1981 Australian Open
Encyclopedia
The 1981 Australian Open was a tennis
tournament played on grass court
s at the Kooyong Stadium
in Melbourne
in Victoria
in Australia
. It was the 70th edition of the Australian Open and was held from 24 December 1981 through 3 January 1982.
Johan Kriek
defeated
Steve Denton
6–2, 7–6 (7–1), 6–7 (1–7), 6–4
Martina Navratilova defeated Chris Evert-Lloyd
6–7 (4–7), 6–4, 7–5
Mark Edmondson
/ Kim Warwick
defeated Hank Pfister
/ John Sadri
6–3, 6–7, 6–3
Kathy Jordan
/ Anne Smith
defeated Martina Navratilova / Pam Shriver
6–2, 7–5
Jorgen Windahl defeated Pat Cash
6–4, 6–4
Anne Minter
defeated
Corinne Vanier 6–4, 6–2
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
tournament played on grass court
Grass court
A grass court is one of the four different types of tennis court. Grass courts are made of rye grass in different compositions depending on the tournament...
s at the Kooyong Stadium
Kooyong Stadium
Kooyong Stadium, at the Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club, is a tennis venue, located in Melbourne, Australia. The stadium was built in 1927 and has a capacity of 8,500....
in Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
in Victoria
Victoria (Australia)
Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....
in Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
. It was the 70th edition of the Australian Open and was held from 24 December 1981 through 3 January 1982.
Men's Singles
Johan KriekJohan Kriek
Johan Kriek is a South African American professional male tennis player and founder of the Global Water Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to delivering clean water to the world's neediest communities. Kriek has won two Australian Opens and has reached the semi-finals at the French...
defeated
Steve DentonSteve Denton
Steve Denton is a former professional tennis player for the ATP Tour. He is currently the head men's tennis coach at Texas A&M University....
6–2, 7–6 (7–1), 6–7 (1–7), 6–4
- It was Kriek's 1st career Grand Slam title and his 1st Australian Open title.
Women's Singles
Martina Navratilova defeated Chris Evert-LloydChris Evert
Christine Marie "Chris" Evert is a former world number 1 professional tennis player from the United States. She won 18 Grand Slam singles championships, including a record seven championships at the French Open and a record six championships at the U.S. Open. She was the year-ending World No...
6–7 (4–7), 6–4, 7–5
- It was Navratilova's 12th career Grand Slam title and her 1st Australian Open title.
Men's Doubles
Mark EdmondsonMark Edmondson
Mark Edmondson is a former professional Australian male tennis player....
/
Kim WarwickKim 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
Hank PfisterHank Pfister
Hank Pfister is a former tennis player from the United States, who won two singles titles during his professional career...
/
John SadriJohn Sadri
John Sadri is a former tennis player from the United States.Sadri won two singles and three doubles titles during his professional career. The right-hander reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on September 29, 1980, when he became the World No...
6–3, 6–7, 6–3
- It was Edmondson's 3rd career Grand Slam title and his 3rd Australian Open title. It was Warwick's 3rd career Grand Slam title and his 3rd Australian Open title.
Women's Doubles
Kathy JordanKathy Jordan
Kathryn "Kathy" Jordan is a former American tennis player. During her career, she won 7 Grand Slam titles, 5 of them in women's doubles and 2 of them in mixed doubles...
/
Anne SmithAnne Smith
Anne Smith is a female former professional tennis player from the United States. Smith's highest women's doubles ranking was World No. 1 in 1980 and 1981. Her highest singles ranking was World No. 12 in 1982...
defeated
Martina Navratilova / Pam ShriverPam Shriver
Pamela Howard Shriver Lazenby , is a former professional tennis player and is currently a sports broadcaster from the United States for ESPN2. During the 1980s and 1990s, she won 133 top-level titles, including 21 women's doubles titles and one mixed doubles title at Grand Slam tournaments...
6–2, 7–5
- It was Jordan's 4th career Grand Slam title and her only Australian Open title. It was Smith's 5th career Grand Slam title and her only Australian Open title.
Boys' Singles
Jorgen Windahl defeated Pat CashPat Cash
Patrick Hart "Pat" Cash is a retired Australian professional tennis player who won the men's singles title at Wimbledon in 1987.-Early career:...
6–4, 6–4
Girls' Singles
Anne MinterAnne 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
Corinne Vanier 6–4, 6–2