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2020 Australian Open
Date20 January–2 February 2020
Edition108th
Open Era (52nd)
CategoryGrand Slam
SurfaceHard (GreenSet)
LocationMelbourne, Victoria, Australia
VenueMelbourne Park
2019 Champions
Men's singles
Serbia Novak Djokovic
Women's singles
Japan Naomi Osaka
Men's doubles
France Pierre-Hugues Herbert / France Nicolas Mahut
Women's doubles
Australia Samantha Stosur / China Zhang Shuai
Mixed doubles
Czech Republic Barbora Krejčíková / United States Rajeev Ram
Wheelchair men's singles
Argentina Gustavo Fernández
Wheelchair women's singles
Netherlands Diede de Groot
Wheelchair quad singles
Australia Dylan Alcott
Wheelchair men's doubles
Belgium Joachim Gérard / Sweden Stefan Olsson
Wheelchair women's doubles
Netherlands Diede de Groot / Netherlands Aniek van Koot
Wheelchair quad doubles
Australia Dylan Alcott / Australia Heath Davidson
Boys' singles
Italy Lorenzo Musetti
Girls' singles
Denmark Clara Tauson
Boys' doubles
Czech Republic Jonáš Forejtek / Czech Republic Dalibor Svrčina
Girls' doubles
Japan Natsumi Kawaguchi / Hungary Adrienn Nagy
Men's legends doubles
France Mansour Bahrami / Australia Mark Philippoussis
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The 2020 Australian Open is a Grand Slam tennis tournament that will take place at Melbourne Park, from 20 January to 2 February 2020. It will be the 108th edition of the Australian Open, the 52nd in the Open Era, and the first Grand Slam of the year. The tournament will consist of events for professional players in singles, doubles and mixed doubles. Junior and wheelchair players will compete in singles and doubles tournaments. As in previous years, the tournament's main sponsor is Kia.

Novak Djokovic and Naomi Osaka are the defending champions in Men's Singles and Women's Singles, respectively.

This will be the first edition of the Australian Open with GreenSet, a hard surface from company GreenSet Worldwide.[1] GreenSet is the third type of hard surface used for the Australian Open.

Tournament

Rod Laver Arena where the Finals of the Australian Open will take place

The 2020 Australian Open will be the 108th edition of the tournament and will be held at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

The tournament is run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and is part of the 2020 ATP Tour and the 2020 WTA Tour calendars under the Grand Slam category. The tournament consists of both men's and women's singles and doubles draws as well as the mixed doubles events. There are singles and doubles events for both boys and girls (players under 18), which are part of the Grade A category of tournaments. There are also singles, doubles and quad events for men's and women's wheelchair tennis players as part of the NEC tour under the Grand Slam category.

The tournament will be played on hard courts and will take place across a series of 25 courts, the three main show courts Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne Arena and Margaret Court Arena. 1573 Arena (formerly Show Court Two) was upgraded into a main show court.

Impact of bushfires

The bushfires that had burned large portions of Australia for months, left a smoke haze over Melbourne on the first day of qualifying. The air over Melbourne on that day was rated as the worst in the world.[2] In qualifying, play was delayed, some players called for medical timeouts and Dalila Jakupović was forced to retire, due to a coughing fit brought on by the poor air quality.[3]

Point and prize money distribution

Point distribution

Below is a series of tables for each of the competitions showing the ranking points offered for each event.

Senior points

Event W F SF QF Round of 16 Round of 32 Round of 64 Round of 128 Q Q3 Q2 Q1
Men's Singles 2000 1200 720 360 180 90 45 10 25 16 8 0
Men's Doubles 0 — — — — —
Women's Singles 1300 780 430 240 130 70 10 40 30 20 2
Women's Doubles 10 — — — — —

Prize money

The Australian Open total prize money for 2020 was increased by 13.6% to a tournament record A$71,000,000.[4]

Event W F SF QF Round of 16 Round of 32 Round of 64 Round of 1281 Q3 Q2 Q1
Singles A$4,120,000 A$2,065,000 A$1,040,000 A$525,000 A$300,000 A$180,000 A$128,000 A$90,000 A$50,000 A$32,500 A$20,000
Doubles * A$760,000 A$380,000 A$200,000 A$110,000 A$62,000 A$38,000 A$25,000 — — — —
Mixed Doubles * A$190,000 A$100,000 A$50,000 A$24,000 A$12,000 A$6,250 — — — — —

1Qualifiers prize money was also the Round of 128 prize money.
*per team

Singles players

2020 Australian Open – Men's Singles
2020 Australian Open – Women's Singles


Champions

All dates are AEDT (UTC+11)

