2017 Australian Open

2017 Australian Open
Date	16–29 January
Edition	105th
Category	Grand Slam
Draw	128S / 64D /
Prize money	A$ 50,000,000
Surface	Hard (Plexicushion)
Location	Melbourne, Australia
Venue	Melbourne Park
Attendance	728,763
Champions
Men's singles
Roger Federer
Women's singles
Serena Williams
Men's doubles
Henri Kontinen / John Peers
Women's doubles
Bethanie Mattek-Sands / Lucie Šafářová
Mixed doubles
Abigail Spears / Juan Sebastián Cabal
Wheelchair men's singles
Gustavo Fernández
Wheelchair women's singles
Yui Kamiji
Wheelchair quad singles
Dylan Alcott
Wheelchair men's doubles
Joachim Gérard / Gordon Reid
Wheelchair women's doubles
Jiske Griffioen / Aniek van Koot
Wheelchair quad doubles
Andrew Lapthorne / David Wagner
Boys' singles
Zsombor Piros
Girls' singles
Marta Kostyuk
Boys' doubles
Hsu Yu-hsiou / Zhao Lingxi
Girls' doubles
Bianca Andreescu / Carson Branstine
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The 2017 Australian Open was a tennis tournament that took place at Melbourne Park between 16 and 29 January 2017. It was the 105th edition of the Australian Open, and the first Grand Slam tournament of the year. The tournament consisted of events for professional players in singles, doubles and mixed doubles play. Junior and wheelchair players competed in singles and doubles tournaments. As in previous years, the tournament's title sponsor was Kia.

Novak Djokovic and Angelique Kerber were the defending champions and both were unsuccessful in their title defence; they lost to Denis Istomin and Coco Vandeweghe in the second and fourth rounds, respectively. For the first time since the 2004 French Open, both No. 1 seeds lost before the quarterfinals, with both Andy Murray and Kerber defeated in the fourth round.

Roger Federer won his eighteenth men's singles Grand Slam title by defeating Rafael Nadal in a five-set final. It was his first major title since 2012 Wimbledon and a rematch of the 2009 Australian Open final, which Nadal won in five sets. Serena Williams overcame her sister Venus in the women's singles final, surpassing Steffi Graf to become the player with the most major wins in the women's game in the Open Era.

Tournament[]

The 2017 Australian Open was the 105th edition of the tournament and was held at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia.

The tournament was run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and is part of the 2017 ATP World Tour and the 2017 WTA Tour calendars under the Grand Slam category. The tournament consisted of both men's and women's singles and doubles draw as well as a mixed doubles event. There were singles and doubles events for both boys and girls (players under 18), which are 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 and took place over a series of 25 courts, including the three main show courts: Rod Laver Arena, Hisense Arena and Margaret Court Arena.^[1]

Broadcast[]

In Australia, selected key matches were broadcast live by the Seven Network. The majority of matches was shown on the network's primary channel Channel Seven; however, during news programming nationwide and most night matches in Perth, coverage shifted to either 7Two or 7mate. Additionally, every match was also available to be streamed live through a free 7Tennis mobile app.^[2]

Internationally, Eurosport held the rights for Europe, broadcasting matches on Eurosport 1, Eurosport 2 and the Eurosport Player.

Singles players[]

