2017 Australian Open

2017 Australian Open
Date 16–29 January
Edition 105th
Category Grand Slam
Draw 128S/64D/32X
Prize money A$ TBC
Surface Hard (Plexicushion)
Location Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Venue Melbourne Park
2016 Champions
Men's Singles
Serbia Novak Djokovic
Women's Singles
Germany Angelique Kerber
Men's Doubles
United Kingdom Jamie Murray / Brazil Bruno Soares
Women's Doubles
Switzerland Martina Hingis / India Sania Mirza
Mixed Doubles
Russia Elena Vesnina / Brazil Bruno Soares
Boys' Singles
Australia Oliver Anderson
Girls' Singles
Belarus Vera Lapko
Boys' Doubles
Australia Alex De Minaur / Australia Blake Ellis
Girls' Doubles
Russia Anna Kalinskaya / Slovakia Tereza Mihalíková
Men's Legends Doubles
Sweden Jonas Björkman / Sweden Thomas Johansson
Women's Legends Doubles
United States Lindsay Davenport / United States Martina Navratilova
Wheelchair Men's Singles
United Kingdom Gordon Reid
Wheelchair Women's Singles
Netherlands Jiske Griffioen
Wheelchair Quad Singles
Australia Dylan Alcott
Wheelchair Men's Doubles
France Stéphane Houdet / France Nicolas Peifer
Wheelchair Women's Doubles
Japan Yui Kamiji / Netherlands Marjolein Buis
Wheelchair Quad Doubles
South Africa Lucas Sithole / United States David Wagner

The 2017 Australian Open is a tennis tournament that will take place at Melbourne Park between 16–29 January 2017.[1] It is the 105th edition of the Australian Open, and the first Grand Slam tournament of the year. The tournament consisted of events for professional players in singles, doubles and mixed doubles play. Junior and wheelchair players competed in singles and doubles tournaments.

As in previous years, this year's tournament's title sponsor was Kia.

Tournament

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

The 2017 Australian Open will be the 105th edition of the tournament and will be held at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

The tournament will be run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and is part of the 2017 ATP World Tour and the 2017 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 a mixed doubles event. There are singles and doubles events for both boys and girls (players under 18), which are part of the Grade A category of tournaments, and 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 takes place over a series of 25 courts, including the three main show courts: Rod Laver Arena, Hisense Arena and Margaret Court Arena.[2]

Broadcast

In Australia, selected key matches will be broadcast live by the Seven Network. The majority of matches will be shown on the network's primary channel Channel Seven, however during news programming nationwide and most night matches in Perth, coverage will shift to either 7Two or 7mate. Additionally, every match will be also available to be streamed live through a free 7Tennis mobile app.[3]

Point and prize money distribution

Point distribution

Below is a series of tables for each of the competitions showing the ranking points on offer 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 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Women's Singles 1300 780 430 240 130 70 10 40 30 20 2
Women's Doubles 10 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

Wheelchair points

Event W F SF/3rd QF/4th
Singles 800 500 375 100
Doubles 800 500 100 N/A
Quad Singles 800 500 100 N/A
Quad Doubles 800 100 N/A N/A

Junior points

Event W F SF QF Round of 16 Round of 32 Q Q3
Boys' Singles 375 270 180 120 75 30 25 20
Girls' Singles
Boys' Doubles 270 180 120 75 45 N/A N/A N/A
Girls' Doubles N/A N/A N/A

Prize money

The Australian Open total prize money for 2017 is yet to be confirmed. The table below is from the 2016 tournament.

