The 2017 Apia International Sydney was a joint
2017 ATP World Tour
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and
2017 WTA Tour
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tennis
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tournament, played on outdoor
hard court
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s in
Sydney
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,
New South Wales
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(NSW). It was the 124th edition of the tournament and took place at the
NSW Tennis Centre
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in Sydney, Australia. It was held from 8 January through 14 January 2017 as part of the
Australian Open Series
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in preparation for the first Grand Slam of the year.
Svetlana Kuznetsova
Svetlana Aleksandrovna Kuznetsova (born 27 June 1985) is a Russian former professional tennis player. She was ranked as high as world No. 2 in singles and world No. 3 in doubles by the Women's Tennis Association, WTA. Kuznetsova won 18 singl ...
was the defending champion, but lost in the second round to
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
Anastasia Sergeyevna "Nastia" Pavlyuchenkova (; born 3 July 1991) is a Russian professional tennis player. She reached a career-high singles WTA rankings, ranking of world No. 11 on 8 November 2021. Pavlyuchenkova has won twelve singles titles ...
.
Johanna Konta
Johanna Konta (born 17 May 1991) is a British-Australian former professional tennis player. Konta won four singles titles on the WTA Tour, along with eleven titles in singles and four in doubles on the ITF Women's Circuit. She was British No. ...
won the title, defeating
Agnieszka Radwańska
Agnieszka Roma Radwańska (; born 6 March 1989) is a Polish former professional tennis player and current coach. She was ranked world No. 2 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), in July 2012. Radwańska won 20 WTA Tour sing ...
in the final, 6–4, 6–2.
Seeds
The top two
seeds
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received a
bye into the second round.
Draw
Finals
Top half
Bottom half
Qualifying
Seeds
Qualifiers
Lucky losers
Draw
First qualifier
Second qualifier
Third qualifier
Fourth qualifier
See also
*
2017 Australian Open Series
External links
Main drawQualifying draw
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Women's Singles