1989 Australian Open
Encyclopedia
The 1989 Australian Open was a tennis
tournament played on outdoor hard courts
at Flinders Park
in Melbourne
in Victoria
in Australia
. It was the 77th edition of the Australian Open and was held from 16 through 29 January 1989.
Ivan Lendl
defeated Miloslav Mečíř
6–2, 6–2, 6–2
Steffi Graf
defeated Helena Suková
6–4, 6–4
Rick Leach
/ Jim Pugh
defeated
Darren Cahill
/ Mark Kratzmann
6–4, 6–4, 6–4
Martina Navratilova / Pam Shriver
defeated Patty Fendick
/
Jill Hetherington
3–6, 6–3, 6–2
Jana Novotná
/ Jim Pugh
defeated Zina Garrison
/ Sherwood Stewart
6–3, 6–4
Nicklas Kulti
defeated Todd Woodbridge
6–2, 6–0
Kimberly Kessaris defeated Andrea Farley 6–1, 6–2
Johan Anderson
/ Todd Woodbridge
defeated Andrew Kratzmann
/ Jamie Morgan
6–4, 6–2
Andrea Strnadová
/ Eva Sviglerova defeated Nicole Pratt
/ Angie Woolcock 6–2, 6–0
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 outdoor hard courts
Hardcourt
Hardcourt or hard court describes a form of surface or floor on which a sport is played. It may refer to an indoor court made from a wood, or more specifically hardwood such as maple, as in basketball or indoor soccer. Alternatively, it may refer to outdoor materials such as asphalt, shale, or clay...
at Flinders Park
Melbourne Park
Melbourne Park is a sports venue in the Melbourne Sports and Entertainment Precinct in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Since 1988, Melbourne Park has been home of the Australian Open in tennis, which is played annually in January...
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 77th edition of the Australian Open and was held from 16 through 29 January 1989.
Men's Singles
Ivan LendlIvan Lendl
Ivan Lendl is a former world no. 1 professional tennis player. Originally from Czechoslovakia, Lendl became a United States citizen. He was one of the game's most dominant players in the 1980s and remained a top competitor into the early 1990s. He is considered to be one of the greatest tennis...
defeated
Miloslav MečířMiloslav Mecír
Miloslav Mečíř is a former professional tennis player from Slovakia. He won the men's singles gold medal at the 1988 Olympic Games where he represented Czechoslovakia and played in two Grand Slam singles finals...
6–2, 6–2, 6–2
- It was Lendl's 7th career Grand Slam title and his 1st Australian Open title.
Women's Singles
Steffi GrafSteffi Graf
Steffi Graf is a former World No. 1 German tennis player.In total, Graf won 22 Grand Slam singles titles, second among male and female players only to Margaret Court's 24...
defeated
Helena SukováHelena 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...
6–4, 6–4
- It was Graf's 7th career Grand Slam title and her 2nd Australian Open title.
Men's Doubles
Rick LeachRick Leach
----Rick Leach is a former professional tennis player and a coach from the United States. A doubles specialist, he won 5 Grand Slam men's doubles titles , and 4 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles . Leach reached the World No...
/
Jim PughJim Pugh
Jim Pugh is a former professional tennis player from the United States. A doubles specialist, he won three Grand Slam men's doubles titles and five Grand Slam mixed doubles titles . Pugh reached the World No...
defeated
Darren CahillDarren Cahill
Darren Cahill is a tennis coach and former professional tennis player from Australia.Nicknamed "Killer", Cahill turned professional in 1984...
/
Mark KratzmannMark 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...
6–4, 6–4, 6–4
- It was Leach's 2nd career Grand Slam title and his 2nd Australian Open title. It was Pugh's 4th career Grand Slam title and his 3rd Australian Open title.
Women's Doubles
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...
defeated
Patty FendickPatty Fendick
Patty Fendick is a former professional women's tennis player and is the current head women's tennis coach at the University of Texas.She was born on March 31, 1965 in Sacramento, California and played collegiately at Stanford University, where the team won the NCAA title three times...
