The eye-catching Australian Open (Australian Open, (AO) kicked off on January 14!
How can a Chinese living in Melbourne not actively follow and participate in such a major event?
Let's take a look at the interesting facts about the Australian Open so you can quickly become an Australian Open person.
Has the Australian Open been held in Melbourne?
The Australian Open will be held in Melbourne Park from 14 to 27 January 2019.
The Australian Open was preceded by the Australian Championships (Australasian Championships), which began in 1905.
First held in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide and even New Zealand's Christchurch hosted the Australian Open.
But Melbourne has hosted the most in Australian Open history. The Australian Open has been held in Melbourne every year since 1972, when Melbourne had an excellent financial background and attracted more sponsors.
At that time the venue was located at Kooyong's Kuyan Meadow Tennis Club, where the venue was maintained as grass.
1968 Tennis officially entered the open era and began to allow professional players, but the Australian Open was a year late until 1969.
Australian Open match time changes
The early Australian Open began in January in response to the climate of the Southern Hemisphere, but in 1923 the Australian Open in Brisbane was held in August.
Later, almost every year in November, December and January at some point in the three months, the 1970s to the 1980s almost always during the Christmas and New year at the end of December, resulting in a lack of interest in the contestants.
In 1977, the Australian Open was held at the beginning of the year and at the end of the year, and then it was brought forward to the end of November and early December.
The final decision was made in 1986 to formally adjust the game time, starting in 1987 for the third week of January each year, and therefore the Australian Open in 1986 was not held.
Also because of the time of the game change has made the Australian Open more and more popular with the players, so far as the other three Grand Slam events have been attached importance.
How much is the Australian Open bonus this year?
In 2019, men's and women's singles' championships will be one hundred thousand Australian dollars more than last year's.
Total Australian Open bonuses rose to A $62.5 million this year from A $55 million last year, a record high. Men's singles and women's singles champions will each win A $4.1 million, and singles who have been eliminated in the first round will receive A $50, 000.
In 2001, the Australian Open became the second Grand Slam to award equal bonuses to men and women. The US Open has been awarding the same amount of money to men and women since 1973.
What is the longest game in Australian Open history?
The nearly six-hour battle between Xiao de and Natto in the 2012 Australian Open men's singles final has been recorded in history.
If you watch the Australian Open men's singles final in 2012, you won't forget that Djokovic beat Nadal to defend his title in a five-hour-53-minute game against Natou in that final.
This game is also due to the longest time, the largest number of games and the Australian Open history.
Which country has won the most championships of men's singles and women's singles in Australian Open history?
Every year, many young people come from all over Australia to cheer their idols.
The answer is Australia.
Australia has won 50 men's singles and 43 women's singles titles in Australian Open history, well ahead of any other country. Second was the United States, with 18 men's singles titles and 24 women's singles titles. Switzerland won six men's singles titles and three women's singles championships, ranking third.
But Australia has also missed the Australian Open singles title for the past 40 years. The last Australian to win the Australian Open singles title was Chris Ornell, who won the women's singles final in 1978.
Who is the youngest and oldest champion in Australian Open history?
Hingis (left) and his partner won the Australian Open women's doubles championship in 2016.
In 1953, Australian Rothwall won the men's singles and men's doubles title, only 18 years old, is the youngest Australian Open champion in history. At the same time, he is also the oldest champion in Australian Open history. In 1972, 37-year-old Rothwall, who won the Australian Open men's singles title again, laughed.
One-sided, the youngest champion was 16-year-old Genius Hingis, who won the tournament in 1997; the oldest was Selma Connerone, who won the Australian Open women's singles title in 1954 at the age of 35.
Do you know the intensity of the Australian Open?
Thousands of rackets are reloaded each year during the Australian Open
The intensity of the Australian Open game (and the players' bad temper) is also evident in the racket.
In 2017, a total of 5297 tennis rackets were reloaded on the Australian Open, and the racket company responsible for reloading the rackets at the venue had a total length of more than 62,999 meters.
A hot, dead man's Australian Open.
Compared with the other three Grand Slam, the Australian Open is held in the Southern Hemisphere in the middle of summer, and the hot weather often makes the contestants unbearable.
Travel books often remind visitors of Melbourne's changing climate and may "have four seasons in a day." Australian Open rock group Crowded House once sang a song called "Four Seasons in One Day" about Melbourne's volatile weather.
Many people on the local news station saw the weather forecast of 12 to 35 degrees the next day and had no idea how to dress. Because during the day there are often more than 35 or even 40 degrees of heat.
The organiser implemented the "Extreme Heat Policy" in 1998, stipulating that when the temperature exceeds 40 degrees and the WBGT (Wet Bulb Global Temperature) exceeds 32.5 degrees, the presiding judge will announce the suspension of the competition as soon as the temperature exceeds 40 degrees and the WBGT (Wet Bulb Global Temperature) exceeds 32.5 degrees. The specifications of the conditions often change, and these are the rules of the 2016 Australian Open this year.
In the 2003 women's singles final, the Williams sisters performed the EHP, to close the roof for the competition at 42 degrees. Incidentally, the hottest Australian Open occurred in 2009, with an average temperature of 34.7 degrees, nine degrees higher than the average temperature of previous years.
The coolest year was 1986, with an average temperature of 22.5 degrees, 3.5 degrees below the average temperature of previous years. The most rainy day on record in the Australian Open was January 29, 1963, but it was on the grass court of the Kuyanfa Tennis Club.
Wow, the Australian Open still has so much interesting cold knowledge! Take advantage of the opening of the Australian Open in another year, and quickly buy tickets with friends and family to feel the warm atmosphere!