The 2024 Australian Open was a Grand Slam level

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tournament held at

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, from 14 to 28 January 2024. It was the 112th edition of the

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, the 56th in the

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, and the first

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of the year. The tournament consists of events for professional players in singles, doubles and mixed doubles. Junior and wheelchair players competed in singles and doubles tournaments. The tournament's main sponsor is Kia.

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was the defending men's singles champion. He was defeated in the semifinals by

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, who went on to beat

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in a five-set final to win his first major title.

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successfully defended the women's singles title as she claimed her second major singles title, defeating

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without losing a set during the tournament. In the tournament's 119-year history, this was the first Australian Open Tennis Championships to be held on an opening Sunday. The tournament featured the following changes from previous tournaments: * First-round matches took place over three days instead of two. * The daytime sessions on the central courts,

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and

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, featured a maximum of two matches instead of three to avoid matches lasting into the early hours of the morning, such as the match between

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and

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in 2023, which ended at 4:05 am local time. The John Cain Arena schedule remains the same. However, the success of this policy change is questionable, since some matches at this edition of the tournament still finished after midnight, including one between

and

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which finished at 3:40 am local time. * The number of game sessions for the event increased from 47 to 52 with the extra day of competition. The tournament attracted an attendance of 1,020,763 (1,110,657 including pre-tournament qualifiers), making this the highest attended Australian Open ever, as well as the first Grand Slam to attract over a million spectators in a single tournament.

Singles players

* Men's singles * Women's singles

Events

Men's singles

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, 3–6, 3–6, 6–4, 6–4, 6–3.

Women's singles

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, 6–3, 6–2.

Men's doubles

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Simone Bolelli Simone Bolelli (; born 8 October 1985) is an Italian professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP ranking in doubles of World No. 6 achieved on 13 January 2025 and in singles of No. 36 achieved on 23 February 2009. Bolelli is a Grand S ...

Andrea Vavassori Andrea Vavassori (; born 5 May 1995) is an Italian professional tennis player. He has a career high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 6, achieved on 14 October 2024 and a singles ranking of world No. 128, achieved on 19 June 2023. Vavassori is a ...

, 7–6^(7–0), 7–5.

Women's doubles

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Lyudmyla Kichenok Lyudmyla Viktorivna Kichenok (, ; born 20 July 1992) is a Ukrainian professional tennis player. She has been ranked as high as world No. 3 in doubles. She is a two-time Grand Slam champion winning the 2024 US Open with Jeļena Ostapenko and t ...

Jeļena Ostapenko Jeļena "Aļona" Ostapenko (born 8 June 1997) is a Latvian professional tennis player. She has career-high rankings of world No. 5 in singles and No. 4 in doubles by the WTA. Ostapenko has won nine WTA Tour-level singles and eleven doubles tit ...

, 6–1, 7–5.

Mixed doubles

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, 6–7^(5–7), 6–4, 1–9

Wheelchair men's singles

* Tokito Oda def.

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, 6–2, 6–4.

Wheelchair women's singles

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, 7–5, 6–4.

Wheelchair quad singles

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def. Guy Sasson, 6–3, 6–3.

Wheelchair men's doubles

/ Gordon Reid def. Takuya Miki / Tokito Oda, 6–3, 6–2.

Wheelchair women's doubles

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Kgothatso Montjane Kgothatso Montjane (born 3 June 1986) is a South African wheelchair tennis player. In 2024, she became the first black South African woman to win at Wimbledon when she won the wheelchair women's doubles. Early life Montjane was born in Seshego ...

, 6–3, 7–6^(7–2).

Wheelchair quad doubles

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/ David Wagner def.

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/ Guy Sasson, 6–4, 3–6, 0–2

Boys' singles

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Jan Kumstát Jan Kumstát (born 2 January 2007) is a Czech tennis player. He won the boys' doubles event at the 2025 Australian Open. Career In the summer of 2022 he won gold in the singles at the European Youth Olympic Festival in Banská Bystrica. He wa ...

, 3–6, 7–6^(7–2), 7–5.

Girls' singles

Renáta Jamrichová Renáta Jamrichová (born 20 June 2007) is a Slovak professional tennis player. She has a career-high WTA singles ranking of No. 304, achieved on 31 March 2025, and a career high WTA doubles ranking of No. 1108, set on 27 February 2023. She ha ...

def. Emerson Jones, 6–4, 6–1.

Boys' doubles

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Cooper Woestendick Cooper Woestendick (born November 16, 2006) is an American tennis player. He won the boys' doubles event at the 2024 Australian Open. Career From Olathe, Kansas, he won the inaugural International Junior Championships held at the site of the ...

def. Petr Brunclík / Viktor Frydrych, 6–3, 7–5.

Girls' doubles

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/ Iva Jovic def. Julie Paštiková / Julia Stusek, 6–3, 6–1.

Points and prize money

Point distribution

Below is a series of tables for each competition showing the ranking points offered for each event.

Senior points

Wheelchair points

Junior points

Prize money

The Australian Open total prize money for 2024 increased by 13.07% year on year to a tournament record A$86,500,000. Most of the increases were distributed to qualifying and the early rounds of singles and doubles, with First round main draw singles players receiving A$120,000, up 12.94 per cent vs 2023. The total represented a 162% increase in prize money over the last ten years, from the A$33 million on offer in

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References

External links

Australian Open official website
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