Australian Open

37 49 '18 "S 144 58' 42" E / -37.8216, 144.9783

Australian Open
General
Creation	1905
Category	Grand Slam
Frequency	Annual
Status of participants	Businesses
Surface	Plexicushion
Official website	www.australianopen.com
Past results
Title holder	Novak Djokovic Kim Clijsters
History
1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 (January) 1977 (December) 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
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The Australian Open is a tournament tennis in the category of Grand Slam tournaments held since 1905. It is held every year at Melbourne in Australia and is held in January.

The tournament was first played on grass from 1905 to 1987 and is played since 1988 on a synthetic surface hard.

Summary 1 Present 2 History 3 Trivia 4 Awards 5 Number of securities by nations in men's singles 5.1 Before the Open Era 5.2 Open Era 6 Number of securities by nations in women's singles 6.1 Before the Open Era 6.2 Open Era 7 Records Review 8 per player 9 Balance per player 10 External Links

Present

As Roland Garros , Wimbledon and U.S. Open , Australian Open is one of the four tournaments that make up the Grand Slam. These four tournaments are the most important competitions of the tennis circuit. Organized in recent years during the second half of January, the Australian Open is chronologically the first major event of the tennis season. Since Wimbledon , the tournament has a central court provided with a sliding roof used in the event of bad weather or high temperatures.

History

New Zealand and Australian states are the direct descendants of the British colonies in Australasia (entity involving Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea and surrounding islands) before the first Australasian championships do be organized in November 1905 , it was decided that the tournament will be played alternately in all states of Australia and New Zealand. In 1927 the tournament changed its name to the Australian Championships. From the edition of 1972 (26 December 1971 - January 2, 1972) championships settle permanently in the city of Melbourne. In addition to this city (with 50 editions), the championships were held in Sydney (17 times), Adelaide (14 times), Brisbane (8 times), Perth (3 times), and New Zealand (2 times) in 1906 in Christchurch and in 1912 in Hastings.

Because of its remoteness this tournament has long shunned by foreigners (in the 1920s it takes approximately 45 days to reach Australia by the Mediterranean Sea and the first tennis players who take the plane to Melbourne players are the United States in November 1946 , arguing the coming challenge-round Davis Cup. Until 1968 the tournament can be likened to a national championship almost amateur. In the early years this tournament is just a championship of the state where it occurs. For example editions attract Perth at the time that players around: those of the east coast (Sydney, Melbourne) to cross nearly 3000 km train are not displacement. Ditto for the championships in Brisbane, etc.. In New Zealand in 1906 in a table of ten players only two Australians made the trip. On ¹ tournament ever held in Australasia is the Champion of the Colony of Victoria (now at independence from Australia on state championship of Victoria), played in Melbourne in 1880 (two editions that year), which is becoming the most important tournament of Australasia, including even the time of first Australasian Championships: at the time the two best players in the Southern Hemisphere, Australian Norman Brookes who gave his name to the cup awarded to the winner of the men's singles, and New Zealander Anthony Wilding disdain Championship Australasian: the first one will play the championship once and won in 1911 and the second will come twice as successful in 1906 and 1909. To solve their supremacy both players prefer to play the championship of Victoria where They meet twice in the final in 1906 and 1909. Wilding did not even participate in the Australasian championships held in his own country in New Zealand in 1912 while this year he won Wimbledon for ^the 3rd consecutive time (working in London for several years he can not afford the long and expensive trip (this is clean at the time: Norman Brookes, who won Wimbledon in 1907 and working in Melbourne, does not return to Wimbledon until 1914 and, incidentally, wins the tournament). So many great players do not compete or infrequently this tournament: some like the Renshaw brothers, the brothers Doherty, William Larned , Maurice McLoughlin , Beals Wright , Bill Johnston , Bill Tilden , Rene Lacoste , Henri Cochet , Bobby Riggs , Jack Kramer , Ted Schroeder , Pancho Gonzales , Budge Patty , Manuel Santana , January Kodes and others never come while Brookes, Ellsworth Vines , Donald Budge , Jaroslav Drobny , Manuel Orantes , Ilie Nastase in 35 years, Bjrn Borg not compete for the tournament only once.

