2019 Australian Open

2019 Australian Open
Date	14–27 January 2019
Edition	107th Open Era (51st)
Category	Grand Slam
Prize money	A$62,500,000
Surface	Hard (Plexicushion)
Location	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Venue	Melbourne Park
Attendance	796,435 [1]
Champions
Men's singles
Novak Djokovic
Women's singles
Naomi Osaka
Men's doubles
Pierre-Hugues Herbert / Nicolas Mahut
Women's doubles
Samantha Stosur / Zhang Shuai
Mixed doubles
Barbora Krejčíková / Rajeev Ram
Wheelchair men's singles
Gustavo Fernández
Wheelchair women's singles
Diede de Groot
Wheelchair quad singles
Dylan Alcott
Wheelchair men's doubles
Joachim Gérard / Stefan Olsson
Wheelchair women's doubles
Diede de Groot / Aniek van Koot
Wheelchair quad doubles
Dylan Alcott / Heath Davidson
Boys' singles
Lorenzo Musetti
Girls' singles
Clara Tauson
Boys' doubles
Jonáš Forejtek / Dalibor Svrčina
Girls' doubles
Natsumi Kawaguchi / Adrienn Nagy
Men's legends doubles
Mansour Bahrami / Mark Philippoussis
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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.^[2][3]

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.^[4][5] Naomi Osaka of Japan defeated Petra Kvitová of the Czech Republic in three sets to win the women's singles title.^[6] The tournament had a record attendance of 796,435 spectators.

This is the most recent Grand Slam where no lucky losers were selected.

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.^[7] Katie Boulter and Ekaterina Makarova were the first players in a main draw to compete in the new tie-break format.^[8]

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.^[9] 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.^[10][11]

In a five-year deal starting at the 2019 tournament, Dunlop took over from Wilson as the suppliers of the tennis balls.^[12][13][14]

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.^[15][16]

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 2019 was increased by 14% to a tournament record A$62,500,000.^[17]

Event	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 32	Round of 64	Round of 1281	Q3	Q2	Q1
Singles	A$4,100,000	A$2,050,000	A$920,000	A$460,000	A$260,000	A$155,000	A$105,000	A$75,000	A$40,000	A$25,000	A$15,000
Doubles *	A$750,000	A$375,000	A$190,000	A$100,000	A$55,000	A$32,500	A$21,000	—	—	—	—
Mixed doubles *	A$185,000	A$95,000	A$47,500	A$23,000	A$11,500	A$5,950	—	—	—	—	—

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

Singles players

2019 Australian Open – Men's singles

Champion		Runner-up
Novak Djokovic [1]		Rafael Nadal [2]
Semifinals out
Lucas Pouille [28]		Stefanos Tsitsipas [14]
Quarterfinals out
Kei Nishikori [8]	Milos Raonic [16]	Roberto Bautista Agut [22]	Frances Tiafoe
4th round out
Daniil Medvedev [15]	Pablo Carreño Busta [23]	Alexander Zverev [4]	Borna Ćorić [11]
Marin Čilić [6]	Roger Federer [3]	Grigor Dimitrov [20]	Tomáš Berdych
3rd round out
Denis Shapovalov [25]	David Goffin [21]	Fabio Fognini [12]	João Sousa
Alex Bolt (WC)	Pierre-Hugues Herbert	Filip Krajinović	Alexei Popyrin (WC)
Fernando Verdasco [26]	Karen Khachanov [10]	Nikoloz Basilashvili [19]	Taylor Fritz
Andreas Seppi	Thomas Fabbiano	Diego Schwartzman [18]	Alex de Minaur [27]
2nd round out
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (WC)	Taro Daniel	Marius Copil	Ryan Harrison
Leonardo Mayer	Ilya Ivashka	Philipp Kohlschreiber [32]	Ivo Karlović
Jérémy Chardy	Gilles Simon [29]	Chung Hyeon [24]	Stan Wawrinka
Márton Fucsovics	Evgeny Donskoy	Maximilian Marterer	Dominic Thiem [7]
Mackenzie McDonald	Radu Albot	John Millman	Yoshihito Nishioka
Viktor Troicki (Q)	Stefano Travaglia (Q)	Gaël Monfils [30]	Dan Evans (Q)
Kevin Anderson [5]	Jordan Thompson	Pablo Cuevas	Reilly Opelka
Robin Haase	Denis Kudla	Henri Laaksonen (Q)	Matthew Ebden
1st round out
Mitchell Krueger (Q)	Martin Kližan	Thanasi Kokkinakis (Q)	Pablo Andújar
Cristian Garín	Marcel Granollers	Jiří Veselý	Lloyd Harris (Q)
Jaume Munar	Nicolás Jarry	Malek Jaziri	Luca Vanni (Q)
Li Zhe (WC)	Guido Pella	Hubert Hurkacz	Kamil Majchrzak (Q)
Aljaž Bedene	Ugo Humbert	Jack Sock (WC)	Bjorn Fratangelo (Q)
Bradley Klahn	Sam Querrey	Ernests Gulbis	Nick Kyrgios
Steve Darcis (PR)	Albert Ramos Viñolas	Laslo Đere	Marco Cecchinato [17]
Mikhail Kukushkin	Gleb Sakharov (Q)	Mischa Zverev	Benoît Paire
Bernard Tomic	Andrey Rublev	Michael Mmoh	Miomir Kecmanović (Q)
Andy Murray (PR)	Federico Delbonis	Tennys Sandgren	Peter Gojowczyk
Matteo Berrettini	Roberto Carballés Baena	Guido Andreozzi	Christopher Eubanks (Q)
Damir Džumhur	Cameron Norrie	Tatsuma Ito (Q)	Denis Istomin
Adrian Mannarino	Prajnesh Gunneswaran (Q)	Feliciano López	Steve Johnson [31]
Janko Tipsarević (PR)	Dušan Lajović	Jason Kubler (WC)	John Isner [9]
Kyle Edmund [13]	Guillermo García López	Marc Polmans (WC)	Rudolf Molleker (Q)
Pedro Sousa	Mirza Bašić	Jan-Lennard Struff	James Duckworth (WC)

