The Australian Open is over for the locals. Some Australians impressed and others didn't live up to expectations. Here's how we graded them.

From Alex (de Minaur) to the Bahamas, from the crowds to Djokovic – this is the A to Z of the highlights and talking points of the 2025 Australian Open.

Joao Fonseca, Alex Michelsen, Learner Tien and Arthur Fils are four names to remember, following delightful displays during the opening week of the Australian Open.

After all the historic dominance of the big three - Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer, for those stuck under a rock for the past two decades - crushed the natural cycle, where stars replace stars and new faces win slams each year; between 2000 and 2003, 11 men shared the 16 titles, for example.

We may look back at the 2024 ATP NextGen finals in the years to come, and ask how so much talent could be squeezed into such a small tournament.

Backed by a raucous Brazilian contingent on Court 1573, Fonseca took the hour-long opener in the decider, eventually clinching set point at the fourth time of asking

Denmark's Holger Rune played a gritty 4-set match in the second round to beat Italy's Matteo Berrettini on Thursday, 16 January. With the win, Rune qualified for the third round of the tournament.

Naomi Osaka was happy after gaining 'revenge' over Karolina Muchova to reach the third round of the Australian Open. She lost to her Czech rival in straight sets at the US Open but came back from a set down in Melbourne to win 1-6 6-1 6-3.

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Andrey O. Matveev is the author of Pattern Recognition on Oriented Matroids, and Farey Sequences (De Gruyter, 2017 & 2017), and Symmetric Cycles (JSP, 2023)

MELBOURNE – The Australian Open, the first Grand Slam of the year, ended on Sunday, when defending champion Jannik Sinner beat Alexander Zverev for the men’s title. AFP looks back on five memorable storylines from the past two weeks in Melbourne: