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The 2016 Australian Open was a tennis tournament that took place at Melbourne Park between 18 and 31 January 2016. [1] It was the 104th edition of the Australian Open, and the first Grand Slam tournament of the year. The tournament consisted of events for professional players in singles, doubles and mixed doubles play.
Matches on main courts; Matches on Rod Laver Arena; Event Winner Loser Score Women's Singles 1st Round: Petra Kvitová [6]: Luksika Kumkhum [Q] : 6–3, 6–1 Women's Singles 1st Round
In 2001, the Australian Open replaced the deciding third set of mixed doubles with an eighteen-point "match tiebreak" (first to ten points and win by two points wins the match). [30] Despite some criticism of the change by fans and former pros, [ 31 ] the US Open (from 2003) and the French Open (from 2007) have followed the Australian Open in ...
[1] [2] Murray became the second man in the Open Era to lose five finals at the same major (after Ivan Lendl at the US Open), and is the only one to have the distinction without having won the title. Australian Lleyton Hewitt, a former finalist, two-time major champion and former world No. 1, played his last professional singles match at this ...
The Australian Open produced a range of NFTs in 2022. [33] [34] Starting in 2024, the Australian Open began on a Sunday, one day earlier than usual. Day sessions on Rod Laver Arena and Margaret Court Arena featured a minimum of two matches (down from three) in an effort to reduce the possibility of matches finishing in the early hours of the ...
This was changed before the 2016 Olympics where no ranking points were awarded. [ 11 ] With these rules, a player playing and winning the mandatory 4 Grand Slams and 8 ATP Masters 1000 events, a further 6 ATP 500 events and the Monte-Carlo Masters 1000 can amass a total of 20,000 points before the ATP Finals and end the calendar year with a ...
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