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The 2024 Australian Open was a Grand Slam level tennis tournament held at Melbourne Park, from 14 to 28 January 2024. [1] It was the 112th edition of the Australian Open, the 56th in the Open Era, and the first major of the year. The tournament consists of events for professional players in singles, doubles and mixed doubles.
Medvedev also set Open Era records for the most time spent playing at one edition of a singles major, at 24 hours and 17 minutes, and for the most sets played in a singles major, at 31. [1] Novak Djokovic was the defending champion, but lost in the semifinals to Sinner. [4] His loss ended a 33-match winning streak at the Australian Open and ...
For the first time in the tournament's history, there were six former champions in the main draw: Sabalenka, Naomi Osaka, Sofia Kenin, Caroline Wozniacki, Angelique Kerber, and Azarenka. [12] This was the final Australian Open appearance for 2016 champion Kerber, who lost to Danielle Collins in the first round.
At 22, Sinner was the youngest Australian Open men's singles champion and finalist since Novak Djokovic in 2008. [4] This was the first Australian Open final since 2005 not to feature any of the Big Three members. [5] The final further established their rivalry, being their 10th meeting and Sinner's 4th consecutive win over Medvedev.
2024: Jannik Sinner: Rohan Bopanna Matthew Ebden: Hsieh Su-wei Elise Mertens ... List of Australian Open mixed doubles champions; Other Grand Slam tournament champions.
This is the 27-year-old’s third Australian Open final after losing to Djokovic in 2021 and Nadal in 2022, but Medvedev is now much more assured in his game, highlighted by his stunning semifinal ...
The Australian Open [a] [b] is an annual tennis tournament created in 1905 and (since 1988) played on outdoor hardcourts [c] [d] at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia. [7] The Australian Open is played over a two-week period beginning in mid-January and has been chronologically the first of the four Grand Slam tournaments each year since 1987.
Hsieh Su-wei and Elise Mertens defeated Lyudmyla Kichenok and Jeļena Ostapenko in the final, 6–1, 7–5 to win the women's doubles tennis title at the 2024 Australian Open. [1] It was their second major title as a team, Hsieh's eighth major title, and Mertens' fourth.