Australian Open 2023: Overview

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Australian Open 2023

The 2023 Australian Open ran 16 January – 29 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: Novak Djokovic won a tenth Melbourne title on a torn hamstring, and Aryna Sabalenka came from a set down to Elena Rybakina for her first major.

The road to the finals

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

Men's Singles

Semi-finals

Jan 27

Karen Khachanov18
Stefanos Tsitsipas3
Novak Djokovic4
Tommy Paul

Final

Jan 29

Stefanos Tsitsipas3
Novak Djokovic4

 

 

Novak Djokovic

Champion

Women's Singles

Semi-finals

Jan 26

Elena Rybakina22
Victoria Azarenka24
Magda Linette
Aryna Sabalenka5

Final

Jan 28

Elena Rybakina22
Aryna Sabalenka5

 

 

Aryna Sabalenka

Champion

Championships pulse · all five draws

411 / 411Matches played
1,137Sets of tennis
193Tiebreaks
256Singles players entered
62Seeds entered

The field, by nation

Singles entrants, top 6 nations

United States34
Neutral24
France19
Australia15
Czechia14
Spain12

How it finished

Straight sets, a set dropped, or unfinished

Straight sets24860%
A set dropped16139%
Retired / walkover20%

Wins by nation

Singles match wins, top 6

United States49
Neutral32
Czechia19
France13
Poland11
Australia11

Sets per match

Completed matches, by sets played

192
147
41
29
2345

Match length

Total games played, completed matches

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93
72
46
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How players entered

The singles field, by route in

Direct entry18572%
Qualifier3212%
Wild card166%
Protected ranking166%
Lucky loser73%

Tiebreaks by round

Tiebreak sets, both singles draws

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13
9
3
4
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Longest matches

Most games played, top 6

Fritz v Popyrin57
Murray v Kokkinakis57
Nakashima v McDonald56
Tseng v Popyrin56
Millman v Huesler55
Shelton v Wolf55

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1 of 31 still in · highest seed out: [1] Rafael Nadal (Round of 64).

Women's Singles

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1 of 31 still in · highest seed out: [1] Iga Świątek (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 7:45 p.m. on Sunday 29 January in Melbourne, which was 3:45 a.m. that same Sunday in New York.

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