Event W F SF QF Round of 16 Round of 32 Round of 64 Round of 1281 Q3 Q2 Q1
Singles A$3,400,000 A$1,700,000 A$750,000 A$375,000 A$193,000 A$108,000 A$67,000 A$38,500 A$20,000 A$12,000 A$6,000
Doubles * A$635,000 A$315,000 A$157,500 A$78,500 A$43,000 A$25,500 A$16,500 N/A N/A N/A N/A
Mixed Doubles * A$157,000 A$78,500 A$39,250 A$18,000 A$9,000 A$4,500 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

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

Singles players

2017 Australian Open – Men's Singles

2017 Australian Open – Women's Singles

Champions

Seniors

Men's Singles

Women's Singles

Men's Doubles

Women's Doubles

Mixed Doubles

Juniors

Boys' Singles

Girls' Singles

Boys' Doubles

Girls' Doubles

Legends

Men's Legends Doubles

Wheelchair events

Wheelchair Men's Singles

Wheelchair Women's Singles

Wheelchair Quad Singles

Wheelchair Men's Doubles

Wheelchair Women's Doubles

Wheelchair Quad Doubles

Singles seeds

The following are the seeded players and notable players who withdrew from the event. Seeding are arranged according to ATP and WTA rankings on 9 January 2017, while ranking and points before are as of 16 January 2017.

Men's Singles

Seed Rank[lower-alpha 1] Player Points before Points defending Points won Points after Status
1 1 United Kingdom Andy Murray 1,200 First round vs. TBD
2 2 Serbia Novak Djokovic 2,000 First round vs. TBD
3 3 Canada Milos Raonic 720 First round vs. TBD
4 4 Switzerland Stan Wawrinka 180 First round vs. TBD
5 5 Japan Kei Nishikori 360 First round vs. TBD
6 6 Croatia Marin Čilić 90 First round vs. TBD
7 7 France Gaël Monfils 360 First round vs. TBD
8 8 Austria Dominic Thiem 90 First round vs. TBD
9 9 Spain Rafael Nadal 10 First round vs. TBD
10 10 Czech Republic Tomáš Berdych 360 First round vs. TBD
11 11 Belgium David Goffin 180 First round vs. TBD
12 12 France Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 180 First round vs. TBD
13 13 Australia Nick Kyrgios 90 First round vs. TBD
14 14 Spain Roberto Bautista Agut 180 First round vs. TBD
15 15 France Lucas Pouille 10 First round vs. TBD
16 16 Switzerland Roger Federer 720 First round vs. TBD
17 17 Bulgaria Grigor Dimitrov 90 First round vs. TBD
18 18 France Richard Gasquet 0 First round vs. TBD
19 19 United States John Isner 180 First round vs. TBD
20 20 Croatia Ivo Karlović 10 First round vs. TBD
21 21 Spain David Ferrer 360 First round vs. TBD
22 22 Uruguay Pablo Cuevas 45 First round vs. TBD
23 23 United States Jack Sock 45 First round vs. TBD
24 24 Germany Alexander Zverev 10 First round vs. TBD
25 25 France Gilles Simon 180 First round vs. TBD
26 26 Australia Bernard Tomic 180 First round vs. TBD
27 27 Spain Albert Ramos-Viñolas 45 First round vs. TBD
28 28 Spain Feliciano López 90 First round vs. TBD
29 29 Serbia Viktor Troicki 90 First round vs. TBD
30 30 Spain Pablo Carreño Busta 10 First round vs. TBD
31 31 United States Sam Querrey 10 First round vs. TBD
32 32 Germany Philipp Kohlschreiber 10 First round vs. TBD
  1. These rankings are as of the end of 2016 ATP season, this is a projected group of seedings that is not final and is subject to change.

