# 2023 Australian Open

The 2023 Australian Open was a Grand Slam level tennis tournament held at Melbourne Park, from 16–29 January 2023. It was the 111th edition of the Australian Open, the 55th in the Open Era, and the first major 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. During previous years, the tournament's main sponsor was Kia.
Novak Djokovic claimed the men's singles title, his tenth Australian Open title and 22nd major title overall, tying Rafael Nadal's all-time record. Djokovic was allowed to play this year despite remaining unvaccinated from COVID-19 after his three-year ban was lifted. The ban was initially handed to him after he was deported in 2022, as Australia's laws required foreigners to be vaccinated for entering the country when the tournament was played in 2022, but the ban was lifted as the vaccination requirement has been lifted. Nadal was the defending champion, but lost to Mackenzie McDonald in the second round. Aryna Sabalenka won the women's title, her first major singles title. Ashleigh Barty was the reigning champion in the women's singles, but she retired from the sport in March 2022.
Spectators returned to full capacity for the first time since 2020, targeting to exceed 900,000 fans, after capacity restrictions in the last two events due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
To mark the seventieth anniversary of his first singles title in 1953, Ken Rosewall presented the men's singles trophy to the champion. Billie Jean King presented the women's singles trophy, on the fifty-fifth anniversary of her 1968 victory.
With the elimination of world No. 1 Iga Świątek in the fourth round by Elena Rybakina, this became the first edition of the Australian Open in the Open Era to feature neither of the top two singles seeds of either gender in the quarterfinals.
This was the last Australian Open Tennis Championships to be held on an opening Monday and from January 2024, the tournament will begin on a Sunday which will take place on 14 January 2024.