From 1969 , when the first Australian Open, held on the Milton Courts in Brisbane, the tournament is open to all players and especially to professional players, banned earlier. However if we exclude 1969 and 1971 the tournament lacks the best players in the world until 1982 inclusive (for example, this year the best player in the table, Johan Kriek , is ranked only 12 ^th in the ATP) due to the remoteness of the tournament dates (Christmas and New Year) and the price offered too low (in 1970 the promoter of Rod Laver , Ken Rosewall , Andres Gimeno , Pancho Gonzales , Roy Emerson and Fred Stolle does not allow its players to play the Australian Open because the proposed safeguards are insufficient).

In 1983 , a change occurs, Ivan Lendl and John McEnroe part in the tournament and Mats Wilander to play the Davis Cup final on the site of the Australian Open (stage Kooyong in Melbourne) a few days after the tournament, decided to attend the championships to train (the drive succeeded beyond all expectations since the Swede won the tournament) from the 1983 Australian Open begins to earn its title of tournament Grand Slam because most of the world's best players competing for the tournament now. Nevertheless, under pressure from the International Federation, the site of Kooyong, became too old, was abandoned in favor of a much larger stage and more modern Flinders Park (since renamed Melbourne Park) in 1988. The tournament is played on synthetic turf now paved, the Rebound Ace , similar to DecoTurf the U.S. Open but slower. From 1995 , when Andre Agassi for the first time participating in this championship, none of the best players in the world sulks this tournament that it becomes truly one of the four major tennis events, only those injuries or suspensions explaining absences. Since 2008 the area used is the Plexicushion that replaced the old Rebound Ace.

Prior to moving to Melbourne Park, the tournament suffers, in addition to site changes, many changes of date, particularly the early years, depending in particular seasons or in different cities of disasters like war: the 1919 edition takes place in January 1920 and March 1920 edition of the same year in Brisbane edition takes place in August 1923 during the season cooler and less humid. After a first edition in 1977 played on horseback in 1976 and 1977, the organizers decided to move the tournament next few days: a second edition concludes December 31, 1977, but this mini measure attracted no great player. 1982 edition is reduced from late December to mid-December: the latter date is retained until 1985. This time the organizers decide to go back one month (mid-January) the next edition, which was therefore held in January 1987. Therefore edition 1986 not held (which compensates for the "surplus" of 1977).

Trivia

• In 1908 , the American Fred Alexander became the first non- Australasian to triumph in the men's singles tournament, and in 1928 , Jean Borotra became the first French winner of men's singles championship (he was also with his fellow Christian Boussus and Jacques Brugnon the first French player leading to travel in Australia).

• The competition is open to women only from 1922.

• It may be noted that no player in the Open era has managed to win the Australian Open more than twice in a row Mats Wilander , Stefan Edberg (5 finals record) and Ivan Lendl who failed their 3 ^e final. In the women's record for consecutive titles since the start of the Open era is three.

• Mark Edmondson is the last Australian winner in 1976, John Marks failed in the final in 1978, Kim Warwick in 1980, Pat Cash in 1987 and 1988 and Lleyton Hewitt in 2005.

Awards

• Women's Singles
• Men's Singles
• Women's Doubles
• Men's Doubles
• Mixed Doubles

Number of securities by nations in men's singles

Before the Open Era Country Titles First Latest Australia 43 1905 1967 United Kingdom 4 1915 1934 United States 3 1908 1951 New Zealand 2 1906 1909 Ireland 1 1912 1912 France 1 1928 1928 Peru 1 1959 1959

Open Era Country Titles First Latest United States 13 1970 2003 Australia 6 1968 1976 Sweden 6 1983 2002 Switzerland 4 2004 2010 Argentina 2 1978 1979 South Africa 2 1981 1982 Czechoslovakia 2 1989 1990 Germany 2 1991 1996 Russia 2 1999 2005 Serbia 2 2008 2011 Czech Republic 1 1998 1998 Spain 1 2009 2009

Number of titles by nation in women's singles

Before the Open Era Country Titles First Latest img alt = "Flag: Australia" src = "http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Flag_of_Australia.svg/20px-Flag_of_Australia.svg.png" width = "20" height = "10" class = "thumbborder" /> Australia 33 1922 1966 United States 6 1938 1967 United Kingdom 2 1935 1958

Open Era Country Titles First Latest United States 15 1968 2010 Australia 10 1969 1978 Germany 4 1988 1994 SFR Yugoslavia 3 1991 1993 Switzerland 3 1997 1999 Czechoslovakia 2 1980 1987 France 2 1995 2006 United Kingdom 1 1972 1972 Belgium 2 2004 2011 Russia 1 2008 2008

If we took into account the new countries due to the breakup of former Yugoslavia the results would be the following:

• Serbia : 3 titles (1991,1992,1993)

Records

Unlike the other Grand Slams, the Australian Open did not become "open" only from 1969, in the open era record for this tournament are beginning to this date.

