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For the 14th consecutive Australian Open, there will probably be a minimum of one native champion throughout the event’s numerous occasions.

Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 23 January 2025 | Matt Trollope

AO 2025 is assured to have a minimum of one Australian champion by the fortnight’s finish.

That was confirmed on Wednesday, when Kimberly Birrell and John-Patrick Smith arrange an all-Australian combined doubles remaining in opposition to Olivia Gadecki and John Friends.

The primary all-Aussie remaining within the Open-era historical past of the occasion – and the primary because the 1967 Australian Championships – will probably be staged on Friday. It signifies that for the 14th straight version of the event, a neighborhood title will probably be inscribed on a minimum of one AO trophy.

There could possibly be extra, given the continuing success of different Aussies throughout a number of AO occasions.

World No.1 junior Emerson Jones is into the ladies’ singles semifinals, in addition to the ultimate of the junior women’ doubles occasion with Brit Hannah Klugman, whereas Ben Wenzel is thru to the boys’ wheelchair doubles remaining.

With the introduction of the junior wheelchair division at Australian Open 2025, there at the moment are 19 formally sanctioned occasions staged throughout the 15 days of the primary draw at Melbourne Park:

• Males’s singles
• Girls’s singles
• Males’s doubles
• Girls’s doubles
• Combined doubles
• Boys’ singles
• Ladies’ singles
• Boys’ doubles
• Ladies’ doubles
• Males’s wheelchair singles
• Girls’s wheelchair singles
• Quad wheelchair singles
• Males’s wheelchair doubles
• Girls’s wheelchair doubles
• Quad wheelchair doubles
• Boys’ wheelchair singles
• Ladies’ wheelchair singles
• Boys’ wheelchair doubles
• Ladies’ wheelchair doubles

It’s a must to return to AO 2011 to seek out the final time there have been no Australian champions in any of the occasions.

In 37 accomplished editions of the AO at Melbourne Park, there have been solely 4 different years – 1990, 2006, 2009 and 2010 – that didn’t function a minimum of one Aussie winner.

Since 2011 we’ve had champions in boys’ singles, such because the not too long ago retired 2012 champion Luke Saville. We’ve seen Dylan Alcott dominate within the quad wheelchair division, each in singles and in doubles alongside Heath Davidson.

In 4 consecutive years (2013-16) there was an Australian champion in boys’ doubles, together with Alex de Minaur – who reached the AO 2025 males’s singles quarterfinals – alongside Blake Ellis.

In girls’s doubles, Sam Stosur hoisted the trophy with Zhang Shuai in 2019, whereas in 4 of the previous eight accomplished AOs, there’s been an Australian winner within the males’s doubles – together with three straight years from AO 2022 to 2024.

Most famously, Ash Barty develop into the ladies’s singles champion at Australian Open 2022 – the primary Aussie singles champion in 44 years.

Nick Kyrgios, the AO 2022 males’s doubles winner with Thanasi Kokkinakis, additionally gained the boys’ singles in 2013, the identical 12 months Matthew Ebden – the AO 2024 males’s doubles champion – gained the combined doubles with Jarmila Gajdosova.

Kyrgios and Ebden are amongst a choose group of Australians to win multiple occasion at Melbourne Park.

But none have matched Todd Woodbridge’s feat of profitable three totally different occasions because the event relocated in 1988. Woodbridge is a six-time AO champion – twice in boys’ doubles (1988-89), as soon as in combined doubles (1993) and 3 times in males’s doubles.

His 1992 and 1997 wins got here alongside Mark Woodforde, earlier than he was victorious once more in 2001 with Swede Jonas Bjorkman.

AUSTRALIAN AO CHAMPIONS (SINCE 1988)

	Participant	Occasion/s	12 months/s
1	Alcott	Quad WC singles Quad WC doubles	2015-2021 2018-2021
2	Andrijic	Boys’ doubles	2014
3	Barty	Girls’s singles	2022
4	Bourgeois	Boys’ doubles	1995
5	Davidson	Quad WC doubles	2018-2021
6	De Minaur	Boys’ doubles	2016
7	Delaney	Boys’ doubles	2015
8	Dellacqua	Ladies’ doubles	2003
9	Dominikovic	Ladies’ doubles	1998
10	Doyle	Boys’ singles Boys’ doubles	1992 1991, 1992
11	Drake-Brockman	Ladies’ singles	1995
12	Draper	Combined doubles	2005
13	Eagle	Boys’ doubles	1991
14	Ebden	Combined doubles Males’s doubles	2013 2024
15	Ellis	Boys’ doubles	2016
16	Ellwood	Boys’ singles Boys’ doubles	1994 1994
17	Faull	Ladies’ singles Ladies’ doubles	1988 1988
18	Gajdosova	Combined doubles	2013
19	Corridor	Males’s WC singles	2003, 2004, 2005
20	Henry	Boys’ doubles	2002
21	Hijikata	Males’s doubles	2023
22	J. Anderson	Boys’ singles Boys’ doubles	1988 1989
23	Klein	Boys’ singles	2007
24	Kokkinakis	Males’s doubles	2022
25	Kubler	Males’s doubles	2023
26	Kyrgios	Males’s doubles Boys’ singles	2022 2013
27	Limmer	Ladies’ singles	1992
28	McQuillan	Ladies’ doubles	1988
29	Molik	Girls’s doubles Ladies’ doubles	2005 1998
30	Mousley	Boys’ doubles	2013, 2014
31	Musgrave	Ladies’ singles	1994
32	O. Anderson	Boys’ singles	2016
33	Friends	Males’s doubles	2017
34	Philippoussis	Boys’ doubles	1994
35	Polmans	Boys’ doubles	2015
36	Pratt	Ladies’ singles	1991
37	Provis	Combined doubles	1992
38	Rafter	Males’s doubles	1999
39	Reid	Boys’ doubles	2002
40	Saville	Boys’ singles	2012
41	Sceney	Boys’ doubles	1992
42	Stoltenberg	Boys’ doubles	1988
43	Stosur	Girls’s doubles Combined doubles	2019 2005
44	Stubbs	Girls’s doubles Combined doubles	2000 2000
45	Szili	Ladies’ doubles	2003
46	Tomic	Boys’ singles	2008
47	Warder	Males’s doubles	1993
48	Wheeler	Ladies’ doubles	2000
49	Woodbridge	Males’s doubles Combined doubles Boys’ doubles	1992, 1997, 2001 1993 1988, 1989
50	Woodforde	Males’s doubles Combined doubles	1992, 1997 1992, 1996

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