## Singles players

* Men's singles
| Champion | Champion | Runner-up | Runner-up |
| Novak Djokovic [4] | Novak Djokovic [4] | Stefanos Tsitsipas [3] | Stefanos Tsitsipas [3] |
| Semifinals out ||||
| Karen Khachanov [18] | Karen Khachanov [18] | Tommy Paul | Tommy Paul |
| Quarterfinals out ||||
| Sebastian Korda [29] | Jiří Lehečka | Andrey Rublev [5] | Ben Shelton |
| 4th round out ||||
| Yoshihito Nishioka [31] | Hubert Hurkacz [10] | Jannik Sinner [15] | Félix Auger-Aliassime [6] |
| Holger Rune [9] | Alex de Minaur [22] | J. J. Wolf | Roberto Bautista Agut [24] |
| 3rd round out ||||
| Mackenzie McDonald | Frances Tiafoe [16] | Denis Shapovalov [20] | Daniil Medvedev [7] |
| Tallon Griekspoor | Márton Fucsovics | Cameron Norrie [11] | Francisco Cerúndolo [28] |
| Dan Evans [25] | Ugo Humbert | Benjamin Bonzi | Grigor Dimitrov [27] |
| Alexei Popyrin (WC) | Michael Mmoh (LL) | Andy Murray | Jenson Brooksby |
| 2nd round out ||||
| Rafael Nadal [1] | Dalibor Svrčina (Q) | Jason Kubler (WC) | Shang Juncheng (Q) |
| Lorenzo Sonego | Taro Daniel | Yosuke Watanuki (Q) | John Millman (WC) |
| Rinky Hijikata (WC) | Botic van de Zandschulp [32] | Lloyd Harris (PR) | Tomás Martín Etcheverry |
| Constant Lestienne | Christopher Eubanks (WC) | Corentin Moutet | Alex Molčan |
| Emil Ruusuvuori | Jérémy Chardy (PR) | Denis Kudla (LL) | Maxime Cressy |
| Pablo Carreño Busta [14] | Adrian Mannarino | Laslo Đere | Enzo Couacaud (Q) |
| Taylor Fritz [8] | Nicolás Jarry (Q) | Diego Schwartzman [23] | Alexander Zverev [12] |
| Thanasi Kokkinakis | Brandon Holt (Q) | Alejandro Davidovich Fokina [30] | Casper Ruud [2] |
| 1st round out ||||
| Jack Draper | Brandon Nakashima | Jaume Munar | Mikael Ymer |
| Bernabé Zapata Miralles | Sebastián Báez | Oscar Otte | Daniel Altmaier |
| Pedro Martínez | Nuno Borges | Ernesto Escobedo (Q) | Dušan Lajović |
| Cristian Garín | Arthur Rinderknech | Marc-Andrea Hüsler | Marcos Giron |
| Quentin Halys | Yannick Hanfmann (Q) | Pavel Kotov (LL) | Ilya Ivashka |
| Lorenzo Musetti [17] | Federico Coria | Grégoire Barrère | Kyle Edmund (PR) |
| Luca Van Assche (WC) | Thiago Monteiro | Kwon Soon-woo | Borna Ćorić [21] |
| Guido Pella (PR) | Wu Yibing (WC) | Stan Wawrinka (PR) | Vasek Pospisil |
| Dominic Thiem (WC) | Max Purcell (Q) | Daniel Elahi Galán | Facundo Bagnis |
| Roman Safiullin | Richard Gasquet | Albert Ramos Viñolas | Filip Krajinović |
| Pedro Cachin | Mattia Bellucci (Q) | John Isner | Hsu Yu-hsiou (Q) |
| Aslan Karatsev | Zizou Bergs (Q) | Hugo Dellien (PR) | Roberto Carballés Baena |
| Nikoloz Basilashvili | Tseng Chun-hsin | Zhang Zhizhen | Miomir Kecmanović [26] |
| Oleksii Krutykh (Q) | Jordan Thompson | Laurent Lokoli (Q) | Juan Pablo Varillas (LL) |
| Matteo Berrettini [13] | Fabio Fognini | Aleksandar Vukic (Q) | João Sousa |
| Alexander Bublik | Jan-Lennard Struff (Q) | Christopher O'Connell | Tomáš Macháč |
* Women's singles
| Champion | Champion | Runner-up | Runner-up |
| Aryna Sabalenka [5] | Aryna Sabalenka [5] | Elena Rybakina [22] | Elena Rybakina [22] |
| Semifinals out ||||
| Victoria Azarenka [24] | Victoria Azarenka [24] | Magda Linette | Magda Linette |
| Quarterfinals out ||||
| Jeļena Ostapenko [17] | Jessica Pegula [3] | Karolína Plíšková [30] | Donna Vekić |
| 4th round out ||||
| Iga Świątek [1] | Coco Gauff [7] | Barbora Krejčíková [20] | Zhu Lin |
| Zhang Shuai [23] | Caroline Garcia [4] | Belinda Bencic [12] | Linda Fruhvirtová |
| 3rd round out ||||
| Cristina Bucșa (Q) | Danielle Collins [13] | Kateryna Baindl | Bernarda Pera |
| Marta Kostyuk | Anhelina Kalinina | Madison Keys [10] | Maria Sakkari [6] |
| Varvara Gracheva | Katie Volynets (Q) | Ekaterina Alexandrova [19] | Laura Siegemund (PR) |
| Elise Mertens [26] | Camila Giorgi | Nuria Párrizas Díaz | Markéta Vondroušová (PR) |
| 2nd round out ||||
| Camila Osorio | Bianca Andreescu | Kaja Juvan | Karolína Muchová (PR) |
| Caty McNally | Anna Bondár | Zheng Qinwen [29] | Emma Raducanu |
| Aliaksandra Sasnovich | Olivia Gadecki (WC) | Clara Burel (Q) | Petra Kvitová [15] |
| Wang Xinyu | Nadia Podoroska (PR) | Jil Teichmann [32] | Diana Shnaider (Q) |
| Lucrezia Stefanini (Q) | Yulia Putintseva | Petra Martić | Veronika Kudermetova [9] |
| Anett Kontaveit [16] | Taylor Townsend (WC) | Irina-Camelia Begu [27] | Leylah Fernandez |
| Shelby Rogers | Lauren Davis | Anna Karolína Schmiedlová (Q) | Claire Liu |
| Anastasia Potapova | Liudmila Samsonova [18] | Kimberly Birrell (WC) | Ons Jabeur [2] |
| 1st round out ||||
| Jule Niemeier | Panna Udvardy | Eva Lys (Q) | Marie Bouzková [25] |
| Elisabetta Cocciaretto | Séléna Janicijevic (Q) | Lesia Tsurenko (Q) | Anna Kalinskaya |
| Laura Pigossi (LL) | Kamilla Rakhimova | Ana Bogdan | Dayana Yastremska |
| Dalma Gálfi | Moyuka Uchijima (WC) | Tamara Korpatsch | Kateřina Siniaková |
| Jaqueline Cristian (PR) | Brenda Fruhvirtová (Q) | Polina Kudermetova (Q) | Amanda Anisimova [28] |
| Sára Bejlek (Q) | Talia Gibson (WC) | CoCo Vandeweghe (Q) | Alison Van Uytvanck |
| Anna Blinkova | Storm Hunter (WC) | Léolia Jeanjean (LL) | Sofia Kenin (PR) |
| Harriet Dart | Rebecca Marino | Kristína Kučová (PR) | Yuan Yue |
| Daria Kasatkina [8] | Tatjana Maria | Sorana Cîrstea | Wang Xiyu |
| Patricia Maria Țig (PR) | Viktorija Golubic | Evgeniya Rodina (PR) | Maryna Zanevska |
| Julia Grabher | Mayar Sherif | Diane Parry (WC) | Ysaline Bonaventure |
| Elizabeth Mandlik (LL) | Lucia Bronzetti | Alizé Cornet | Katherine Sebov (Q) |
| Tereza Martincová | Arianne Hartono (Q) | Danka Kovinić | Garbiñe Muguruza |
| Martina Trevisan [21] | Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (PR) | Madison Brengle | Viktoriya Tomova |
| Beatriz Haddad Maia [14] | Sloane Stephens | Oksana Selekhmeteva (Q) | Jasmine Paolini |
| Kaia Kanepi [31] | Jaimee Fourlis (WC) | Alison Riske-Amritraj | Tamara Zidanšek |

