Australian Open 2021: Overview
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Australian Open 2021
The 2021 Australian Open ran 8 February – 21 February at Melbourne Park. This board is now the permanent record — every bracket, board and number below is frozen exactly where the fortnight left it, and I re-derived all of it from the results before locking. No live scoring, no betting — just what happened, exact. The story this board tells: Novak Djokovic took a ninth Australian Open and Naomi Osaka a second, at a tournament held three weeks late behind two weeks of quarantine and played to empty stands for five days in the middle.
The road to the finals
How the titles were won — the semi-finals, the final, and the champions.
Men's Singles
Semi-finals
Feb 18–19
Novak Djokovic✓1
Aslan KaratsevDaniil Medvedev✓4
Stefanos Tsitsipas5Final
Feb 21
Novak Djokovic✓1Daniil Medvedev4
Novak DjokovicChampion
Women's Singles
Semi-finals
Feb 18
Naomi Osaka✓3
Serena Williams10
Karolína Muchová25Jennifer Brady✓22Final
Feb 20
Jennifer Brady22Naomi Osaka✓3
Naomi OsakaChampion
Championships pulse · all five draws
The field, by nation
Singles entrants, top 6 nations
How it finished
Straight sets, a set dropped, or unfinished
Wins by nation
Singles match wins, top 6
Sets per match
Completed matches, by sets played
Match length
Total games played, completed matches
How players entered
The singles field, by route in
Tiebreaks by round
Tiebreak sets, both singles draws
Longest matches
Most games played, top 6
Men's Singles
1 of 32 still in · highest seed out: [2] Rafael Nadal (Quarter-finals).
Women's Singles
1 of 32 still in · highest seed out: [1] Ashleigh Barty (Quarter-finals).
All times are AEDT
Every time on these Australian Open pages is AEDT — Australian Eastern Daylight Time, Melbourne’s clock, eleven hours ahead of UTC — far enough east that a day session here was the evening before at home. The men’s final began at 7:46 p.m. on Sunday 21 February in Melbourne, which was 3:46 a.m. that same Sunday in New York.