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Jordan Smith celebrates his unlikely victory in the \u2018One Point Slam\u2019 [Graham Denholm\/Getty Images]Big names fall<\/p>\nUnknown Jordan Smith upstages a star-studded tennis field including No 1 Jannik Sinner to win a 1-million prize purse.<\/p>\n
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Amateur Jordan Smith sensationally upset a star-studded field to collect a 1 million Australian dollars (US$670,000) prize on Wednesday by winning the pressure-packed \u201cOne Point Slam\u201d in advance of the Australian Open.<\/p>\n
The innovative sudden-death contest at a sold-out Rod Laver Arena pitted 24 professionals led by Carlos Alcaraz, Jannik Sinner, Iga Swiatek and Coco Gauff alongside 24 amateurs and celebrity wildcards.<\/p>\n
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Each match consisted of just one point \u2013 win and you advanced, lose and you were out.<\/p>\n
The 16 top-seeded professionals had first-round byes before the competition morphed into a Grand Slam-style knockout from the last-32 stage onwards.<\/p>\n
Instead of a traditional coin toss, a game of \u201crock, paper, scissors\u201d decided who served.<\/p>\n
Crucially, the amateurs were allowed two serves, but any current ATP or WTA-ranked players only one.<\/p>\n
Australia\u2019s Smith, who qualified as the New South Wales champion, beat world number 117 Joanna Garland in the final, having upset Sinner and Amanda Anisimova along the way.<\/p>\n
Taiwan number one Garland beat Alexander Zverev, Nick Kyrgios and Maria Sakkari.<\/p>\n
\u201cComing in tonight, I was just happy to win one point,\u201d said Smith, who planned to buy a house with his winnings.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was nervous, but I enjoyed being out here. Was a great experience.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jordan Smith celebrates his unlikely victory in the \u2018One Point Slam\u2019 [Graham Denholm\/Getty Images]Big names fall<\/p>\n
Top-ranked Alcaraz fell to women\u2019s world number 52 Sakkari, while three-time Australian Open finalist Daniil Medvedev was beaten by Anisimova before she was sent packing by Smith.<\/p>\n
Swiatek lost to Spain\u2019s Pedro Martinez.<\/p>\n
The amateur field comprised winners of eight state championship rounds played across Australia, along with eight others who came through qualifying this week.<\/p>\n
Eight wildcards went to celebrities, including Taiwanese singer Jay Chou.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis event is the ultimate grassroots-to-Grand Slam experience,\u201d Tennis Australia chief Craig Tiley told reporters.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe AO One Point Slam is tennis at its most exciting \u2013 one point, one shot at glory. Fast, unfiltered and open to everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Australian Open starts at Melbourne Park on Sunday with Sinner defending the men\u2019s title and Madison Keys the women\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unknown Jordan Smith upstages a star-studded tennis field including No 1 Jannik Sinner to win a 1-million prize…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[1204,1246,3,1079,99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-406805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-asia-pacific","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-sport","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}