2019 Australian Open

The 2019 Australian Open was a Grand Slam tennis tournament that took place at Melbourne Park from 14 to 27 January 2019. It was the 107th edition of the Australian Open, the 51st in the Open Era, and the first Grand Slam of the year. The tournament consisted of events for professional players in singles, doubles and mixed doubles. Junior and wheelchair players competed in singles and doubles tournaments. The 2019 Australian Open was the first Australian Open to feature final set tie-breaks.

Roger Federer and Caroline Wozniacki were the defending men's and women's singles champions, but were unsuccessful in their respective title defenses; Federer lost to Stefanos Tsitsipas in the fourth round and Wozniacki lost to Maria Sharapova in the third round.

Novak Djokovic of Serbia won the men's singles title at the 2019 Australian Open, defeating Rafael Nadal of Spain in straight sets in the men's final. Naomi Osaka of Japan defeated Petra Kvitová of the Czech Republic in three sets to win the women's singles title. The tournament had a record attendance of 796,435 spectators.

Tournament

The 2019 Australian Open was the 107th edition of the Australian Open. The tournament was run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and was part of the 2019 ATP Tour and the 2019 WTA Tour calendars under the Grand Slam category. The tournament consisted of both men's and women's singles and doubles draws as well as the mixed doubles events. There were singles and doubles events for both boys and girls (players under 18), which are part of the Grade A category of tournaments. There were 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 was played on hard courts at Melbourne Park, including three main show courts: Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne Arena and Margaret Court Arena. As in previous years, the tournament's main sponsor was Kia.

Final set tie-breaks were introduced for all match formats for the first time at the 2019 Australian Open. If a match reached 6–6 in the final set, the first player to score 10 points and be leading by at least 2 points won the match. Katie Boulter and Ekaterina Makarova were the first players in a main draw to compete in the new tie-break format.

For the first time in the men's singles competition, a 10-minute break due to heat was allowed after the third set when the Australian Open Heat Stress Scale reached 4.0 or higher. Hawkeye line-calling technology was extended to be included on all courts. A shot clock was introduced for the first time into the main draw, having been limited to qualifying only in 2018. Women gained parity in the qualifying competition as the draw was increased to 128 players in line with the men's draw.

In a five-year deal starting at the 2019 tournament, Dunlop took over from Wilson as the suppliers of the tennis balls.

Domestically, this was the first Australian Open to be broadcast by the Nine Network, after they secured the rights to televise the tournament from 2019 until 2024. Initially, the broadcast deal was to have started from 2020, however, the Seven Network, which had previously televised the event between 1973 and 2018, agreed to relinquish the rights to the 2019 tournament.

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

Wheelchair points

Junior points

Prize money

The Australian Open total prize money for 2019 was increased by 14% to a tournament record A$62,500,000.

¹Qualifiers prize money was also the Round of 128 prize money.

*per team

Singles players

;2019 Australian Open – Men's singles

;2019 Australian Open – Women's singles

Day-by-day summaries

Champions

Seniors

Men's singles

* Novak Djokovic def. Rafael Nadal, 6–3, 6–2, 6–3

Women's singles

* Naomi Osaka def. Petra Kvitová, 7–6^(7–2), 5–7, 6–4

Men's doubles

* Pierre-Hugues Herbert / Nicolas Mahut def. Henri Kontinen / John Peers, 6–4, 7–6^(7–1)

Women's doubles

* Samantha Stosur / Zhang Shuai def. Tímea Babos / Kristina Mladenovic, 6–3, 6–4

Mixed doubles

* Barbora Krejčíková / Rajeev Ram def. Astra Sharma / John-Patrick Smith, 7–6^(7–3), 6–1

Juniors

Boys' singles

* Lorenzo Musetti def. Emilio Nava, 4–6, 6–2, 7–6^(14–12)

Girls' singles

* Clara Tauson def. Leylah Annie Fernandez, 6–4, 6–3

Boys' doubles

* Jonáš Forejtek / Dalibor Svrčina def. Cannon Kingsley / Emilio Nava, 7–6^(7–5), 6–4

Girls' doubles

* Natsumi Kawaguchi / Adrienn Nagy def. Chloe Beck / Emma Navarro, 6–4, 6–4

Legends

Men's legends' doubles

* Mansour Bahrami / Mark Philippoussis def. Jonas Björkman / Thomas Johansson, 4–3^(5–3), 4–2

Women's legends' doubles

Wheelchair events

Wheelchair men's singles

* Gustavo Fernández def. Stefan Olsson, 7–5, 6–3

Wheelchair women's singles

* Diede de Groot def. Yui Kamiji, 6–0, 6–2

Wheelchair quad singles

* Dylan Alcott def. David Wagner, 6–4, 7–6^(7–2)

