2020 Australian Open
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The 2020 Australian Open was a Grand Slam tennis tournament that took place at Melbourne Park, from 20 January to 2 February 2020. It was the 108th edition of the Australian Open, the 52nd 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.
Novak Djokovic and Naomi Osaka were the defending champions in Men's Singles and Women's Singles, respectively. Osaka lost in the third round to Coco Gauff. In contrast, Djokovic successfully defended his title by defeating Dominic Thiem to win the tournament for a record-extending eighth time.
Prior to this edition of the Australian Open, the supplier of the hard courts was changed to GreenSet, though the court surface and color remained the same. This is one of the few sporting events held in 2020 which was unaffected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The tournament had a record attendance of 812,174 spectators.
Tournament
The 2020 Australian Open was the 108th edition of the tournament, held at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
The tournament is run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and is part of the 2020 ATP Tour and the 2020 WTA Tour calendars under the Grand Slam category. The tournament consists of both men's and women's singles and doubles draws as well as the mixed doubles events. There are singles and doubles events for both boys and girls (players under 18), which are part of the Grade A category of tournaments. There are 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 is played on hard courts and is taking place across a series of 25 courts, the three main show courts Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne Arena and Margaret Court Arena. 1573 Arena (formerly Show Court Two) was upgraded into a main show court.
Impact of bushfires
The bushfires that had burned large portions of Australia for months left a smoke haze over Melbourne on the first day of qualifying. That day, the air over Melbourne was rated as the worst in the world. In qualifying, play was delayed, some players called for medical timeouts, and Dalila Jakupović was forced to retire, due to a coughing fit brought on by the poor air quality.
The tournament held a Rally for Relief similar to the one of 2011 before the tournament to raise money to aid areas devastated by the bushfires. Novak Djokovic, Coco Gauff, Petra Kvitová, Rafael Nadal, Naomi Osaka, Dominic Thiem, Stefanos Tsitsipas, and Alexander Zverev all played a doubles format match with Serena Williams and Caroline Wozniacki as team captains. Roger Federer and Nick Kyrgios later played a one set singles match where Federer prevailed.
Singles players
Events
Men's singles
- Serbia Novak Djokovic def. Austria Dominic Thiem, 6–4, 4–6, 2–6, 6–3, 6–4
Women's singles
- United States Sofia Kenin def. Spain Garbiñe Muguruza, 4–6, 6–2, 6–2
Men's doubles
- United States Rajeev Ram / United Kingdom Joe Salisbury def. Australia Max Purcell / Australia Luke Saville, 6–4, 6–2
Women's doubles
- Hungary Tímea Babos / France Kristina Mladenovic def. Chinese Taipei Hsieh Su-wei / Czech Republic Barbora Strýcová, 6–2, 6–1
Mixed doubles
- Czech Republic Barbora Krejčíková / Croatia Nikola Mektić def. United States Bethanie Mattek-Sands / United Kingdom Jamie Murray, 5–7, 6–4, [10–1]
Wheelchair men's singles
- Japan Shingo Kunieda def. United Kingdom Gordon Reid, 6–4, 6–4
Wheelchair women's singles
- Japan Yui Kamiji def. Netherlands Aniek van Koot, 6–2, 6–2
Wheelchair quad singles
- Australia Dylan Alcott def. United Kingdom Andy Lapthorne, 6–0, 6–4
Wheelchair men's doubles
- United Kingdom Alfie Hewett / United Kingdom Gordon Reid def. France Stéphane Houdet / France Nicolas Peifer, 4–6, 6–4, [10–7]
Wheelchair women's doubles
- Japan Yui Kamiji / United Kingdom Jordanne Whiley def. Netherlands Diede de Groot / Netherlands Aniek van Koot, 6–2, 6–4
Wheelchair quad doubles
- Australia Dylan Alcott / Australia Heath Davidson def. United Kingdom Andy Lapthorne / United States David Wagner, 6–4, 6–3
Boys' singles
- France Harold Mayot def. France Arthur Cazaux, 6–4, 6–1
Girls' singles
- Andorra Victoria Jiménez Kasintseva def. Poland Weronika Baszak, 5–7, 6–2, 6–2
Boys' doubles
- Romania Nicholas David Ionel / Switzerland Leandro Riedi def. Poland Mikołaj Lorens / Latvia Kārlis Ozoliņš, 6–7(8–10), 7–5, [10–4]
Girls' doubles
- Philippines Alex Eala / Indonesia Priska Madelyn Nugroho def. Slovenia Živa Falkner / United Kingdom Matilda Mutavdzic, 6–1, 6–2
Point distribution and prize money
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 | —N/a | —N/a | —N/a | —N/a | —N/a | ||||||
| Women's singles | 1300 | 780 | 430 | 240 | 130 | 70 | 10 | 40 | 30 | 20 | 2 | |
| Women's doubles | 10 | —N/a | —N/a | —N/a | —N/a | —N/a |
| Girls' singles | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wheelchair points Event W F SF/3rd QF/4th Singles 800 500 375 100 Doubles 800 500 100 —N/a Quad singles 800 500 100 —N/a Quad doubles 800 100 —N/a —N/a | Junior points Event W F SF QF Round of 16 Round of 32 Q Q3 Boys' singles 375 270 180 120 75 30 25 20 Girls' singles Boys' doubles 270 180 120 75 45 —N/a —N/a —N/a Girls' doubles —N/a —N/a —N/a | |||||||
| Event | W | F | SF/3rd | QF/4th | ||||
| Singles | 800 | 500 | 375 | 100 | ||||
| Doubles | 800 | 500 | 100 | —N/a | ||||
| Quad singles | 800 | 500 | 100 | —N/a | ||||
| Quad doubles | 800 | 100 | —N/a | —N/a | ||||
| Event | W | F | SF | QF | Round of 16 | Round of 32 | Q | Q3 |
| Boys' singles | 375 | 270 | 180 | 120 | 75 | 30 | 25 | 20 |
| Boys' doubles | 270 | 180 | 120 | 75 | 45 | —N/a | —N/a | —N/a |
| Girls' doubles | —N/a | —N/a | —N/a |
Prize money
The Australian Open total prize money for 2020 was increased by 13.6% to a tournament record A$71,000,000.
| Event | W | F | SF | QF | Round of 16 | Round of 32 | Round of 64 | Round of 1281 | Q3 | Q2 | Q1 |
| Singles | A$4,120,000 | A$2,065,000 | A$1,040,000 | A$525,000 | A$300,000 | A$180,000 | A$128,000 | A$90,000 | A$50,000 | A$32,500 | A$20,000 |
| Doubles * | A$760,000 | A$380,000 | A$200,000 | A$110,000 | A$62,000 | A$38,000 | A$25,000 | —N/a | —N/a | —N/a | —N/a |
| Mixed doubles * | A$190,000 | A$100,000 | A$50,000 | A$24,000 | A$12,000 | A$6,250 | —N/a | —N/a | —N/a | —N/a | —N/a |
1Qualifiers prize money was also the Round of 128 prize money. *per team
External links
| Preceded by2019 US Open | Grand Slams | Succeeded by2020 US Open 2020 Wimbledon cancelled |