2018 Australian Open

The 2018 Australian Open was a tennis tournament played at Melbourne Park between 15 and 28 January 2018, and was the first Grand Slam tournament of the 2018 season. The tournament consisted of events for professional players in singles, doubles and mixed doubles. Junior and wheelchair players compete in singles and doubles tournaments. Roger Federer was the defending champion in the men's singles event and successfully retained his title (his sixth), his record twentieth Grand Slam major overall, defeating Marin Čilić in the final, while Caroline Wozniacki won the women's title, defeating Simona Halep in the final to win her first Grand Slam.

The tournament was the 106th edition of the event (the 50th edition of the Open Era). Additionally, it was the 200th Major tournament of the Open Era. It also marked the 30th anniversary of the Australian Open moving from the Kooyong Tennis Club to Melbourne Park. The tournament had a record attendance of 743,667 spectators.

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.

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

Junior 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 Čilić, 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 Pavić 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 Pavić def. Tímea Babos / Rohan Bopanna, 2–6, 6–4, 1–9

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, 0–5

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), 0–6

Singles seeds

The following are the seeded players and notable players who have withdrawn from the event. Seedings 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

The following players would have been seeded, but they withdrew from the event.

Women's singles

The following players would have been seeded, but they withdrew or not entered from the event.

Doubles seeds

Men's doubles

*¹ Rankings are as of 8 January 2018.

Women's doubles

*¹ Rankings are as of 8 January 2018.

Mixed doubles

*¹ Rankings are as of 8 January 2018.

Main draw wildcard entries

Men's singles

* Alex Bolt
* Thanasi Kokkinakis
* Jason Kubler
* Kwon Soon-woo
* Alex de Minaur
* Corentin Moutet
* Alexei Popyrin
* Tim Smyczek

Women's singles

* Kristie Ahn
* Destanee Aiava
* Lizette Cabrera
* Jaimee Fourlis
* Jessika Ponchet
* Olivia Rogowska
* Ajla Tomljanović
* Wang Xinyu

Men's doubles

* Alex Bolt / Bradley Mousley
* James Duckworth / Alex de Minaur
* Matthew Ebden / John Millman
* Sam Groth / Lleyton Hewitt
* Thanasi Kokkinakis / Jordan Thompson
* Max Purcell / Luke Saville
* Sanchai Ratiwatana / Sonchat Ratiwatana

Women's doubles

* Alison Bai / Zoe Hives
* Naiktha Bains / Isabelle Wallace
* Kimberly Birrell / Jaimee Fourlis
* Priscilla Hon / Ajla Tomljanović
* Jiang Xinyu / Tang Qianhui
* Jessica Moore / Ellen Perez
* Astra Sharma / Belinda Woolcock

Mixed doubles

* Monique Adamczak / Matthew Ebden
* Lizette Cabrera / Alex Bolt
* Zoe Hives / Bradley Mousley
* Priscilla Hon / Matt Reid
* Ellen Perez / Andrew Whittington
* Arina Rodionova / John-Patrick Smith
* Storm Sanders / Marc Polmans
* Samantha Stosur / Sam Groth

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.

Men's singles

Qualifiers

# Salvatore Caruso
# Dennis Novak
# Jaume Munar
# Quentin Halys
# Vasek Pospisil
# Kevin King
# Denis Kudla
# Mackenzie McDonald
# Elias Ymer
# Dustin Brown
# Casper Ruud
# Lorenzo Sonego
# Ruben Bemelmans
# Václav Šafránek
# Yuki Bhambri
# Matthias Bachinger

Lucky losers

# Peter Polansky
# Matteo Berrettini

Women's singles

Qualifiers

# Anna Kalinskaya
# Anna Blinkova
# Zhu Lin
# Viktorija Golubic
# Irina Falconi
# Denisa Allertová
# Ivana Jorović
# Viktória Kužmová
# Marta Kostyuk
# Anna Karolína Schmiedlová
# Luksika Kumkhum
# Magdalena Fręch

Lucky losers

# Viktoriya Tomova
# Bernarda Pera

Protected ranking

The following players were accepted directly into the main draw using a protected ranking:

; Men's singles
* Andreas Haider-Maurer (63)
* Yoshihito Nishioka (66)
* John Millman (81)
* Ričardas Berankis (92)

; Women's singles
* Anna-Lena Friedsam (50)
* Margarita Gasparyan (62)
* Kristína Kučová (95)
* Misa Eguchi (109)

Withdrawals

The following players were accepted directly into the main tournament, but withdrew with injuries or other reasons.

;Before the tournament

; Men's singles
* ‡ Steve Darcis (77) → replaced by Gerald Melzer (101)
* ‡ Kei Nishikori (22) → replaced by Rogério Dutra Silva (102)
* ‡ Andy Murray (16) → replaced by Marcos Baghdatis (103)
* § Filip Krajinović (34) → replaced by Peter Polansky (LL)
* § Lu Yen-hsun (71) → replaced by Matteo Berrettini (LL)

; Women's singles
* † Svetlana Kuznetsova (12) → replaced by Richèl Hogenkamp (106)
* † Zheng Saisai (94) → replaced by Mariana Duque Mariño (107)
* ‡ Laura Siegemund (69) → replaced by Sofia Kenin (108)
* ‡ Timea Bacsinszky (39) → replaced by Jana Čepelová (109)
* ‡ Serena Williams (22) → replaced by Misa Eguchi (109 PR)
* ‡ Sara Sorribes Tormo (102) → replaced by Nicole Gibbs (110)
* @ Ana Konjuh (44) → replaced by Viktoriya Tomova (LL)
* § Margarita Gasparyan (62 PR) → replaced by Bernarda Pera (LL)

† – not included on entry list

‡ – withdrew from entry list before qualifying began

@ – withdrew from entry list after qualifying began

§ – withdrew from main draw

Retirements

; Men's singles
* Chung Hyeon
* Rafael Nadal
* Gilles Simon
* Mischa Zverev

References

External links

Australian Open official website
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2018 ATP World Tour
2018 in Australian tennis
2018 WTA Tour
January 2018 sports events in Australia
2010s in Melbourne
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