2021 Australian Open

2021 Australian Open
Date	8–21 February 2021
Edition	109th Open Era (53rd)
Category	Grand Slam
Draw	128S / 64D
Prize money	A$80,000,000
Surface	Hard (GreenSet)
Location	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Venue	Melbourne Park
2020 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

The 2021 Australian Open is a Grand Slam tennis tournament that is scheduled to take place at Melbourne Park, from 8–21 February 2021.

It will be the 109th edition of the Australian Open, the 53rd in the Open Era, and the first Grand Slam of the year. It was originally scheduled for 18–31 January 2021, but was postponed by three weeks to February due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The event is part of the 2021 ATP Tour and the 2021 WTA Tour.

The tournament will consist of events for professional players in singles, doubles and mixed doubles. Wheelchair players will compete in singles and doubles tournaments. As in previous years, the tournament's main sponsor is Kia.

Novak Djokovic and Sofia Kenin are the defending champions in Men's Singles and Women's Singles, respectively.

Tournament

Rod Laver Arena where the Finals of the Australian Open will take place

The 2021 Australian Open will be the 109th 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 2021 ATP Tour and the 2021 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 four main show courts Rod Laver Arena, John Cain Arena (formerly Melbourne Arena), Margaret Court Arena and 1573 Arena.

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic

See also: Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sports and COVID-19 pandemic in Australia

On 17 December 2020, Tennis Australia announced this edition of Australian Open would be pushed by three weeks from the original 18 January 2021 start to 8 February, impacting players from Europe and the Americas with being picked up to a selected number of charter flights each to Melbourne. The Victoria State Government would allow a mandatory 14-day quarantine on players with COVID-19 safety precautions in place before the warm-up events start on 31 January and alternate tournaments being held in place the week before the tournament.

For the first time in Grand Slam history, Qualifying matches were held outside the country due to Australia's quarantine restrictions. The men's and women's matches were held in Doha, Qatar and Dubai, United Arab Emirates, respectively, from 10–13 January. The 8 February start will give qualifiers and eight potential lucky losers have their time to travel to Australia and allow to quarantine upon arrival.

On 30 January 2021, Victorian sports minister Martin Pakula announced that the number of spectators will be limited to 30,000 per day during most of the tournament, which is around 50 percent of normal spectator capacity. The last five days of the tournament will have up to 25,000 spectators per day.

Singles seeds

The following are the seeded players. Seedings are based on ATP and WTA rankings on 1 February 2021, while ranking and points before are as of 8 February 2021. Points after are as of 22 February 2021. Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, an ATP player can count the best Australian Open result from 2020 and 2021 for his ranking.

Men's singles

Seed	Rank	Player	Points before	Points won in 2020	Points won in 2021	Points after	Status
1	1	Novak Djokovic	12,030	2,000	10	12,030
2	2	Rafael Nadal		360	10
3	3	Dominic Thiem	9,125	1,200	10	9,125
4	4	Daniil Medvedev		180	10
5	6	Stefanos Tsitsipas		90	10
6	7	Alexander Zverev		720	10
7	8	Andrey Rublev		180	10
8	9	Diego Schwartzman		180	10
9	10	Matteo Berrettini		45	10
10	11	Gaël Monfils		180	10
11	12	Denis Shapovalov	2,830	10	10	2,830
12	13	Roberto Bautista Agut		90	10
13	14	David Goffin	2,600	90	10	2,600
14	15	Milos Raonic	2,630	360	10	2,630
15	16	Pablo Carreño Busta		90	10
16	17	Fabio Fognini		180	10
17	18	Stan Wawrinka		360	10
18	19	Grigor Dimitrov		45	10
19	20	Karen Khachanov		90	10
20	21	Félix Auger-Aliassime		10	10
21	23	Alex de Minaur	2,065	–	10	2,075
22	25	Borna Ćorić		10	10
23	26	Dušan Lajović		90	10
24	27	Casper Ruud	1,739	10	10	1,739
25	28	Benoît Paire	1,738	45	10	1,738
26	29	Hubert Hurkacz		45	10
27	30	Taylor Fritz		90	10
28	31	Filip Krajinović	1,673	45	10	1,673
29	32	Ugo Humbert	1,671	10	10	1,671
30	33	Dan Evans		45	10
31	34	Lorenzo Sonego	1,588	10	10	1,588
32	35	Adrian Mannarino	1,561	10	10	1,561

The following players would have been seeded, but they withdrew from the event.

Rank	Player	Points before	Points 2020	Points after	Withdrawal reason
5	Roger Federer	6,630	720	6,630	Personal reasons
22	Cristian Garín	2,180	45	2,180	Wrist injury
24	John Isner	1,850	45	1,850	Personal reasons

• Rankings are as of 18 January 2021.

