2020 Brisbane International
Date6–12 January 2020
Edition12th
CategoryWTA Premier
Prize money$1,500,000
SurfaceHard
LocationTennyson, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
VenueQueensland Tennis Centre
Champions
Singles
Czech Republic Karolína Plíšková
Doubles
Chinese Taipei Hsieh Su-wei / Czech Republic Barbora Strýcová
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The 2020 Brisbane International was a professional tennis tournament on the 2020 WTA Tour. It was played on outdoor hard courts in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. This was the twelfth edition of the tournament, which took place at the Queensland Tennis Centre in Tennyson from 6 to 12 January 2020[1] as part of the Australian Open Series in preparation for the first Grand Slam of the year. The ATP Tour edition of the event was replaced this year by the first edition of the ATP Cup.

Points and prize money

Point distribution

Event W F SF QF Round of 16 Round of 32 Q Q3 Q2 Q1
Singles 470 305 185 100 55 1 25 18 13 1
Doubles 1 — — — — —

Prize money

Event W F SF QF Round of 16 Round of 321 Q3 Q2 Q1
Singles $266,000 $142,000 $75,050 $40,600 $22,050 $12,000 $6,500 $3,400 $1,900
Doubles * $84,000 $44,800 $25,000 $12,900 $7,000 — — — —

1Qualifiers prize money is also the Round of 32 prize money.
*per team

Singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

Country Player Rank1 Seed
 AUS Ashleigh Barty 1 1
 CZE Karolína Plíšková 2 2
 JPN Naomi Osaka 3 3
 UKR Elina Svitolina 6 4
 CZE Petra Kvitová 7 5
 NED Kiki Bertens 9 6
 GBR Johanna Konta 12 7
 USA Madison Keys 13 8

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

Doubles main-draw entrants

Seeds

Country Player Country Player Rank1 Seed
 TPE Hsieh Su-wei  CZE Barbora Strýcová 5 1
 USA Nicole Melichar  CHN Xu Yifan 28 2
 TPE Chan Hao-ching  TPE Latisha Chan 30 3
 CZE Květa Peschke  NED Demi Schuurs 35 4

Other entrants

The following pair received a wildcard into the doubles main draw:

Withdrawals

During the tournament

Champions

Singles

Main article: 2020 Brisbane International – Singles

Doubles

Main article: 2020 Brisbane International – Doubles

References

  1. ^ Provisional Schedule, Brisbane International
  2. ^ "Australia's Hon receives Brisbane wildcard". www.centralwesterndaily.com.au.
  3. ^ "Maria Sharapova accepts wild card ahead of Australian Open 2020". Essentially Sports. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
  4. ^ a b "Venus Williams joins strongest ever Brisbane International field". www.brisbaneinternational.com.au.

External links

Brisbane tournaments
2020 ATP Tour « 2019 2021 »
2020 WTA Tour « 2019 2021 »
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