Men's Singles

Champion		Runner-up
Roger Federer [17]		Rafael Nadal [9]
Semi-finals out
Stan Wawrinka [4]		Grigor Dimitrov [15]
Quarter-finals out
Mischa Zverev	Jo-Wilfried Tsonga [12]	Milos Raonic [3]	David Goffin [11]
4th round out
Andy Murray [1]	Kei Nishikori [5]	Andreas Seppi	Daniel Evans
Gaël Monfils [6]	Roberto Bautista Agut [13]	Dominic Thiem [8]	Denis Istomin (WC)
3rd round out
Sam Querrey [31]	Malek Jaziri	Tomáš Berdych [10]	Lukáš Lacko (Q)
Viktor Troicki [29]	Steve Darcis	Jack Sock [23]	Bernard Tomic [27]
Philipp Kohlschreiber [32]	Alexander Zverev [24]	David Ferrer [21]	Gilles Simon [25]
Benoît Paire	Ivo Karlović [20]	Richard Gasquet [18]	Pablo Carreño Busta [30]
2nd round out
Andrey Rublev (Q)	Alex De Minaur (WC)	John Isner [19]	Alexander Bublik (Q)
Ryan Harrison	Noah Rubin (Q)	Dudi Sela	Jérémy Chardy
Steve Johnson	Paolo Lorenzi	Diego Schwartzman	Nick Kyrgios [14]
Dušan Lajović	Karen Khachanov	Víctor Estrella Burgos	Marin Čilić [7]
Alexandr Dolgopolov	Donald Young	Frances Tiafoe (Q)	Marcos Baghdatis
Yoshihito Nishioka	Ernesto Escobedo (Q)	Rogério Dutra Silva	Gilles Müller
Jordan Thompson	Fabio Fognini	Andrew Whittington (WC)	Radek Štěpánek (Q)
Chung Hyeon	Carlos Berlocq	Kyle Edmund	Novak Djokovic [2]
1st round out
Illya Marchenko	Lu Yen-hsun	Gerald Melzer	Quentin Halys (WC)
Konstantin Kravchuk	Guillermo García-López	Go Soeda (Q)	Lucas Pouille [16]
Luca Vanni (Q)	Nicolas Mahut	Bjorn Fratangelo (Q)	Jürgen Melzer (Q)
Albert Ramos Viñolas [26]	Marcel Granollers	Nicolás Almagro	Andrey Kuznetsov
Martin Kližan	Federico Delbonis	James Duckworth	Damir Džumhur
Pablo Cuevas [22]	Sam Groth (WC)	Paul-Henri Mathieu	Gastão Elias
Thiago Monteiro	Stéphane Robert	Adrian Mannarino	Pierre-Hugues Herbert
Thomaz Bellucci	Aljaž Bedene	Facundo Bagnis	Jerzy Janowicz (PR)
Jiří Veselý	Borna Ćorić	Thomas Fabbiano (Q)	Nikoloz Basilashvili
Robin Haase	Mikhail Kukushkin	Mikhail Youzhny	Florian Mayer
Guido Pella	Alex Bolt (Q)	Daniil Medvedev	Omar Jasika (WC)
Michael Mmoh (WC)	Jared Donaldson	Taylor Fritz	Dustin Brown
Jan-Lennard Struff	João Sousa	Tommy Haas (PR)	Feliciano López [28]
Horacio Zeballos	Adam Pavlásek	Dmitry Tursunov (PR)	Reilly Opelka (Q)
Christopher O'Connell (WC)	Renzo Olivo	Radu Albot	Blake Mott (Q)
Peter Polansky (LL)	Santiago Giraldo	Ivan Dodig (Q)	Fernando Verdasco