Record	Period	Player (s)	Number	Years victorious
Gentlemen since 1905
Greater number of titles in men's singles	Before 1969:	Roy Emerson	6	1961, 1963-67
		Jack Crawford Ken Rosewall	4	1931-1933, 1935 1953, 1955, 1971-72
	After 1969:	Andre Agassi Roger Federer	4	1995, 2000-01, 2003 2004, 2006-07, 2010
		Mats Wilander	3	1983-84, 1988
Greatest number of consecutive titles in men's singles	Before 1969:	Roy Emerson	5	1963-67
	After 1969:	Ken Rosewall Guillermo Vilas Johan Kriek Mats Wilander Stefan Edberg Ivan Lendl Jim Courier Andre Agassi Roger Federer	2	1971-72 1978-79 1981-82 1983-84 1985-87 1989-90 1992-93 2000-01 2006-07
Greater number of titles in men's doubles	Before 1969:	Adrian Quist & John Bromwich	8	1938-40, 1946-50
		John Newcombe & Tony Roche	5	1965, 1967, 1971, from 1976 to 1973 John Newcombe with Mal Anderson 1976 (December) Tony Roche with Arthur Ashe
	After 1969:	Mark Edmondson	4	1980-81 (with Kim Warwick ) 1983 (with Paul McNamee ) 1984 (with Sherwood Stewart )
		John Newcombe & Tony Roche Kim Warwick Todd Woodbridge Jonas Bjrkman	3	see above 1978 (with Wojtek Fibak ), 1980-81 1992, 1996 (with Mark Woodforde , 2001 (with Jonas Bjrkman ) 1998 (with Jacco Eltingh ), 1999 (with Patrick Rafter), 2001
Greatest number of consecutive titles in men's doubles	Before 1969:	Adrian Quist & John Bromwich	8	1938-40, 1946-50
	After 1969:	Mark Edmondson & Kim Warwick Mark Edmondson Rick Leach & Jim Pugh Fabrice Santoro & Michael Llodra Bob Bryan & Mike Bryan	2	1980-81 1983 (with Paul McNamee ), 1984 (with Sherwood Stewart ) 1988-89 2003-04 2006-07
Greater number of mixed doubles titles - Gentlemen	Before 1969:	Colin Long	4	1963, 1965-66, 1968 (with Nancye Wynne Bolton )
	After 1969:	Owen Davidson	4	1940, 1946-1948 (with Billie Jean King )
More tournaments (total: singles, doubles, mixed) - Gentlemen	Before 1969:	Jack Crawford	11	1929-1935 (4 singles, 4 doubles, 3 mixed)
	After 1969:	Jim Pugh	5	1988-90 (2 doubles, 3 mixed)
Ladies since 1922
Larger number of ladies singles titles	Before 1969:	Margaret Court	7	1960-66
		Nancye Wynne Bolton	6	1937, 1940, 1946-48, 1951
	After 1969:	Serena Williams	5	2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010
Greatest number of consecutive titles in women's singles	Before 1969:	Margaret Court	7	1960-66
	After 1969:	Margaret Court Evonne Goolagong Cawley- Steffi Graf / / Monica Seles Martina Hingis	3	1969-71 1974-76 1988-90 1991-93 1997-99
Greater number of titles in women's doubles	Before 1969:	Thelma Coyne Long	13	1936-40, 1947-49, 1951-52 (with Nancye Wynne Bolton ) 1954, 1956, 1958 (with Mary Bevis Hawton )
		Nancye Wynne Bolton	10	1936-40, 1947-49, 1951-52
	After 1969:	/ Martina Navratilova	8	1980 (with Betsy Nagelsen ) 1982-85, 1987-89 (with Pam Shriver )
Greatest number of consecutive titles in women's doubles	Before 1969:	Thelma Coyne Long Nancye Wynne Bolton	5	1936-40
	After 1969:	/ Martina Navratilova & Pam Shriver	7	1982-85, 1987-89
Greater number of mixed doubles titles - Women	Before 1969:	Daphne Akhurst Cozens Nancye Wynne Bolton Thelma Coyne Long Margaret Court	4	1924-1925 (with John Willard ) 1928 (with Jean Borotra ) 1929 (with Gar Moon ) 1940, 1946-48 (with Colin Long ) 1951-51, 1955 (with George Worthington ) 1954 (with Rex Hartwig ) 1963-64 (with Ken Fletcher ) 1965 (with John Newcombe ) 1969 (with Marty Riessen )
	After 1969:	Jana Novotn Larisa Neiland	2	1988-89 (with Jim Pugh ) 1994 (with Andrei Olhovskiy ), 1996 (with Mark Woodforde )
More tournaments (total: singles, doubles, mixed) - Women's	Before 1969:	Margaret Court	22	1960-1973 (11 singles, 7 doubles, 4 mixed)
	After 1969:	/ Martina Navratilova	12	1980-2003 (3 singles, 8 doubles, 1 mixed)
Miscellaneous
Younger winners	Men's Singles:	Ken Rosewall	18 years and 2 months (1953)
	Men's Doubles:	Lew Hoad	18 years and 2 months (1953)
	Women's Doubles:	Mirjana Lui	15 years and 10 months (1998)
	Singles:	Martina Hingis	16 years and 3 months (1997)
Older winners	Men's Singles:	Ken Rosewall	37 years and 8 months (1972)
	Men's Doubles:	Norman Brookes	46 years and 2 months (1924)
	Women's Doubles:	Thelma Long	37 years and 7 months (1956)
	Ladies' Singles	Thelma Long	35 years and 8 months (1954)
Longest match (men or women)		Rafael Nadal vs Fernando Verdasco	5 h 14	2009 (semifinal)

