Novak Djokovic beat Stefanos Tsitsipas to make history at the 2023 Australian Open
Novak Djokovic has come to a happy ending at the Australian Open, one of the four most important tournaments of the tennis season, along with the French Open (Roland Garros), Wimbledon and the US Open. Facing Greek tennis player Stefanos Tsitsipas in the final, Serbian racket Novak DJokovic won the last two sets 3-0 until the tiebreaker and won the 10th Australian Open title of his career and scored a historic victory.
Djokovic won the first set 6-3, and managed to take the second set to a tie-break 7-6, despite the effective performance of the Greek tennis player. Despite falling 2-0 in sets to Djokovic, Tsitsipas did not relinquish the match and made it possible to take the third set to a tie-break. However, Tsitsipas, who played dismal against Djokovic in the tie-break and fell behind 5-1 at the change of pitch, returned unfinished. Djokovic won 3-6 6-7 6-7 sets 3-0 and became the 2023 Australian Open champion.
While a total of A$76.6 million was shared at the 2023 Australian Open, Novak Djokovic, who won the final, earned A$2.975 million (about 39 million lira).
DJOKOVIC EQUALS NADAL’S RECORD
Novak Djokovic, who was banned from Australia last season for refusing to be vaccinated and not following Covid-19 rules, was unable to participate in the 2022 Australian Open.
Djokovic added a new title to his Australian Open titles, becoming the third person to win a Grand Slam tournament 10 times after Margaret Court (Australian Open: 11) and Rafael Nadal (French Open: 14). The 35-year-old racket also equaled Nadal’s record for “most male tennis players to win the most Grand Slam tournaments” with 22 championships.
IT WAS THE SECOND GRAND SLAM FINAL OF TSITSIPAS
Facing Russia’s Karen Khachanov in the semifinals of the Australian Open, Stefanos Tsitsipas defeated his opponent 3-1 after 3 hours and 21 minutes and advanced to the final. The 25-year-old Greek tennis player played in the second Grand Slam final of her career, but she was helpless against Djokovic.
AUSTRALIAN HISTORY IN
The tournament was first organized by the Australian Lawn Tennis Association (LTAA) in 1905 on the grass courts of the Warehouseman’s Cricket Ground in Melbourne as the Australasian Championship. Rodney Heath of Australia won the first championship in which only male tennis players could participate.
Norman Brookes, who has named the trophy presented to the men’s singles champion since 1934 and is the first tennis player to win Wimbledon outside Great Britain, achieved his only victory at the tournament in 1911. The name of the organization, in which female tennis players can competing since 1922, changed to Australian Championship in 1927 and Australian Open in 1969.
Australian Margaret Molesworth made tournament history as the first women’s champion. Daphne Akhurst Cozens, another Australian athlete who has named the trophy won by the women’s singles champion since 1934 after her, has been in the top 5 times in 1925, 1926, 1928, 1929 and 1930.
The tournament organized by 7 different cities, five in Australia (Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane, Perth) and 2 in New Zealand (Christchurch, Hastings), was last played on grass courts in 1987.
Then, in 1988, the Australian Open, which began to be played on the hard floor called “rebound ace” at the Melbourne Park facilities, where the matches are still played today, is held on another type of hard floor called ” plexicushion” between 2008 -2019 and “greenset” since 2020. .
(sozcu.com.tr-AA)