{"id":8514,"date":"2016-02-03T06:58:39","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T06:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=8514"},"modified":"2016-02-03T06:58:39","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T06:58:39","slug":"australian-open-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/australian-open-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Open, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ques: Who won the men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s singles title in Australian Open held at Melbourne on January 31, 2016?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(a) Novak Djokovic and Angelique Kerber<br \/>\n(b) Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams<br \/>\n(c) Andy Murray and Maria Sharapova<br \/>\n(d) Bruno Soares and Lucie Hradecka<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans (a) <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The 2016 Australian Open\u00a0took place at Melbourne Park\u00a0in\u00a0Melbourne,\u00a0Victoria, Australia form 18\u201331 January 2016. It was the 104th edition of the\u00a0Australian Open, and the first\u00a0Grand Slam\u00a0tournament of the year.<\/li>\n<li>The result of the tournament is as follows:<\/li>\n<li><strong>Men&#8217;s Singles<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Winner: Novak Djokovic (Serbia)<\/li>\n<li>Runner: Andy Murray (United Kingdom)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Women&#8217;s Singles<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Winner: Angelique Kerber\u00a0(Germany)<\/li>\n<li>Runner: Serena Williams (United States)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Men&#8217;s Doubles<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Winner: Jamie Murray (United Kingdom) and Bruno Soares ( Brazil)<\/li>\n<li>Runner:Daniel Nestor\u00a0(Canada) and \u00a0Radek Stepanek (Czech Republic)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Women&#8217;s Doubles<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Winner:\u00a0Martina Hingis (Switzerland)\u00a0 and Sania Mirza (India)<\/li>\n<li>Runner: Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka (Both from Czech Republic)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mixed Doubles<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Winner:Elena Vesnina (Russia) and Bruno Soares (Brazil)<\/li>\n<li>Runner: Coco Vandeweghe (United states) and HoriaTecau (Romania)<\/li>\n<li>This was Djokovic 11th Grand Slam title of his career and his sixth title in Australian Open.<\/li>\n<li>With this win, Djokovic equaled the world record of six titles won by Australian Roy Emerson, who won these titles between 1961 and 1967.<\/li>\n<li>This was first Grand Slam title of career for Angelique Kerber and she became the second German player after Steffi Graf to win Australian Open.<\/li>\n<li>Sania-Hingis&#8217;s pair won their 36th consecutive matches, which is a world record.<\/li>\n<li>This was third consecutive Grand Slam titles for them.<\/li>\n<li>Before this the pair won the title of Wimbledon and US Open in 2015.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Reference:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ausopen.com\/en_AU\/scores\/draws\/index.html\">http:\/\/www.ausopen.com\/en_AU\/scores\/draws\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ausopen.com\/en_AU\/scores\/draws\/md\/index.html\">http:\/\/www.ausopen.com\/en_AU\/scores\/draws\/md\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ausopen.com\/en_AU\/scores\/draws\/wd\/index.html\">http:\/\/www.ausopen.com\/en_AU\/scores\/draws\/wd\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ausopen.com\/en_AU\/news\/articles\/2016-01-31\/novak_the_leader_of_the_pack.html\">http:\/\/www.ausopen.com\/en_AU\/news\/articles\/2016-01-31\/novak_the_leader_of_the_pack.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ques: Who won the men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s singles title in Australian Open held at Melbourne on January 31, 2016? (a) Novak Djokovic and Angelique Kerber (b) Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams (c) Andy Murray and Maria Sharapova (d) Bruno Soares and Lucie Hradecka Ans (a) Related facts: The 2016 Australian Open\u00a0took place at Melbourne Park\u00a0in\u00a0Melbourne,\u00a0Victoria, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}