2020 Australian Open
Date	20 January – 2 February 2020
Edition	108th Open Era (52nd)
Category	Grand Slam
Draw	128 singles players, 64 doubles pairs and 32 mixed doubles pairs
Prize money	A$71,000,000
Surface	Hard (Plexicushion)
Location	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Venue	Melbourne Park
Champions
Men's singles
Novak Djokovic
Women's singles
Sofia Kenin
Men's doubles
Rajeev Ram / Joe Salisbury
Women's doubles
Tímea Babos / Kristina Mladenovic
Mixed doubles
Barbora Krejčíková / Nikola Mektić
Wheelchair men's singles
Shingo Kunieda
Wheelchair women's singles
Yui Kamiji
Wheelchair quad singles
Dylan Alcott
Wheelchair men's doubles
Alfie Hewett / Gordon Reid
Wheelchair women's doubles
Yui Kamiji / Jordanne Whiley
Wheelchair quad doubles
Dylan Alcott / Heath Davidson
Boys' singles
Harold Mayot
Girls' singles
Victoria Jiménez Kasintseva
Boys' doubles
Nicholas David Ionel / Leandro Riedi
Girls' doubles
Alex Eala / Priska Madelyn Nugroho
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The 2020 Australian Open was a Grand Slam tennis tournament that took place at Melbourne Park, from 20 January to 2 February 2020. It was the 108th edition of the Australian Open, the 52nd in the Open Era, and the first Grand Slam of the year. The tournament consisted of events for professional players in singles, doubles and mixed doubles. Junior and wheelchair players competed in singles and doubles tournaments. As in previous years, the tournament's main sponsor was Kia.

Novak Djokovic and Naomi Osaka were the defending champions in Men's Singles and Women's Singles, respectively. Osaka lost in the third round to Coco Gauff. In contrast, Djokovic successfully defended his title by defeating Dominic Thiem to win the tournament for a record-extending eighth time.

Prior to this edition of the Australian Open, the supplier of the hard courts was changed to GreenSet, though the court surface and color remained the same.^[1]This is one of the few sporting events held in 2020 which was unaffected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tournament

The 2020 Australian Open was the 108th edition of the tournament, held at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

The tournament is run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and is part of the 2020 ATP Tour and the 2020 WTA Tour calendars under the Grand Slam category. The tournament consists of both men's and women's singles and doubles draws as well as the mixed doubles events. There are singles and doubles events for both boys and girls (players under 18), which are part of the Grade A category of tournaments. There are 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 is played on hard courts and is taking place across a series of 25 courts, the three main show courts Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne Arena and Margaret Court Arena. 1573 Arena (formerly Show Court Two) was upgraded into a main show court.

Impact of bushfires

The bushfires that had burned large portions of Australia for months left a smoke haze over Melbourne on the first day of qualifying. That day, the air over Melbourne was rated as the worst in the world.^[2] In qualifying, play was delayed, some players called for medical timeouts, and Dalila Jakupović was forced to retire, due to a coughing fit brought on by the poor air quality.^[3]

The tournament held a Rally for Relief similar to the one of 2011 before the tournament to raise money to aid areas devastated by the bushfires. Novak Djokovic, Coco Gauff, Petra Kvitová, Rafael Nadal, Naomi Osaka, Dominic Thiem, Stefanos Tsitsipas, and Alexander Zverev all played a doubles format match with Serena Williams and Caroline Wozniacki as team captains. Roger Federer and Nick Kyrgios later played a one set singles match where Federer prevailed.^[4]

