Australian Open

The Australian Open is a tennis tournament organised by Tennis Australia annually at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is chronologically the first of the four Grand Slam tennis events every year, held before the French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open.

Zeynep Sonmez of Turkiye reacts after winning her round two match against Anna Bondar of Hungary
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Sonmez is part of a growing group of players from nations without traditional tennis pathways who are lighting up the sport's biggest stages

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21 January, 2026
Lebanon's Hady Habib hits a shot against China's Bu Yunchaokete during their men's singles match on day one of the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne on January 12, 2025. (Photo by Paul Crock/AFP/Getty Images)
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