Wheelchair men's doubles

* Joachim Gérard / Stefan Olsson def. Stéphane Houdet / Ben Weekes, 6–3, 6–2

Wheelchair women's doubles

* Diede de Groot / Aniek van Koot def. Marjolein Buis / Sabine Ellerbrock, 5–7, 7–6^(7–4), 0–8

Wheelchair quad doubles

* Dylan Alcott / Heath Davidson def. Andy Lapthorne / David Wagner, 6–3, 6–7^(6–8), 2–10

Singles seeds

The following are the seeded players. Seedings are based on ATP and WTA rankings on 7 January 2019, while ranking and ''points before'' are as of 14 January 2019. ''Points after'' are as of 28 January 2019.

Men's singles

† The player did not qualify for the tournament in 2018. Accordingly, points for his 18th best result are deducted instead.

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

Women's singles

Doubles seeds

Men's doubles

*¹ Rankings are as of 7 January 2019.

Women's doubles

*¹ Rankings are as of 7 January 2019.

Mixed doubles

*¹ Rankings are as of 7 January 2019.

Main draw wildcard entries

Men's singles

* Alex Bolt
* James Duckworth
* Jason Kubler
* Li Zhe
* Marc Polmans
* Alexei Popyrin
* Jack Sock
* Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

Women's singles

* Destanee Aiava
* Kimberly Birrell
* Clara Burel
* Zoe Hives
* Priscilla Hon
* Whitney Osuigwe
* Peng Shuai
* Ellen Perez

Men's doubles

* Alex Bolt / Marc Polmans
* James Duckworth / Jordan Thompson
* Blake Ellis / Alexei Popyrin
* Gong Maoxin / Zhang Ze
* Lleyton Hewitt / John-Patrick Smith
* Nick Kyrgios / Matt Reid
* Max Purcell / Luke Saville

Women's doubles

* Destanee Aiava / Naiktha Bains
* Alison Bai / Zoe Hives
* Kimberly Birrell / Priscilla Hon
* Lizette Cabrera / Jaimee Fourlis
* Chang Kai-chen / Hsu Ching-wen
* Ellen Perez / Arina Rodionova
* Astra Sharma / Isabelle Wallace

Mixed doubles

* Monique Adamczak / Matt Reid
* Priscilla Hon / Alexei Popyrin
* Maddison Inglis / Jason Kubler
* Jessica Moore / Andrew Whittington
* Astra Sharma / John-Patrick Smith
* Samantha Stosur / Leander Paes
* Iga Świątek / Łukasz Kubot
* Zhang Shuai / John Peers

Main draw qualifier entries

Men's singles

# Tatsuma Ito
# Christopher Eubanks
# Bjorn Fratangelo
# Dan Evans
# Henri Laaksonen
# Prajnesh Gunneswaran
# Gleb Sakharov
# Stefano Travaglia
# Rudolf Molleker
# Thanasi Kokkinakis
# Lloyd Harris
# Luca Vanni
# Mitchell Krueger
# Viktor Troicki
# Kamil Majchrzak
# Miomir Kecmanović

Women's singles

# Astra Sharma
# Misaki Doi
# Viktorija Golubic
# Bianca Andreescu
# Karolína Muchová
# Iga Świątek
# Veronika Kudermetova
# Anna Kalinskaya
# Paula Badosa Gibert
# Harriet Dart
# Zhu Lin
# Varvara Lepchenko
# Jessika Ponchet
# Ysaline Bonaventure
# Natalia Vikhlyantseva
# Beatriz Haddad Maia

Protected ranking

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

; Men's singles
* Steve Darcis (PR 90)
* Andy Murray (PR 2)
* Janko Tipsarević (PR 88)

; Women's singles
* Timea Bacsinszky (PR 23)
* Bethanie Mattek-Sands (PR 90)
* Laura Siegemund (PR 32)

Withdrawals

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

;Before the tournament

; Men's singles
* Juan Martín del Potro → replaced by Pedro Sousa
* Richard Gasquet → replaced by Ugo Humbert
* Jozef Kovalík → replaced by Michael Mmoh
* Vasek Pospisil → replaced by Guillermo García López

; Women's singles
* CoCo Vandeweghe → replaced by Sachia Vickery

Sponsors

* Luzhou Laojiao
* Emirates
* Kia Motors
* ANZ
* AccorHotels
* Blackmores
* Infosys
* MasterCard
* Rolex
* Ganten Baisuishan
* DeRucci
* Lavazza
* Barilla Group
* CPA Australia

References

External links

Australian Open official website
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