Australian Open: the gamers who've written historical past

Jannik Sinner and Aryna Sabalenka will defend their respective titles on the Australian Open 2025, the primary Main and first main occasion of the season, which can begin on January 12. The Pleased Slam has many causes for curiosity this 12 months. Sinner and Iga Swiatek will play the Australian Slam with two completely different doping points skilled in 2025 (overcome for the Polish, nonetheless in progress for the Italian).

Novak Djokovic will search his twenty fifth Main and the one centesimal title of his profession, whereas Carlos Alcaraz needs to finish the Profession Grand Slams, Iga would love the primary main outcome on the Pleased Slam.

Novak Djokovic© Australian Open/X – Honest Use

However who’re the gamers who’ve written the historical past of the Australian Open?

The Nineteen Twenties had been an vital interval, as a result of there have been additionally the primary editions of the ladies’s singles: they had been the years dominated by Daphne Akhurst, winner of 5 editions of the event. The Nineteen Twenties and Nineteen Thirties had been as an alternative marked within the males’s singles by Jack Crowford, Don Badge, Fred Perry and Jean Borotra.

Between the Nineteen Thirties and Nineteen Seventies, within the males’s singles, the event had three dominators between the Nineteen Forties and Nineteen Seventies: Ken Rosewall, winner of 4 titles, Roy Emerson, winner of 6 titles and Rod Laver, who triumphed 3 occasions. The ladies’s singles was primarily linked to a few names: Nancye Wynne, winner of 6 titles, the queen of the Australian Open Margaret Smith (who nonetheless holds the document of 11 titles) and Evonne Goolagong, winner of 4 editions of the event.

The 80s had been the years of Mats Wilander (3 titles), Stefan Edberg (2 titles), Ivan Lendl (2 titles), Martina Navratilova (3 titles), Chris Evert (2 titles) and Steffi Graf (4 titles), adopted, within the 90s, by Jim Courier, Boris Becker (2 titles), Andre Agassi (4 titles), Pete Sampras (2 titles), Monica Seles (4 titles) and Martina Hingis (3 titles).

From the 2000s to right now, the boys’s singles has been dominated by Roger Federer (6 titles) and Novak Djokovic (10 titles, document). The Swiss and the Serbian are maybe thought-about the best males’s singles gamers of the Australian Open, regardless of the completely different floor in comparison with basic tennis (in truth the event was performed on grass courts till 1988).

Within the mid-2000s and 2010s, vital victories got here for Marat Safin, Rafael Nadal and Stan Wawrinka. In ladies’s singles, there have been 7 titles by Serena Williams, but additionally victories by Victoria Azarenka (2 titles), Maria Sharapova, Kim Klijisters, Li Na, Angelique Kerber, Caroline Wozniacki, Naomi Osaka and Sofia Kenin.

Then, Rafael Nadal wrote the historical past of males’s tennis, successful his 2nd AO title and his twenty first Slam, whereas Ashleigh Barty gained a Slam for the Australian, in Melbourne, after years, in 2022. Then it was the flip of Nole and Sinner, within the final two years, of Sabalenka each in 2023 and 2024.