Results by Player

The table below summarizes the performance obtained in single year since 1969 ( Open Era ) by different players having completed at least one semi-final. Repeatedly click the arrow at the top of the columns for ranking players. Updated after the 2009 Australian Open.

Player	Investments	Victories	Loses	% V	Titles	Final	Halves	Quarters
Andre Agassi	9	48	5	90.6	4	0	2	1
John Alexander	17	22	17	56.4	0	0	2	2
Victor Amaya	4	7	4	63.6	0	0	1	0
Mal Anderson	6	9	5	64.3	0	1	0	0
Arthur Ashe	4	16	3	84.2	1	1	1	1
Marcos Baghdatis	6	17	6	73.9	0	1	0	0
Boris Becker	11	29	9	76.3	2	0	0	2
Ross Case	11	15	11	57.7	0	0	1	2
Pat Cash	11	26	11	70.3	0	2	0	2
Michael Chang	10	21	10	67.7	0	1	2	0
Arnaud Clement	12	13	12	48.0	0	1	0	0
Jimmy Connors	2	10	1	90.9	1	1	0	0
Jim Courier	10	35	8	81.4	2	0	1	2
Dick Crealy	10	19	10	65.5	0	1	1	2
Kevin Curren	4	9	4	69.2	0	1	0	0
Phil Dent	14	23	14	62.2	0	1	0	2
Steve Denton	6	13	6	68.4	0	2	0	0
Colin Dibley	11	12	11	52.2	0	0	1	1
Novak Djokovic	6	18	5	78.2	1	0	0	2
Stefan Edberg	13	56	10	84.8	2	3	3	2
Mark Edmondson	12	22	11	66.7	1	0	1	2
Thomas Enqvist	13	21	12	63.6	0	1	0	1
Nicolas Escude	6	15	6	71.4	0	0	1	0
Roger Federer	11	47	7	87.0	4	1	2	0
Wayne Ferreira	14	39	14	73.6	0	0	2	1
Juan Carlos Ferrero	10	20	10	66.6	0	0	1	1
Andres Gimeno	2	4	2	66.7	0	1	0	0
Fernando Gonzalez	10	21	10	67.7	0	1	0	0
Sebastien Grosjean	10	25	10	71.4	0	0	1	3
January Gunnarsson	4	5	4	55.6	0	0	1	0
Tommy Haas	10	25	10	71.4	0	0	3	0
Lleyton Hewitt	14	27	14	65.8	0	1	0	0
Thomas Johansson	13	19	12	61.3	1	0	0	0
a href = "Yevgeny_Kafelnikov" class = "mw-redirect" title = "Yevgeny Kafelnikov"> Yevgeny Kafelnikov	8	28	7	80.0	1	1	0	3
Nicolas Kiefer	10	16	10	61.5	0	0	1	2
Petr Korda	10	17	9	65.4	1	0	0	1
Richard Krajicek	8	16	7	69.6	0	0	1	0
Aaron Krickstein	7	19	7	73.1	0	0	1	0
Johan Kriek	8	25	6	80.6	2	0	1	2
Karol Kucera	10	15	10	60.0	0	0	1	1
Nicolas Lapentti	10	15	10	60.0	0	0	1	0
Rod Laver	2	6	1	85.7	1	0	0	0
Ivan Lendl	12	48	10	82.8	2	2	3	1
Robert Lutz	2	5	2	71.4	0	0	1	0
John Marks	4	5	4	55.6	0	1	0	0
Todd Martin	10	25	10	71.4	0	1	0	2
Wally Masur	14	28	14	66.7	0	0	1	1
Tim Mayotte	7	11	7	61.1	0	0	1	1
John McEnroe	5	18	5	78.3	0	0	1	3