2019 Australian Open – Women's singles

Champion		Runner-up
Naomi Osaka [4]		Petra Kvitová [8]
Semifinals out
Karolína Plíšková [7]		Danielle Collins
Quarterfinals out
Serena Williams [16]	Elina Svitolina [6]	Ashleigh Barty [15]	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
4th round out
Simona Halep [1]	Garbiñe Muguruza [18]	Anastasija Sevastova [13]	Madison Keys [17]
Amanda Anisimova	Maria Sharapova [30]	Sloane Stephens [5]	Angelique Kerber [2]
3rd round out
Venus Williams	Dayana Yastremska	Timea Bacsinszky (PR)	Camila Giorgi [27]
Hsieh Su-wei [28]	Wang Qiang [21]	Elise Mertens [12]	Zhang Shuai
Belinda Bencic	Aryna Sabalenka [11]	Maria Sakkari	Caroline Wozniacki [3]
Petra Martić [31]	Aliaksandra Sasnovich	Caroline Garcia [19]	Kimberly Birrell (WC)
2nd round out
Sofia Kenin	Alizé Cornet	Carla Suárez Navarro [23]	Eugenie Bouchard
Natalia Vikhlyantseva (Q)	Johanna Konta	Iga Świątek (Q)	Madison Brengle
Tamara Zidanšek	Laura Siegemund (PR)	Aleksandra Krunić	Bianca Andreescu (Q)
Margarita Gasparyan	Anastasia Potapova	Kristýna Plíšková	Viktória Kužmová
Irina-Camelia Begu	Yulia Putintseva	Lesia Tsurenko [24]	Katie Boulter
Wang Yafan	Astra Sharma (Q)	Rebecca Peterson	Johanna Larsson
Tímea Babos	Markéta Vondroušová	Anett Kontaveit [20]	Kiki Bertens [9]
Sachia Vickery	Zoe Hives (WC)	Donna Vekić [29]	Beatriz Haddad Maia (Q)
1st round out
Kaia Kanepi	Veronika Kudermetova (Q)	Lara Arruabarrena	Mihaela Buzărnescu [25]
Clara Burel (WC)	Samantha Stosur	Peng Shuai (WC)	Tatjana Maria
Daria Kasatkina [10]	Varvara Lepchenko (Q)	Ajla Tomljanović	Zheng Saisai
Dalila Jakupović	Ana Bogdan	Misaki Doi (Q)	Karolína Muchová (Q)
Magda Linette	Daria Gavrilova	Victoria Azarenka	Stefanie Vögele
Fiona Ferro	Zarina Diyas	Whitney Osuigwe (WC)	Mona Barthel
Anna Karolína Schmiedlová	Zhu Lin (Q)	Pauline Parmentier	Destanee Aiava (WC)
Dominika Cibulková [26]	Anna Blinkova	Kateryna Kozlova	Viktorija Golubic (Q)
Magdaléna Rybáriková	Andrea Petkovic	Kateřina Siniaková	Barbora Strýcová [32]
Ekaterina Alexandrova	Monica Niculescu	Ekaterina Makarova	Anna Kalinskaya (Q)
Luksika Kumkhum	Ellen Perez (WC)	Priscilla Hon (WC)	Jeļena Ostapenko [22]
Harriet Dart (Q)	Sorana Cîrstea	Vera Lapko	Alison Van Uytvanck
Taylor Townsend	Ons Jabeur	Evgeniya Rodina	Heather Watson
Sara Sorribes Tormo	Kirsten Flipkens	Monica Puig	Alison Riske
Julia Görges [14]	Ysaline Bonaventure (Q)	Bethanie Mattek-Sands (PR)	Jessika Ponchet (Q)
Kristina Mladenovic	Paula Badosa Gibert (Q)	Bernarda Pera	Polona Hercog

