2018 Australian Open

2018 Australian Open
2018 Australian Open
Date	15–28 January 2018
Edition	106th; Open Era (50th)
Category	Grand Slam
Draw	128S / 64D /
Prize money	A$55,000,000
Surface	Hard (Plexicushion)
Location	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Venue	Melbourne Park
Attendance	743,667
Champions
Men's singles
	Roger Federer
Women's singles
	Caroline Wozniacki
Men's doubles
	Oliver Marach / Mate Pavić
Women's doubles
	Tímea Babos / Kristina Mladenovic
Mixed doubles
	Mate Pavić / Gabriela Dabrowski
Wheelchair men's singles
	Shingo Kunieda
Wheelchair women's singles
	Diede de Groot
Wheelchair quad singles
	Dylan Alcott
Wheelchair men's doubles
	Stéphane Houdet / Nicolas Peifer
Wheelchair women's doubles
	Marjolein Buis / Yui Kamiji
Wheelchair quad doubles
	Dylan Alcott / Heath Davidson
Boys' singles
	Sebastian Korda
Girls' singles
	Liang En-shuo
Boys' doubles
	Hugo Gaston / Clément Tabur
Girls' doubles
	Liang En-shuo / Wang Xinyu

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.^[2]

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		1200	720	360	180	90	0	—	—	—	—	—
Women's singles		1300	780	430	240	130	70	10	40	30	20	2
Women's doubles		1300	780	430	240	130	10	—	—	—	—	—

Junior points

Girls' singles	1000	600	370	200	100	45	30	20
Event	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 32	Q	Q3
Boys' singles	1000	600	370	200	100	45	30	20
Boys' doubles	750	450	275	150	75	—	—	—
Girls' doubles	750	450	275	150	75	—	—	—

Prize money

The Australian Open total prize money for 2018 was increased by 10% to a tournament record A$55,000,000.

Event	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 32	Round of 64	Round of 128¹	Q3	Q2	Q1
Singles	A$4,000,000	A$2,000,000	A$880,000	A$440,000	A$240,000	A$142,500	A$90,000	A$60,000	A$30,000	A$15,000	A$7,500
Doubles *	A$750,000	A$375,000	A$185,000	A$90,000	A$45,000	A$22,500	A$14,000	—	—	—	—
Mixed doubles *	A$160,000	A$80,000	A$40,000	A$20,000	A$10,000	A$5,000	—	—	—	—	—