## Events
### Men's singles

* Novak Djokovic def. Stefanos Tsitsipas, 6–3, 7–6$^{(7–4)}$, 7–6$^{(7–5)}$

### Women's singles

* Aryna Sabalenka def. Elena Rybakina, 4–6, 6–3, 6–4

### Men's doubles

* Rinky Hijikata / Jason Kubler def. Hugo Nys / Jan Zieliński, 6–4, 7–6$^{(7–4)}$

### Women's doubles

* Barbora Krejčíková / Kateřina Siniaková def. Shuko Aoyama / Ena Shibahara, 6–4, 6–3

### Mixed doubles

* Luisa Stefani / Rafael Matos def. Sania Mirza / Rohan Bopanna, 7–6$^{(7–2)}$, 6–2

### Wheelchair men's singles

* Alfie Hewett def. Tokito Oda, 6–3, 6–1

### Wheelchair women's singles

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

### Wheelchair quad singles

* Sam Schröder def. Niels Vink, 6–2, 7–5

### Wheelchair men's doubles

* Alfie Hewett / Gordon Reid def. Maikel Scheffers / Ruben Spaargaren, 6–1, 6–2

### Wheelchair women's doubles

* Diede de Groot / Aniek van Koot def. Yui Kamiji / Zhu Zhenzhen, 6–3, 6–2

### Wheelchair quad doubles

* Sam Schröder / Niels Vink def. Donald Ramphadi / Ymanitu Silva, 6–1, 6–3

### Boys' singles

* Alexander Blockx def. Learner Tien, 6–1, 2–6, 7–6$^{(11–9)}$

### Girls' singles

* Alina Korneeva def. Mirra Andreeva, 6–7$^{(2–7)}$, 6–4, 7–5

### Boys' doubles

* Learner Tien / Cooper Williams def. Alexander Blockx / João Fonseca, 6–4, 6–4

### Girls' doubles

* Renáta Jamrichová / Federica Urgesi def. Hayu Kinoshita / Sara Saito, 7–6$^{(7–5)}$, 1–6, [10–7]

## Point distribution and prize money
### Point distribution

Below is a series of tables for each competition 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 | 2000 | 1200 | 720 | 360 | 180 | 90 | 0 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Women's singles | 2000 | 1300 | 780 | 430 | 240 | 130 | 70 | 10 | 40 | 30 | 20 | 2 |
| Women's doubles | 2000 | 1300 | 780 | 430 | 240 | 130 | 10 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |

### Prize money

The Australian Open total prize money for 2023 increased by 3.38% year on year to a tournament record A$76,500,000. This represented a 155% increase in prize money over the last ten years, from the A$30 million on offer in 2013.
| Event | W | F | SF | QF | Round of 16 | Round of 32 | Round of 64 | Round of 128 | Q3 | Q2 | Q1 |
| Singles | A$2,975,000 | A$1,625,000 | A$925,000 | A$555,250 | A$338,250 | A$227,925 | A$158,850 | A$106,250 | A$55,150 | A$36,575 | A$26,000 |
| Doubles | A$695,000 | A$370,000 | A$210,000 | A$116,500 | A$67,250 | A$46,500 | A$30,975 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Mixed doubles | A$157,750 | A$89,450 | A$47,500 | A$25,250 | A$12,650 | A$6,600 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Wheelchair singles | A$ | A$ | A$ | A$ | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Wheelchair doubles | A$ | A$ | A$ | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Quad singles | A$ | A$ | A$ | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Quad doubles | A$ | A$ | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |

## Controversy

In the wake of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, organizers from the tournament banned Russian and Belarusian flags from being displayed courtside. Nations' flags were initially allowed, but this was reversed after an incident between Russia's Kamilla Rakhimova and Ukraine's Kateryna Baindl. During the game, Russian supporters were accused of taunting Baindl, but the group denied that they were being provocative. They stated that they were merely supporting Rakhimova.
The move came after Russian and Belarusian players were banned from playing under their nation's flags.