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For the 14th consecutive Australian Open, there can be a minimum of one native champion in all the event’s varied occasions.

Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 23 January 2025 | Matt Trollope

AO 2025 is assured to have a minimum of one Australian champion by the tip of the fortnight.

That was confirmed on Wednesday, when Kimberly Birrell and John-Patrick Smith arrange the Australian doubles closing towards Olivia Gadecki and John Friends.

The primary Aussie closing within the occasion’s Open-era historical past – and the primary because the 1967 Australian Championships – can be performed on Friday. It implies that for the 14th consecutive sequence of the event, the title of the place can be written a minimum of one AO ​​trophy.

There could also be extra, given the continued success of some Aussies throughout a number of AO occasions.

World No.1 junior Emerson Jones is into the semi-finals of the women’ singles, in addition to the ultimate of the junior ladies’ doubles occasion with Brit Hannah Klugman, whereas Ben Wenzel is thru to the boys’ wheelchair closing.

With the introduction of a wheelchair class on the Australian Open 2025, there are actually 19 formally sanctioned occasions performed over the 15 days of the primary draw at Melbourne Park:

• Males’s songs
• Girls’s songs
• Two males
• Two ladies
• Mixed doubles
• Boys songs
• Songs for ladies
• Two boys
• Two ladies
• Wheelchair songs for males
• Wheelchair songs for girls
• Quad wheelchair singles
• The boys’s wheelchair is double
• The ladies’s wheelchair is doubled
• Double wheelchair
• Wheelchair songs for boys
• Wheelchair songs for ladies
• The boy’s wheelchair is doubled
• The wheelchair for ladies is doubled

It’s important to return to AO 2011 for the final time there have been no Australian champions in any occasion.

Of the 37 accomplished editions of the AO at Melbourne Park, there have been solely 4 different years – 1990, 2006, 2009 and 2010 – that haven’t produced a minimum of one Aussie winner.

Since 2011 we have had boys’ singles champions like Luke Saville who simply retired in 2012. We have seen Dylan Alcott dominate the quads, each in singles and doubles alongside Heath Davidson.

In 4 consecutive years (2013-16) there was an Australian champion within the boys’ doubles, together with Alex de Minaur – who reached the quarterfinals of the AO 2025 males’s singles – partnering Blake Ellis.

Within the ladies’s doubles, Sam Stosur lifted the trophy with Zhang Shuai in 2019, and in 4 of the final eight AOs, there was an Australian winner within the males’s doubles – together with three consecutive years from AO 2022 to 2024.

Most famously, Ash Barty turns into the ladies’s singles champion on the 2022 Australian Open – the primary Aussie singles champion in 44 years.

Nick Kyrgios, who gained the AO 2022 males’s doubles and Thanasi Kokkinakis, additionally gained the boys’ singles in 2013, the identical yr Matthew Ebden – the AO 2024 males’s doubles champion – gained the doubles twice with Jarmila Gajdosova.

Kyrgios and Ebden are amongst a choose group of Australians to win a couple of occasion at Melbourne Park.

Nonetheless, nobody has matched Todd Woodbridge’s feat of successful three separate championships because the event was abolished in 1988. Woodbridge is a six-time AO champion – twice in boys’ doubles (1988-89), as soon as in doubles (1993) and 3 times in males’s doubles.

His wins in 1992 and 1997 got here with Mark Woodforde, earlier than he gained once more in 2001 with Swede Jonas Bjorkman.

AUSTRALIAN AO CHAMPIONS (SINCE 1988)

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