outstanding players such as Frank Sedgman, Ken Rosewall, Lew Hoad, Roy Emerson, and Ashley Cooper.[2]

Rod Laver has twice achieved the Grand Slam in men's singles, in 1962 and 1969, the only tennis player to have accomplished this feat. Fellow Australian tennis player Margaret Smith Court also achieved the Grand Slam in women's singles in 1970, Margaret Court also holds the record for the greatest number of women's singles Grand Slams won and is one of only three players ever to have won a career Grand Slam "boxed set"

Major tournaments and current champions

Main article: Australian Open Series

Pre–Australian Open

Tournament Category Current champion Current runner-up Score
United Cup Team Event

United States United States of America

Italy Italy 4–0
Adelaide International (1) Men's Singles (ATP 250) Serbia Novak Djokovic United States Sebastian Korda 6–7(8–10), 7–6(7–3), 6–4
Women's Singles (WTA 500) Aryna Sabalenka Czech Republic Linda Nosková 6–3, 7–6(7–4)
Adelaide International (2) Men's Singles (ATP 250) South Korea Kwon Soon-woo Spain Roberto Bautista Agut 6–4, 3–6, 7–6(7–4)
Women's Singles (WTA 500) Switzerland Belinda Bencic Daria Kasatkina 6-0, 6-2
Hobart International Women's Singles (WTA 250) United States Lauren Davis Italy Elisabetta Cocciaretto 7–6(7–0), 6-2

Australian Open

Current champions

Most recent finals

2022 Event Champion Runner-up Score
Men's singles Serbia Novak Djokovic Greece Stefanos Tsitsipas 6–3, 7–6(7–4), 7–6(7–5)
Women's singles Australia Ashleigh Barty United States Danielle Collins 6–3, 7–6(7–2)
Men's doubles Australia Thanasi Kokkinakis
Australia Nick Kyrgios		 Australia Matthew Ebden
Australia Max Purcell		 7–5, 6–4
Women's doubles Czech Republic Barbora Krejčíková
Czech Republic Kateřina Siniaková		 Kazakhstan Anna Danilina
Brazil Beatriz Haddad Maia		 6–7(3–7), 6–4, 6–4
Mixed doubles France Kristina Mladenovic
Croatia Ivan Dodig		 Australia Jaimee Fourlis
Australia Jason Kubler		 6–3, 6–4

Davis Cup

See: Australian Davis Cup Team

Titles - 28 (1907, 1908, 1909, 1911, 1914, 1919, 1939, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1973, 1977, 1983, 1986, 1999, 2003).

Runners-up - 21 (1912, 1920, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1936, 1938, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1954, 1958, 1963, 1968, 1990, 1993, 2000, 2001, 2022), 2023).

Fed Cup

See: Australia Fed Cup team

Titles - 7 (1964, 1965, 1968, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974)

Runners-up - 11 (1963, 1969, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1984, 1993, 2022)

Highest ranked players

HR = Highest ranking, CR = Current ranking. Players are sorted by highest ranking, then by number of titles.

Singles

The lists include Australian players who have had a ranking inside the ATP or WTA top 10. The rankings were introduced in 1973 (men) and 1975 (women).

Men

Player CHR ATP Tour
Turned Pro Retired Titles Wins
John Newcombe 1 1967 1981 41 563
Pat Rafter 1 1991 2002 11 358
Lleyton Hewitt 1 1998 2016 20 616
Ken Rosewall 2 1956 1980 14 211
Rod Laver 3 1963 1979 72 576
Pat Cash 4 1982 1997 6 238
Peter McNamara 7 1974 1987 5 205
Tony Roche 8 1963 1979 46 838
John Alexander 8 1967 1985 7 579
Mark Philippoussis 8 1994 2008 11 313
Alex de Minaur 10 2015 7 206

Women

Player Ranking No. WTA Tour
HR CR Turned Pro Retired Titles Wins
Evonne Goolagong Cawley 1 – 1967 1983 68 704
Ashleigh Barty 1 1 2010 2022 15 305
Wendy Turnbull 3 – 1975 1989 11 478
Dianne Fromholtz 4 – 1973 1990 8 429
Margaret Court 5 – 1960 1977 92

Doubles

The lists include the 5 best ranked Australian players. The rankings were introduced in 1976 (men) and 1984 (women).

Performance timelines since 2000

Key
W  F  SF QF #R RR Q# DNQ A NH
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

Men's singles

Tournament 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 SR
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open 4R SF 2R 4R 4R F 3R 3R 4R 2R 4R 3R 4R 2R 2R QF 4R 3R 4R 3R 4R 3R 4R 4R 0 / 23
French Open 4R QF 4R 3R QF 2R 4R 4R 3R 3R 3R 1R 2R 2R 2R 3R 3R 2R 1R 3R 2R 2R 2R 3R 0 / 23
Wimbledon F F W F QF SF QF 4R 4R QF 4R QF 1R 4R QF 4R 4R 1R 3R 3R NH 3R F 3R 1 / 22
US Open SF W SF QF F SF QF 2R 2R 3R 2R 2R 3R 4R 3R 3R 3R 3R QF 4R QF 3R QF 4R 1 / 23
Year-end championship
ATP Finals RR W W DNQ F A Did not qualify 2 / 4

Women's singles

Tournament 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 SR
Australian Open 3R 3R 2R 4R 4R QF 4R 3R 4R QF 4R 3R 2R 2R 4R 2R 4R 4R 3R QF SF QF W 2R 1 / 24
French Open 2R 3R 3R 2R 2R 2R 3R 3R 3R SF F 3R SF 3R 4R 3R SF 4R 3R W 2R 2R 3R 1 / 23
Wimbledon SF 2R 1R 3R 4R 2R 3R 2R 3R 3R 4R 3R 2R 3R 2R 3R 2R 2R 3R 4R NH W QF 1 / 22
US Open 4R 3R 2R 3R 2R 2R 2R 2R 2R 3R QF W QF 2R 4R 4R 2R 3R 4R 4R 1R 3R QF 1 / 22

See also

References

  1. ^ Tristan Foenander. "History of the Australian Open – the Grand Slam of Asia/Pacific". Australian Open. Archived from the original on 20 January 2008. Retrieved 22 January 2008.
  2. ^ "History of Tennis". Archived from the original on 2012-05-08. Retrieved 2012-08-29.

External links

Sport in Australia
Tennis in Australia
Association of Tennis Professionals Top Australian male singles tennis players
Women's Tennis Association: Top Australian female singles tennis players
Women's Tennis Association: Top Australian female doubles tennis players as of 4 December 2023
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