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), [10–8]

Wheelchair quad doubles

• Dylan Alcott / Heath Davidson def. Andy Lapthorne / David Wagner, 6–3, 6–7^(6–8), [12–10]

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

Seed	Rank	Player	Points before	Points defending	Points won	Points after	Status
1	1	Novak Djokovic	9,135	180	2,000	10,955	Champion, defeated Rafael Nadal [2]
2	2	Rafael Nadal	7,480	360	1,200	8,320	Runner-up, lost to Novak Djokovic [1]
3	3	Roger Federer	6,420	2,000	180	4,600	Fourth round lost to Stefanos Tsitsipas [14]
4	4	Alexander Zverev	6,385	90	180	6,475	Fourth round lost to Milos Raonic [16]
5	6	Kevin Anderson	4,810	10	45	4,845	Second round lost to Frances Tiafoe
6	7	Marin Čilić	4,160	1,200	180	3,140	Fourth round lost to Roberto Bautista Agut [22]
7	8	Dominic Thiem	4,095	180	45	3,960	Second round retired against Alexei Popyrin [WC]
8	9	Kei Nishikori	3,750	0	360	4,110	Quarterfinals retired against Novak Djokovic [1]
9	10	John Isner	3,155	10	10	3,155	First round lost to Reilly Opelka
10	11	Karen Khachanov	2,835	45	90	2,880	Third round lost to Roberto Bautista Agut [22]
11	12	Borna Ćorić	2,435	10	180	2,605	Fourth round lost to Lucas Pouille [28]
12	13	Fabio Fognini	2,315	180	90	2,225	Third round lost to Pablo Carreño Busta [23]
13	14	Kyle Edmund	2,150	720	10	1,440	First round lost to Tomáš Berdych
14	15	Stefanos Tsitsipas	2,095	10	720	2,805	Semifinals lost to Rafael Nadal [2]
15	19	Daniil Medvedev	1,865	45	180	2,000	Fourth round lost to Novak Djokovic [1]
16	17	Milos Raonic	1,900	10	360	2,250	Quarterfinals lost to Lucas Pouille [28]
17	18	Marco Cecchinato	1,889	(29)†	10	1,870	First round lost to Filip Krajinović
18	16	Diego Schwartzman	1,925	180	90	1,835	Third round lost to Tomáš Berdych
19	20	Nikoloz Basilashvili	1,820	90	90	1,820	Third round lost to Stefanos Tsitsipas [14]
20	21	Grigor Dimitrov	1,790	360	180	1,610	Fourth round lost to Frances Tiafoe
21	22	David Goffin	1,785	45	90	1,830	Third round lost to Daniil Medvedev [15]
22	24	Roberto Bautista Agut	1,605	10	360	1,955	Quarterfinals lost to Stefanos Tsitsipas [14]
23	23	Pablo Carreño Busta	1,705	180	180	1,705	Fourth round lost to Kei Nishikori [8]
24	25	Chung Hyeon	1,585	720	45	910	Second round lost to Pierre-Hugues Herbert
25	27	Denis Shapovalov	1,440	45	90	1,485	Third round lost to Novak Djokovic [1]
26	28	Fernando Verdasco	1,410	45	90	1,455	Third round lost to Marin Čilić [6]
27	29	Alex de Minaur	1,353	0	90	1,443	Third round lost to Rafael Nadal [2]
28	31	Lucas Pouille	1,245	10	720	1,955	Semifinals lost to Novak Djokovic [1]
29	30	Gilles Simon	1,280	45	45	1,280	Second round lost to Alex Bolt [WC]
30	33	Gaël Monfils	1,195	45	45	1,195	Second round lost to Taylor Fritz
31	34	Steve Johnson	1,190	10	10	1,190	First round lost to Andreas Seppi
32	32	Philipp Kohlschreiber	1,215	10	45	1,250	Second round lost to João Sousa

† 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.