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

Singles players

2018 Australian Open – Men's singles

Champion		Runner-up
Roger Federer [2]		Marin Čilić [6]
Semifinals out
Kyle Edmund		Chung Hyeon
Quarterfinals out
Rafael Nadal [1]	Grigor Dimitrov [3]	Tennys Sandgren	Tomáš Berdych [19]
4th round out
Diego Schwartzman [24]	Pablo Carreño Busta [10]	Nick Kyrgios [17]	Andreas Seppi
Dominic Thiem [5]	Novak Djokovic [14]	Fabio Fognini [25]	Márton Fucsovics
3rd round out
Damir Džumhur [28]	Alexandr Dolgopolov	Gilles Müller [23]	Ryan Harrison
Andrey Rublev [30]	Jo-Wilfried Tsonga [15]	Nikoloz Basilashvili	Ivo Karlović
Adrian Mannarino [26]	Maximilian Marterer	Albert Ramos Viñolas [21]	Alexander Zverev [4]
Julien Benneteau	Juan Martín del Potro [12]	Nicolás Kicker	Richard Gasquet [29]
2nd round out
Leonardo Mayer	John Millman (PR)	Casper Ruud (Q)	Matthew Ebden
Gilles Simon	Malek Jaziri	Pablo Cuevas [31]	João Sousa
Mackenzie McDonald (Q)	Marcos Baghdatis	Viktor Troicki	Denis Shapovalov
Denis Istomin	Ruben Bemelmans (Q)	Yoshihito Nishioka (PR)	Yūichi Sugita
Denis Kudla (Q)	Jiří Veselý	Fernando Verdasco	Stan Wawrinka [9]
Gaël Monfils	Tim Smyczek (WC)	Daniil Medvedev	Peter Gojowczyk
David Goffin [7]	Evgeny Donskoy	Guillermo García López	Karen Khachanov
Sam Querrey [13]	Lukáš Lacko	Lorenzo Sonego (Q)	Jan-Lennard Struff
1st round out
Víctor Estrella Burgos	Nicolás Jarry	Borna Ćorić	Paolo Lorenzi
Dušan Lajović	Quentin Halys (Q)	Andreas Haider-Maurer (PR)	John Isner [16]
Jason Kubler (WC)	Marius Copil	Salvatore Caruso (Q)	Federico Delbonis
Mikhail Youzhny	Dudi Sela	Dustin Brown (Q)	Vasek Pospisil (Q)
Dennis Novak (Q)	Elias Ymer (Q)	Yuki Bhambri (Q)	David Ferrer
Rogério Dutra Silva	Alex Bolt (WC)	Stefanos Tsitsipas	Kevin King (Q)
Kevin Anderson [11]	Pierre-Hugues Herbert	Gerald Melzer	Lucas Pouille [18]
Philipp Kohlschreiber [27]	Corentin Moutet (WC)	Laslo Đere	Jack Sock [8]
Guido Pella	Steve Johnson	Václav Šafránek (Q)	Matteo Berrettini (LL)
Roberto Bautista Agut [20]	Cedrik-Marcel Stebe	Jérémy Chardy	Ričardas Berankis (PR)
Donald Young	Jaume Munar (Q)	Alexei Popyrin (WC)	Jared Donaldson
Mischa Zverev [32]	Thanasi Kokkinakis (WC)	Mikhail Kukushkin	Thomas Fabbiano
Matthias Bachinger (Q)	Taro Daniel	Florian Mayer	Horacio Zeballos
Alex de Minaur (WC)	Benoît Paire	Peter Polansky (LL)	Francis Tiafoe
Feliciano López	Radu Albot	Jordan Thompson	Milos Raonic [22]
Blaž Kavčič	Robin Haase	Kwon Soon-woo (WC)	Aljaž Bedene

2018 Australian Open – Women's singles

Champion		Runner-up
Caroline Wozniacki [2]		Simona Halep [1]
Semifinals out
Angelique Kerber [21]		Elise Mertens
Quarterfinals out
Karolína Plíšková [6]	Madison Keys [17]	Elina Svitolina [4]	Carla Suárez Navarro
4th round out
Naomi Osaka	Barbora Strýcová [20]	Hsieh Su-wei	Caroline Garcia [8]
Petra Martić	Denisa Allertová (Q)	Anett Kontaveit [32]	Magdaléna Rybáriková [19]
3rd round out
Lauren Davis	Ashleigh Barty [18]	Bernarda Pera (LL)	Lucie Šafářová [29]
Agnieszka Radwańska [26]	Maria Sharapova	Ana Bogdan	Aliaksandra Sasnovich
Luksika Kumkhum (Q)	Alizé Cornet	Magda Linette	Marta Kostyuk (Q)
Jeļena Ostapenko [7]	Kaia Kanepi	Kateryna Bondarenko	Kiki Bertens [30]
2nd round out
Eugenie Bouchard	Andrea Petkovic	Camila Giorgi	Elena Vesnina [16]
Johanna Konta [9]	Lara Arruabarrena	Sorana Cîrstea	Beatriz Haddad Maia
Garbiñe Muguruza [3]	Lesia Tsurenko	Donna Vekić	Anastasija Sevastova [14]
Yulia Putintseva	Ekaterina Alexandrova	Mirjana Lučić-Baroni [28]	Markéta Vondroušová
Belinda Bencic	Irina-Camelia Begu	Daria Gavrilova [23]	Julia Görges [12]
Zhang Shuai	Daria Kasatkina [22]	Olivia Rogowska (WC)	Kateřina Siniaková
Duan Yingying	Mona Barthel	Monica Puig	Tímea Babos
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova [15]	Kirsten Flipkens	Nicole Gibbs	Jana Fett
1st round out
Destanee Aiava (WC)	Océane Dodin	Jana Čepelová	Petra Kvitová [27]
Aryna Sabalenka	Anna Kalinskaya (Q)	Kristína Kučová (PR)	Ons Jabeur
Madison Brengle	Anna Blinkova (Q)	Richèl Hogenkamp	Kristie Ahn (WC)
Ajla Tomljanović (WC)	Zarina Diyas	Lizette Cabrera (WC)	Verónica Cepede Royg
Jessika Ponchet (WC)	Zhu Lin (Q)	Natalia Vikhlyantseva	Kristýna Plíšková
Anna-Lena Friedsam (PR)	Nao Hibino	Tatjana Maria	Varvara Lepchenko
Kristina Mladenovic [11]	Heather Watson	Polona Hercog	Wang Qiang
Shelby Rogers	Christina McHale	Kurumi Nara	Carina Witthöft
Venus Williams [5]	Johanna Larsson	Alison Van Uytvanck	Ekaterina Makarova [31]
Irina Falconi (Q)	Viktória Kužmová (Q)	Wang Xinyu (WC)	Sofia Kenin
Sloane Stephens [13]	Pauline Parmentier	Jennifer Brady	Anna Karolína Schmiedlová (Q)
Peng Shuai [25]	Jaimee Fourlis (WC)	Maria Sakkari	Ivana Jorović (Q)
Francesca Schiavone	Mariana Duque Mariño	Monica Niculescu	Aleksandra Krunić
Dominika Cibulková [24]	Samantha Stosur	Magdalena Fręch (Q)	CoCo Vandeweghe [10]
Kateryna Kozlova	Viktorija Golubic (Q)	Alison Riske	Taylor Townsend
Catherine Bellis	Viktoriya Tomova (LL)	Misa Eguchi (PR)	Mihaela Buzărnescu