Patrick McEnroe	7	13	7	65.0	0	0	1	0
Peter McNamara	10	12	10	54.5	0	0	1	1
Paul McNamee	10	13	10	56.5	0	0	1	1
Miloslav Mecir	5	12	5	70.6	0	1	0	1
Karl Meiler	2	5	2	71.4	0	0	1	0
Alex Metreveli	3	7	3	70.0	0	0	1	2
Carlos Moya	12	13	12	52.0	0	1	0	1
Andy Murray	5	12	5	70,5	0	1	0	0
Thomas Muster	11	23	11	67.6	0	0	2	1
Rafael Nadal	6	25	5	80.0	1	0	1	2
David Nalbandian	8	24	8	75.0	0	0	1	3
John Newcombe	8	26	6	81.3	2	1	0	4
Yannick Noah	6	11	6	64.7	0	0	1	1
Magnus Norman	6	9	6	60.0	0	0	1	0
Jiri Novak	7	13	7	65.0	0	0	1	0
Tom Okker	3	5	2	71.4	0	0	1	1
Onny Parun	4	7	4	63.6	0	1	0	0
Hank Pfister	9	17	9	65.4	0	0	3	0
Patrick Proisy	2	4	2	66.7	0	0	1	0
Patrick Rafter	9	15	9	62.5	0	0	1	0
Dennis Ralston	2	4	2	66.7	0	0	1	0
Marcelo Rios	5	14	5	73.7	0	1	0	2
Tony Roche	10	21	9	70.0	0	0	2	3
Andy Roddick	9	34	9	75.5	0	0	4	2
Ken Rosewall	7	21	5	80.8	2	0	2	0
Ray Ruffell	8	12	8	60.0	0	0	2	1
John Sadri	9	17	9	65.4	0	1	0	1
Marat Safin	10	31	8	79.5	1	2	0	0
Pete Sampras	11	45	9	83.3	2	1	2	1
Rainer Schttler	12	14	12	53.8	0	1	0	0
Michael Stich	7	16	7	69.6	0	0	1	1
Allan Stone	10	12	10	54.5	0	0	1	0
Roscoe Tanner	3	9	2	81.8	1	0	0	0
Roger Taylor	3	5	3	62.5	0	0	1	0
Brian Teacher	5	12	4	75.0	1	0	0	1
Ben Testerman	5	9	5	64.3	0	0	1	0
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	4	15	4	78.9	0	1	1	1
Fernando Verdasco	7	12	7	63.1	0	0	1	0
Guillermo Vilas	5	23	3	88.5	2	1	1	0
Kim Warwick	12	19	12	61.3	0	1	0	2
Mats Wilander	10	36	7	83.7	3	1	1	0
Mark Woodforde	15	26	15	63.4	0	0	1	0
Slobodan Zivojinovic	5	9	5	64.3	0	0	1	0
Player	Investments	Victories	Loses	% V	Titles	Final	Halves	Quarters

Interests: number of entries; Wins: number of games won; Loses: number of matches lost:% V: winning percentage;
Titles: number of titles won; Finals: number of lost finals; Halves: number of lost semifinals; Quarter: number of lost quarterfinals.
Note that a drop before the start of a match does not count as a defeat (and not as a victory for the opponent). In contrast, a drop during a match counts as one loss.
Only the January 1977 is taken into account (as stated on the site of ATP).

Review by player

Coming.

External Links

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