Australian Open 2018

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◄ Australian Open 2018 ►
Date: January 15 - January 28, 2018
Edition: 106th  Australian Open
Place: Melbourne
Covering: Hard
Defending champion
Men's singles : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Roger Federer
Ladies singles : United StatesUnited States Serena Williams
Men's double : FinlandFinland Henri Kontinen John Peers
AustraliaAustralia 
Ladies doubles : United StatesUnited States Bethanie Mattek-Sands Lucie Šafářová
Czech RepublicCzech Republic 
Mixed : United StatesUnited States Abigail Spears Juan Sebastián Cabal
ColombiaColombia 
winner
Men's singles : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Roger Federer
Ladies singles : DenmarkDenmark Caroline Wozniacki
Men's double : AustriaAustria Oliver Marach Mate Pavic
CroatiaCroatia 
Ladies doubles : HungaryHungary Tímea Babos Kristina Mladenovic
FranceFrance 
Mixed : CanadaCanada Gabriela Dabrowski Mate Pavić
CroatiaCroatia 
Grand Slams 2018

The 106th Australian Open took place between January 15 and 28, 2018 in Melbourne , Australia .

Defending champion at the first Tennis - Grand Slam tournament of the year 2018 were in single Roger Federer in the men's and Serena Williams in the women's, Henri Kontinen and John Peers in the men's doubles, Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Lucie Safarova in women's doubles and Abigail Spears and Juan Sebastián Cabal in mixed.

Prize money

The prize money this year was 55,000,000  Australian dollars , an increase of 10% over the previous year.

Round reached singles Double * Mixed *
victory A $ 4,000,000 A $ 700,000 A $ 175,000
final A $ 2,000,000 A $ 350,000 A $ 90,000
Semifinals A $ 880,000 A $ 175,000 A $ 43,500
Quarter finals A $ 440,000 A $ 90,000 A $ 20,500
Round of 16 A $ 240,000 A $ 49,000 A $ 10,250
Third round A $ 142,500 A $ 29,500 A $ 5,250
Second round A $ 90,000 A $ 18,500
First round A $ 60,000
Q3 A $ 30,000
Q2 A $ 15,000
Q1 A $ 7,500

* per team; Q = qualifying round

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The following top players could not take part in the tournament for various reasons:

Men's singles

Seeding list
No. player Round reached

01. SpainSpain Rafael Nadal Quarter finals
02. SwitzerlandSwitzerland Roger Federer victory
03. BulgariaBulgaria Grigor Dimitrov Quarter finals
04th GermanyGermany Alexander Zverev 3rd round

05. AustriaAustria Dominic Thiem Round of 16

06th CroatiaCroatia Marin Čilić final

07th BelgiumBelgium David Goffin 2nd round

08th. United StatesUnited States Jack Sock 1 round

09. SwitzerlandSwitzerland Stan Wawrinka 2nd round

10. SpainSpain Pablo Carreño Busta Round of 16

11. South AfricaSouth Africa Kevin Anderson 1 round

12. ArgentinaArgentina Juan Martín del Potro 3rd round

13. United StatesUnited States Sam Querrey 2nd round

14th SerbiaSerbia Novak Đoković Round of 16

15th FranceFrance Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 3rd round

16. United StatesUnited States John Isner 1 round
No. player Round reached
17th AustraliaAustralia Nick Kyrgios Round of 16

18th FranceFrance Lucas Pouille 1 round

19th Czech RepublicCzech Republic Tomáš Berdych Quarter finals

20th SpainSpain Roberto Bautista Agut 1 round

21st SpainSpain Albert Ramos 3rd round
22nd CanadaCanada Milos Raonic 1 round
23. LuxembourgLuxembourg Gilles Muller 3rd round
24. ArgentinaArgentina Diego Schwartzman Round of 16
25th ItalyItaly Fabio Fognini Round of 16
26th FranceFrance Adrian Mannarino 3rd round
27. GermanyGermany Philipp Kohlschreiber 1 round
28. Bosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and Herzegovina Damir Džumhur 3rd round
29 FranceFrance Richard Gasquet 3rd round
30th RussiaRussia Andrei Rublev 3rd round
31. UruguayUruguay Pablo Cuevas 2nd round
32. GermanyGermany Mischa Zverev 1 round

