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1988 Australian Open

The 1988 Australian Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at Flinders Park in Melbourne in Victoria in Australia. It was the 76th edition of the Australian Open and was held from 11 through 24 January 1988 and was the first edition of the tournament hosted at Flinders Park. It would mark the first time a Grand Slam final would be played indoors under a roof; after the first 3 games of the Women's Final, there was a 1-hour & 23 min delay to close the roof.

This was the first Australian Open to have 128-players in each singles category, in line with the other three majors.

Sweden Mats Wilander defeated Australia Pat Cash 6–3, 6–7(3–7), 3–6, 6–1, 8–6

West Germany Steffi Graf defeated United States Chris Evert 6–1, 7–6(7–3)

United States Rick Leach / United States Jim Pugh defeated United Kingdom Jeremy Bates / Sweden Peter Lundgren 6–3, 6–2, 6–3

United States Martina Navratilova / United States Pam Shriver defeated United States Chris Evert / Australia Wendy Turnbull 6–0, 7–5

Czechoslovakia Jana Novotná / United States Jim Pugh defeated United States Martina Navratilova / United States Tim Gullikson 5–7, 6–2, 6–4

Australia Johan Anderson defeated Australia Andrew Florent 7–5, 7–6

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