Singles players

Men's singles

Men's singles players
Champion		Runner-up
Novak Djokovic [2]		Dominic Thiem [5]
Semifinals out
Alexander Zverev [7]		Roger Federer [3]
Quarterfinals out
Rafael Nadal [1]	Stan Wawrinka [15]	Tennys Sandgren	Milos Raonic [32]
4th round out
Nick Kyrgios [23]	Gaël Monfils [10]	Daniil Medvedev [4]	Andrey Rublev [17]
Fabio Fognini [12]	Márton Fucsovics	Marin Čilić	Diego Schwartzman [14]
3rd round out
Pablo Carreño Busta [27]	Karen Khachanov [16]	Ernests Gulbis (Q)	Taylor Fritz [29]
Alexei Popyrin	John Isner [19]	David Goffin [11]	Fernando Verdasco
Sam Querrey	Guido Pella [22]	Tommy Paul	John Millman
Stefanos Tsitsipas [6]	Roberto Bautista Agut [9]	Dušan Lajović [24]	Yoshihito Nishioka
2nd round out
Federico Delbonis	Peter Gojowczyk (Q)	Gilles Simon	Mikael Ymer
Ivo Karlović	Aljaž Bedene	Kevin Anderson	Alex Bolt (WC)
Pedro Martínez (Q)	Jaume Munar	Alejandro Tabilo (Q)	Andreas Seppi
Pierre-Hugues Herbert	Yūichi Sugita	Nikoloz Basilashvili [26]	Egor Gerasimov
Matteo Berrettini [8]	Ričardas Berankis	Grégoire Barrère	Jordan Thompson
Jannik Sinner	Grigor Dimitrov [18]	Hubert Hurkacz [31]	Filip Krajinović
Philipp Kohlschreiber	Cristian Garín	Benoît Paire [21]	Michael Mmoh (WC)
Alejandro Davidovich Fokina	Marc Polmans (WC)	Dan Evans [30]	Tatsuma Ito (WC)
1st round out
Hugo Dellien	João Sousa	Christopher Eubanks (Q)	Jozef Kovalík (LL)
Lorenzo Sonego	Pablo Cuevas	Yasutaka Uchiyama	Mario Vilella Martínez (Q)
Lu Yen-hsun (PR)	Vasek Pospisil (PR)	James Duckworth	Félix Auger-Aliassime [20]
Tallon Griekspoor (Q)	Ilya Ivashka (Q)	Albert Ramos Viñolas	Adrian Mannarino
Frances Tiafoe	Dominik Koepfer	Hugo Gaston (WC)	Jo-Wilfried Tsonga [28]
Thiago Monteiro	Daniel Elahi Galán (Q)	Miomir Kecmanović	Damir Džumhur
Jérémy Chardy	Cameron Norrie	Elliot Benchetrit (Q)	Christopher O'Connell (WC)
Kwon Soon-woo	Evgeny Donskoy (LL)	Casper Ruud	Marco Cecchinato
Andrew Harris (WC)	Marco Trungelliti (Q)	Roberto Carballés Baena	Borna Ćorić [25]
John-Patrick Smith (WC)	Mohamed Safwat (Q)	Alexander Bublik	Reilly Opelka
Denis Shapovalov [13]	Max Purcell (Q)	Leonardo Mayer	Juan Ignacio Londero
Dennis Novak (Q)	Ugo Humbert	Quentin Halys (Q)	Steve Johnson
Salvatore Caruso	Marcos Giron	Stefano Travaglia	Lorenzo Giustino (LL)
Cedrik-Marcel Stebe (PR)	Corentin Moutet	Pablo Andújar	Feliciano López
Lloyd Harris	Norbert Gombos (Q)	Mikhail Kukushkin	Kyle Edmund
Mackenzie McDonald (PR)	Laslo Đere	Prajnesh Gunneswaran (LL)	Jan-Lennard Struff

