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Fifty Australian gamers have turn into Australian Open champions, in not less than one occasion, because the match moved to Melbourne Park in 1988.
Melbourne, Australia, 18 December 2023 | Matt Trollope
Among the many most unforgettable moments for Aussie tennis followers was Ash Barty’s triumph at Australian Open 2022 – a match attracting among the highest home TV scores in 20 years.
No Australian participant had ever received the lads’s or ladies’s singles match because the AO had moved to Melbourne Park in 1988; Barty’s triumph ended a 44-year look ahead to a home-grown singles champion.
Given the rising depth and power of worldwide tennis competitors, the diploma of problem confronting native singles hopes is greater than ever. Nonetheless, you’ll be able to nearly assure there can be not less than one Aussie champion, in any occasion, every January.
Historical past helps this assertion. Within the 36 editions of the match at Melbourne Park, solely 5 instances – 1990, 2006, 2009, 2010 and 2011 – has an Australian participant’s title not been engraved on a trophy.
There are actually 15 occasions staged annually on the AO, and there was not less than one Australian champion in 11 of them.
| Occasion | Australian champions (since 1988) |
| Males’s singles | |
| Ladies’s singles | Barty |
| Males’s doubles | Woodbridge, Woodforde, Warder, Rafter, Friends, Kokkinakis, Kyrgios, Hijikata, Kubler |
| Ladies’s doubles | Stubbs, Molik, Stosur |
| Blended doubles | Provis, Woodforde, Woodbridge, Stubbs, Stosur, Draper, Gajdosova, Ebden |
| Boys’ singles | J.Anderson, Doyle, Ellwood, Klein, Tomic, Saville, Kyrgios, O.Anderson |
| Ladies’ singles | Faull, Pratt, Limmer, Musgrave, Drake-Brockman |
| Boys’ doubles | Stoltenberg, Woodbridge, J.Anderson, Doyle, Eagle, Sceney, Ellwood, Philippoussis, Bourgeois, Henry, Reid, Andrijic, Mousley, Delaney, Polmans, De Minaur, Ellis |
| Ladies’ doubles | Faull, McQuillan, Dominikovic, Molik, Wheeler, Dellacqua, Szili |
| Males’s wheelchair singles | Corridor |
| Ladies’s wheelchair singles | |
| Quad wheelchair singles | Alcott |
| Males’s wheelchair doubles | |
| Ladies’s wheelchair doubles | |
| Quad wheelchair doubles | Alcott, Davidson |
It’s an astonishing success fee – 50 Australian gamers have turn into Australian Open champions, in not less than one occasion, at Melbourne Park.
Of these 50 Aussies, Todd Woodbridge holds the excellence of being a champion in three totally different occasions – males’s doubles (1992, 1997, 2001), combined doubles (1993) and boys’ doubles (1988, 1989). No different Australian has triumphed in additional than two occasions.
You don’t essentially want a Rod Laver Enviornment ticket to see Aussie expertise succeeding.
A lot of the doubles, junior and wheelchair motion takes place on smaller showcourts and out of doors courts, permitting followers with a floor go to assist any Aussie gamers progressing by means of these attracts.
The vast majority of these occasions unfold within the last week of the Australian Open, that means there may be nearly all the time native curiosity deep into the match – even when Australians are now not in males’s and ladies’s singles competition.
We revisit among the highlights for the host nation all through the Australian Open’s historical past at Melbourne Park.
1988: A junior sweep
Within the match’s first yr at Melbourne Park, there have been Australian champions in all 4 junior occasions – the one time in Grand Slam historical past this has occurred.
Jo-Anne Faull was each the singles and doubles champion, after additionally reaching the second spherical of the ladies’s singles as a wildcard.
| Occasion | Australian champions |
| Boys’ singles | Johan Anderson |
| Ladies’ singles | Jo-Anne Faull |
| Boys’ doubles | Jason Stoltenberg & Todd Woodbridge |
| Ladies’ doubles | Jo-Anne Faull & Rachel McQuillan |
1992: Australia’s most prolific yr
There have been Australian champions in 5 occasions, together with the lads’s doubles – the primary of the Woodies’ two AO titles.
It was an particularly fruitful yr for Mark Woodforde, who additionally received the combined crown with Nicole Provis. So too for Grant Doyle, who scooped the boys’ singles and doubles titles.
| Occasion | Australian champions |
| Males’s doubles | Todd Woodbridge & Mark Woodforde |
| Blended doubles | Nicole Provis & Mark Woodforde |
| Boys’ singles | Grant Doyle |
| Ladies’ singles | Joanne Limmer |
| Boys’ doubles | Grant Doyle & Brad Sceney |
2005: A sensational centenary
On the 100-year anniversary of the match, Alicia Molik adopted up her ladies’s singles quarterfinal with victory within the doubles alongside Svetlana Kuznetsova.
It was additionally the primary of Sam Stosur’s eight Grand Slam titles, when she teamed with Scott Draper to win the combined doubles at simply 20 years of age.
Adorned participant David Corridor received his third consecutive AO wheelchair singles title.
Australia additionally got here extraordinarily near having its first males’s singles champion on the match since 1976, with Lleyton Hewitt advancing to the ultimate.
| Occasion | Australian champions |
| Ladies’s doubles | Alicia Molik (AUS) & Svetlana Kuznetsova |
| Blended doubles | Sam Stosur & Scott Draper |
| Males’s wheelchair singles | David Corridor |
2013: New stars emerge
In a glimpse of the long run, Nick Kyrgios beat Thanasi Kokkinakis to win the boys’ singles title. 9 years later, they’d mix to win the AO 2022 males’s doubles title.
Eight years on from Stosur and Draper’s success, one other all-Aussie pairing hoisted the combined doubles trophy, in Jarmila Gajdosova and Matt Ebden.
The boys’ doubles was received by Aussie duo Jay Andrijic and Bradley Mousley. Mousley repeated the next yr, with Austria’s Lucas Miedler.
| Occasion | Australian champions |
| Blended doubles | Jarmila Gajdosova & Matt Ebden |
| Boys’ singles | Nick Kyrgios |
| Boys’ doubles | Jay Andrijic & Bradley Mousley |
2019: Common triumphs
In 2006, Stosur held match level within the ladies’s doubles last with Lisa Raymond, earlier than shedding. 13 years later, she lastly acquired her second within the occasion, teaming with Zhang Shuai to win the 2019 ladies’s doubles title.
Dylan Alcott continued his domination of his residence Grand Slam, successful his fifth consecutive quad singles title – he would end his profession with seven – in addition to defending his quad doubles title with pal and compatriot Heath Davidson.
| Occasion | Australian champions |
| Ladies’s doubles | Sam Stosur (AUS) & Zhang Shuai |
| Quad wheelchair singles | Dylan Alcott |
| Quad wheelchair doubles | Dylan Alcott & Heath Davidson |
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