Seniors

Men's Singles

Main article: 2020 Australian Open – Men's Singles

Women's Singles

Main article: 2020 Australian Open – Women's Singles

Men's Doubles

Main article: 2020 Australian Open – Men's Doubles

Women's Doubles

Main article: 2020 Australian Open – Women's Doubles

Mixed Doubles

Main article: 2020 Australian Open – Mixed Doubles

Juniors

Boys' Singles

Main article: 2020 Australian Open – Boys' Singles

Girls' Singles

Main article: 2020 Australian Open – Girls' Singles

Boys' Doubles

Main article: 2020 Australian Open – Boys' Doubles

Girls' Doubles

Main article: 2020 Australian Open – Girls' Doubles

Wheelchair events

Wheelchair Men's Singles

Main article: 2020 Australian Open – Wheelchair Men's Singles

Wheelchair Women's Singles

Main article: 2020 Australian Open – Wheelchair Women's Singles

Wheelchair Quad Singles

Main article: 2020 Australian Open – Wheelchair Quad Singles

Wheelchair Men's Doubles

Main article: 2020 Australian Open – Wheelchair Men's Doubles

Wheelchair Women's Doubles

Main article: 2020 Australian Open – Wheelchair Women's Doubles

Wheelchair Quad Doubles

Main article: 2020 Australian Open – Wheelchair Quad Doubles

Singles seeds

The following are the seeded players. Seedings are based on ATP and WTA rankings on 13 January 2020, while ranking and points before are as of 20 January 2020. Points after are as of 3 February 2020. Because the 2020 tournament will take place one week later than in 2019, points defending includes results from both the 2019 Australian Open and the tournaments from the week of 28 January 2019 (St. Petersburg and Hua Hin for WTA players).

Men's singles

Seed Rank Player Points
before 		Points
defending 		Points
won 		Points
after 		Status
1 1 Spain Rafael Nadal 10,235 1,200 10 9,045 First round vs. Bolivia Hugo Dellien
2 2 Serbia Novak Djokovic 9,720 2,000 10 7,730 First round vs. Germany Jan-Lennard Struff
3 3 Switzerland Roger Federer 6,590 180 10 6,420 First round vs. United States Steve Johnson
4 4 Russia Daniil Medvedev 5,960 180 10 5,790 First round vs. United States Frances Tiafoe
5 5 Austria Dominic Thiem 5,890 45 10 5,855 First round vs. France Adrian Mannarino
6 6 Greece Stefanos Tsitsipas 5,375 720 10 4,665 First round vs. Italy Salvatore Caruso
7 7 Germany Alexander Zverev 3,345 180 10 3,175 First round vs. Italy Marco Cecchinato
8 8 Italy Matteo Berrettini 2,870 10 10 2,870 First round vs. Australia Andrew Harris [WC]
9 9 Spain Roberto Bautista Agut 2,640 360 10 2,290 First round vs. Spain Feliciano López
10 10 France Gaël Monfils 2,565 45 10 2,530 First round vs. Chinese Taipei Lu Yen-hsun [PR]
11 11 Belgium David Goffin 2,555 90 10 2,475 First round vs. France Jérémy Chardy
12 12 Italy Fabio Fognini 2,310 90 10 2,230 First round vs. United States Reilly Opelka
13 13 Canada Denis Shapovalov 2,200 90 10 2,120 First round vs. Hungary Márton Fucsovics
14 14 Argentina Diego Schwartzman 2,130 90 10 2,050 First round vs. South Africa Lloyd Harris
15 15 Switzerland Stan Wawrinka 2,045 45 10 2,010 First round vs. Bosnia and Herzegovina Damir Džumhur
16 Russia Karen Khachanov 1,995 90 10 1,915 First round vs. [Q/LL]
17 Russia Andrey Rublev 10 10 First round vs. Australia Christopher O'Connell [WC]
18 Bulgaria Grigor Dimitrov 1,772 180 10 1,602 First round vs. Argentina Juan Ignacio Londero
19 19 United States John Isner 1,860 10 10 1,860 First round vs. Brazil Thiago Monteiro
20 22 Canada Félix Auger-Aliassime 1,701 (45)† 10 1,666 First round vs. [Q/LL]
21 France Benoît Paire 10 10 First round vs. Germany Cedrik-Marcel Stebe [PR]
22 25 Argentina Guido Pella 1,585 10 10 1,585 First round vs. Australia John-Patrick Smith [WC]
23 26 Australia Nick Kyrgios 1,520 10 10 1,520 First round vs. Italy Lorenzo Sonego
24 27 Serbia Dušan Lajović 1,516 10 10 1,516 First round vs. United Kingdom Kyle Edmund
25 28 Croatia Borna Ćorić 1,490 180 10 1,320 First round vs. United States Sam Querrey
26 29 Georgia (country) Nikoloz Basilashvili 1,485 90 10 1,405 First round vs. South Korea Kwon Soon-woo
27 30 Spain Pablo Carreño Busta 1,422 180 10 1,252 First round vs. [Q/LL]
28 33 France Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 1,340 45 10 1,305 First round vs. Australia Alexei Popyrin
29 34 United States Taylor Fritz 1,335 90+125 10+45 1,175 First round vs. [Q/LL]
30 32 United Kingdom Dan Evans 1,349 70 10 1,289 First round vs. United States Mackenzie McDonald [PR]
31 31 Poland Hubert Hurkacz 1,398 10 10 1,398 First round vs. [Q/LL]
32 35 Canada Milos Raonic 1,305 360 10 955 First round vs. Moldova Radu Albot

† The player did not qualify for the tournament in 2019. Accordingly, points for his 18th best result are deducted instead.