Ladies singles

Seeding list
No. Player Round reached

01. RomaniaRomania Simona Halep final
02. DenmarkDenmark Caroline Wozniacki victory
03. SpainSpain Garbiñe Muguruza 2nd round
04th UkraineUkraine Elina Switolina Quarter finals

05. United StatesUnited States Venus Williams 1 round

06th Czech RepublicCzech Republic Karolína Plíšková Quarter finals

07th LatviaLatvia Jeļena Ostapenko 3rd round

08th. FranceFrance Caroline Garcia Round of 16

09. United KingdomUnited Kingdom Johanna Konta 2nd round

10. United StatesUnited States Coco Vandeweghe 1 round

11. FranceFrance Kristina Mladenovic 1 round

12. GermanyGermany Julia Goerges 2nd round

13. United StatesUnited States Sloane Stephens 1 round

14th LatviaLatvia Anastasija Sevastova 2nd round

15th RussiaRussia Anastassija Pavlyuchenkova 2nd round

16. RussiaRussia Jelena Wesnina 2nd round
No. Player Round reached
17th United StatesUnited States Madison Keys Quarter finals

18th AustraliaAustralia Ashleigh Barty 3rd round

19th SlovakiaSlovakia Magdaléna Rybáriková Round of 16

20th Czech RepublicCzech Republic Barbora Strýcová Round of 16

21st GermanyGermany Angelique Kerber Semifinals
22nd RussiaRussia Darja Kassatkina 2nd round
23. AustraliaAustralia Daria Gavrilova 2nd round
24. SlovakiaSlovakia Dominika Cibulková 1 round
25th China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Peng Shuai 1 round
26th PolandPoland Agnieszka Radwańska 3rd round
27. Czech RepublicCzech Republic Petra Kvitová 1 round
28. CroatiaCroatia Mirjana Lučić-Baroni 2nd round
29 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Lucie Šafářová 3rd round
30th NetherlandsNetherlands Kiki Bertens 3rd round
31. RussiaRussia Ekaterina Makarova 1 round
32. EstoniaEstonia Anett Kontaveit Round of 16

Men's doubles

Seeding list
No. pairing Round reached

01. PolandPoland Łukasz Kubot Marcelo Melo
BrazilBrazil  		Quarter finals
02. FinlandFinland Henri Kontinen John Peers
AustraliaAustralia  		2nd round
03. NetherlandsNetherlands Jean-Julien Rojer Horia Tecau
RomaniaRomania  		2nd round
04th FranceFrance Pierre-Hugues Herbert Nicolas Mahut
FranceFrance  		2nd round

05. United KingdomUnited Kingdom Jamie Murray Bruno Soares
BrazilBrazil  		2nd round

06th United StatesUnited States Bob Bryan Mike Bryan
United StatesUnited States  		Semifinals

07th AustriaAustria Oliver Marach Mate Pavic
CroatiaCroatia  		victory

08th. South AfricaSouth Africa Raven Klaasen Michael Venus
New ZealandNew Zealand  		1 round
No. pairing Round reached
09. SpainSpain Feliciano López Marc López
SpainSpain  		2nd round

10. IndiaIndia Rohan Bopanna Édouard Roger-Vasselin
FranceFrance  		Round of 16

11. ColombiaColombia Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah
ColombiaColombia  		final

12. UruguayUruguay Pablo Cuevas Horacio Zeballos
ArgentinaArgentina  		1 round

13. MexicoMexico Santiago González Julio Peralta
ChileChile  		1 round

14th CroatiaCroatia Ivan Dodig Fernando Verdasco
SpainSpain  		1 round

15th PolandPoland Marcin Matkowski Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi
PakistanPakistan  		Quarter finals

16. United StatesUnited States Rajeev Ram Divij Sharan
IndiaIndia  		Round of 16

Ladies doubles

Seeding list
No. pairing Round reached

01. Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Latisha Chan Andrea Sestini Hlaváčková
Czech RepublicCzech Republic  		Quarter finals
02. RussiaRussia Ekaterina Makarova Jelena Wesnina
RussiaRussia  		final
03. AustraliaAustralia Ashleigh Barty Casey Dellacqua
AustraliaAustralia  		2nd round
04th Czech RepublicCzech Republic Lucie Šafářová Barbora Strýcová
Czech RepublicCzech Republic  		Quarter finals

