Australian Open 2024: The singles champions are Jannik Sinner and Aryna Sabalenka

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Jannik Sinner’s first Grand Slam title with a comeback from two sets down to beat Daniil Medvedev completed the first 15-day Australian Open on the third Sunday of the tournament. Here’s a guide that tells you everything you need to know:

KEY RESULTS SUNDAY?

Men’s singles championship: No. 4 Jannik Sinner beat No. 3 Daniil Medvedev 3-6, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-3.

Women’s doubles championship: No. 2 Hsieh Su-wei and Elise Mertens beat No. 11 Lyudmyla Kichenok and Jelena Ostapenko 6-1, 7-5.

GET CAUGHT UP

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Aryna Sabalenka wins back-to-back titles in Australia

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A courtside bar is dividing opinion

Players complain about a rule change for spectators

2022 Australian Open runner-up Danielle Collins announces a 2024 retirement

The late show with Daniil Medvedev

A TENNIS QUIZ

Try your hand at the AP’s Australian Open quiz.

STATS TO KNOW

1 — Sinner wins his first Grand Slam title in his first major final.

4 — Medvedev is the first finalist to play four five-set matches in a Grand Slam tournament.

24:17 — Medvedev’s court time through seven rounds is a Grand Slam Open era record.

1,020,763 — a record total crowd for the Australian Open main draw. The extra day helped. The previous record for a 14-day tournament was 839,192 last year.

WORDS TO KNOW

“Yes, I like to dance in the pressure storm. I like it, because that’s where most of the time I bring out my best tennis.” — Sinner.

“It’s very, very tough when you have a mentality, I don’t want to say champion, but a good mentality, a sport mentality, it’s very tough to lose in the final. It kind of hurts more. But you have to try to find positives — and the positive is, well, the final is better than the semifinal and quarters.” — Medvedev.

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