Australian Open 2022: Overview

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Australian Open 2022

The 2022 Australian Open ran 17 January – 30 January 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: Rafael Nadal came back from two sets down to Daniil Medvedev for a record twenty-first major, and Ashleigh Barty became the first Australian to win the women’s singles here in forty-four years.

The road to the finals

How the titles were won — the semi-finals, the final, and the champions.

Men's Singles

Semi-finals

Jan 28

Matteo Berrettini7
Rafael Nadal6
Stefanos Tsitsipas4
Daniil Medvedev2

Final

Jan 30

Rafael Nadal6
Daniil Medvedev2

 

 

Rafael Nadal

Champion

Women's Singles

Semi-finals

Jan 27

Ashleigh Barty1
Madison Keys
Danielle Collins27
Iga Świątek7

Final

Jan 29

Ashleigh Barty1
Danielle Collins27

 

 

Ashleigh Barty

Champion

Championships pulse · all five draws

411 / 411Matches played
1,127Sets of tennis
173Tiebreaks
256Singles players entered
61Seeds entered

The field, by nation

Singles entrants, top 6 nations

United States34
Australia18
France18
Spain17
Italy14
Russia13

How it finished

Straight sets, a set dropped, or unfinished

Straight sets24259%
A set dropped15939%
Retired / walkover102%

Wins by nation

Singles match wins, top 6

United States37
Spain25
Russia19
Australia18
France18
Italy15

Sets per match

Completed matches, by sets played

185
148
43
25
2345

Match length

Total games played, completed matches

16
93
77
46
56
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62
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How players entered

The singles field, by route in

Direct entry19978%
Qualifier3212%
Wild card166%
Protected ranking21%
Lucky loser73%

Tiebreaks by round

Tiebreak sets, both singles draws

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33
14
11
3
1
2
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Longest matches

Most games played, top 6

Cressy v Isner61
Kwon v Shapovalov59
Auger-Aliassime v Medvedev57
Korda v Moutet57
Munar v Karatsev55
Griekspoor v Busta54

Men's Singles

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1 of 30 still in · highest seed out: [2] Daniil Medvedev (Final).

Women's Singles

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1 of 31 still in · highest seed out: [2] Aryna Sabalenka (Round of 16).

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 7:47 p.m. on Sunday 30 January in Melbourne, which was 3:47 a.m. that same Sunday in New York.

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