05. HungaryHungary Tímea Babos Kristina Mladenovic
FranceFrance  		victory

06th CanadaCanada Gabriela Dabrowski Xu Yifan
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China  		Quarter finals

07th NetherlandsNetherlands Kiki Bertens Johanna Larsson
SwedenSweden  		1 round

08th. Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Hsieh Su-wei Peng Shuai
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China  		Semifinals
No. pairing Round reached
09. SloveniaSlovenia Andreja Klepač María José Martínez Sánchez
SpainSpain  		1 round

10. RomaniaRomania Irina-Camelia Begu Monica Niculescu
RomaniaRomania  		Semifinals

11. JapanJapan Shūko Aoyama Yang Zhaoxuan
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China  		Round of 16

12. United StatesUnited States Raquel Atawo Anna-Lena Grönefeld
GermanyGermany  		Round of 16

13. United StatesUnited States Nicole Melichar Květa Peschke
Czech RepublicCzech Republic  		Round of 16

14th Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Chan Hao-ching Katarina Srebotnik
SloveniaSlovenia  		Round of 16

15th PolandPoland Alicja Rosolska Abigail Spears
United StatesUnited States  		2nd round

16. Czech RepublicCzech Republic Barbora Krejčíková Kateřina Siniaková
Czech RepublicCzech Republic  		Round of 16

Mixed

Seeding list
No. pairing Round reached

01. Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Latisha Chan Jamie Murray
United KingdomUnited Kingdom  		Round of 16
02. AustraliaAustralia Casey Dellacqua John Peers
AustraliaAustralia  		Round of 16
03. RussiaRussia Ekaterina Makarova Bruno Soares
BrazilBrazil  		Semifinals
04th Czech RepublicCzech Republic Květa Peschke Henri Kontinen
FinlandFinland  		Round of 16
No. pairing Round reached
05. HungaryHungary Tímea Babos Rohan Bopanna
IndiaIndia  		final

06th Czech RepublicCzech Republic Andrea Sestini Hlaváčková Édouard Roger-Vasselin
FranceFrance  		Quarter finals

07th Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Chan Hao-ching Michael Venus
New ZealandNew Zealand  		Round of 16

08th. CanadaCanada Gabriela Dabrowski Mate Pavić
CroatiaCroatia  		victory

Junior singles

Seeding list
No. player Round reached

01. RussiaRussia Timofei Skatov Quarter finals
02. SerbiaSerbia Marko Miladinović Semifinals
03. ArgentinaArgentina Sebastián Báez 2nd round
04th Korea SouthSouth Korea Park Ui-sung 1 round

05. FranceFrance Hugo Gaston Quarter finals

06th Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Tseng Chun-hsin final

07th United StatesUnited States Sebastian Korda victory

08th. ColombiaColombia Nicolás Mejía 1 round
No. player Round reached
09. BrazilBrazil Thiago Seyboth Wild 2nd round

10. ArgentinaArgentina Juan Manuel Cerúndolo 1 round

11. ArgentinaArgentina Thiago Agustín Tirante 1 round

12. RussiaRussia Alexei Sakharov Round of 16

13. United StatesUnited States Andrew Fenty 1 round

14th Czech RepublicCzech Republic Ondřej Štyler Round of 16

15th JapanJapan Naoki Tajima 1 round

16. Czech RepublicCzech Republic Tomáš Macháč 1 round

Junior singles

Seeding list
No. Player Round reached

01. China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Wang Xinyu Semifinals
02. Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Liang En-shuo victory
03. SwitzerlandSwitzerland Simona Waltert 1 round
04th ArgentinaArgentina María Lourdes Carlé 1 round

05. JapanJapan Naho Sato Quarter finals

06th Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Joanna Garland 2nd round

07th United StatesUnited States Alexa Noel Round of 16

08th. SloveniaSlovenia Nika Radišić 1 round
No. Player Round reached
09. China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Wang Xiyu Quarter finals

