2020 Australian Open


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. As in previous years, the tournament's main sponsor was Kia.
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.
This was the first edition of the Australian Open with GreenSet, a hard surface produced by GreenSet Worldwide. GreenSet was the third type of hard surface used for the Australian Open.

Tournament

The 2020 Australian Open is the 108th edition of the tournament and is held at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
The tournament is run by the International Tennis Federation 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, 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 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. The air over Melbourne on that day 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.

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 2020 was increased by 13.6% to a tournament record A$71,000,000.
EventWFSFQFRound of 16Round of 32Round of 64Q3Q2Q1
SinglesA$4,120,000A$2,065,000A$1,040,000A$525,000A$300,000A$180,000A$128,000A$90,000A$50,000A$32,500A$20,000
Doubles *A$760,000A$380,000A$200,000A$110,000A$62,000A$38,000A$25,000
Mixed Doubles *A$190,000A$100,000A$50,000A$24,000A$12,000A$6,250

1Qualifiers prize money was also the Round of 128 prize money.
*per team

Singles players

;2020 Australian Open – Men's Singles
;2020 Australian Open – Women's Singles

Day-by-day summaries

Singles seeds

The following are the seeded players. Seedings are based on ATP and WTA rankings on 13 January 2020, while ranking and points before are as of 20 January 2020. Points after are as of 3 February 2020. Because the 2020 tournament takes place one week later than in 2019, points defending includes results from both the 2019 Australian Open and the tournaments from the week of 28 January 2019.

Men's singles">2020 Australian Open – Men's Singles">Men's singles

† The player did not qualify for the tournament in 2019. 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
18 Kei Nishikori1,9303601,570Elbow injury
23 Alex de Minaur1,665901,575Abdominal injury
24 Lucas Pouille1,600720880Elbow injury

Women's singles">2020 Australian Open – Women's Singles">Women's singles

† The player did not qualify for the tournament in 2019, but was defending points from an ITF tournament.
The following player would have been seeded, but she withdrew from the event.
RankPlayerPoints beforePoints defendingPoints afterWithdrawal reason
6 Bianca Andreescu4,935110+1604,665Knee injury

Doubles seeds

Men's doubles">2020 Australian Open – Men's Doubles">Men's doubles

Men's Singles

Men's Singles

  1. Dennis Novak
  2. Tallon Griekspoor
  3. Christopher Eubanks
  4. Elliot Benchetrit
  5. Mario Vilella Martínez
  6. Mohamed Safwat
  7. Ilya Ivashka
  8. Quentin Halys
  9. Marco Trungelliti
  10. Norbert Gombos
  11. Daniel Elahi Galán
  12. Pedro Martínez
  13. Max Purcell
  14. Alejandro Tabilo
  15. Ernests Gulbis
  16. Peter Gojowczyk
;Lucky Losers
  1. Evgeny Donskoy
  2. Prajnesh Gunneswaran
  3. Jozef Kovalík
  4. Lorenzo Giustino

    Women's Singles

  5. Ann Li
  6. Nao Hibino
  7. Johanna Larsson
  8. Barbora Krejčíková
  9. Anna Kalinskaya
  10. Kaja Juvan
  11. Leylah Annie Fernandez
  12. Shelby Rogers
  13. Martina Trevisan
  14. Caty McNally
  15. Monica Niculescu
  16. Liudmila Samsonova
  17. Greet Minnen
  18. Elisabetta Cocciaretto
  19. Harriet Dart
  20. Antonia Lottner

    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

Seniors

Men's Singles

Boys' Singles

Wheelchair Men's Singles