Women's singles

Women's singles players
Champion		Runner-up
Sofia Kenin [14]		Garbiñe Muguruza
Semifinals out
Ashleigh Barty [1]		Simona Halep [4]
Quarterfinals out
Petra Kvitová [7]	Ons Jabeur	Anett Kontaveit [28]	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova [30]
4th round out
Alison Riske [18]	Maria Sakkari [22]	Coco Gauff	Wang Qiang [27]
Iga Świątek	Elise Mertens [16]	Kiki Bertens [9]	Angelique Kerber [17]
3rd round out
Elena Rybakina [29]	Julia Görges	Madison Keys [10]	Ekaterina Alexandrova [25]
Naomi Osaka [3]	Zhang Shuai	Caroline Wozniacki	Serena Williams [8]
Belinda Bencic [6]	Donna Vekić [19]	Catherine Bellis (PR)	Yulia Putintseva
Elina Svitolina [5]	Zarina Diyas	Camila Giorgi	Karolína Plíšková [2]
2nd round out
Polona Hercog	Greet Minnen (Q)	Zhu Lin	Petra Martić [13]
Arantxa Rus	Nao Hibino (Q)	Barbora Krejčíková (Q)	Paula Badosa
Zheng Saisai	Sorana Cîrstea	Caty McNally (Q)	Ann Li (Q)
Caroline Garcia	Dayana Yastremska [23]	Fiona Ferro	Tamara Zidanšek
Jeļena Ostapenko	Sara Sorribes Tormo	Alizé Cornet	Carla Suárez Navarro
Heather Watson	Karolína Muchová [20]	Danielle Collins [26]	Harriet Dart (Q)
Lauren Davis	Ajla Tomljanović	Anna Blinkova	Arina Rodionova (WC)
Svetlana Kuznetsova	Priscilla Hon (WC)	Taylor Townsend	Laura Siegemund
1st round out
Lesia Tsurenko	Rebecca Peterson	Aliaksandra Sasnovich	Bernarda Pera
Wang Yafan	Viktorija Golubic	Viktória Kužmová	Christina McHale
Daria Kasatkina	Magda Linette	Peng Shuai	Margarita Gasparyan
Jil Teichmann	Kaia Kanepi	Johanna Larsson (Q)	Kateřina Siniaková
Marie Bouzková	Anna Kalinskaya (Q)	Venus Williams	Barbora Strýcová [32]
Sloane Stephens [24]	Samantha Stosur	Lizette Cabrera (WC)	Martina Trevisan (Q)
Johanna Konta [12]	Madison Brengle	Kristie Ahn	Kaja Juvan (Q)
Pauline Parmentier (WC)	Alison Van Uytvanck	Han Na-lae (WC)	Anastasia Potapova
Anna Karolína Schmiedlová (PR)	Liudmila Samsonova (Q)	Veronika Kudermetova	Astra Sharma (WC)
Maria Sharapova (WC)	Monica Niculescu (Q)	Tímea Babos	Aryna Sabalenka [11]
Danka Kovinić	Kristýna Plíšková	Tatjana Maria	Kirsten Flipkens
Vitalia Diatchenko	Hsieh Su-wei	Misaki Doi	Jennifer Brady
Katie Boulter (PR)	Leylah Annie Fernandez (Q)	Shelby Rogers (Q)	Anastasija Sevastova [31]
Amanda Anisimova [21]	Jasmine Paolini	Kateryna Bondarenko (PR)	Irina-Camelia Begu
Markéta Vondroušová [15]	Antonia Lottner (Q)	Kateryna Kozlova	Elisabetta Cocciaretto (Q)
Nina Stojanović	Jessica Pegula	CoCo Vandeweghe (WC)	Kristina Mladenovic

Events

Men's singles

• Novak Djokovic def. Dominic Thiem, 6–4, 4–6, 2–6, 6–3, 6–4^[5]

Women's singles

• Sofia Kenin def. Garbiñe Muguruza, 4–6, 6–2, 6–2^[6]

Men's doubles

• Rajeev Ram / Joe Salisbury def. Max Purcell / Luke Saville, 6–4, 6–2

Women's doubles

• Tímea Babos / Kristina Mladenovic def. Hsieh Su-wei / Barbora Strýcová, 6–2, 6–1

Mixed doubles

• Barbora Krejčíková / Nikola Mektić def. Bethanie Mattek-Sands / Jamie Murray, 5–7, 6–4, [10–1]

Wheelchair men's singles

• Shingo Kunieda def. Gordon Reid, 6–4, 6–4

Wheelchair women's singles

• Yui Kamiji def. Aniek van Koot, 6–2, 6–2

Wheelchair quad singles

• Dylan Alcott def. Andy Lapthorne, 6–0, 6–4

Wheelchair men's doubles

• Alfie Hewett / Gordon Reid def. Stéphane Houdet / Nicolas Peifer, 4–6, 6–4, [10–7]

Wheelchair women's doubles

• Yui Kamiji / Jordanne Whiley def. Diede de Groot / Aniek van Koot, 6–2, 6–4

Wheelchair quad doubles

• Dylan Alcott / Heath Davidson def. Andy Lapthorne / David Wagner, 6–4, 6–3

Boys' singles

• Harold Mayot def. Arthur Cazaux, 6–4, 6–1

Girls' singles

• Victoria Jiménez Kasintseva def. Weronika Baszak, 5–7, 6–2, 6–2

Boys' doubles

• Nicholas David Ionel / Leandro Riedi def. Mikołaj Lorens / Kārlis Ozoliņš, 6–7^(8–10), 7–5, [10–4]

Girls' doubles

• Alex Eala / Priska Madelyn Nugroho def. Živa Falkner / Matilda Mutavdzic, 6–1, 6–2

Point distribution and prize money

Point distribution

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

Senior points

Prize money

The Australian Open total prize money for 2020 was increased by 13.6% to a tournament record A$71,000,000.^[7]

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