Women's Singles

Champion		Runner-up
Serena Williams [2]		Venus Williams [13]
Semi-finals out
Coco Vandeweghe		Mirjana Lučić-Baroni
Quarter-finals out
Garbiñe Muguruza [7]	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova [24]	Karolína Plíšková [5]	Johanna Konta [9]
4th round out
Angelique Kerber [1]	Sorana Cîrstea	Mona Barthel (Q)	Svetlana Kuznetsova [8]
Daria Gavrilova [22]	Jennifer Brady (Q)	Ekaterina Makarova [30]	Barbora Strýcová [16]
3rd round out
Kristýna Plíšková	Eugenie Bouchard	Alison Riske	Anastasija Sevastova [32]
Ashleigh Barty (WC)	Duan Yingying	Elina Svitolina [11]	Jelena Janković
Jeļena Ostapenko	Timea Bacsinszky [12]	Elena Vesnina [14]	Maria Sakkari
Dominika Cibulková [6]	Caroline Wozniacki [17]	Caroline Garcia [21]	Nicole Gibbs
2nd round out
Carina Witthöft	Irina-Camelia Begu [27]	Peng Shuai	Pauline Parmentier
Carla Suárez Navarro [10]	Zhang Shuai [20]	Kristína Kučová	Samantha Crawford
Shelby Rogers	Monica Puig [29]	Varvara Lepchenko	Stefanie Vögele (Q)
Julia Boserup (Q)	Natalia Vikhlyantseva (Q)	Julia Görges	Jaimee Fourlis (WC)
Anna Blinkova (Q)	Yulia Putintseva [31]	Ana Konjuh	Danka Kovinić
Mandy Minella	Heather Watson	Alizé Cornet [28]	Agnieszka Radwańska [3]
Hsieh Su-wei	Sara Errani	Donna Vekić	Naomi Osaka
Andrea Petkovic	Océane Dodin	Irina Falconi	Lucie Šafářová
1st round out
Lesia Tsurenko	Eri Hozumi (Q)	Viktorija Golubic	Yaroslava Shvedova
Daria Kasatkina [23]	Louisa Chirico	Misaki Doi	Roberta Vinci [15]
Jana Čepelová	Irina Khromacheva	Madison Brengle	Aliaksandra Sasnovich (Q)
Nao Hibino	Christina McHale	Lauren Davis	Marina Erakovic
Simona Halep [4]	Annika Beck	Destanee Aiava (WC)	Patricia Maria Țig
Kiki Bertens [19]	Rebecca Šramková (Q)	Kurumi Nara	Kateryna Kozlova
Galina Voskoboeva (PR)	Francesca Schiavone	Vania King	Evgeniya Rodina
Laura Siegemund [26]	Kateřina Siniaková	Anna Tatishvili (PR)	Mariana Duque Mariño
Sara Sorribes Tormo	Monica Niculescu	Zhu Lin (Q)	Lara Arruabarrena
Naomi Broady	Kristina Mladenovic	Zheng Saisai	Camila Giorgi
Ana Bogdan (Q)	Magda Linette	Maryna Zanevska (LL)	Samantha Stosur [18]
Myrtille Georges (WC)	Anett Kontaveit	Wang Qiang	Tsvetana Pironkova
Denisa Allertová	Karin Knapp (PR)	Risa Ozaki	Ekaterina Alexandrova
Arina Rodionova (WC)	Lizette Cabrera (WC)	Luksika Kumkhum (WC)	Kirsten Flipkens
Elizaveta Kulichkova (Q)	Kayla Day (WC)	Çağla Büyükakçay	Kateryna Bondarenko
Tímea Babos [25]	Han Xinyun	Yanina Wickmayer	Belinda Bencic

Events[]

Men's singles[]

• Roger Federer defeated Rafael Nadal, 6–4, 3–6, 6–1, 3–6, 6–3

This was a rematch of the 2009 Australian Open final, which Rafael Nadal won to become the first (and to date, only) Spaniard to win the Australian Open title. The final saw the two holding service for six games of the first set, whilst during the seventh game was the pivotal break of serve giving Federer the opening set. Nadal quickly broke Federer's serve in the second set racing out to a lead that Federer could not overcome, giving him the second set and leveling the match at one set apiece. The third set was a rather lopsided affair seeing Nadal secure his service game only in the fourth game of the set. The fourth set started off competitively with the two holdings serve until Nadal broke in the fourth game of the set, a lead he would never surrender, evening the match at two sets apiece. The decisive fifth set commenced with a break of Federer's serve by Nadal, giving him a lead in the early going; however, Nadal's serve got broken during the sixth game of the set, leveling the match at two sets and three games apiece. Federer won the next three games breaking Nadal's service in the eighth game of the set to allow him to successfully serve out the match in the final ninth game. This was Roger Federer's 18th Grand Slam singles title, the most ever by a man in the history of tennis, and it was his fifth Australian Open title, just one shy of the record co-held by Novak Djokovic and Roy Emerson.^[3] Federer would go on to equal this record by defending his title successfully the next year.

