Australian Open 2024: Overview

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Australian Open 2024

The 2024 Australian Open ran 14 January – 28 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: Jannik Sinner came from two sets down against Daniil Medvedev for his first major, and Aryna Sabalenka defended her title without dropping a set.

The road to the finals

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

Men's Singles

Semi-finals

Jan 26

Novak Djokovic1
Jannik Sinner4
Daniil Medvedev3
Alexander Zverev6

Final

Jan 28

Jannik Sinner4
Daniil Medvedev3

 

 

Jannik Sinner

Champion

Women's Singles

Semi-finals

Jan 25

Coco Gauff4
Aryna Sabalenka2
Dayana Yastremska
Qinwen Zheng12

Final

Jan 27

Qinwen Zheng12
Aryna Sabalenka2

 

 

Aryna Sabalenka

Champion

Championships pulse · all five draws

411 / 411Matches played
1,162Sets of tennis
191Tiebreaks
256Singles players entered
64Seeds entered

The field, by nation

Singles entrants, top 6 nations

United States31
France24
Neutral24
Australia21
Czechia14
Italy12

How it finished

Straight sets, a set dropped, or unfinished

Straight sets21552%
A set dropped18545%
Retired / walkover113%

Wins by nation

Singles match wins, top 6

Neutral44
United States33
France24
Italy18
Czechia14
Ukraine14

Sets per match

Completed matches, by sets played

173
146
46
35
2345

Match length

Total games played, completed matches

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How players entered

The singles field, by route in

Direct entry19375%
Qualifier3212%
Wild card166%
Protected ranking125%
Lucky loser31%

Tiebreaks by round

Tiebreak sets, both singles draws

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Longest matches

Most games played, top 6

Zverev v Klein57
Medvedev v Zverev56
Auger-Aliassime v Thiem55
Kotov v Rinderknech54
Müller v Grenier54
Ofner v Kokkinakis54

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1 of 32 still in · highest seed out: [1] Novak Djokovic (Semi-finals).

Women's Singles

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1 of 32 still in · highest seed out: [1] Iga Świątek (Round of 32).

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 28 January in Melbourne, which was 3:46 a.m. that same Sunday in New York.

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