The Australian Open 2025 is ready to get underway from January 12 at Melbourne Park which is able to see quite a lot of Indians within the fray.
Traditionally, it has been the doubles class wherein the Indian tennis gamers have discovered glory on the Slam Down Below.
Olympic bronze medallist Leander Paes and his blended doubles accomplice, USA’s Martina Navratilova, clinched the Australian Open title in 2003. It was the primary time that an Indian triumphed in Melbourne.
The likes of Mahesh Bhupathi and Sania Mirza have additionally tasted success in Melbourne. Collectively, they gained the blended doubles title in 2009.
Final yr, Rohan Bopanna and his former accomplice Matthew Ebden gained the lads’s doubles title.
Total, 4 Indians have gained a complete of seven titles – both collectively or with overseas companions – out of which Paes has 4 to his title in Melbourne.
Full checklist of Indians who’ve gained titles at Australian Open
Leander Paes – 4 (three in blended doubles with Navratilova [2003], Cara Black [2010], Martina Hingis [2015]; one in males’s doubles with Radek Stepanek [2012])
Mahesh Bhupathi – 2 (in blended doubles with Hingis [2006], Mirza [2009])
Sania Mirza – 2 (one in blended doubles with Bhupathi [2009], one in ladies’s doubles with Hingis [2016])
Rohan Bopanna – 1 (in males’s doubles with Matthew Ebden [2024])