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.

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.

The 2019 Australian Open was the first edition to feature final set tie-breaks when a match reached 6–6 a match tiebreak to 10-points was played.

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

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

• Serbia Novak Djokovic def. Spain Rafael Nadal, 6–3, 6–2, 6–3

Women's singles

• Japan Naomi Osaka def. Czech Republic Petra Kvitová, 7–6(7–2), 5–7, 6–4

Men's doubles

• France Pierre-Hugues Herbert / France Nicolas Mahut def. Finland Henri Kontinen / Australia John Peers, 6–4, 7–6(7–1)

Women's doubles

• Australia Samantha Stosur / China Zhang Shuai def. Hungary Tímea Babos / France Kristina Mladenovic, 6–3, 6–4

Mixed doubles

• Czech Republic Barbora Krejčíková / United States Rajeev Ram def. Australia Astra Sharma / Australia John-Patrick Smith, 7–6(7–3), 6–1

Juniors

Boys' singles

• Italy Lorenzo Musetti def. United States Emilio Nava, 4–6, 6–2, 7–6(14–12)

Girls' singles

• Denmark Clara Tauson def. Canada Leylah Annie Fernandez, 6–4, 6–3

Boys' doubles

• Czech Republic Jonáš Forejtek / Czech Republic Dalibor Svrčina def. United States Cannon Kingsley / United States Emilio Nava, 7–6(7–5), 6–4

Girls' doubles

• Japan Natsumi Kawaguchi / Hungary Adrienn Nagy def. United States Chloe Beck / United States Emma Navarro, 6–4, 6–4

Legends

Men's legends' doubles

• France Mansour Bahrami / Australia Mark Philippoussis def. Sweden Jonas Björkman / Sweden Thomas Johansson, 4–3(5–3), 4–2

Women's legends' doubles

Wheelchair events

Wheelchair men's singles

• Argentina Gustavo Fernández def. Sweden Stefan Olsson, 7–5, 6–3

Wheelchair women's singles

• Netherlands Diede de Groot def. Japan Yui Kamiji, 6–0, 6–2

Wheelchair quad singles

• Australia Dylan Alcott def. United States David Wagner, 6–4, 7–6(7–2)

Wheelchair men's doubles

• Belgium Joachim Gérard / Sweden Stefan Olsson def. France Stéphane Houdet / Australia Ben Weekes, 6–3, 6–2

Wheelchair women's doubles

• Netherlands Diede de Groot / Netherlands Aniek van Koot def. Netherlands Marjolein Buis / Germany Sabine Ellerbrock, 5–7, 7–6(7–4), [10–8]

Wheelchair quad doubles

• Australia Dylan Alcott / Australia Heath Davidson def. United Kingdom Andy Lapthorne / United States 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

Mixed doubles

• 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

Sponsors

• Luzhou Laojiao
• Emirates
• Kia Motors
• ANZ
• AccorHotels
• Blackmores
• Infosys
• MasterCard
• Rolex
• Ganten Baisuishan
• DeRucci
• Lavazza
• Barilla Group
• CPA Australia

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