Federer to Sabalenka: Every Australian Open winner since 2000

Tai Kolade

Roger Federer won six Australian Open's in his career.Photo by WILLIAM WEST / AFP

The Australian Open is the first Tennis Major of the season and has been won by some of the best players the game has ever seen. In this article, we examine the recent winners and some of the special records people have achieved since the year 2000.

The Australian Open is the first of the Tennis Grand Slams every year. The annual tournament sees the best players in the world descend on Melbourne Park to start the year in the best fashion.

Some of the greatest ever players have won the tournament, which starts with 128 singles players of both the men's and women's sides, whittling them down over the rounds until we are left with one champion.

Since the inception of the Open Era in the late 60s, tennis has continued to develop and change. The current game is already very different to what it was at the turn of the century, and we are currently bearing witness to the changing of the guard in terms of the top players and who will dominate the game for years to come.

Below in this article, we list the winners of the singles Australian Open title since the turn of the decade, which we are classing as the start of the modern era of the game, highlighting the past 26 years of the tournament.

Men’s Australian Open Winners

The first winner of the 21st Century was Andre Agassi. His win in 2000 was the second of the four Australian Open titles that Agassi would win, first winning in 1995 and subsequently winning in 2001 and 2003. Rank outsider Thomas Johansson won in 2002, splitting two of Agassi’s titles.

Overall, Agassi is third on the list of the most decorated Australian Open winners in the Open Era. The two men who are above him both won all their titles after Agassi’s reign, and it will be no surprise that they are Roger Federer (6) and Novak Djokovic (10).

Even in both the Open and Amateur Eras, Federer and Djokovic will still be first and second on the list of most decorated champions in Melbourne. That dominance, starting with Federer’s win in 2004 and Djokovic’s last win in 2023, has meant that the pool of winners since 2000 is quite small, with only eight men in total winning the title overall.

The three other men to win in those 19 years were Marat Safin in 2005, Stan Warwinka in 2014, and the third great player of the 21st Century, Rafa Nadal in 2009 and 2022. The biggest victim of this dominance would be Andy Murray. The legend from Scotland has lost the final of the Australian Open five times in this period, losing to Federer once and Djokovic four times. Nadal lost the final four times, but he did at least win twice.

In the most recent two tournaments, one of the new guard of men’s tennis has dominated, in Jannik Sinner. This was the first Grand Slam he ever won and has since gone on to epitomise the current era of the game with his great rival, Carlos Alcaraz. Alcaraz has not won the Australian Open yet, but he has his eyes set on the only Slam that evades him.

List of Men’s Australian Open winners since 2000.

2025 Jannik Sinner (ITA)

2024 Jannik Sinner (ITA)

2023 Novak Djokovic (SRB)

2022 Rafael Nadal (ESP)

2021 Novak Djokovic (SRB)

2020 Novak Djokovic (SRB)

2019 Novak Djokovic (SRB)

2018 Roger Federer (SUI)

2017 Roger Federer (SUI)

2016 Novak Djokovic (SRB)

2015 Novak Djokovic (SRB)

2014 Stan Wawrinka (SUI)

2013 Novak Djokovic (SRB)

2012 Novak Djokovic (SRB)

2011 Novak Djokovic (SRB)

2010 Roger Federer (SUI)

2009 Rafael Nadal (ESP)

2008 Novak Djokovic (SRB)

2007 Roger Federer (SUI)

2006 Roger Federer (SUI)

2005 Marat Safin (RUS)

2004 Roger Federer (SUI)

2003 Andre Agassi (USA)

2002 Thomas Johansson (SWE)

2001 Andre Agassi (USA)

2000 Andre Agassi (USA)

Women’s Australian Open Winners

Whilst the men’s Australian Open title has only been lifted by eight men since 2000, the women’s title has been lifted by almost double that many players in that time, with 15 winners.

The century started with Lindsey Davenport winning her final ever Grand Slam, taking the Australian Open in 2000. This was Davenport’s only Australian Open win, and since her, 10 other women have won the title once. The most recent winner was Madison Keys, who won in 2025, which was her first Grand Slam ever as well.

The most dominant woman in this whole period is the one and only Serena Williams. She won her first title in 2003, beating her sister Venus and went on to win the title six more times. 14 years after Serena and Venus met in 2003, the two fought for the Australian Open title again in 2017, which Serena won. Venus did set a record here, though, being the longest span between grand slam singles final appearances, having her first in 1997.

The next closest number of wins since 2000 has been two, and four women have won the Australian Open that many times. Jennifer Capriati won back-to-back titles in 2001 and 2002, with Victoria Azarenka doing the same in 2012 and 2013, and Aryna Sabalenka also did it in 2023 and 2024. Naomi Osaka is the only woman to win two tournaments not back-to-back apart from Williams, winning in 2019 and 2021.