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

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. 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

Seed	Rank	Player	Points before	Points defending	Points won	Points after	Status
1	1	Rafael Nadal	10,600	1,200	360	9,760	Quarterfinals retired against Marin Čilić [6]
2	2	Roger Federer	9,605	2,000	2,000	9,605	Champion, defeated Marin Čilić [6]
3	3	Grigor Dimitrov	4,990	720	360	4,630	Quarterfinals lost to Kyle Edmund
4	4	Alexander Zverev	4,610	90	90	4,610	Third round lost to Chung Hyeon
5	5	Dominic Thiem	4,060	180	180	4,060	Fourth round lost to Tennys Sandgren
6	6	Marin Čilić	3,805	45	1,200	4,960	Runner-up, lost to Roger Federer [2]
7	7	David Goffin	3,775	360	45	3,460	Second round lost to Julien Benneteau
8	9	Jack Sock	2,960	90	10	2,880	First round lost to Yūichi Sugita
9	8	Stan Wawrinka	3,060	720	45	2,385	Second round lost to Tennys Sandgren
10	11	Pablo Carreño Busta	2,615	90	180	2,705	Fourth round lost to Marin Čilić [6]
11	12	Kevin Anderson	2,610	0	10	2,620	First round lost to Kyle Edmund
12	10	Juan Martín del Potro	2,725	0	90	2,815	Third round lost to Tomáš Berdych [19]
13	13	Sam Querrey	2,535	90	45	2,490	Second round lost to Márton Fucsovics
14	14	Novak Djokovic	2,335	45	180	2,470	Fourth round lost to Chung Hyeon
15	15	Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	2,320	360	90	2,050	Third round lost to Nick Kyrgios [17]
16	16	John Isner	2,265	45	10	2,230	First round lost to Matthew Ebden
17	17	Nick Kyrgios	2,260	45	180	2,395	Fourth round lost to Grigor Dimitrov [3]
18	18	Lucas Pouille	2,235	10	10	2,235	First round lost to Ruben Bemelmans [Q]
19	20	Tomáš Berdych	2,050	90	360	2,320	Quarterfinals lost to Roger Federer [2]
20	21	Roberto Bautista Agut	2,015	180	10	1,845	First round lost to Fernando Verdasco
21	22	Albert Ramos Viñolas	1,845	10	90	1,925	Third round lost to Novak Djokovic [14]
22	23	Milos Raonic	1,750	360	10	1,400	First round lost to Lukáš Lacko
23	28	Gilles Müller	1,490	45	90	1,535	Third round lost to Pablo Carreño Busta [10]
24	26	Diego Schwartzman	1,675	45	180	1,810	Fourth round lost to Rafael Nadal [1]
25	25	Fabio Fognini	1,715	45	180	1,850	Fourth round lost to Tomáš Berdych [19]
26	27	Adrian Mannarino	1,625	10	90	1,705	Third round lost to Dominic Thiem [5]
27	29	Philipp Kohlschreiber	1,415	90	10	1,335	First round lost to Yoshihito Nishioka [PR]
28	30	Damir Džumhur	1,391	10	90	1,471	Third round lost to Rafael Nadal [1]
29	31	Richard Gasquet	1,375	90	90	1,375	Third round lost to Roger Federer [2]
30	32	Andrey Rublev	1,373	70+60	90+6	1,339	Third round lost to Grigor Dimitrov [3]
31	34	Pablo Cuevas	1,345	10	45	1,380	Second round lost to Ryan Harrison
32	35	Mischa Zverev	1,302	360	10	952	First round retired against Chung Hyeon