/
Jill HetheringtonJill Hetherington
Jill Hetherington Hultquist is a former Canadian professional tennis player. Hultquist played college tennis for the University of Florida, and is the current women's tennis head coach at the University of Washington....
3–6, 6–3, 6–2
- It was Navratilova's 52nd career Grand Slam title and her 11th Australian Open title. It was Shriver's 21st career Grand Slam title and her 7th and last Australian Open title.
Mixed Doubles
Jana NovotnáJana Novotná
Jana Novotná is a former professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. She played a serve and volley game, an increasingly rare style of play among women during her career. She won the women's singles title at Wimbledon in 1998 and was runner-up in three previous Grand Slam tournaments...
/
Jim PughJim Pugh
Jim Pugh is a former professional tennis player from the United States. A doubles specialist, he won three Grand Slam men's doubles titles and five Grand Slam mixed doubles titles . Pugh reached the World No...
defeated
Zina GarrisonZina Garrison
Zina Lynna Garrison is a former professional tennis player from the United States. During her career, she was a women's singles runner-up at Wimbledon in 1990, a three-time Grand Slam mixed doubles champion, and a women's doubles gold medalist at the 1988 Olympic Games.-Career:An African-American...
/
Sherwood StewartSherwood 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...
6–3, 6–4
- It was Novotná's 3rd career Grand Slam title and her 2nd Australian Open title. It was Pugh's 5th career Grand Slam title and his 4th Australian Open title.
Boys' Singles
Nicklas KultiNicklas Kulti
Nicklas Kulti is a former professional tennis player from Sweden.Kulti was ranked the World No. 1 junior tennis player in 1989 after winning the Australian Open and Wimbledon junior titles, and finishing runner-up at the US Open.In 1990, Kulti won his first top-level singles title at Adelaide...
defeated
Todd WoodbridgeTodd Woodbridge
Todd Andrew Woodbridge is an Australian former tennis player. He was born in Sydney and turned professional in 1988. He is best known for his successful Doubles partnerships with Mark Woodforde and later Jonas Björkman...
6–2, 6–0
Girls' Singles
Kimberly Kessaris defeated Andrea Farley 6–1, 6–2- Kessaris was the first and only American junior ever to win this event.
Boys' Doubles
Johan AndersonJohan Anderson
----Johan Anderson is a former Australian tennis player.In 1988, Anderson won the boy's singles title at the Australian Open. He also partnered Todd Woodbridge to win the Australian Open and Roland Garros junior boys doubles in 1989...
/
Todd WoodbridgeTodd Woodbridge
Todd Andrew Woodbridge is an Australian former tennis player. He was born in Sydney and turned professional in 1988. He is best known for his successful Doubles partnerships with Mark Woodforde and later Jonas Björkman...
defeated
Andrew KratzmannAndrew Kratzmann
Andrew Kratzmann is a professional male tennis player from Australia.Kratzmann turned professional in 1990 and was known as a doubles specialist, often partnering his brother Mark.-Doubles titles :...
/
Jamie MorganJamie Morgan
Jamie Morgan , is a former professional tennis player from Australia. Morgan never won an ATP level singles title, but finished runner-up three times. He reached the fourth round of the 1993 U.S. Open, his best performance at a Grand Slam event. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of World...
6–4, 6–2
Girls' Doubles
Andrea StrnadováAndrea Strnadová
Andrea Strnadová is a retired tennis player from the Czech Republic born on 28 May 1972.Strnadová was awarded the WTA award for the "Most Impressive Newcomer" in 1991.-External links:...
/
Eva Sviglerova defeated Nicole PrattNicole Pratt
Nicole Pratt is a retired professional female tennis player from Australia.She is the middle sibling of five children of cane farmers and was taught to play by her father, George, who was a top junior player. She attended school in Calen and received a tennis scholarship to the Australian...
/
Angie Woolcock 6–2, 6–0