Jannik Sinner and Aryna Sabalenka will defend their respective titles at the Australian Open 2025, the first Major and first major event of the season, which will start on January 12. The Happy Slam has many reasons for interest this year. Sinner and Iga Swiatek will play the Australian Slam with two different doping issues experienced in 2025 (overcome for the Polish, still in progress for the Italian).
Novak Djokovic will seek his 25th Major and the 100th title of his career, while Carlos Alcaraz wants to complete the Career Grand Slams, Iga would like the first major result at the Happy Slam.
But who are the players who have written the history of the Australian Open?
The 1920s were an important period, because there were also the first editions of the women’s singles: they were the years dominated by Daphne Akhurst, winner of 5 editions of the tournament. The 1920s and 1930s were instead marked in the men’s singles by Jack Crowford, Don Badge, Fred Perry and Jean Borotra.
Between the 1930s and 1970s, in the men’s singles, the tournament had three dominators between the 1940s and 1970s: Ken Rosewall, winner of 4 titles, Roy Emerson, winner of 6 titles and Rod Laver, who triumphed 3 times. The women’s singles was…
