Australian Open, the first Grand Slam of the season, has lowered the curtain with champions who will go down in history for their adventures: Rafael Nadal won his 21st Grand Slam title, most for the men’s branch; and Ashleigh Barty became the first Australian to win the Australian Open in 44 years. But this will not be the only thing for which this first major of 2022 will be remembered, but rather that during its two weeks of competition, main characters such as e.g. Danielle Collins Y Andy Murray They left moving scenes. Others like Carlos Alcaraz set records and emerging stars like Emma Raducanu and Leylah Fernández took apprenticeships.
The first “big” final for Danielle Collins
The 28-year-old American played her first Grand Slam final, a situation that will reach her top 10 for the first time in her career. Until the Australian Openwas his best position on the rankings step 23 and his best progress in a Grand Slam was the semifinals, also in Australia, in 2019.
Emma Raducanu, with an early fall
The young champion of the last US Open she knocked out 2017 New York Grand Slam champion Sloane Stephens in the first round.However, the British revelation could not progress beyond the second round, where she lost to Montenegrin Danka Kalinic.
They surprised Leylah Fernández
Despite achieving a runner-up at the US Openthe 19-year-old Canadian fell in her first Grand Slam match of the year against Australian Maddison Inglis, 133rd.
Andy Murray reappeared with victory
The former world number one returned to Australia for three years after an emotional speech in which it was believed he would not participate again due to a hip operation that caused him to lose in the first round on that occasion. He missed the 2018 edition due to an injury, he did not attend in 2020 due to another injury, now in the pelvis, and also not last year due to the pandemic. Five years after his last victory in Melbourne, he advanced through the first round and in the second case. It was the Scots’ 49th victory in the singles draw at the Australian Open and according to the International Tennis Federation it is the most victories in a singles match. Grand Slam without winning the title, which surpassed Ivan Lendl’s 48 at Wimbledon.
Stefanos Tsitsipas awaits his first major title
The Greeks won in the semifinals of the Australian Open for the third time and continues to wait for his first Grand Slam title. The seven-time tour champion believes he will one day experience success in Melbourne.
Carlos Alcaraz achieves 10 Grand Slam victories
At the age of 18 years and eight months, the Spaniard became the youngest active tennis player in Australia to achieve his first 10 Grand Slam victories, ahead of legends of the sport such as e.g. Rafael Nadal (18 years and 10 months) and Novak Djokovic (19 years and one month). In the general rankings of the Open Era, Alcaraz is the eighth youngest tennis player to achieve it. The Spaniard said goodbye in the third round when he fell against Matteo Berrettini, another of the emerging youngsters.
Djokovic and Barty remain number one
The champion celebrates 113 weeks (more than two years) as number one and is four away from equator Justine Henin, installed as the seventh player with the most weeks at the top of the women’s rankings. Another one that stays at number one is Novak Djokovicdespite missing the Australian Open after being deported for failing to comply with the country’s strict Covid-19 vaccination rules.
Other movements in the women’s rankings
The champion of French openBarbora Krejcikova moved up one place, to third, after reaching the quarter-finals in Australia for the first time. Poland’s Iga Swiatek moved up five places to fourth after making her first major semi-final away from a clay court.
The men’s rankings remain almost intact
Daniel Medwedef he retained second place regardless of his result in the final.
Matteo Berrettini of Italy is the only one who has moved into the top-10 after his first week, and has risen to a new career high of number six after reaching the semi-finals at Melbourne Park for the first time. Russia’s Andrey Rublev fell to seventh. Nadal remains fifth, behind German Alexander Zverev and Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas.
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