Australian Open tennis opens on the 12th...Djokovic to win 25th major
Australian Open tennis opens on the 12th...Djokovic to win 25th major
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The Australian Open tennis tournament, the first major tournament of the season, will be held in Melbourne, Australia for two weeks from the 12th.
The Australian Open, held in January every year, is a stage that can predict the world of tennis that year.
In particular, fans' expectations are even higher as players leave the court after a short off-season period of about two months.
The biggest focus of this year's competition is on Novak Djokovic (7th, Serbia), who is also competing in the men's singles.
Djokovic won the gold medal in singles at the Paris Olympics last year and achieved the feat of the "Career Golden Grand Slam," but never won the four major championships.
The Australian Open is a good opportunity for Djokovic, who currently ranks 24 times in the singles at major tournaments and is tied for the most in the category.
Besides Djokovic, Margaret Court (Australia), who played in the 1960s and 1970s, has a record of 24 wins in women's singles.
Djokovic has recorded 10 of his 24 major wins at the Australian Open. Between 2019 and 2023, he won every year except for 2022, when he was absent due to unvaccinated COVID-19.
For Djokovic, who was born in 1987, the Australian Open, which has been strong before the years go by, is the best opportunity to achieve 25 major wins.
His latest major win is the 2023 U.S. Open.
In particular, the competition is drawing more attention by appointing Andy Murray (England), who was a competitor when he was active, as a coach.
Djokovic met his head four times in the Australian Open final when he was an active player and won all four games.
Jannik Sinner (1st, Italy) and Carlos Alcaras (3rd, Spain) are the players who were born in the 2000s.
Sinner, who beat Djokovic in the semifinals of the tournament last year, is trying to win his second consecutive tournament, while Alcaras has not won in the Australian Open alone among the four major tournaments.
If Alcaras wins this tournament, he will be the youngest male player to win a career Grand Slam since 1968, when professional players were allowed to compete in major competitions. 토토사이트
Rafael Nadal of Spain set this record at 24 years old in 2010. Alcaras, who was born in May 2003, is 21 years old.
If the range is expanded to female players, Steffi Graff (retired, Germany), who swept the four majors at the age of 19, and Serena Williams (retired, USA) also finished collecting the four major championships at the age of 21.
Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus is aiming to win the women's singles title for the third consecutive year. Martina Hingis of Switzerland recently won the women's singles title at the Australian Open in 1999.
Iga Civiontech (2nd, Poland) has been mentally shaken since he was suspended for one month for doping last year, and Coco Gough (3rd, USA) is likely to be Sabalenka's opponent.
Another point to watch is the performance of Chung Chin-won (5th, China), the gold medalist at the Paris Olympics, who won the runner-up prize at last year's event.
None of the South Korean players made it to the preliminary round and finals of the men's and women's singles this year.
It is the first time in about nine years that a Korean player has not been able to compete in the men's and women's singles qualifying rounds and finals at a major tennis tournament since Wimbledon in 2016.
This year's competition's men's and women's singles prize money is 3.5 million Australian dollars (about 3.17 billion won), and even if they lose in the first round of the singles finals, they will give them 132,000 Australian dollars, which is about 120 million won in Korean money.
tvN Sports will broadcast the major games live.