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Hana Mandlikova

Hana Mandlikova's victory in the 1987 Open was achieved previous to gaining her Australian citizenship and thus, she should not be considered the last Australian to have won the title.

How wonderfully glorious and positive.

Overnight a piece of text was removed from this article with the Edit summary "Removed out of place protest information". Before even knowing what the information was, I immediately saw something wrong with that. If it was out of place, it should be moved to the right place, not simply removed. Then I looked for the right place, but there isn't one. There is nowhere in the article describing anything negative associated with the event whatsoever, which is ridiculous!

There's nothing about Novak's vaccination issue, Margaret Court's controversial views, the taking away of the land where Melbourne Park is now from its previous use, and no doubt lots of other things I'm not aware of.

I'm not a fan of big "Controversies" sections in articles, but this article right now really is a whitewash. HiLo48 (talk) 00:13, 11 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

mid-January?

I have some issues with the lede saying tournament starts in mid January. In my mind, that means 15th or 16th of January. Except sometimes it starts on 20th of January or 12th of Jan. It varies but neither 20th or 12th is accurately considered as the middle of Jan. Hence I changed the term to typically around the middle of January as that's more precise. Also previous version claimed the end coincides with Australia day holidays. That's inaccurate as sometimes the ending extends over these holidays and ends days after it. So I changed it to overlapping with the Australia day holidays that is on 26 Jan, as it's a more precise wording. 49.186.111.145 (talk) 21:36, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. Australia Day is a single date. There is only ever one Australia Day holiday. And yes, it moves around more than "mid January" implies. HiLo48 (talk) 22:27, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ranking Points

Does a qualifier who makes it to the second round of the main tournament get 50/70 (man/women) points or 50+30/70+40? Thanks: 2001:4DD3:FAB4:0:7E18:96E4:B072:8977 (talk) 12:28, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Individual page dates

I was clicking through each instance and I noticed that in multiple info boxes, the dates don't match the dates in the lead paragraph. The dates that are given in the lead are what is used by Google to confirm dates. I know people may not look at those pages and dates regularly, I just wanted people to be aware of the discrepancies. It started in the 1950s and goes backwards to the beginning of the championship. Dancegirl300 (talk) 21:38, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]