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 6–3, 6–2, 6–3 in the men's final. Naomi Osaka of Japan defeated Petra Kvitová of the Czech Republic 7–6, 5–7, 6–4 to win the women's singles title.

Tournament

The 2019 Australian Open was the 107th edition of the Australian Open. The tournament was run by the International Tennis Federation 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, 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.
EventWFSFQFRound of 16Round of 32Round of 64Q3Q2Q1
SinglesA$4,100,000A$2,050,000A$920,000A$460,000A$260,000A$155,000A$105,000A$75,000A$40,000A$25,000A$15,000
Doubles *A$750,000A$375,000A$190,000A$100,000A$55,000A$32,500A$21,000
Mixed Doubles *A$185,000A$95,000A$47,500A$23,000A$11,500A$5,950

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

Boys' Singles

Men's Legends' Doubles

Wheelchair events

Wheelchair Men's Singles

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">2019 Australian Open – Men's Singles">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.
RankPlayerPoints beforePoints defendingPoints afterWithdrawal reason
5 Juan Martín del Potro5,150905,060Knee injury
26 Richard Gasquet1,535901,445Groin injury

Women's singles">2019 Australian Open – Women's Singles">Women's singles

Doubles seeds

Men's doubles">2019 Australian Open – Men's Doubles">Men's doubles

Men's Singles

Men's Singles

  1. Tatsuma Ito
  2. Christopher Eubanks
  3. Bjorn Fratangelo
  4. Dan Evans
  5. Henri Laaksonen
  6. Prajnesh Gunneswaran
  7. Gleb Sakharov
  8. Stefano Travaglia
  9. Rudolf Molleker
  10. Thanasi Kokkinakis
  11. Lloyd Harris
  12. Luca Vanni
  13. Mitchell Krueger
  14. Viktor Troicki
  15. Kamil Majchrzak
  16. Miomir Kecmanović

    Women's Singles

  17. Astra Sharma
  18. Misaki Doi
  19. Viktorija Golubic
  20. Bianca Andreescu
  21. Karolína Muchová
  22. Iga Świątek
  23. Veronika Kudermetova
  24. Anna Kalinskaya
  25. Paula Badosa Gibert
  26. Harriet Dart
  27. Zhu Lin
  28. Varvara Lepchenko
  29. Jessika Ponchet
  30. Ysaline Bonaventure
  31. Natalia Vikhlyantseva
  32. Beatriz Haddad Maia

    Protected ranking

The following players have been accepted directly into the main draw using a protected ranking:
; Men's Singles
; Women's Singles
The following players were accepted directly into the main tournament, but withdrew due to injuries or other reasons
;Before the tournament
; Men's Singles
; Women's Singles