The 1984 Australian Open was a tennis

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 tournament played on grass court

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s at the 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 73rd edition of the Australian Open and was held from November 26 through December 9, 1984.

Men's Singles

  Mats Wilander

Mats Wilander

Mats Wilander is a former World No. 1 tennis player from Sweden. From 1982 through 1988, he won seven Grand Slam singles titles , and one Grand Slam men's doubles title...

defeated   Kevin Curren

Kevin Curren

----Kevin Melvyn Curren is a former professional tennis player. He played in two Grand Slam singles finals and won four Grand Slam doubles titles.-Career:...

 6–7 (5–7), 6–4, 7–6 (7–3), 6–2

• It was Wilander's 3rd career Grand Slam title and his 2nd Australian Open title.

Women's Singles

  Chris Evert-Lloyd

Chris 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...

defeated   Helena Suková

Helena Suková

Helena Suková is a former professional tennis player from Czechia. During her career, she won 14 Grand Slam titles, 9 of them in women's doubles and 5 of them in mixed doubles...

 6–7 (4–7), 6–1, 6–3

• It was Evert-Lloyd's 19th career Grand Slam title and her 2nd and last Australian Open title.

Men's Doubles

  Mark Edmondson

Mark Edmondson

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/   Sherwood Stewart

Sherwood Stewart

Sherwood Stewart played amateur and professional tennis in the 1970s and 1980s. Stewart was ranked as high as No. 60 in the world in singles on the ATP Rankings on December 31, 1978, and No...

defeated   Joakim Nyström

Joakim Nyström

Joakim "Jocke" Nyström is a former top ten ranked tennis player from Sweden who won thirteen singles titles during his professional career. The right-hander reached his highest singles ranking on the ATP Tour on 31 March 1986, when he was ranked World No. 7 and was also ranked as high as World No...

 /   Mats Wilander

Mats Wilander

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 6–2, 6–2, 7–5

• It was Edmondson's 5th career Grand Slam title and his 5th and last Australian Open title. It was Stewart's 3rd career Grand Slam title and his 1st Australian Open title.

Women's Doubles

  Martina Navratilova /   Pam Shriver

Pam 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...

defeated   Claudia Kohde-Kilsch

Claudia Kohde-Kilsch

Claudia Kohde-Kilsch is a former German tennis player. During her career, she won two women's doubles Grand Slam titles. She also won 10 singles titles and 26 doubles titles.-Career:...

 /   Helena Suková

Helena Suková

Helena Suková is a former professional tennis player from Czechia. During her career, she won 14 Grand Slam titles, 9 of them in women's doubles and 5 of them in mixed doubles...

 6–3, 6–4

• It was Navratilova's 30th career Grand Slam title and her 6th Australian Open title. It was Shriver's 10th career Grand Slam title and her 3rd Australian Open title. With this victory Navratilova and Shriver completed the first doubles Grand Slam
  Grand Slam (tennis)
  The four Major tennis tournaments, also called the Slams, are the most important tennis events of the year in terms of world tour ranking points, tradition, prize-money awarded, strength and size of player field, and public attention. They are the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, and...
  
   in a calendar year in the Open Era, a feat not matched until Martina Hingis
  Martina Hingis
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   completed the same Grand Slam with two partners in 1998.

Boys' Singles

  Mark Kratzmann

Mark Kratzmann

Mark Edward Kratzmann is a former Australian professional tennis player.As the world's #1 ranked junior player in 1984, he won the Boys Australian, the Boys Wimbeldon and the Boys US Open...

defeated   Patrick Flynn 6–4, 6–1

Girls' Singles

  Annabel Croft

Annabel Croft

Annabel Croft is a former professional tennis player and current radio and television presenter. As a tennis player she won the WTA Tour event Virginia Slims of San Diego and represented Great Britain in the Fed Cup and the Wightman Cup.After retiring from tennis, she turned to television...

defeated   Helena Dahlstrom 6–0, 6–1

Boys' Doubles

  Mike Baroch /   Mark Kratzmann

Mark Kratzmann

Mark Edward Kratzmann is a former Australian professional tennis player.As the world's #1 ranked junior player in 1984, he won the Boys Australian, the Boys Wimbeldon and the Boys US Open...

defeated   Brett Custer /   David Macpherson

David Macpherson (tennis)

----David Macpherson is a former professional male tennis player on the ATP tour.A product of player and coach, Tony Roche's junior tennis academy, he played lefthanded and turned professional in 1985. As a junior player Macpherson was one of Australia's top prospects in his peer group, reaching...

 6–2, 5–7, 7–5

Girls' Doubles

  Louise Field /   Larisa Savchenko

Larisa Neiland

Larisa Savchenko Neiland is a former tennis player who represented Latvia. A former number-one ranked doubles player, Neiland won two women's doubles Grand Slam titles. She also won two singles titles and sixty-five doubles titles.-Career:Neiland turned professional in 1983...

defeated   Jackie Masters /   Michelle Parun 7–6, 6–2

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