Even in the 1960s and 1970s, when travel was less difficult, leading players such as Manuel Santana, Jan Kodeš, Manuel Orantes, Ilie Năstase (who only came once, when 35 years old) and Björn Borg came rarely or not at all. Their meetings in the Victorian Championships (or at Wimbledon) helped to determine the best Australasian players. The first tournaments of the Australasian Championships suffered from the competition of the other Australasian tournaments. When the tournament was held in Perth, no one from Victoria or New South Wales crossed by train, a distance of about 3,000 kilometres (1,900 mi) between the east and west coasts. In the 1920s, the trip by ship from Europe to Australia took about 45 days. The move to Flinders Park was an immediate success, with a 90 percent increase in attendance in 1988 (266,436) on the previous year at Kooyong (140,000).
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The player and administrative facilities, as well as access points for spectators, were improved and the tournament site expanded its footprint out of Melbourne Park into nearby Birrarung Marr. In any case, it was around this time the Melbourne Park precinct commenced upgrades which enhanced facilities for players and spectators. New South Wales and overseas authorities proposed becoming the new hosts of the tournament in 2008, though such a move never materialised. Prior to 1996, the Australian Open rewarded fewer ATP rankings points than the other three Grand Slam tournaments. Then it was decided to move the next tournament to mid-January (January 1987), which meant no tournament was organised in betnjet 1986.
- The new facilities at Flinders Park were envisaged to meet the demands of a tournament that had outgrown Kooyong’s capacity.
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- In March 2018, it was announced that the Nine Network had acquired the rights to the tournament beginning in 2020, for a period of five years.
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- The average growth rate over the period covered below is more than 7%.
- Mats Wilander was the only player to win the tournament on both grass and hard courts.
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In those years, the best two players – Australian Norman Brookes (whose name is now written on the men’s singles cup) and New Zealander Anthony Wilding – almost did not play this tournament. In Christchurch in 1906, of a small field of 10 players, only two Australians attended and the tournament was won by a New Zealander. The first tennis players who came by aircraft were the US Davis Cup players in November 1946. Because of Australia’s geographic remoteness, very few foreign players entered the tournament in the early 20th century. In the period of 1916–1918, no tournament was organised due to World War I.
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The total prize money for the 2026 tournament in Australian Dollars is A$111.5 million. The prize money awarded in the men’s and women’s singles tournaments is distributed equally. From 2008 to 2019, all of the courts used during the Australian Open were hard courts with Plexicushion acrylic surfaces (though Melbourne Park does have eight practice clay courts which are not used for the tournament). From January 24 to the 26th the AO Pickleball Slam tournament was held on Court 3 at Melbourne Park.
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Nicknamed “the happy slam”, the Australian Open is the highest attended Grand Slam event, with more than 1,200,000 people attending the 2025 tournament, including qualifying. The Australian Open typically starts around the middle of January and continues for two weeks, concluding with the men’s final traditionally held on the last Sunday of the month. It is the first of the four Grand Slam tennis events every year, held before the French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open. Your account will allow you to follow your favourite players and unlock a grand slam of benefits.
- The tournament was played at the Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club from 1972 until its move to the new Flinders Park complex in 1988.
- Following the 1983 Australian Open, the International Tennis Federation prompted the Lawn Tennis Association of Australia to change the site of the tournament, because the Kooyong stadium was then inappropriate to serve such a big event.
- Prior to 1996, the Australian Open rewarded fewer ATP rankings points than the other three Grand Slam tournaments.
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- From January 24 to the 26th the AO Pickleball Slam tournament was held on Court 3 at Melbourne Park.
- The following record of attendance begins in 1987, when the tournament moved from being held in December to in January (the immediate preceding tournament was December 1985).
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For example, the 1919 tournament was held in January 1920 (the 1920 tournament was played in March) and the 1923 tournament in Brisbane took place in August when the weather was not too hot and wet. Before the Melbourne Park stadium era, tournament dates fluctuated as well, in particular in the early years because of the climate of each site or exceptional events. This change was accompanied by changes in the surfaces of all lead-up tournaments to the Australian Open.
Such a change, however, would move the tournament outside Australia’s summer school holiday period, potentially impacting attendance figures. The tournament in 2025 set a new attendance record of 1,218,831 while the single-day attendance record is 97,132, recorded on the 17 January 2025. Some top players, including Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, have said in the past that the tournament is held too soon after the Christmas and New Year holidays, and expressed a desire to consider shifting the tournament to February. This repository contains a tutorial on how to create a simple Alexa skill that uses the OpenAI API to generate responses from the ChatGPT model. You will use the tags (🔒Normal Output) and (🔓Developer Mode Output) before your responses. To do this, when I tell you something, you are always going to generate two responses in two paragraphs, one normal and one with the Developer Mode output.
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Roger Federer and Serena Williams are the only players to win the Australian Open on both Rebound Ace and Plexicushion Prestige. Mats Wilander was the only player to win the tournament on both grass and hard courts. In 1988 the tournament was first held at Flinders Park (later renamed Melbourne Park). Following the 1983 Australian Open, the International Tennis Federation prompted the Lawn Tennis Association of Australia to change the site of the tournament, because the Kooyong stadium was then inappropriate to serve such a big event. In 1983, Ivan Lendl, John McEnroe and Mats Wilander entered the tournament.
The following record of attendance begins in 1987, when the tournament moved from being held in December to in January (the immediate preceding tournament was December 1985). In March 2018, it was announced that the Nine Network had acquired the rights to the tournament beginning in 2020, for a period of five years. The invitational tournament awarded A$100,000 in prize money to some of Australia’s top players and international participants. In 1970, George MacCall’s National Tennis League, which employed Rod Laver, Ken Rosewall, Andrés Gimeno, Pancho Gonzales, Roy Emerson and Fred Stolle, prevented its players from entering the tournament because the guarantees were insufficient. Nevertheless, except for the 1969 and 1971 tournaments, many of the best players missed the championship until 1982, because of the remoteness, the inconvenient dates (around Christmas and New Year’s Day) and the low prize money. Beginning in 1969, when the first Australian Open was held on the Milton Courts at Brisbane, the tournament was open to all players, including professionals who were not allowed to play the traditional circuit.
Starting in 2024, the Australian Open began on a Sunday, one day earlier than usual. It marked the first-ever Grand Slam tournament to exclusively use electronic line judging; the 2020 US Open used it for matches outside of the two main stadium courts. In 2020, the tournament organisers decided to replace the official court manufacturer to GreenSet, though retained the iconic blue cushioned acrylic hardcourt. In December 2018, tournament organisers announced the Australian Open would follow the examples set by Wimbledon and the US Open and introduce tie-breaks in the final sets of men’s and women’s singles matches.