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

Rank	Player	Points before	Points defending	Points after	Withdrawal reason
19	Andy Murray	2,140	180	1,960	Hip injury
24	Kei Nishikori	1,735	180	1,555	Wrist injury

Women's singles

Seed	Rank	Player	Points before	Points defending	Points won	Points after	Status
1	1	Simona Halep	6,425	10	1,300	7,715	Runner-up, lost to Caroline Wozniacki [2]
2	2	Caroline Wozniacki	6,095	130	2,000	7,965	Champion, defeated Simona Halep [1]
3	3	Garbiñe Muguruza	6,050	430	70	5,690	Second round lost to Hsieh Su-wei
4	4	Elina Svitolina	5,785	130	430	6,085	Quarterfinals lost to Elise Mertens
5	5	Venus Williams	5,568	1,300	10	4,278	First round lost to Belinda Bencic
6	6	Karolína Plíšková	5,445	430	430	5,445	Quarterfinals lost to Simona Halep [1]
7	7	Jeļena Ostapenko	4,901	130	130	4,901	Third round lost to Anett Kontaveit [32]
8	8	Caroline Garcia	4,385	130	240	4,495	Fourth round lost to Madison Keys [17]
9	10	Johanna Konta	3,185	430	70	2,825	Second round lost to Bernarda Pera [LL]
10	9	CoCo Vandeweghe	3,204	780	10	2,434	First round lost to Tímea Babos
11	11	Kristina Mladenovic	2,935	10	10	2,935	First round lost to Ana Bogdan
12	12	Julia Görges	2,825	70	70	2,825	Second round lost to Alizé Cornet
13	13	Sloane Stephens	2,803	0	10	2,813	First round lost to Zhang Shuai
14	15	Anastasija Sevastova	2,600	130	70	2,540	Second round lost to Maria Sharapova
15	18	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	2,485	430	70	2,125	Second round lost to Kateryna Bondarenko
16	19	Elena Vesnina	2,220	130	70	2,160	Second round lost to Naomi Osaka
17	20	Madison Keys	2,214	0	430	2,644	Quarterfinals lost to Angelique Kerber [21]
18	17	Ashleigh Barty	2,486	130	130	2,486	Third round lost to Naomi Osaka
19	21	Magdaléna Rybáriková	2,141	(18)^[a]	240	2,363	Fourth round lost to Caroline Wozniacki [2]
20	24	Barbora Strýcová	1,940	240	240	1,940	Fourth round lost to Karolína Plíšková [6]
21	16	Angelique Kerber	2,491	240	780	3,031	Semifinals lost to Simona Halep [1]
22	25	Daria Kasatkina	1,905	10	70	1,965	Second round lost to Magda Linette
23	23	Daria Gavrilova	1,990	240	70	1,820	Second round lost to Elise Mertens
24	26	Dominika Cibulková	1,860	130	10	1,740	First round lost to Kaia Kanepi
25	27	Peng Shuai	1,765	70	10	1,705	First round lost to Marta Kostyuk [Q]
26	35	Agnieszka Radwańska	1,510	70	130	1,570	Third round lost to Hsieh Su-wei
27	28	Petra Kvitová	1,708	0	10	1,718	First round lost to Andrea Petkovic
28	30	Mirjana Lučić-Baroni	1,618	780	70	908	Second round lost to Aliaksandra Sasnovich
29	29	Lucie Šafářová	1,650	70	130	1,710	Third round lost to Karolína Plíšková [6]
30	32	Kiki Bertens	1,605	10	130	1,725	Third round lost to Caroline Wozniacki [2]
31	31	Ekaterina Makarova	1,605	240	10	1,375	First round lost to Irina-Camelia Begu
32	33	Anett Kontaveit	1,560	10+80	240+30	1,740	Fourth round lost to Carla Suárez Navarro

