• Novak Djokovic claimed his 10th Australian Open championship and 22nd Grand Slam title overall by beating Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-3 7-6(4) 7-6(5) in the final at Rod Laver Arena on January 29.

• Djokovic will vault from No. 5 to No. 1 in the ATP rankings, a spot he already has held for more weeks than any other man.

• Djokovic stretched his unbeaten streak in Melbourne to 28 matches, the longest run there in the Open era, which dates to 1968. He adds trophy No. 10 to the seven from Wimbledon, three from the U.S. Open — where he also was absent last year — and two at the French Open, to match rival Rafael Nadal for the most by a man.

• Only two women — Margaret Court, with 24, and Serena Williams, with 23 — are ahead of him.

• This was also the 93rd ATP tour-level title for Djokovic, breaking a tie with Nadal for the fourth-most. 

• In the women’s singles, Aryna Sabalenka won her maiden Grand Slam title at the Australian Open, with a 4-6 6-3 6-4 win over Elena Rybakina on January 28.

• In the men’s doubles final, the Australian pair of Rinky Hijikata and Jason Kubler defeated Hugo Nys and Jan Zielinski 6-4, 7-6 (4) to win the title. It was the first Grand Slam title for both Hijikata and Kubler, the third Australian team to win a men's doubles title in the last five Grand Slams.

• Katerina Siniakova and Barbora Krejcikova have extended their Grand Slam tournament winning streak to 24 matches with a 6-4, 6-3 win over Japan’s Shuko Aoyama and Ena Shibahara to win the Australian Open women's doubles title. It was the seventh Grand Slam doubles title by the Czech pair.

Sania Mirza ends her Grand Slam career

• Indian tennis star Sania Mirza capped off her glorious Grand Slam career with a runners-up finish alongside Rohan Bopanna in the Australian Open mixed doubles final. The unseeded Indian duo went down 6-7(2) 2-6 to the Brazilian pair of Luisa Stefani and Rafael Mataos in the final at the Rod Laver Arena.

• Mirza, who earlier announced that the WTA event in Dubai next month will be her swansong, is India’s most accomplished woman tennis player, having won six Grand Slam titles, including three mixed doubles trophies.

• She had won the mixed doubles titles at the 2009 Australian Open and the 2012 French Open with Mahesh Bhupathi and the 2014 US Open with Brazilian Bruno Soares.

• All three women’s doubles titles came with Swiss great Martina Hingis (Wimbledon 2015, US Open 2015 and Australian Open 2016).

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