The 2024Australian Open was a Grand Slam level tennis tournament held at Melbourne Park, from 14 to 28 January 2024.[1] It was the 112th edition of the Australian Open, the 56th in the Open Era, and the first major 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.[2]
In the tournament's 119-year history, this was the first Australian Open Tennis Championships to be held on an opening Sunday.[8]
The tournament featured the following changes from previous tournaments:[9]
First-round matches took place over three days instead of two.
The daytime sessions on the central courts, Rod Laver Arena and Margaret Court Arena, 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 Andy Murray and Thanasi Kokkinakis in 2023, which ended at 4:05 am local time.[10] 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 Daniil Medvedev and Emil Ruusuvuori which finished at 3:40 am local time.[11]
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.[12][13]
Below is a series of tables for each competition showing the ranking points offered for each event.[14][15][16]
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
1300
800
400
200
100
50
10
30
16
8
0
Men's doubles
1200
720
360
180
90
0
N/A
Women's singles
1300
780
430
240
130
70
10
40
30
20
2
Women's doubles
10
N/A
Wheelchair points
Event
W
F
SF
QF
Round of 16
Singles
800
500
375
200
100
Doubles
800
500
375
100
N/A
Quad singles
800
500
375
200
100
Quad doubles
800
500
375
100
N/A
Junior points
Event
W
F
SF
QF
Round of 16
Round of 32
Q
Q3
Boys' singles
1000
700
490
300
180
90
25
20
Girls' singles
Boys' doubles
750
525
367
225
135
N/A
Girls' doubles
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.[17] The total represented a 162% increase in prize money over the last ten years, from the A$33 million on offer in 2014.