10. SwitzerlandSwitzerland Lulu Sun Round of 16

11. JapanJapan Yūki Naitō 2nd round

12. United StatesUnited States Elysia Bolton Round of 16

13. LatviaLatvia Daniela Vismane Quarter finals

14th China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Zheng Qinwen 1 round

15th FranceFrance Yasmine Mansouri 1 round

16. RussiaRussia Kamilla Rakhimova Round of 16

Junior doubles

Seeding list
No. pairing Round reached

01. ArgentinaArgentina Sebastián Báez Thiago Seyboth Wild
BrazilBrazil  		Round of 16
02. United StatesUnited States Sebastian Korda Nicolás Mejía
ColombiaColombia  		Quarter finals
03. JapanJapan Naoki Tajima Alexei Sakharov
RussiaRussia  		Quarter finals
04th United KingdomUnited Kingdom Aidan McHugh Timofei Skatow
RussiaRussia  		Quarter finals
No. pairing Round reached
05. United StatesUnited States Tristan Boyer Juan Manuel Cerúndolo
ArgentinaArgentina  		Round of 16

06th Czech RepublicCzech Republic Tomáš Macháč Ondřej Štyler
Czech RepublicCzech Republic  		Semifinals

07th FranceFrance Hugo Gaston Clément Tabur
FranceFrance  		victory

08th. Korea SouthSouth Korea Jeong Yeong-seok Park Ui-sung
Korea SouthSouth Korea  		retreat

Junior doubles

Seeding list
No. pairing Round reached

01. Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Liang En-shuo Wang Xinyu
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China  		victory
02. SwitzerlandSwitzerland Simona Waltert Wang Xiyu
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China  		Semifinals
03. JapanJapan Yūki Naitō Naho Satō
JapanJapan  		Semifinals
04th UkraineUkraine Viktoriia Dema Marta Kostjuk
UkraineUkraine  		1 round
No. pairing Round reached
05. ArgentinaArgentina María Lourdes Carlé Layne Sleeth
CanadaCanada  		1 round

06th BulgariaBulgaria Gergana Topalova Daniela Vismane
LatviaLatvia  		Round of 16

07th Papua New GuineaPapua New Guinea Violet Apisah Lulu Sun
SwitzerlandSwitzerland  		final

08th. FranceFrance Clara Burel Zheng Qinwen
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China  		Round of 16

Men's single wheelchair

Seeding list
No. player Round reached

01. ArgentinaArgentina Gustavo Fernández 1 round
02. United KingdomUnited Kingdom Alfie Hewett 1 round

Women's single wheelchair

Seeding list
No. Player Round reached

01. JapanJapan Yui Kamiji final
02. NetherlandsNetherlands Diede de Groot victory

Men's double wheelchair

Seeding list
No. pairing Round reached

01. United KingdomUnited Kingdom Alfie Hewett Gordon Reid
United KingdomUnited Kingdom  		final
02. FranceFrance Stéphane Houdet Nicolas Peifer
FranceFrance  		victory

Women's double wheelchair

Seeding list
No. pairing Round reached

01. NetherlandsNetherlands Marjolein Buis Yui Kamiji
JapanJapan  		victory
02. NetherlandsNetherlands Diede de Groot Aniek van Koot
NetherlandsNetherlands  		final

Quad single

Seeding list
No. player Round reached

01. United StatesUnited States David Wagner final
02. United KingdomUnited Kingdom Andrew Lapthorne Group stage

Quadruple

Seeding list
No. pairing Round reached

01. United KingdomUnited Kingdom Andrew Lapthorne David Wagner
United StatesUnited States  		final
02. AustraliaAustralia Dylan Alcott Heath Davidson
AustraliaAustralia  		victory

Web links

Commons : Australian Open 2018  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Australian Open Prize Money. In: ausopen.com. Archived from the original on January 26, 2018 ; accessed on January 15, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Kuznetsova out of Australian Open after left wrist surgery. In: tennis.com. December 7, 2017, accessed December 16, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Nishikori cancels participation in the Australian Open. In: spox.com. January 4, 2018, accessed January 4, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Andy Murray also cancels participation in the Australian Open. In: spox.com. January 4, 2018, accessed January 4, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Serena Williams cancels participation in the Australian Open. In: spox.com. January 5, 2018, accessed January 5, 2018 .