{"id":409901,"date":"2026-01-15T01:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T01:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/409901\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T01:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T01:52:11","slug":"local-aussie-amateur-beats-jannik-sinner-en-route-to-1-point-slam-title-1-million-at-australian-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/409901\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Aussie amateur beats Jannik Sinner en route to 1 Point Slam title, $1-million at Australian Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Italy’s Jannik Sinner (right) embraces Australia’s Jordan Smith during the 1 Point Slam exhibition event ahead of the 2026 Australian Open at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne on Wednesday.DAVID GRAY\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

A little-known local amateur player beat Jannik Sinner and went on to make himself a millionaire in Australian dollars after winning the 1 Point Slam on Wednesday at the Australian Open\u2019s pre-tournament event.<\/p>\n

It was a life-changing day for Jordan Smith in the Rod Laver Arena, with the event including top-ranked Carlos Alcaraz.<\/p>\n

All the matches lasted just one single point in a knockout bracket that included men and women, professionals and amateurs, plus celebrities like Taiwanese pop star Jay Chou, who was knocked out without hitting the ball after an ace from Petar Jovic.<\/p>\n

Smith emerged in triumph from a state qualifying event to get the winner-take-all prize of 1 million Australian dollars, or around $925,000.<\/p>\n

The Australian won on the third stroke of the final when Joanna Garland, the women\u2019s No. 117 from Taiwan, sent a two-handed backhand wide.<\/p>\n

Garland had service, which was decided by playing rock, paper, scissors. Not that serving was always an advantage.<\/p>\n

Sinner lost his third-round point against Smith by netting his serve.<\/p>\n

So did Coco Gauff against Donna Veki\u0107, while Frances Tiafoe sent his serve to Iga Swiatek too long \u2013 mishaps that provoked giggles and laughs from the players involved.<\/p>\n

Garland lost in Australian Open qualifying this week yet surged through the 1-Point Slam bracket, beating Alexander Zverev and Nick Kyrgios, plus Maria Sakkari and Veki\u0107. Sakkari had eliminated Alcaraz.<\/p>\n

The Australian Open starts Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Italy’s Jannik Sinner (right) embraces Australia’s Jordan Smith during the 1 Point Slam…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,82,865,61,593,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-409901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-tennis","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}