Australian Open champions ready to defend titles

Reigning champions Aryna Sabalenka and Jannik Sinner prepare to begin the defence of their titles. Video via AAP

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00:00I'm super happy to be here, that's definitely one of my favourites and I have a lot of great

00:06memories and to be back here and to walk with this beautiful trophy as a two-time Australia

00:12Open champion is definitely something special and I'm really looking forward and I really

00:18hope that I can keep doing what I'm doing here in Australia.

00:22If you win your third, you'll only be the sixth woman ever to do it.

00:27The others are Yvonne Gouldon-Cawley, Margaret Court, Monica Sellers, Steffi Graf and Martina

00:31Hingis.

00:32What was that, like 25 years ago?

00:33Yes, 1997 to 1991.

00:34It's like putting your name in the history and being next to those legends, it's something

00:42special and it would be huge but I'd better focus on myself and keep improving myself

00:49every day and hopefully I'll be able to bring my best tennis every time I'm out there and

00:53hopefully I'll be able to put my name next to those legends.

00:58We are all very happy to start the season again here in Australia at Melbourne, it's

01:02a very nice tournament, beautiful people, it's called the Happy Slam so we are all very

01:09happy to be back here and hopefully all the players can show some good tennis which I

01:15think is the most important part.