The 2023 Australian Open was a Grand Slam level tennis tournament held at Melbourne Park, from 16–29 January 2023.[1] It was the 111th edition of the Australian Open, the 55th in the Open Era, and the first major 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. During previous years, the tournament's main sponsor was Kia.

2023 Australian Open
Date16–29 January 2023
Edition111th
Open Era (55th)
CategoryGrand Slam
Draw128S / 64D
Prize moneyA$76,500,000
SurfaceHard (GreenSet)
LocationMelbourne, Victoria, Australia
VenueMelbourne Park
Champions
Men's singles
Serbia Novak Djokovic
Women's singles
Aryna Sabalenka
Men's doubles
Australia Rinky Hijikata / Australia Jason Kubler
Women's doubles
Czech Republic Barbora Krejčíková / Czech Republic Kateřina Siniaková
Mixed doubles
Brazil Luisa Stefani / Brazil Rafael Matos
Wheelchair men's singles
United Kingdom Alfie Hewett
Wheelchair women's singles
Netherlands Diede de Groot
Wheelchair quad singles
Netherlands Sam Schröder
Wheelchair men's doubles
United Kingdom Alfie Hewett / United Kingdom Gordon Reid
Wheelchair women's doubles
Netherlands Diede de Groot / Netherlands Aniek van Koot
Wheelchair quad doubles
Netherlands Sam Schröder / Netherlands Niels Vink
Boys' singles
Belgium Alexander Blockx
Girls' singles
Alina Korneeva
Boys' doubles
United States Learner Tien / United States Cooper Williams
Girls' doubles
Slovakia Renáta Jamrichová / Italy Federica Urgesi
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Novak Djokovic claimed the men's singles title, his tenth Australian Open title and 22nd major title overall, tying Rafael Nadal's all-time record. Djokovic was allowed to play this year despite remaining unvaccinated from COVID-19 after his three-year ban was lifted. The ban was initially handed to him after he was deported in 2022, as Australia's laws required foreigners to be vaccinated for entering the country when the tournament was played in 2022, but the ban was lifted as the vaccination requirement has been lifted.[2] Nadal was the defending champion, but lost to Mackenzie McDonald in the second round. Aryna Sabalenka won the women's title, her first major singles title. Ashleigh Barty was the reigning champion in the women's singles, but she retired from the sport in March 2022.[3]

Spectators returned to full capacity for the first time since 2020, targeting to exceed 900,000 fans, after capacity restrictions in the last two events due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[4]

To mark the seventieth anniversary of his first singles title in 1953, Ken Rosewall presented the men's singles trophy to the champion. Billie Jean King presented the women's singles trophy, on the fifty-fifth anniversary of her 1968 victory.

With the elimination of world No. 1 Iga Świątek in the fourth round by Elena Rybakina, this became the first edition of the Australian Open in the Open Era to feature neither of the top two singles seeds of either gender in the quarterfinals.

This was the last Australian Open Tennis Championships to be held on an opening Monday and from January 2024, the tournament will begin on a Sunday which will take place on 14 January 2024.

