Incredible proof of what Australians love most

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Tennis is successful the midst of an unthinkable roar play successful Australia, if the 2022 Google hunt trends are thing to spell by.

The racquet athletics and its athletes predominate the lists of astir searched subjects successful the state this year.

Data released connected Wednesday greeting shows tennis dwarfs each different sports successful presumption of involvement and popularity.

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On the database of Australian radical astir searched successful their ain country, Ash Barty and Nick Kyrgios apical the chart. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, incredibly, sits down them successful third.

Rounding retired the apical 5 are much tennis players - Thanasi Kokkinakis and Dylan Alcott, who some won Australian Open titles successful January.

Alex de Minaur besides sits eighth connected the list, down high-profile names Brittany Higgins, Grace Tame, and John Farnham, portion national absorption person Peter Dutton is 10th.

On the database of astir searched sporting events, the Australian Open is No.1, with 2 different tennis tournaments besides sitting successful the apical 10.

"I'm not surprised, archetypal of each with Ash Barty - she's brought truthful overmuch visibility to Australian tennis especially, not conscionable this year, but I deliberation implicit the past mates of years arsenic well," Aussie tennis large Jelena Dokic told Wide World of Sports erstwhile informed of the Google data.

"Australians emotion their athletics and they emotion to enactment athletes, truthful I'm not amazed that her and Nick, and a mates of others arsenic well, are successful that benignant of group.

"And it's truthful bully to person the Australian Open arsenic the No.1 event. As idiosyncratic who lives successful Melbourne, determination is thing that the metropolis rather comes live for... erstwhile the Australian Open comes astir it is thing truthful special.

"Because it's specified a planetary lawsuit - determination is lone 4 expansive slams a twelvemonth - to person 1 successful our metropolis is truthful unthinkable an thing we should beryllium arrogant of. It is 1 of the champion events successful the satellite from an organisational constituent of presumption and everything else."

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Australian tennis enjoyed a aureate epoch of sorts successful the aboriginal and mid-2000s erstwhile Dokic toured alongside the likes of Kim Clijsters, Lleyton Hewitt, Mark Philippoussis, and Pat Rafter.

But a caller question of superstars are replicating that connected the satellite signifier now.

Barty won 3 expansive slam titles earlier announcing a daze status earlier this year, portion Kyrgios made his archetypal large singles last astatine Wimbledon successful July, losing to Novak Djokovic.

Alcott besides called clip connected his stellar vocation pursuing the Australian Open, portion Kokkinakis won the doubles rubric alongside Kyrgios.

Dokic besides credits the year-round sum by Nine and Stan Sport for tennis being Australia's No.1 interest.

"I deliberation what Nine has done, it truly is the location of tennis, and to person each the expansive slams and the Davis Cup, the Billie Jean King Cup and each the lead-up events, determination is truthful overmuch sum crossed antithetic channels, and radical recognise that you tin ticker truthful overmuch tennis," she said.

"What Nine has done to springiness that overmuch accidental to the sport, we've ne'er had that, they person done thing that we ne'er had successful that covering the athletics crossed the full year.

"To beryllium capable to speech tennis - not conscionable for the Australian Open, but each twelvemonth circular - I deliberation that's wherefore we are astatine the top."

Most searched Australians

1. Ash Barty

2. Nick Kyrgios

3. Anthony Albanese

4. Thanasi Kokkinakis

5. Dylan Alcott

6. Brittany Higgins

7. Grace Tame

8. John Farnham

9. Alex de Minaur

10. Peter Dutton

Most searched non-Australians

1. Novak Djokovic

2. Rafael Nadal

3. Daniil Medvedev

4. Amber Heard

5. Johnny Depp

6. Will Smith

7. Andrew Tate

8. Anna Delvey

9. King Charles

10. Danielle Collins

Most searched sporting events

1. Australian Open (tennis)

2. FIFA World Cup

3. The Ashes

4. Winter Olympics

5. Rugby League World Cup

6. Indian Wells (tennis)

7. Commonwealth Games

8. ATP Cup (tennis)

9. AFLW

10. NBL

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