2015 Australian Open
2015 Australian Open | |
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Date | 19 January – 1 February |
Edition | 103rd |
Category | Grand Slam (ITF) |
Draw | 128S/64D/32X |
Prize money | A$40,000,000 |
Surface | Hard (Plexicushion) |
Location | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
Venue | Melbourne Park |
2014 Champions | |
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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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Boys' singles | |
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The 2015 Australian Open is a tennis tournament played on the outdoor hard courts at the Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia. It will be played from 19 January to 1 February, and will feature men's and women's events in singles and doubles, as well as mixed doubles. The tournament will also feature junior, senior, and wheelchair events.
Stan Wawrinka is the defending champion in men's singles. Li Na, the defending champion in women's singles, announced her retirement on 19 September 2014.[1]
Tournament
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The 2015 Australian Open will be the 103rd edition of the tournament and will be held at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
The tournament will be run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and will be part of the 2015 ATP World Tour and the 2015 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 a mixed doubles event. There will be singles and doubles events for both boys and girls (players under 18), which is 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 will be played on hard courts and will take place over a series of 16 courts with Plexicushion surface, including the three main showcourts – Rod Laver Arena, Hisense Arena and Margaret Court Arena.[2] The latter will be unveiled as the third Melbourne Park venue with fully operational retrectable roof to make the Australian Open the first Grand Slam tournament with three such tennis stadiums.[3]
Broadcast
The tournament is scheduled to be broadcast in more than 200 countries around the world. In Australia, all matches will be broadcast live by the Seven Network on the network's primary channel under the banner Seven Sport. In the Asia/Pacific region, the tournament will be covered by CCTV, iQiyi, SMG (China), Fiji One (Fiji), Sony SIX (India), WOWOW, NHK (Japan), Sky TV (New Zealand) and Fox Sports Asia, in Europe by Eurosport, NOS (Netherlands), SRG SSR (Switzerland) and BBC (United Kingdom), in the Middle East by beIN Sports, in Africa by SuperSport, while in the Americas coverage will be provided by ESPN.[4]
In 2015, live coverage will emanate from seven courts, including Rod Laver Arena, Hisense Arena, Margaret Court Arena, as well as Show Court 2 and Show Court 3, plus Court 6 and Court 8. Qualifying tournaments, draw ceremony and Kids' Day will be shown on official tournament website, AusOpen.com.[5]
Point and prize money distribution
Point distribution
Below is a series of tables for each of the competitions showing the ranking points on offer 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 |
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Men's Doubles | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
Women's Singles | 1300 | 780 | 430 | 240 | 130 | 70 | 10 | 40 | 30 | 20 | 2 | |
Women's Doubles | 10 | — | — | — | — | — |
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Prize money
The Australian Open total prize money for 2015 was increased to A$40,000,000, with men's and women's singles champions to receive a tournament-record 3.1 million Australian dollars reward.[6]
Event | W | F | SF | QF | Round of 16 | Round of 32 | Round of 64 | Round of 1281 | Q3 | Q2 | Q1 |
Singles | A$3,100,000 | A$ | A$ | A$ | A$ | A$ | A$ | A$34,500 | A$ | A$ | A$ |
Doubles* | A$ | A$ | A$ | A$ | A$ | A$ | A$ | — | — | — | — |
Mixed Doubles* | A$ | A$ | A$ | A$ | A$ | A$ | — | — | — | — | — |
Wheelchair Singles | A$ | A$ | A$ | A$ | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Wheelchair Doubles* | A$ | A$ | A$ | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Quad Singles | A$ | A$ | A$ | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Quad Doubles* | A$ | A$ | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
1Qualifiers prize money is also the Round of 128 prize money.
*per team
Singles players
2015 Australian Open – Men's Singles
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Day-by-day summaries
Day 1 (19 January)
- Day 1 attendance:
- Seeds out:
- Schedule of Play
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Event | Winner | Loser | Score |
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Matches start at 11:00 am, Night matches do not start before 7:00 pm |
Events
Seniors
Men's Singles
Women's Singles
Men's Doubles
Women's Doubles
Mixed Doubles
Juniors
Boys' Singles
Girls' Singles
Boys' Doubles
Girls' Doubles
Wheelchair
Wheelchair Men's Singles
Wheelchair Women's Singles
Wheelchair Quad Singles
Wheelchair Men's Doubles
Wheelchair Women's Doubles
Wheelchair Quad Doubles
Singles seeds
Seedings are based on rankings as of 12 January 2015. Rankings and points before are as of 19 January 2015.
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Withdrawn players
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Doubles seeds
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- 1 Rankings are as of 12 January 2015.
Main draw wildcard entries
As part of an agreement between Tennis Australia, the United States Tennis Association (USTA) and the French Tennis Federation (FFT), one male and one female player from the United States and France received a wild card into the Australian Open singles event. USTA gave it to Denis Kudla and Irina Falconi, thanks to their positions in 2014 USTA Pro Circuit's Australian Open Wild Card Challenge standing,[9] while Lucas Pouille and Océane Dodin were chosen by internal FFT selection.[10]
Further four wildcards were awarded at Asia-Pacific Australian Open Wildcard Playoff into the men's and women's singles and doubles main draw events,[11] while Tennis Australia organized its own playoff competitions, where Jordan Thompson, Daria Gavrilova and Samuel Thompson & Masa Jovanovic mixed doubles team received entries to Australian Open.[12]
Remaining wildcard places will be filled by Australian internal selection.
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Main draw qualifier entries
The qualifying competition will take place in Melbourne Park on 14 – 17 January 2015.[13]
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See also
References
- ^ "Li Na announces retirement". wtatennis.com. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
- ^ "Melbourne Park Grounds Map" (PDF). Tennis.com.au. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
- ^ "Australian Open 2015 to stage revamped Margaret Court Arena". GiveMeSport.com. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
- ^ "Broadcasting". AusOpen.com. Retrieved 25 December 2014.
- ^ "Video". AusOpen.com. Retrieved 25 December 2014.
- ^ "Record prize money for Australian Open 2015". AusOpen.com. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
- ^ "Marin Cilic: US Open champion withdraws from Australian Open". BBC.com. Retrieved 10 January 2015.
- ^ "Revenir dans les meilleures dispositions possibles!". jowiltsonga.fr. Retrieved 7 January 2015.
- ^ "2015 Australian Open Wild Card Challenge". USTA.com. Retrieved 26 December 2014.
- ^ "Open D'Australie Dodin et Pouille invites". Fédération Française de Tennis. 12 December 2014. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
- ^ "Australian Open wildcards for Chang and Zhang". Tennis Australia. 1 December 2014. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
- ^ "Australian Open Play-off". Tennis.com.au. Retrieved 17 December 2014.
- ^ "Tournament Schedule". AusOpen.com. Retrieved 28 December 2014.