Women's singles[]

• Serena Williams defeated Venus Williams, 6–4, 6–4

This was a rematch of the 2003 Australian Open final, where Serena Williams completed the first "Serena Slam" and her career Grand Slam, whilst Serena won five more Australian Open titles in the interim and her sister Venus had no other final appearances at the event. They each broke the others' serve twice to start the match with Venus finally holding serve in the fifth service game and her sister Serena holding her own serve in the subsequent game. The seventh game was the pivotal break of service that Serena Williams got on her sister Venus' serve, costing her the set just a mere three games later. During the second set, the two traded held service games for the first six games to start the set, whilst Venus started serving first. She would get broken again during the seventh game of the set, which eventually surrendered the match to sister Serena. This was Serena Williams' 23 Grand Slam singles title and seventh Australian Open title for her career, both being Open era records, whilst being one shy of Margaret Court's record of 24 in the history of tennis.^[4]

Men's doubles[]

• Henri Kontinen / John Peers defeated. Bob Bryan / Mike Bryan, 7–5, 7–5

Women's doubles[]

• Bethanie Mattek-Sands / Lucie Šafářová defeated Andrea Hlaváčková / Peng Shuai, 6–7^(4–7), 6–3, 6–3

Mixed doubles[]

• Abigail Spears / Juan Sebastián Cabal defeated Sania Mirza / Ivan Dodig, 6–2, 6–4

Wheelchair men's singles[]

• Gustavo Fernández defeated Nicolas Peifer, 3–6, 6–2, 6–0

Wheelchair women's singles[]

• Yui Kamiji defeated Jiske Griffioen, 6–7^(2–7), 6–3, 6–3

Wheelchair Quad singles[]

• Dylan Alcott defeated Andrew Lapthorne, 6–2, 6–2

Wheelchair men's doubles[]

• Joachim Gérard / Gordon Reid defeated Gustavo Fernández / Alfie Hewett, 6–3, 3–6, [10–3]

Wheelchair women's doubles[]

• Jiske Griffioen / Aniek van Koot defeated Diede de Groot / Yui Kamiji, 6–3, 6–2

Wheelchair Quad doubles[]

• Andrew Lapthorne / David Wagner defeated Dylan Alcott / Heath Davidson, 6–3, 6–3

Boys' singles[]

• Zsombor Piros defeated Yshai Oliel, 4–6, 6–4, 6–3

Girls' singles[]

• Marta Kostyuk defeated Rebeka Masarova, 7–5, 1–6, 6–4

Boys' doubles[]

• Hsu Yu-hsiou / Zhao Lingxi defeated Finn Reynolds / Duarte Vale, 6–7^(8–10), 6–4, [10–5]

Girls' doubles[]

• Bianca Andreescu / Carson Branstine defeated Maja Chwalińska / Iga Świątek, 6–1, 7–6^(7–4)

Singles seeds[]

The following are the seeded players and notable players who withdrew from the event. Seeding are arranged according to ATP and WTA rankings on 9 January 2017,^[5][6] while ranking and points before are as of 16 January 2017.^[7][8] The rankings afterwards comes from 30 January 2017.^[9][10]

Men's singles[]