^ Rybáriková did not participate in the 2017 Australian Open. Accordingly, her 16th best result from the past 12 months will be subtracted from her ranking points instead.

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

Rank	Player	Points before	Points defending	Points after	Withdrawal reason
14	Svetlana Kuznetsova	2,702	240	2,462	Left wrist injury
22	Serena Williams	2,000	2,000	0	Maternity

Doubles seeds

Men's doubles

Team		Rank¹	Seed
Łukasz Kubot	Marcelo Melo	2	1
Henri Kontinen	John Peers	7	2
Jean-Julien Rojer	Horia Tecău	15	3
Pierre-Hugues Herbert	Nicolas Mahut	17	4
Jamie Murray	Bruno Soares	19	5
Bob Bryan	Mike Bryan	24	6
Oliver Marach	Mate Pavić	34	7
Raven Klaasen	Michael Venus	40	8
Feliciano López	Marc López	44	9
Rohan Bopanna	Édouard Roger-Vasselin	45	10
Juan Sebastián Cabal	Robert Farah	50	11
Pablo Cuevas	Horacio Zeballos	55	12
Santiago González	Julio Peralta	57	13
Ivan Dodig	Fernando Verdasco	71	14
Marcin Matkowski	Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	71	15
Rajeev Ram	Divij Sharan	72	16

¹ Rankings are as of 8 January 2018.

Women's doubles

Team		Rank¹	Seed
Latisha Chan	Andrea Sestini Hlaváčková	6	1
Ekaterina Makarova	Elena Vesnina	6	2
Ashleigh Barty	Casey Dellacqua	20	3
Lucie Šafářová	Barbora Strýcová	21	4
Tímea Babos	Kristina Mladenovic	33	5
Gabriela Dabrowski	Xu Yifan	34	6
Kiki Bertens	Johanna Larsson	41	7
Hsieh Su-wei	Peng Shuai	46	8
Andreja Klepač	María José Martínez Sánchez	48	9
Irina-Camelia Begu	Monica Niculescu	55	10
Shuko Aoyama	Yang Zhaoxuan	55	11
Raquel Atawo	Anna-Lena Grönefeld	57	12
Nicole Melichar	Květa Peschke	58	13
Chan Hao-ching	Katarina Srebotnik	59	14
Alicja Rosolska	Abigail Spears	59	15
Barbora Krejčíková	Kateřina Siniaková	61	16

¹ Rankings are as of 8 January 2018.

Mixed doubles

Team		Rank¹	Seed
Latisha Chan	Jamie Murray	10	1
Casey Dellacqua	John Peers	13	2
Ekaterina Makarova	Bruno Soares	13	3
Květa Peschke	Henri Kontinen	23	4
Tímea Babos	Rohan Bopanna	26	5
Andrea Sestini Hlaváčková	Édouard Roger-Vasselin	31	6
Chan Hao-ching	Michael Venus	32	7
Gabriela Dabrowski	Mate Pavić	34	8

¹ Rankings are as of 8 January 2018.

Main draw wildcard entries

Men's singles

Women's singles

Men's doubles

Women's doubles

Mixed doubles

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.