Women's Singles

Seed Rank[lower-alpha 1] Player Points before Points defending Points won Points after Status
1 1 Germany Angelique Kerber 2,000 First round vs. TBD
2 2 United States Serena Williams 1,300 First round vs. TBD
3 3 Poland Agnieszka Radwańska 780 First round vs. TBD
4 4 Romania Simona Halep 10 First round vs. TBD
5 5 Slovakia Dominika Cibulková 10 First round vs. TBD
6 6 Czech Republic Karolína Plíšková 130 First round vs. TBD
7 7 Spain Garbiñe Muguruza 130 First round vs. TBD
8 8 United States Madison Keys 240 First round vs. TBD
9 9 Russia Svetlana Kuznetsova 70 First round vs. TBD
10 10 United Kingdom Johanna Konta 780 First round vs. TBD
11 11 Czech Republic Petra Kvitová 70 First round vs. TBD
12 12 Spain Carla Suárez Navarro 430 First round vs. TBD
13 14 Ukraine Elina Svitolina 70 First round vs. TBD
14 15 Switzerland Timea Bacsinszky 70 First round vs. TBD
15 16 Russia Elena Vesnina (1) First round vs. TBD
16 17 United States Venus Williams 10 First round vs. TBD
17 18 Italy Roberta Vinci 130 First round vs. TBD
18 19 Denmark Caroline Wozniacki 10 First round vs. TBD
19 20 Czech Republic Barbora Strýcová 240 First round vs. TBD
20 21 Australia Samantha Stosur 10 First round vs. TBD
21 22 Netherlands Kiki Bertens 10 First round vs. TBD
22 23 France Caroline Garcia 10 First round vs. TBD
23 24 China Zhang Shuai 470 First round vs. TBD
24 25 Australia Daria Gavrilova 240 First round vs. TBD
25 26 Hungary Tímea Babos 70 First round vs. TBD
26 27 Russia Daria Kasatkina 130 First round vs. TBD
27 28 Russia Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 10 First round vs. TBD
28 29 Romania Irina-Camelia Begu 10 First round vs. TBD
29 30 Russia Ekaterina Makarova 240 First round vs. TBD
30 31 Germany Laura Siegemund 130 First round vs. TBD
31 32 Puerto Rico Monica Puig 130 First round vs. TBD
32 33 Kazakhstan Yaroslava Shvedova 70 First round vs. TBD

Withdrawn players

Rank[lower-alpha 1] Player Points Before Points defending Points won Points After Withdrawal reason
13 Belarus Victoria Azarenka 430 0 Pregnancy[4]
  1. 1 2 These rankings are as of the end of the 2016 WTA season, this is a projected group of seedings that is not final and is subject to change.

Doubles seeds

Men's Doubles

Team Rank1 Seed
TBD TBD 1
TBD TBD 2
TBD TBD 3
TBD TBD 4
TBD TBD 5
TBD TBD 6
TBD TBD 7
TBD TBD 8
TBD TBD 9
TBD TBD 10
TBD TBD 11
TBD TBD 12
TBD TBD 13
TBD TBD 14
TBD TBD 15
TBD TBD 16
  • 1 Rankings are as of 9 January 2017.

Women's Doubles

Team Rank1 Seed
TBD TBD 1
TBD TBD 2
TBD TBD 3
TBD TBD 4
TBD TBD 5
TBD TBD 6
TBD TBD 7
TBD TBD 8
TBD TBD 9
TBD TBD 10
TBD TBD 11
TBD TBD 12
TBD TBD 13
TBD TBD 14
TBD TBD 15
TBD TBD 16
  • 1 Rankings are as of 9 January 2017.

Mixed Doubles

Team Rank1 Seed
TBD TBD 1
TBD TBD 2
TBD TBD 3
TBD TBD 4
TBD TBD 5
TBD TBD 6
TBD TBD 7
TBD TBD 8

Main draw wildcard entries

Mixed Doubles

Main draw qualifier entries

The qualifying competition will take place in Melbourne Park on 12 – 15 January 2017.

Men's Singles

Women's Singles

Withdrawals

The following players were accepted directly into the main tournament, but withdrew with injuries.

Before the tournament

Men's Singles

Women's Singles

References

  1. "Tickets - Australian Open". ausopen.com.
  2. "First Glimpse of new-look Margaret Court Arena". Tennis.com.au. Retrieved 6 January 2014.
  3. Knox, David (17 December 2015). "Seven Tennis 2016: summer guide". TV Tonight. Retrieved 9 January 2016.
  4. "Victoria Azarenka announces pregnancy". Women's Tennis Association. 15 July 2016. Retrieved 15 July 2016.
  5. "Lizette Cabrera has been handed a wildcard into the Australian Open". Courier Mail. 29 November 2016. Retrieved 30 November 2016.

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