The 2018 Australian Open was a tennis tournament played at Melbourne Park between 15-28 January 2018. It was the first Grand Slam tournament of the 2018 season. The tournament was the 106th edition of the Australian Open of all-time and 50th edition of the tournament in the Open Era. Additionally, it was the 200th Grand Slam event of the Open Era. It marked the 30th anniversary of the Australian Open moving from the Kooyong Tennis Club to Melbourne Park. The tournament consisted of events for professional players in singles, doubles and mixed doubles play. Junior and wheelchair players compete in singles and doubles tournaments. As in previous years, the tournament's title sponsor was Kia.
Roger Federer was the defending champion in the men's singles event and successfully retained his title, defeating Marin ?ili? in the final, won his 6th Australian Open title and historic 20th Grand Slam title; reigning champion Serena Williams did not defend her title in the women's singles event having withdrawn a week before the tournament, stating that she was not fully fit after giving birth to her daughter in September 2017. Caroline Wozniacki won the women's title, defeating Simona Halep in the final.
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Tournament
The 2018 Australian Open was the 106th edition of the tournament and was held at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
The tournament was run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and was part of the 2018 ATP World Tour and the 2018 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 a mixed doubles event. There were singles and doubles events for both boys and girls (players under 18), which were part of the Grade A category of tournaments, and 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 over a series of 25 courts, including the three main show courts: Rod Laver Arena, Hisense Arena and Margaret Court Arena.
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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 2018 was increased by 10% to a tournament record A$55,000,000.
1Qualifiers prize money was also the Round of 128 prize money.
*per team
Singles players
- 2018 Australian Open - Men's Singles
- 2018 Australian Open - Women's Singles
Day-by-day summaries
Champions
Seniors
Men's Singles
- Roger Federer def. Marin ?ili?, 6-2, 6-7(5-7), 6-3, 3-6, 6-1
Women's Singles
- Caroline Wozniacki def. Simona Halep, 7-6(7-2), 3-6, 6-4
Men's Doubles
- Oliver Marach / Mate Pavi? def. Juan Sebastián Cabal / Robert Farah, 6-4, 6-4
Women's Doubles
- Tímea Babos / Kristina Mladenovic def. Ekaterina Makarova / Elena Vesnina, 6-4, 6-3
Mixed Doubles
- Gabriela Dabrowski / Mate Pavi? def. Tímea Babos / Rohan Bopanna, 2-6, 6-4, [11-9]
Juniors
Boys' Singles
- Sebastian Korda def. Tseng Chun-hsin, 7-6(8-6), 6-4
Girls' Singles
- Liang En-shuo def. Clara Burel, 6-3, 6-4
Boys' Doubles
- Hugo Gaston / Clément Tabur def. Rudolf Molleker / Henri Squire, 6-2, 6-2
Girls' Doubles
- Liang En-shuo / Wang Xinyu def. Violet Apisah / Lulu Sun, 7-6(7-4), 4-6, [10-5]
Wheelchair events
Wheelchair Men's Singles
- Shingo Kunieda def. Stéphane Houdet, 4-6, 6-1, 7-6(7-3)
Wheelchair Women's Singles
- Diede de Groot def. Yui Kamiji, 7-6(8-6), 6-4
Wheelchair Quad Singles
- Dylan Alcott def. David Wagner, 7-6(7-1), 6-1
Wheelchair Men's Doubles
- Stéphane Houdet / Nicolas Peifer def. Alfie Hewett / Gordon Reid, 6-4, 6-2
Wheelchair Women's Doubles
- Marjolein Buis / Yui Kamiji def. Diede de Groot / Aniek van Koot, 6-0, 6-4
Wheelchair Quad Doubles
- Dylan Alcott / Heath Davidson def. Andrew Lapthorne / David Wagner, 6-0, 6-7(5-7), [10-6]
Singles seeds
The following are the seeded players and notable players who have withdrawn from the event. Seeding are arranged according to ATP and WTA rankings on 8 January 2018, while ranking and points before are as of 15 January 2018. Points after are as of 29 January 2018.
Men's singles
Withdrawn players
Women's singles
Withdrawn players
Doubles seeds
Mixed doubles
- 1 Rankings are as of 8 January 2018.
Main draw wildcard entries
Main draw qualifier entries
The qualifying competition started in Melbourne Park on 10 January 2018 and was scheduled to end on 13 January 2018. However, matches were extended to 14 January 2018 due to bad weather on the third day of qualifying.
Protected ranking
The following players were accepted directly into the main draw using a protected ranking:
Withdrawals
The following players were accepted directly into the main tournament, but withdrew with injuries or other reasons.
- Before the tournament
Retirements
References
External links
- Australian Open official website
- Media related to 2018 Australian Open at Wikimedia Commons
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