Singles players

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Champion Runner-up
  Novak Djokovic [4]   Stefanos Tsitsipas [3]
Semifinals out
  Karen Khachanov [18]   Tommy Paul
Quarterfinals out
  Sebastian Korda [29]   Jiří Lehečka   Andrey Rublev [5]   Ben Shelton
4th round out
  Yoshihito Nishioka [31]   Hubert Hurkacz [10]   Jannik Sinner [15]   Félix Auger-Aliassime [6]
  Holger Rune [9]   Alex de Minaur [22]   J. J. Wolf   Roberto Bautista Agut [24]
3rd round out
  Mackenzie McDonald   Frances Tiafoe [16]   Denis Shapovalov [20]   Daniil Medvedev [7]
  Tallon Griekspoor   Márton Fucsovics   Cameron Norrie [11]   Francisco Cerúndolo [28]
  Dan Evans [25]   Ugo Humbert   Benjamin Bonzi   Grigor Dimitrov [27]
  Alexei Popyrin (WC)   Michael Mmoh (LL)   Andy Murray   Jenson Brooksby
2nd round out
  Rafael Nadal [1]   Dalibor Svrčina (Q)   Jason Kubler (WC)   Shang Juncheng (Q)
  Lorenzo Sonego   Taro Daniel   Yosuke Watanuki (Q)   John Millman (WC)
  Rinky Hijikata (WC)   Botic van de Zandschulp [32]   Lloyd Harris (PR)   Tomás Martín Etcheverry
  Constant Lestienne   Christopher Eubanks (WC)   Corentin Moutet   Alex Molčan
  Emil Ruusuvuori   Jérémy Chardy (PR)   Denis Kudla (LL)   Maxime Cressy
  Pablo Carreño Busta [14]   Adrian Mannarino   Laslo Đere   Enzo Couacaud (Q)
  Taylor Fritz [8]   Nicolás Jarry (Q)   Diego Schwartzman [23]   Alexander Zverev [12]
  Thanasi Kokkinakis   Brandon Holt (Q)   Alejandro Davidovich Fokina [30]   Casper Ruud [2]
1st round out
  Jack Draper   Brandon Nakashima   Jaume Munar   Mikael Ymer
  Bernabé Zapata Miralles   Sebastián Báez   Oscar Otte   Daniel Altmaier
  Pedro Martínez   Nuno Borges   Ernesto Escobedo (Q)   Dušan Lajović
  Cristian Garín   Arthur Rinderknech   Marc-Andrea Hüsler   Marcos Giron
  Quentin Halys   Yannick Hanfmann (Q)   Pavel Kotov (LL)   Ilya Ivashka
  Lorenzo Musetti [17]   Federico Coria   Grégoire Barrère   Kyle Edmund (PR)
  Luca Van Assche (WC)   Thiago Monteiro   Kwon Soon-woo   Borna Ćorić [21]
  Guido Pella (PR)   Wu Yibing (WC)   Stan Wawrinka (PR)   Vasek Pospisil
  Dominic Thiem (WC)   Max Purcell (Q)   Daniel Elahi Galán   Facundo Bagnis
  Roman Safiullin   Richard Gasquet   Albert Ramos Viñolas   Filip Krajinović
  Pedro Cachin   Mattia Bellucci (Q)   John Isner   Hsu Yu-hsiou (Q)
  Aslan Karatsev   Zizou Bergs (Q)   Hugo Dellien (PR)   Roberto Carballés Baena
  Nikoloz Basilashvili   Tseng Chun-hsin   Zhang Zhizhen   Miomir Kecmanović [26]
  Oleksii Krutykh (Q)   Jordan Thompson   Laurent Lokoli (Q)   Juan Pablo Varillas (LL)
  Matteo Berrettini [13]   Fabio Fognini   Aleksandar Vukic (Q)   João Sousa
  Alexander Bublik   Jan-Lennard Struff (Q)   Christopher O'Connell   Tomáš Macháč
Champion Runner-up
  Aryna Sabalenka [5]   Elena Rybakina [22]
Semifinals out
  Victoria Azarenka [24]   Magda Linette
Quarterfinals out
  Jeļena Ostapenko [17]   Jessica Pegula [3]   Karolína Plíšková [30]   Donna Vekić
4th round out
  Iga Świątek [1]   Coco Gauff [7]   Barbora Krejčíková [20]   Zhu Lin
  Zhang Shuai [23]   Caroline Garcia [4]   Belinda Bencic [12]   Linda Fruhvirtová
3rd round out
  Cristina Bucșa (Q)   Danielle Collins [13]   Kateryna Baindl   Bernarda Pera
  Marta Kostyuk   Anhelina Kalinina   Madison Keys [10]   Maria Sakkari [6]
  Varvara Gracheva   Katie Volynets (Q)   Ekaterina Alexandrova [19]   Laura Siegemund (PR)
  Elise Mertens [26]   Camila Giorgi   Nuria Párrizas Díaz   Markéta Vondroušová (PR)
2nd round out
  Camila Osorio   Bianca Andreescu   Kaja Juvan   Karolína Muchová (PR)
  Caty McNally   Anna Bondár   Zheng Qinwen [29]   Emma Raducanu
  Aliaksandra Sasnovich   Olivia Gadecki (WC)   Clara Burel (Q)   Petra Kvitová [15]
  Wang Xinyu   Nadia Podoroska (PR)   Jil Teichmann [32]   Diana Shnaider (Q)
  Lucrezia Stefanini (Q)   Yulia Putintseva   Petra Martić   Veronika Kudermetova [9]
  Anett Kontaveit [16]   Taylor Townsend (WC)   Irina-Camelia Begu [27]   Leylah Fernandez
  Shelby Rogers   Lauren Davis   Anna Karolína Schmiedlová (Q)   Claire Liu
  Anastasia Potapova   Liudmila Samsonova [18]   Kimberly Birrell (WC)   Ons Jabeur [2]
1st round out
  Jule Niemeier   Panna Udvardy   Eva Lys (Q)   Marie Bouzková [25]
  Elisabetta Cocciaretto   Séléna Janicijevic (Q)   Lesia Tsurenko (Q)   Anna Kalinskaya
  Laura Pigossi (LL)   Kamilla Rakhimova   Ana Bogdan   Dayana Yastremska
  Dalma Gálfi   Moyuka Uchijima (WC)   Tamara Korpatsch   Kateřina Siniaková
  Jaqueline Cristian (PR)   Brenda Fruhvirtová (Q)   Polina Kudermetova (Q)   Amanda Anisimova [28]
  Sára Bejlek (Q)   Talia Gibson (WC)   CoCo Vandeweghe (Q)   Alison Van Uytvanck
  Anna Blinkova   Storm Hunter (WC)   Léolia Jeanjean (LL)   Sofia Kenin (PR)
  Harriet Dart   Rebecca Marino   Kristína Kučová (PR)   Yuan Yue
  Daria Kasatkina [8]   Tatjana Maria   Sorana Cîrstea   Wang Xiyu
  Patricia Maria Țig (PR)   Viktorija Golubic   Evgeniya Rodina (PR)   Maryna Zanevska
  Julia Grabher   Mayar Sherif   Diane Parry (WC)   Ysaline Bonaventure
  Elizabeth Mandlik (LL)   Lucia Bronzetti   Alizé Cornet   Katherine Sebov (Q)
  Tereza Martincová   Arianne Hartono (Q)   Danka Kovinić   Garbiñe Muguruza
  Martina Trevisan [21]   Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (PR)   Madison Brengle   Viktoriya Tomova
  Beatriz Haddad Maia [14]   Sloane Stephens   Oksana Selekhmeteva (Q)   Jasmine Paolini
  Kaia Kanepi [31]   Jaimee Fourlis (WC)   Alison Riske-Amritraj   Tamara Zidanšek

