Women's tennis: 5 youngest Australian Open champions

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Caroline Wozniacki, 2018 Australian Open Champion
Caroline Wozniacki, 2018 Australian Open Champion

#2 Monica Seles

Monica Seles
Monica Seles

Yugoslavian turned American citizen Monica Seles won an impressive 8 Grand Slam titles before turning 20 - a feat no other tennis athlete has ever accomplished. She won 9 Grand Slam Singles titles overall, WTA Finals twice and the Olympic Bronze medal at the Sydney Olympic Games 2000.

She won the Hopman Cup in 1991 for Yugoslavia along with her partner Goran Prpic. Later after acquiring US Citizenship, she helped USA win the Fed Cup thrice. Her first Australian Open came in the year 1991 when she was 17 years, 55 days old.


#1 Martina Hingis

Martina Hingis
Martina Hingis

Martina Hingis showed immense potential as a teenager and is the youngest ever Women's Grand Slam champion in the Open Era and also the youngest World Number 1 in WTA's ranking history.

She won the 1997 Australian Open at the age of 16 years, 117 days beating Mary Pierce in the final. That year, Hingis made the final of all 4 Grand Slams winning all but the French Open. Hingis won 5 Grand Slam Singles titles, 13 Doubles titles and 7 Mixed Doubles titles.

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