Well the results are in. If you happed to miss out this year watching the Australian Open, it was full of surprises.

For the men’s singles, it was Novak Djokovic who took the title yesterday over Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. For both players it was a huge victory to even get to the finals.

Djokovic ended the 12 time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer’s 19 match winning streak during the semi finals with a 7-5, 6-3, 7-6 (7-5). Tsonga, the man who has become know as ‘Ali’ because of his likeness to the American boxing legend, played an amazing semi-final game against No. 2 ranked Rafael Nadal with an emphatic 6-2, 6-3, 6-2 win.

The two men began the final match nervously, but their momentum quickly picked up. Having not dropped a sent en route to the final, the world No.3 Djokovic, had to do it the hard way, firstly rallying from a set down and then also battling a hamstring strain that suffered early in the fourth set to beat unseeded Frenchman Tsonga 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 7-6 (7-2).

“I’m very very happy that I won my first Grand Slam here and so hopefully I’ll see you here in this stage more often in the future,” said Djokovic at the trophy presentation.

Despite his loss Tsonga was none the less happy to have just made it as far as he did. “I’m very proud of myself” he said. “I’m happy for Novak, because he played unbelievable today. I don’t know if I have to be sad or happy of this final, but I feel great.”

As for the women’s singles it was Maria Sharapova who came out on top against Ana Ivanovic. Sharapova mad the stronger start and grabbed the momentum with a break in the fifth game when Ivanovic hit a backhand long, but three games later the set was back on an even keel thanks largely to three Sharapova double faults. The game ended with 7-5, 6-3 win.

This will be Sharapova’s third Grand Slam victory already being a champion at Wimbledon in 2004 and the US Open in 2006.

“If someone had told me in the middle of last year that I would be standing in the middle of this tennis court holding the big one, I would have said get out of here” Sharapova said.