Australian Open Tennis 2021

The 2021 Australian Open is a Grand Slam tennis tournament that is currently taking place at Melbourne Park, from 8–21 February 2021.[2]

It is the 109th edition of the Australian Open, the 53rd in the Open Era, and the first Grand Slam of the year. It was originally scheduled for 18–31 January 2021, but was postponed by three weeks to February due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The event is part of the 2021 ATP Tour and the 2021 WTA Tour.

The tournament consists of events for professional players in singles, doubles and mixed doubles. Wheelchair players will compete in singles and doubles tournaments. As in previous years, the tournament’s main sponsor is Kia.

Novak Djokovic is the defending Men’s Singles champion, while Sofia Kenin was the defending Women’s Singles champion but lost to Kaia Kanepi in the second round.

The Australian Open is a tennis competition held every year finished the last fortnight of January in Melbourne, Australia. In the first place held in 1905, the competition is sequentially the first of the four Grand Slam tennis occasions of the year – the other three being the French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open. It includes men’s and ladies’ singles; men’s, ladies’ and blended pairs and junior’s titles; and in addition wheelchair, legends and display occasions. Preceding 1988 the competition had been played on grass courts, yet from that point forward two sorts of hardcourt surfaces have been utilized at Melbourne Park – green hued Rebound Ace up to 2007 and, a short time later, blue Plexicushion.

The Australian Open commonly has high attendances, equaling and sometimes surpassing the US Open. The competition holds the record for the most astounding participation at a Grand Slam event. It was the principal Grand Slam competition to include indoor play amid wet climate or extraordinary warmth with its three essential courts, the Rod Laver Arena, Hisense Arena and the restored Margaret Court Arena furnished with retractable rooftops.

Australian Open Tennis Facts

Television coverage

From 1973 to 2018, the Seven Network filled in as the host telecaster of the Australian Open. In March 2018, it was reported that the Nine Network had obtained the rights to the competition starting in 2020, for a time of five years. The system later purchased the rights for the 2019 competition as well. The Open’s communicated rights are rewarding in the nation, as it happens close as far as possible of the Summer non-evaluations season — which gives its supporter chances to advance their up and coming programming lineup.

In Europe the competition is communicated on Eurosport. Different supporters in the area have incorporated the BBC in the United Kingdom, SRG in Switzerland, NOS in Netherlands and RTS in Serbia. In the United Kingdom, the BBC dropped its live inclusion of the 2016 competition only a month prior to the begin because of spending cuts, leaving Eurosport as the select live broadcaster.

Somewhere else, beIN Sports communicates it into the Middle East and Northern Africa, and SuperSport in Sub-Sahara Africa. In the United States, the competition is communicated on ESPN2, ESPN3 and the Tennis Channel.[28] The title matches are broadcast live on ESPN. While it is communicated on ESPN International in Central and Latin America. It is communicated on TSN in Canada.

In Asia-Pacific district, the competition is communicated on five telecom companies in China, including national supporter CCTV, commonplace systems Beijing TV, Shanghai TV and Guangdong TV and English dialect Star Sports, just as online on IQIYI Sports. Somewhere else in the locale, it is communicated in Japan by national telecaster NHK, and pay-TV organize WOWOW. In the Indian Sub-landmass, Sony Six has communicated since 2015 and, in whatever is left of Asia, it is communicated on Fox Sports Asia through 2021

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Records