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 Open Era, 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

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was the defending men's singles champion. He was defeated in the semifinals by Jannik Sinner, who went on to beat Daniil Medvedev in a five-set final to win his first major title. Aryna Sabalenka 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, Rod Laver Arena 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 Thanasi Kokkinakis in 2023, which ended at 4:05 am local time. The

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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 Daniil Medvedev and Emil Ruusuvuori 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

* Jannik Sinner def. Daniil Medvedev, 3–6, 3–6, 6–4, 6–4, 6–3.

Women's singles

* Aryna Sabalenka def.

, 6–3, 6–2.

Men's doubles

* Rohan Bopanna /

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, 7–6^(7–0), 7–5.

Women's doubles

* Hsieh Su-wei / Elise Mertens def. Lyudmyla Kichenok /

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, 6–1, 7–5.

Mixed doubles

* Hsieh Su-wei /

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, 6–7^(5–7), 6–4, 1–9

Wheelchair men's singles

* Tokito Oda def. Alfie Hewett, 6–2, 6–4.

Wheelchair women's singles

* Diede de Groot def. Yui Kamiji, 7–5, 6–4.

Wheelchair quad singles

* Sam Schröder def. Guy Sasson, 6–3, 6–3.

Wheelchair men's doubles

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

Wheelchair women's doubles

* Diede de Groot /

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def. Yui Kamiji /

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, 6–3, 7–6^(7–2).

Wheelchair quad doubles

* Andy Lapthorne / David Wagner def. Donald Ramphadi / Guy Sasson, 6–4, 3–6,

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Boys' singles

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def. Jan Kumstát, 3–6, 7–6^(7–2), 7–5.

Girls' singles

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def. Emerson Jones, 6–4, 6–1.

Boys' doubles

* Maxwell Exsted / Cooper Woestendick 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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