Women's singles

Seed	Rank	Player	Points before	Points won in 2020	Points won in 2021	Points after	Status
1	1	Ashleigh Barty		780	10
2	2	Simona Halep		780	10
3	3	Naomi Osaka		130	10
4	4	Sofia Kenin		2,000	10
5	5	Elina Svitolina		130	10
6	6	Karolína Plíšková	5,205	130	10
7	7	Aryna Sabalenka	4,580	10	10
8	8	Bianca Andreescu	4,555	–	10
9	9	Petra Kvitová	4,571	430	10
10	11	Serena Williams		130	10
11	12	Belinda Bencic		130	10
12	13	Victoria Azarenka		–	10
13	14	Johanna Konta	3,206	10	10
14	15	Garbiñe Muguruza		1,300	10
15	17	Iga Świątek	3,015	240	10
16	18	Petra Martić	2,850	70	10
17	19	Elena Rybakina		130	10
18	20	Elise Mertens		240	10
19	21	Markéta Vondroušová		10	10
20	22	Maria Sakkari		240	10
21	23	Anett Kontaveit		430	10
22	24	Jennifer Brady		10	10
23	25	Angelique Kerber		240	10
24	26	Alison Riske	2,256	240	10
25	27	Karolína Muchová		70	10
26	28	Yulia Putintseva		130	10
27	30	Ons Jabeur		430	10
28	32	Donna Vekić	1,880	130	10
29	33	Ekaterina Alexandrova		130	10
30	34	Wang Qiang	1,735	180	10
31	35	Zhang Shuai	1,693	130	10
32	36	Veronika Kudermetova		10	10

The following players would have been seeded, but they withdrew from the event.

Rank	Player	Points before	Points 2020	Points after	Withdrawal reason
10	Kiki Bertens	4,505	240	4,505	Foot injury
16	Madison Keys	2,962	130	2,962	Tested positive for coronavirus
29	Dayana Yastremska	1,925	70	1,925	Suspension by the ITF
31	Amanda Anisimova	1,905	10	1,905	Tested positive for coronavirus

• Rankings are as of 18 January 2021.

Doubles seeds

Men's doubles

Seed	Rank	Team
1	3	Juan Sebastián Cabal	Robert Farah
2	10	Nikola Mektić	Mate Pavić
3	14	Marcel Granollers	Horacio Zeballos
4	14	Wesley Koolhof	Łukasz Kubot
5	27	Rajeev Ram	Joe Salisbury
6	30	Jamie Murray	Bruno Soares
7	31	Marcelo Melo	Horia Tecău
8	33	Pierre-Hugues Herbert	Nicolas Mahut
9	33	Ivan Dodig	Filip Polášek
10	39	Kevin Krawietz	Andreas Mies
11	41	John Peers	Michael Venus
12	45	Henri Kontinen	Édouard Roger-Vasselin
13	60	Jérémy Chardy	Fabrice Martin
14	64	Robin Haase	Oliver Marach
15	75	Sander Gillé	Joran Vliegen
16	77	Max Purcell	Luke Saville

• Rankings are as of 18 January 2021.

Women's doubles

Seed	Rank	Team
1	3	Hsieh Su-wei	Barbora Strýcová
2	7	Tímea Babos	Kristina Mladenovic
3	11	Elise Mertens	Aryna Sabalenka
4	15	Barbora Krejčíková	Kateřina Siniaková
5	23	Nicole Melichar	Demi Schuurs
6	30	Chan Hao-ching	Latisha Chan
7	32	Gabriela Dabrowski	Bethanie Mattek-Sands
8	38	Shuko Aoyama	Ena Shibahara
9	46	Duan Yingying	Zheng Saisai
10	51	Alexa Guarachi	Desirae Krawczyk
11	59	Hayley Carter	Luisa Stefani
12	60	Samantha Stosur	Zhang Shuai
13	64	Xu Yifan	Yang Zhaoxuan
14	67	Lyudmyla Kichenok	Jeļena Ostapenko
15	72	Kirsten Flipkens	Andreja Klepač
16	75	Anna Blinkova	Veronika Kudermetova

• Rankings are as of 18 January 2021.

Mixed doubles

Seed	Rank	Team
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8

• Rankings are as of 28 December 2020.

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

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	—	—	—	—	—
Women's Singles		1300	780	430	240	130	70	10	40	30	20	2
Women's Doubles							10	—	—	—	—	—

Wheelchair points

Event	W	F	SF/3rd	QF/4th
Singles	800	500	375	100
Doubles	800	500	100	—
Quad Singles	800	500	100	—
Quad Doubles	800	100	—	—

Junior points

Event	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 32	Q	Q3
Boys' Singles	375	270	180	120	75	30	25	20
Girls' Singles
Boys' Doubles	270	180	120	75	45	—	—	—
Girls' Doubles						—	—	—

Prize money

The Australian Open total prize money for 2021 will be increased by 12.7% to a tournament record A$80,000,000.

Event	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 32	Round of 64	Round of 1281	Q3	Q2	Q1
Singles	A$2,750,000	A$1,500,000	A$850,000	A$525,000	A$320,000	A$215,000	A$150,000	A$100,000	A$52,500	A$35,000	A$25,000
Doubles *	A$600,000	A$340,000	A$200,000	A$110,000	A$65,000	A$45,000	A$30,000	—	—	—	—
Mixed Doubles *	A$150,000	A$85,000	A$45,000	A$24,000	A$12,000	A$6,250	—	—	—	—	—

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

External links

• Australian Open official website