Events

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Men's singles

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Women's singles

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Men's doubles

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Women's doubles

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Mixed doubles

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Wheelchair men's singles

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Wheelchair women's singles

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Wheelchair quad singles

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Wheelchair men's doubles

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Wheelchair women's doubles

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Wheelchair quad doubles

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Boys' singles

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Girls' singles

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Boys' doubles

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Girls' doubles

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Point distribution and prize money

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Point distribution

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

Senior points

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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
Women's singles 1300 780 430 240 130 70 10 40 30 20 2
Women's doubles 10 N/A

Prize money

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The Australian Open total prize money for 2023 increased by 3.38% year on year to a tournament record A$76,500,000. This represented a 155% increase in prize money over the last ten years, from the A$30 million on offer in 2013.[5]

Event W F SF QF Round of 16 Round of 32 Round of 64 Round of 128 Q3 Q2 Q1
Singles A$2,975,000 A$1,625,000 A$925,000 A$555,250 A$338,250 A$227,925 A$158,850 A$106,250 A$55,150 A$36,575 A$26,000
Doubles A$695,000 A$370,000 A$210,000 A$116,500 A$67,250 A$46,500 A$30,975 N/A
Mixed doubles A$157,750 A$89,450 A$47,500 A$25,250 A$12,650 A$6,600 N/A
Wheelchair singles A$ A$ A$ A$ N/A
Wheelchair doubles A$ A$ A$ N/A
Quad singles A$ A$ A$
Quad doubles A$ A$ N/A

Controversy

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In the wake of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, organizers from the tournament banned Russian and Belarusian flags from being displayed courtside. Nations' flags were initially allowed, but this was reversed after an incident between Russia's Kamilla Rakhimova and Ukraine's Kateryna Baindl.[6] During the game, Russian supporters were accused of taunting Baindl, but the group denied that they were being provocative. They stated that they were merely supporting Rakhimova.

The move came after Russian and Belarusian players were banned from playing under their nation's flags.[7]

References

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  1. ^ "Australian summer of tennis 2023 schedule announced". Tennis Head. 2 December 2022. Archived from the original on 6 December 2022.
  2. ^ Nivison, Austin (16 November 2022). "Novak Djokovic was granted visa to play in 2023 Australian Open". CBS Sports.
  3. ^ "World No.1, three-time Grand Slam winner Ashleigh Barty announces retirement". WTA Tennis. 22 March 2022. Archived from the original on 25 November 2022.
  4. ^ "Australian Open looking for return to normal". Sports Business Journal. 15 January 2023. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
  5. ^ "Australian Open Prize Money 2023". Perfect Tennis. Archived from the original on 29 November 2022. Retrieved 6 January 2023.
  6. ^ "Australian Open bans Russian and Belarusian flags from tournament". BBC News. 17 January 2023. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
  7. ^ "Australian Open Tennis 2023". TheTennisPredict. Retrieved 21 January 2023.
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