The following players would have been seeded, but they withdrew from the event.

Rank Player Points before Points defending Points after Withdrawal reason
Japan Kei Nishikori 1,930 360 1,570 Elbow injury[5]
23 Australia Alex de Minaur 1,665 90 1,575 Abdominal injury[6]
24 France Lucas Pouille 1,600 720 880 Elbow injury

Women's singles

Seed Rank Player Points
before 		Points
defending 		Points
won 		Points
after 		Status
1 1 Australia Ashleigh Barty 430 10 First round vs. Ukraine Lesia Tsurenko
2 2 Czech Republic Karolína Plíšková 5,940 780 10 5,170 First round vs. France Kristina Mladenovic
3 4 Japan Naomi Osaka 5,496 2,000 10 3,506 First round vs. Czech Republic Marie Bouzková
4 3 Romania Simona Halep 5,560 240 10 5,330 First round vs. United States Jennifer Brady
5 5 Ukraine Elina Svitolina 5,075 430 10 4,655 First round vs. United Kingdom Katie Boulter [PR]
6 7 Switzerland Belinda Bencic 4,675 130 10 4,555 First round vs. Slovakia Anna Karolína Schmiedlová [PR]
7 8 Czech Republic Petra Kvitová 4,436 1,300+100 10+0 3,046 First round vs. Czech Republic Kateřina Siniaková
8 9 United States Serena Williams 4,215 430 10 3,795 First round vs. Russia Anastasia Potapova
9 10 Netherlands Kiki Bertens 4,165 70+470 10+100 3,735 First round vs. Romania Irina-Camelia Begu
10 11 United States Madison Keys 3,072 240 10 2,842 First round vs. Russia Daria Kasatkina
11 12 Belarus Aryna Sabalenka 3,025 130+185 10+100 2,820 First round vs. Spain Carla Suárez Navarro
12 13 United Kingdom Johanna Konta 2,813 70 10 2,753 First round vs. Tunisia Ons Jabeur
13 14 Croatia Petra Martić 2,646 130 10 2,526 First round vs. United States Christina McHale
14 15 United States Sofia Kenin 2,565 70 10 2,505 First round vs. [Q]
15 16 Czech Republic Markéta Vondroušová 2,490 70 10 2,430 First round vs. Russia Svetlana Kuznetsova
16 17 Belgium Elise Mertens 2,250 130 10 2,130 First round vs. Montenegro Danka Kovinić
17 Germany Angelique Kerber 2,175 240 10 1,945 First round vs. [Q]
18 United States Alison Riske 2,130 10 10 2,130 First round vs. China Wang Yafan
19 Croatia Donna Vekić 2,120 70+305 10+60 1,815 First round vs. Russia Maria Sharapova [WC]
20 22 Czech Republic Karolína Muchová 1,847 40 10 1,817 First round vs. Belgium Kirsten Flipkens
21 24 United States Amanda Anisimova 1,843 240 10 1,613 First round vs. Kazakhstan Zarina Diyas
22 23 Greece Maria Sakkari 1,845 130 10 1,725 First round vs. Russia Margarita Gasparyan
23 Ukraine Dayana Yastremska 130+280 10+55 First round vs. [Q]
24 27 United States Sloane Stephens 1,684 240 10 1,454 First round vs. China Zhang Shuai
25 28 Russia Ekaterina Alexandrova 1,645 10 10 1,645 First round vs. Switzerland Jil Teichmann
26 25 United States Danielle Collins 1,825 780 10 1,035 First round vs. Russia Vitalia Diatchenko
27 China Wang Qiang 1,593 130 10 1,473 First round vs. France Pauline Parmentier [WC]
28 Estonia Anett Kontaveit 1,577 70 10 1,517 First round vs. Australia Astra Sharma [WC]
29 26 Kazakhstan Elena Rybakina (80)† 10 First round vs. United States Bernarda Pera
30 Russia Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 1,585 430+100 10+1 1,066 First round vs. Serbia Nina Stojanović
31 Latvia Anastasija Sevastova 1,531 240 10 1,291 First round vs. Australia Ajla Tomljanović
32 Czech Republic Barbora Strýcová 1,516 10 10 1,516 First round vs. Romania Sorana Cîrstea

† The player did not qualify for the tournament in 2019, but is defending points from an ITF tournament (Launceston).

The following players would have been seeded, but they withdrew from the event.

Rank Player Points before Points defending Points after Withdrawal reason
6 Canada Bianca Andreescu 4,935 110+160 4,665 Knee injury

Doubles seeds

Mixed doubles

Team Rank Seed
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7
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  • 1 Rankings are as of 13 January 2020.

Main draw wildcard entries

Main article: 2020 Australian Open – Main Draw Wildcard Entries

Main draw qualifier entries

Protected ranking

The following players have been accepted directly into the main draw using a protected ranking:

Withdrawals

The following players were accepted directly into the main tournament, but withdrew due to injuries or other reasons:

Before the tournament

References

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