Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna
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Expansion
This time in the Australian Open, Djokovic of Serbia not only won the record tenth title, but this time also became a new record for the presence of spectators. This time in three weeks, 8,39,192 spectators came here to watch tennis matches at Melbourne Park. More than 60 thousand spectators were in attendance during the qualifying events. Altogether this number works out to 902,312. The record of maximum number of viewers in a single day was also broken.
There were 94,854 visitors on January 21, the previous record being 93,709 in January 2020. For the first time in two years, relief was given in the rules of Corona. The previous record for audience attendance was 812,174 spectators which was set in January 2020. This time the audience also surpassed the other Grand Slams Wimbledon (515, 164), French Open (613, 500) and US Open (776, 120) last year.