Seed	Rank	Player	Points before	Points defending	Points won	Points after	Status
1	1	Andy Murray	12,560	1,200	180	11,540	Fourth round lost to Mischa Zverev
2	2	Novak Djokovic	11,780	2,000	45	9,825	Second round lost to Denis Istomin [WC]
3	3	Milos Raonic	5,290	720	360	4,930	Quarter-finals lost to Rafael Nadal [9]
4	4	Stan Wawrinka	5,155	180	720	5,695	Semi-finals lost to Roger Federer [17]
5	5	Kei Nishikori	5,010	360	180	4,830	Fourth round lost to Roger Federer [17]
6	6	Gaël Monfils	3,625	360	180	3,445	Fourth round lost to Rafael Nadal [9]
7	7	Marin Čilić	3,605	90	45	3,560	Second round lost to Daniel Evans
8	8	Dominic Thiem	3,415	90	180	3,505	Fourth round lost to David Goffin [11]
9	9	Rafael Nadal	3,195	10	1,200	4,385	Runner-up, lost to Roger Federer [17]
10	10	Tomáš Berdych	3,060	360	90	2,790	Third round lost to Roger Federer [17]
11	11	David Goffin	2,750	180	360	2,930	Quarter-finals lost to Grigor Dimitrov [15]
12	12	Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	2,505	180	360	2,685	Quarter-finals lost to Stan Wawrinka [4]
13	14	Roberto Bautista Agut	2,350	180	180	2,350	Fourth round lost to Milos Raonic [3]
14	13	Nick Kyrgios	2,460	90	45	2,415	Second round lost to Andreas Seppi
15	15	Grigor Dimitrov	2,135	90	720	2,765	Semi-finals lost to Rafael Nadal [9]
16	16	Lucas Pouille	2,131	10	10	2,131	First round lost to Alexander Bublik [Q]
17	17	Roger Federer	1,980	720	2,000	3,260	Champion, defeated Rafael Nadal [9]
18	18	Richard Gasquet	1,885	0	90	1,975	Third round lost to Grigor Dimitrov [15]
19	19	John Isner	1,850	180	45	1,715	Second round lost to Mischa Zverev
20	21	Ivo Karlović	1,795	10	90	1,875	Third round lost to David Goffin [11]
21	23	David Ferrer	1,740	360	90	1,470	Third round lost to Roberto Bautista Agut [13]
22	22	Pablo Cuevas	1,780	45	10	1,745	First round lost to Diego Schwartzman
23	20	Jack Sock	1,810	45	90	1,855	Third round lost to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga [12]
24	24	Alexander Zverev	1,655	10	90	1,735	Third round lost to Rafael Nadal [9]
25	25	Gilles Simon	1,585	180	90	1,495	Third round lost to Milos Raonic [3]
26	26	Albert Ramos Viñolas	1,435	45	10	1,400	First round lost to Lukáš Lacko [Q]
27	27	Bernard Tomic	1,420	180	90	1,330	Third round lost to Daniel Evans
28	29	Feliciano López	1,410	90	10	1,330	First round lost to Fabio Fognini
29	35	Viktor Troicki	1,225	90	90	1,225	Third round lost to Stan Wawrinka [4]
30	31	Pablo Carreño Busta	1,370	10	90	1,450	Third round lost to Denis Istomin [WC]
31	32	Sam Querrey	1,355	10	90	1,435	Third round lost to Andy Murray [1]
32	33	Philipp Kohlschreiber	1,325	10	90	1,405	Third round lost to Gaël Monfils [6]

Women's singles[]

