2019 Australian Open

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.
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. 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), [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
† 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
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Kia Motors
ANZ
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Infosys
MasterCard
Rolex
Ganten Baisuishan
DeRucci
Lavazza
Barilla Group
CPA Australia
References
External links
Australian Open official website
2019 ATP Tour
2019 in Australian tennis
2019 WTA Tour
2010s in Melbourne
January 2019 sports events in Australia