The 1990 Australian Open was a tennis

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

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 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

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 in Victoria

Victoria (Australia)

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 in Australia. It was the 78th edition of the Australian Open and was held from 15 through 28 January 1990.

Men's Singles

  Ivan Lendl

Ivan 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   Stefan Edberg

Stefan Edberg

Stefan Bengt Edberg is a former World No. 1 professional tennis player from Sweden. A major proponent of the serve-and-volley style of tennis, he won six Grand Slam singles titles and three Grand Slam men's doubles titles. He also won one season ending championship title the Masters Grand Prix...

 4–6, 7–6 (7–3), 5–2 (Edberg retired)

• It was Lendl's 8th and last career Grand Slam title and his 2nd Australian Open title.

Women's Singles

  Steffi Graf

Steffi 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   Mary Joe Fernández

Mary Joe Fernández

Mary Joe Fernández Godsick is an American former professional tennis player...

 6–3, 6–4

• It was Graf's 10th career Grand Slam title and her 3rd Australian Open title.

Men's Doubles

  Pieter Aldrich

Pieter Aldrich

Pieter Aldrich is a former professional tennis player from South Africa. A doubles specialist, he won 2 Grand Slam men's doubles titles . Aldrich reached the World No...

/   Danie Visser

Danie Visser

Danie Visser is a former professional tennis player from South Africa. A doubles specialist, he won 3 Grand Slam men's doubles titles . Visser reached the World No. 1 doubles ranking in 1990.Visser won the first of 17 career doubles titles in 1985 at Bristol...

defeated   Grant Connell

Grant Connell

Grant Connell is a former professional tennis player from Canada. He was one of the world's top doubles player from the early through middle 1990s....

 /   Glenn Michibata

Glenn Michibata

Glenn Michibata is a former professional tennis player and current head coach of the Princeton University Tigers collegiate tennis team.-As a pro singles player:...

 6–4, 4–6, 6–1, 6–4

• It was Aldrich's 1st career Grand Slam title and his only Australian Open title. It was Visser's 1st career Grand Slam title and his 1st Australian Open title.

Women's Doubles

  Jana Novotná

Jana 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...

/   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...

defeated   Patty Fendick

Patty 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...

 /   Mary Joe Fernández

Mary Joe Fernández

Mary Joe Fernández Godsick is an American former professional tennis player...

 7–6 (7–5), 7–6 (8–6)

• It was Novotná's 6th career Grand Slam title and her 3rd Australian Open title. It was Suková's 4th career Grand Slam title and her 1st Australian Open title.

Mixed Doubles

  Natasha Zvereva

Natasha Zvereva

Natalya "Natasha" Zvereva, or Zverava is a former tennis player from Belarus. Zvereva was the first major athlete in the Soviet Union to demand publicly that she should be able to keep her tournament earnings...

/   Jim Pugh

Jim 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 Garrison

Zina 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...

 /   Rick Leach

Rick 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...

 4–6, 6–2, 6–3

• It was Zvereva's 2nd career Grand Slam title and her 1st Australian Open title. It was Pugh's 7th career Grand Slam title and his 5th and last Australian Open title.

Boys' Singles

  Dirk Dier defeated   Leander Paes

Leander Paes

Leander Adrian Paes, pronounced pās, is an Indian professional tennis player who currently features in the doubles events in the ATP tour and the Davis Cup tournament...

 6–4, 7–6

Girls' Singles

  Magdalena Maleeva

Magdalena Maleeva

Magdalena Maleeva is a Bulgarian former tennis player. She played on the WTA tour competing in singles and doubles, from April 1989 to June 2007. Her best position in the WTA Tour was no. 4 between January 29 to February 4, 1996....

defeated   Louise Stacey 7–5, 6–7, 6–1

Boys' Doubles

  Roger Pettersson /   Marten Renström defeated   Robert Janecek /   Ernesto Munoz de Cote 4–6, 7–6, 6–1

Girls' Doubles

  Rona Mayer /   Limor Zaltz defeated   Justine Hodder /   Nicole Pratt

Nicole 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...

 6–4, 6–4

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