Rank	Player	Points before	Points defending	Points after	Withdrawal reason
5	Juan Martín del Potro	5,150	90	5,060	Knee injury
26	Richard Gasquet	1,535	90	1,445	Groin injury

Women's singles

Seed	Rank	Player	Points before	Points defending	Points won	Points after	Status
1	1	Simona Halep	6,642	1,300	240	5,582	Fourth round lost to Serena Williams [16]
2	2	Angelique Kerber	5,505	780	240	4,965	Fourth round lost to Danielle Collins
3	3	Caroline Wozniacki	5,436	2,000	130	3,566	Third round lost to Maria Sharapova [30]
4	4	Naomi Osaka	5,270	240	2,000	7,030	Champion, defeated Petra Kvitová [8]
5	5	Sloane Stephens	5,077	10	240	5,307	Fourth round lost to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
6	7	Elina Svitolina	4,940	430	430	4,940	Quarterfinals lost to Naomi Osaka [4]
7	8	Karolína Plíšková	4,750	430	780	5,100	Semifinals lost to Naomi Osaka [4]
8	6	Petra Kvitová	5,000	10	1,300	6,290	Runner-up, lost to Naomi Osaka [4]
9	9	Kiki Bertens	4,490	130	70	4,430	Second round lost to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
10	10	Daria Kasatkina	3,415	70	10	3,355	First round lost to Timea Bacsinszky [PR]
11	11	Aryna Sabalenka	3,365	10	130	3,485	Third round lost to Amanda Anisimova
12	14	Elise Mertens	2,985	780	130	2,335	Third round lost to Madison Keys [17]
13	12	Anastasija Sevastova	3,160	70	240	3,330	Fourth round lost to Naomi Osaka [4]
14	13	Julia Görges	3,055	70	10	2,995	First round lost to Danielle Collins
15	15	Ashleigh Barty	2,985	130	430	3,285	Quarterfinals lost to Petra Kvitová [8]
16	16	Serena Williams	2,976	0	430	3,406	Quarterfinals lost to Karolína Plíšková [7]
17	17	Madison Keys	2,976	430	240	2,786	Fourth round lost to Elina Svitolina [6]
18	18	Garbiñe Muguruza	2,865	70	240	3,035	Fourth round lost to Karolína Plíšková [7]
19	19	Caroline Garcia	2,660	240	130	2,550	Third round lost to Danielle Collins
20	20	Anett Kontaveit	2,525	240	70	2,355	Second round lost to Aliaksandra Sasnovich
21	21	Wang Qiang	2,485	10	130	2,605	Third round lost to Anastasija Sevastova [13]
22	22	Jeļena Ostapenko	2,362	130	10	2,242	First round lost to Maria Sakkari
23	23	Carla Suárez Navarro	2,153	430	70	1,793	Second round lost to Dayana Yastremska
24	24	Lesia Tsurenko	1,896	70	70	1,896	Second round lost to Amanda Anisimova
25	26	Mihaela Buzărnescu	1,700	10	10	1,700	First round lost to Venus Williams
26	25	Dominika Cibulková	1,735	10	10	1,735	First round lost to Zhang Shuai
27	28	Camila Giorgi	1,645	70	130	1,705	Third round lost to Karolína Plíšková [7]
28	27	Hsieh Su-wei	1,680	240	130	1,570	Third round lost to Naomi Osaka [4]
29	29	Donna Vekić	1,580	70	70	1,580	Second round lost to Kimberly Birrell [WC]
30	30	Maria Sharapova	1,552	130	240	1,662	Fourth round lost to Ashleigh Barty [15]
31	32	Petra Martić	1,465	240	130	1,355	Third round lost to Sloane Stephens [5]
32	34	Barbora Strýcová	1,331	240	10	1,101	First round lost to Yulia Putintseva

Doubles seeds

Mixed doubles

Team		Rank	Seed
Gabriela Dabrowski	Mate Pavić	13	1
Nicole Melichar	Bruno Soares	21	2
Barbora Krejčíková	Rajeev Ram	22	3
Mihaela Buzărnescu	Oliver Marach	29	4
Anna-Lena Grönefeld	Robert Farah	31	5
Abigail Spears	Juan Sebastián Cabal	35	6
Makoto Ninomiya	Ben McLachlan	39	7
Ekaterina Makarova	Artem Sitak	41	8

• ¹ Rankings are as of 7 January 2019.

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

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References

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