Seed	Rank	Player	Points before	Points defending	Points won	Points after	Status
1	1	Angelique Kerber	8,875	2,000	240	7,115	Fourth round lost to Coco Vandeweghe
2	2	Serena Williams	7,080	1,300	2,000	7,780	Champion, defeated Venus Williams [13]
3	3	Agnieszka Radwańska	5,625	780	70	4,915	Second round lost to Mirjana Lučić-Baroni
4	4	Simona Halep	5,073	10	10	5,073	First round lost to Shelby Rogers
5	5	Karolína Plíšková	4,970	130	430	5,270	Quarter-finals lost to Mirjana Lučić-Baroni
6	6	Dominika Cibulková	4,865	10	130	4,985	Third round lost to Ekaterina Makarova [30]
7	7	Garbiñe Muguruza	4,420	130	430	4,720	Quarter-finals lost to Coco Vandeweghe
8	10	Svetlana Kuznetsova	3,745	70	240	3,915	Fourth round lost to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova [24]
9	9	Johanna Konta	4,055	780	430	3,705	Quarter-finals lost to Serena Williams [2]
10	12	Carla Suárez Navarro	2,985	430	70	2,625	Second round lost to Sorana Cîrstea
11	13	Elina Svitolina	2,895	70	130	2,955	Third round lost to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova [24]
12	15	Timea Bacsinszky	2,347	70	130	2,407	Third round lost to Daria Gavrilova [22]
13	17	Venus Williams	2,240	10	1,300	3,530	Runner-up, lost to Serena Williams [2]
14	18	Elena Vesnina	2,229	2[11]	130	2,357	Third round lost to Jennifer Brady [Q]
15	19	Roberta Vinci	2,210	130	10	2,090	First round lost to Coco Vandeweghe
16	16	Barbora Strýcová	2,295	240	240	2,295	Fourth round lost to Serena Williams [2]
17	20	Caroline Wozniacki	2,175	10	130	2,295	Third round lost to Johanna Konta [9]
18	21	Samantha Stosur	2,016	10	10	2,016	First round lost to Heather Watson
19	22	Kiki Bertens	1,956	10	10	1,956	First round lost to Varvara Lepchenko
20	23	Zhang Shuai	1,885	470	70	1,485	Second round lost to Alison Riske
21	24	Caroline Garcia	1,765	10	130	1,885	Third round lost to Barbora Strýcová [16]
22	26	Daria Gavrilova	1,665	240	240	1,665	Fourth round lost to Karolína Plíšková [5]
23	25	Daria Kasatkina	1,700	130	10	1,580	First round lost to Peng Shuai
24	27	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	1,620	10	430	2,040	Quarter-finals lost to Venus Williams [13]
25	28	Tímea Babos	1,545	70	10	1,485	First round lost to Nicole Gibbs
26	30	Laura Siegemund	1,502	130	10	1,382	First round lost to Jelena Janković
27	29	Irina-Camelia Begu	1,502	10	70	1,562	Second round lost to Kristýna Plíšková
28	43	Alizé Cornet	1,242	70	70	1,242	Second round lost to Maria Sakkari
29	46	Monica Puig	1,215	130	70	1,155	Second round lost to Mona Barthel [Q]
30	34	Ekaterina Makarova	1,377	240	240	1,377	Fourth round lost to Johanna Konta [9]
31	31	Yulia Putintseva	1,450	130	70	1,390	Second round lost to Jeļena Ostapenko
32	33	Anastasija Sevastova	1,425	110	130	1,445	Third round lost to Garbiñe Muguruza [7]

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

Rank	Player	Points before	Points defending	Points after	Withdrawal reason
8	Madison Keys	4,137	240	3,897	Wrist injury[12]
11	Petra Kvitová	3,485	70	3,415	Off-court injury[13]
14	Victoria Azarenka	2,591	430	2,161	Maternity[14]

Doubles seeds[]

Mixed doubles[]

Team		Rank1	Seed
Bethanie Mattek-Sands	Mike Bryan	6	1
Sania Mirza	Ivan Dodig	16	2
Andrea Hlaváčková	Édouard Roger-Vasselin	26	3
Chan Hao-ching	Max Mirnyi	33	4
Chan Yung-jan	Łukasz Kubot	35	5
Kateřina Siniaková	Bruno Soares	36	6
Lucie Hradecká	Radek Štěpánek	46	7
Barbora Krejčíková	Rajeev Ram	49	8

• ¹ Rankings are as of 9 January 2017.

Main draw wildcard entries[]

Main draw qualifier entries[]

The qualifying competition took place in Melbourne Park on 11 – 14 January 2017.

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 and other reasons.

Before the tournament

Retirements[]

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[]

Event	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 32	Round of 64	Round of 128	Q	Q3	Q2	Q1
Men's Singles	2000	1200	720	360	180	90	45	10	25	16	8	0
Men's Doubles							0	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Women's Singles		1300	780	430	240	130	70	10	40	30	20	2
Women's Doubles							10	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Prize money[]

The Australian Open total prize money for 2017 was increased by 14% to a tournament record A$50,000,000.

Event	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 32	Round of 64	Round of 1281	Q3	Q2	Q1
Singles	A$3,700,000	A$1,900,000	A$900,000	A$440,000	A$220,000	A$130,000	A$80,000	A$50,000	A$25,000	A$12,500	A$6,250
Doubles *	A$650,000	A$325,000	A$160,500	A$80,000	A$40,000	A$23,000	A$14,800	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Mixed Doubles *	A$150,500	A$75,500	A$37,500	A$18,750	A$9,000	A$4,500	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

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

References[]

External links[]

• Australian Open official website
• Media related to 2017 Australian Open at Wikimedia Commons

Preceded by 2016 US Open

Grand Slams

Succeeded by 2017 French Open