The 1980 Australian Open was a tennis

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 tournament played on grass court

Grass court

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s at the Kooyong Stadium

Kooyong Stadium

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 in Melbourne

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 in Victoria

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 in Australia

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. It was the 69th edition of the Australian Open and was held from 26 December 1980 through 4 January 1981.

Men's Singles

  Brian Teacher

Brian Teacher

Brian David Teacher is a 6' 3" right handed American former professional male tennis player. He reached a career-high ranking World No. 7 in 1981....

defeated   Kim Warwick

Kim Warwick

Kim Warwick is a former Australian professional male tennis player mostly known for his doubles titles with Mark Edmondson, and for reaching the final of the singles Australian Open in 1980...

 7–5, 7–6 (7–4), 6–3

• It was Teacher's only career Grand Slam title.

Women's Singles

  Hana Mandlíková

Hana Mandlíková

Hana Mandlíková is a former Czech professional tennis player from Czechoslovakia and later Australia. During her career, she won four Grand Slam singles titles – two at the Australian Open, one at the French Open, and one at the US Open...

defeated   Wendy Turnbull

Wendy Turnbull

Wendy Turnbull, MBE, is a retired Australian professional tennis player. During her career, she won 9 Grand Slam titles, 4 of them in women's doubles and 5 of them in mixed doubles. She also was a 3-time Grand Slam singles runner-up and won 13 singles titles and 55 doubles titles.-Career:Turnbull...

 6–0, 7–5

• It was Mandlíková's 1st career Grand Slam title and her 1st Australian Open title.

Men's Doubles

  Mark Edmondson

Mark Edmondson

Mark Edmondson is a former professional Australian male tennis player....

/   Kim Warwick

Kim Warwick

Kim Warwick is a former Australian professional male tennis player mostly known for his doubles titles with Mark Edmondson, and for reaching the final of the singles Australian Open in 1980...

defeated   Peter McNamara

Peter McNamara

Peter McNamara is a retired Australian tennis player.He won five singles and nineteen doubles titles during his professional career. A right-hander, McNamara reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on 14 March 1983 when he became World number 7...

 /   Paul McNamee

Paul McNamee

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 7–5, 6–4

• It was Edmondson's 2nd career Grand Slam title and his 2nd Australian Open title. It was Warwick's 2nd career Grand Slam title and his 2nd Australian Open title.

Women's Doubles

  Betsy Nagelsen

Betsy Nagelsen

Betsy Nagelsen McCormack is a retired professional tennis player from the United States. Nagelsen won the doubles championship at the 1978 and 1980 Australian Opens . She reached the singles final of the 1978 Australian Open, losing to Christine O'Neil...

/   Martina Navratilova defeated   Ann Kiyomura

Ann Kiyomura

Ann Kiyomura-Hayashi is a former professional tennis player.Kiyomura played on the WTA Tour from 1973 to 1984. She played in 11 US Opens, reaching the fourth round in 1978. In 1975, she won the Wimbledon women's doubles title, playing with Kazuko Sawamatsu...

 /   Candy Reynolds

Candy Reynolds

Candy Reynolds is a former professional tennis player from the United States.-Career:During her career, Reynolds won the women's doubles title at the French Open in 1983...

 6–4, 6–4

• It was Nagelsen's 2nd and last career Grand Slam title and her 2nd Australian Open title. It was Navratilova's 10th career Grand Slam title and her 1st Australian Open title.

Boys' Singles

  Craig Miller defeated   Wally Masur

Wally Masur

Wally Masur is a tennis coach, television commentator, and former professional tennis player from Sydney, Australia....

 7–6, 6–2

Girls' Singles

  Anne Minter

Anne Minter

Anne Minter is a former tennis player from Australia, who competed for her native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. She won four singles titles on the WTA Tour: 1987 Taipei, Singapore; 1988 Puerto Rico; 1989 Taipei...

defeated   Elizabeth Sayers

Elizabeth Smylie

Elizabeth Smylie is an Australian former tennis player.She won the Western Australian Sports Star of the Year award in 1985.She won the Comeback Player of the Year award in 1990 and 1993....

6–4, 6–2

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