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AO Download: Your rapid recap of AO 2025

  • Simon Cambers

Australian Open 2025 is a wrap, with two outstanding singles champions and a series of firsts to mark the 120th edition of the Happy Slam.

With record crowds flocking to Melbourne Park again – more than 1.2 million people came through the gates across the three weeks – a new women’s Grand Slam champion, in Madison Keys, was crowned, while Jannik Sinner retained his men’s title in stunning fashion.

Sinner was at his dominating best as he beat Alexander Zverev in Sunday’s men’s final in straight sets.

The Italian didn’t face a single break point as he marched to a second Australian Open title, and third major in all.

“It’s an amazing feeling to achieve this, but it’s even more amazing to share it with you,” Sinner told his team in the on-court presentation.

For Zverev, it was a disappointing end to a great tournament, his third loss in Grand Slam finals. “I don’t know if I’ll ever lift the trophy but I’ll keep coming back, keep working hard,” he said.

Keys was a hugely popular champion, winning her first Grand Slam title on Saturday evening in her 46th major thanks to a stunning victory over world No.1 Aryna Sabalenka, the winner in Melbourne each of the past two years.

Tipped for the top from the age of 11 but burdened by expectation, it was only when Keys accepted that she may never win a Slam – and was OK with it – that she played with the freedom she needed to get over the line.

It showed in her victory over world No.2 Iga Swiatek in the semifinals, when she saved a match point and again in a brilliant final, when she took the attack to Sabalenka and held her nerve at the end, denying the top seed a third straight title and erasing the memory of a painful final loss in her other Grand Slam final, at the US Open in 2017.

“I'm just really proud of myself,” Keys said. “I didn't always believe that I could get back to this point. But to be able to do it and win, it means the world to me.”

There was a return for an old favourite at Melbourne Park as Andy Murray, who retired after the Olympics last summer, joined forces with rival Novak Djokovic as a coach, the photographers’ lenses trained on him to gauge his reactions from his seat in the new courtside coaching pods, one of many innovations for 2025.

Murray had an immediate impact as the 37-year-old stunned Carlos Alcaraz in the quarterfinals. But the win came at a big cost, with a hamstring tear then seeing his hopes of a record 25th Slam end when he quit after one set of his semifinal with Zverev.

Ben Shelton lit up Melbourne Park with a series of hot shots on his way to a first AO semi, but it was his quarterfinal opponent, Lorenzo Sonego, who came up with the shot of the tournament, a diving volley that spun back several metres across the net.

Watch out for youngsters Joao Fonseca and Learner Tien, too, the pair beating Andrey Rublev and Daniil Medvedev respectively to announce themselves on the world scene.

Paula Badosa showed she’s back to top form after almost quitting the sport a year ago due to chronic back problems, the Spaniard reaching the semis of a slam for the first time while Elina Svitolina had another good Slam, making the last eight.

Czech Katerina Siniakova and American Taylor Townsend added the women’s doubles title to the one they won together at Wimbledon last year with a hard-fought victory over Hsieh Su-Wei and Jelena Ostapenko.

It was a second Grand Slam doubles title for Townsend, and a 10th for Siniakova. The Czech has won three of the past four Slams and now has three Australian Open titles to her name, cementing her position as the world No.1.

Britain’s Henry Patten and Harri Heliovaara of Finland matched Siniakova and Townsend by following their Wimbledon success last summer with victory in the men’s doubles.

The pair squandered 10 set points in an epic first set, which finished with a 34-point tiebreak lasting 25 minutes, but bounced back brilliantly to edge out the Italian combination of Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori after more than three hours.

The mixed doubles final was an all-Australian, all wildcard affair, John Peers and Olivia Gadecki beating Kim Birrell and John-Patrick Smith in a match tiebreak.

For the first time in Grand Slam history, there were qualifying events for the wheelchair singles, another sign of the expansion of wheelchair tennis, while the junior wheelchair events were held on site for the first time.

Alfie Hewett won the wheelchair singles and doubles at a slam for a seventh time, picking up his second AO singles crown with an upset win over No.1 Tokito Oda in the final. It’s his sixth doubles title here and 32nd Grand Slam title in all. Top seed Yui Kamiji of Japan won the women’s title for the third time, but first in five years.

And there was a first-ever junior champion from Switzerland as Henry Bernet, who hails from the same club as Roger Federer, won the title. The girls title went to Wakana Sonobe of Japan, who produced something of a masterclass in the final.