The Grand Slam in tennis is the achievement of winning all four major championships in one discipline in the same calendar year, also referred to as the "Calendar-year Grand Slam" or "Calendar Slam". In doubles, a team may accomplish the Grand Slam playing together or a player may achieve it with different partners. Winning all four major championships consecutively but not within the same calendar year is referred to as a "non-calendar-year Grand Slam", while winning the four majors at any point during the course of a career is known as a "Career Grand Slam".
Peter Doohan was an Australian tennis player who won three consecutive Australian Hard Court Championships singles titles, which remains an Open era record for that tournament. He won a further two singles titles at the South Australian Open in 1984 and San Louis Potisi tournament in Mexico in 1988. He also won five doubles titles during his career. The right-hander reached his highest Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) singles ranking of world No. 43 in August 1987.
Plexicushion is a brand of acrylic-based hardcourt tennis surface and one of the surface types used on the professional Association of Tennis Professionals and Women's Tennis Association tours. It is manufactured and sold by sports surfaces division of California Products Corporation, a company based in Andover, Massachusetts, United States.
The Australian Indoor Tennis Championship, also known as the Australian Indoor Championship, the Australian Indoor Open and the Sydney Indoor for short, was a professional men's tennis tournament was played in Sydney, Australia. The tournament was an initiative from John Newcombe and was part of an expanding Asian-Australian fall Grand Prix circuit. The event was played under various names as part of the Grand Prix tennis circuit from 1973 through 1989 and as part of the ATP Tour from 1990 through 1994. It was played on indoor hard courts at the Hordern Pavilion on the Sydney Showground through 1982 and at the Sydney Entertainment Centre beginning in 1983. The tournament was cancelled in June 1994 on financial grounds with tournament director and co-founder Graham Lovett citing insufficient television coverage and the difficulty of signing top players as the main reasons.
Marinko Matosevic is a retired Australian professional tennis player. His career-high singles ranking is World No. 39, which he achieved in February 2013. Matosevic defeated top players including Milos Raonic, Marin Čilić, Nikolay Davydenko, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and John Isner.
This article lists serving speed record breaks for the men's and women's professional tennis.
Storm Sanders is an Australian professional tennis player.
Bradley Mousley is an Australian tennis player. Mousley won the Australian Open boys' doubles title in both 2013 and 2014.
Andrew Harris is an Australian professional tennis player from Melbourne. He was the winner of the junior doubles titles at the 2012 Wimbledon Championships and the Roland Garros Junior French Championship. He signed a National Letter of Intent with Oklahoma Sooners to participate in 2013.
Kimberly Birrell is an Australian tennis player.
Omar Jasika is an Australian tennis player. He is the 2014 US Open boys' singles champion defeating Quentin Halys in the final. Jasika along with Naoki Nakagawa also won the 2014 US Open boys' doubles title after defeating Rafael Matos and João Menezes in the final. In winning both, Jasika became the first player in 28 years to win both the boys’ singles and doubles events at the US Open.
Alvin Gardiner is a former professional tennis player from Australia.
Max Purcell is an Australian professional tennis player. His career-high singles ranking is world No. 157, achieved on 13 June 2022, and his doubles ranking is world No. 25 achieved on 11 April 2022. He reached the men's doubles final at the 2020 Australian Open partnering Luke Saville, and the 2022 Australian Open partnering Matthew Ebden. As a junior, he reached the quarterfinals of the 2016 Australian Open boys' singles event and semifinals of the boys' doubles. Purcell represented Australia at the 2020 Summer Olympics in tennis in singles and doubles, partnering John Peers.
Lizette Faith Cabrera is an Australian tennis player of Filipino descent. Cabrera has a career-high singles ranking of No. 119, achieved on 3 February 2020.
Jaimee Fourlis is a professional Australian tennis player of Greek descent. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 189, achieved on 24 September 2018, and a highest doubles ranking of 138, reached on 2 March 2020. She has won seven ITF singles titles and three ITF doubles titles.
Christopher "Chris" O'Connell is an Australian professional tennis player. He grew up on the Northern Beaches of Sydney. O'Connell reached a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 111 on 14 September 2020 and a doubles ranking of No. 460 on 25 April 2022. He made his ATP Tour debut in January 2017 in his hometown at the Sydney International.
Alexei Popyrin is an Australian professional tennis player.
Olivia Gadecki is a professional tennis player from Australia. She has a career-high singles rank of 160, reached on 23 May 2022, and a highest doubles rank of 178, both achieved on 8 November 2021.
Dane Sweeny is an Australian professional tennis player. Sweeny made his ATP Tour debut at the 2021 Great Ocean Road Open after receiving a wild card into the main draw. He has a career high singles ranking of 407 achieved on 28 February 2022.
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