2022 Australian Open

The 2022 Australian Open is a scheduled Grand Slam tennis tournament

2022 Australian Open
that will take place at Melbourne Park, from 17–30 January 2022.[1] It will be
the 110th edition of the Australian Open, the 54th in the Open Era, and the Date 17–30 January 2022
first Grand Slam of the year. The tournament will consist of events for Edition 110th

professional players in singles, doubles and mixed doubles. Junior and Open Era (54th)
wheelchair players will compete in singles and doubles tournaments. As in
previous years, the tournament's main sponsor is Kia. Category Grand Slam
Surface Hard (GreenSet)
Novak Djokovic and Naomi Osaka are the defending champions in Men's
Location Melbourne, Victoria,
Singles and Women's Singles, respectively. Djokovic, however, would be
Australia
unable to defend the title since his Australian visa was revoked after being
detained by the Australian Border Force on January 5, 2022 due to COVID- Venue Melbourne Park
19 vaccine requirement. While he had a medical exemption to the 2021 Champions
requirement, his visa class did not permit exemptions.[2][3]
Men's Singles
Novak Djokovic
Women's Singles
Contents Naomi Osaka
Tournament Men's Doubles
Players Ivan Dodig / Filip Polášek
Wild cards Women's Doubles
Men's singles
Elise Mertens / Aryna
Women's singles
Sabalenka
Protected ranking
Mixed Doubles
Withdrawals
Barbora Krejčíková /
Men's singles
Rajeev Ram
Women's singles
Wheelchair Men's Singles
References Joachim Gérard
External links Wheelchair Women's Singles
Diede de Groot

Tournament Wheelchair Quad Singles

Dylan Alcott
The 2022 Australian Open is the 110th Wheelchair Men's Doubles
edition of the tournament, held at Alfie Hewett / Gordon Reid
Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Victoria,
Wheelchair Women's Doubles
Australia.
Diede de Groot / Aniek
The tournament is run by the van Koot
International Tennis Federation (ITF) Wheelchair Quad Doubles
and is part of the 2022 ATP Tour and the
Dylan Alcott / Heath
Rod Laver Arena in 2013, where the 2022 WTA Tour calendars under the
Finals of the Australian Open take Grand Slam category. The tournament Davidson
place consists of both men's and women's Boys' Singles
singles and doubles draws as well as the Harold Mayot (2020)
mixed doubles events. There are singles Girls' Singles
and doubles events for both boys and girls (players under 18), which are part
of the Grade A category of tournaments. The junior competitions will be Victoria Jiménez Kasintseva
returned after a year of absence.[4] There are also singles, doubles and quad (2020)
events for men's and women's wheelchair tennis players as part of the NEC Boys' Doubles
tour under the Grand Slam category.
Nicholas David Ionel /
The tournament is played on hard courts and is taking place across a series of Leandro Riedi (2020)
25 courts, including the four main show courts of Rod Laver Arena, John Girls' Doubles
Cain Arena (formerly Melbourne Arena), Margaret Court Arena and 1573 Alex Eala / Priska Madelyn
Arena. It is also the debut of Show Court Arena, which now makes five main Nugroho (2020)
tennis arenas.

Players

Wild cards

Men's singles

Stefan Kozlov[5]
Andy Murray[6]
Lucas Pouille[7]
Tseng Chun-hsin[8]

Women's singles

Robin Anderson [9]

Maddison Inglis[10]
Diane Parry[7]
Storm Sanders[11]
Daria Saville[10]
Samantha Stosur[12]
Wang Xiyu

Protected ranking
Kirsten Flipkens[13]
Tatjana Maria[13]

Withdrawals

Men's singles

Guido Pella[14] → replaced by Feliciano López

Roger Federer[15] → replaced by Denis Kudla
Stan Wawrinka[14] → replaced by Sam Querrey
Milos Raonic[16] → replaced by Carlos Taberner
Dominic Thiem[17]
→ replaced by Maxime Cressy
Tennys Sandgren → replaced by Egor Gerasimov
Women's singles

Bianca Andreescu[18] → replaced by Magdalena Fręch

Jennifer Brady[19] → replaced by Wang Qiang
Karolína Muchová[20] → replaced by Misaki Doi
Karolína Plíšková[21] → replaced by Fiona Ferro
Serena Williams[22] → replaced by Zarina Diyas
Nadia Podoroska[23] → replaced by Harmony Tan

References
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Times Now. 25 November 2021. Retrieved 25 November 2021.
2. "Novak Djokovic Is Refused Entry Into Australia Over Vaccine Exemption" (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/
05/sports/tennis/novak-djokovic-australia-visa.html). The New York Times. 5 January 2022.
3. "Australia cancels Novak Djokovic' visa to enter country" (https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/05/tennis/novak-djok
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6. PA Media (23 December 2021). "Andy Murray accepts wildcard to play at 2022 Australian Open" (https://ww
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7. "Fiona Ferro et Lucas Pouille invités à l'Open d'Australie" (https://www.lequipe.fr/Tennis/Actualites/Fiona-ferro
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10. "How Daria Saville (Gavrilova) overcame chronic pain and Achilles surgery to score a 2022 Australian Open
wildcard" (https://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/tennis/how-daria-saville-gavrilova-overcame-chronic-pain-and-
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www.heraldsun.com.au.
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dcard-entry-c-4937224). www.thewest.com.au.
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14. "Serena out of Australian Open, Djokovic on entry list" (https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/djokovic-austr
alian-open-entry-list-no-serena-williams-2021-12-08/). Reuters. 8 December 2021. Retrieved 8 December
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15. "Roger Federer to miss Australian Open as he continues recovery from surgery" (https://www.abc.net.au/new
s/2021-11-17/roger-federer-to-miss-2022-australian-open/100628794). Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
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19. Mesic, Dzevad (7 December 2021). "Australian Open runner-up Jennifer Brady suffers major setback ahead
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21. "Karolina Pliskova out of Australian Open with hand injury" (https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/karolina-pliskov
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External links
Australian Open official website (https://www.ausopen.com/)

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