2017 Australian Open

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

The Australian Open total prize money for 2017 was increased by 14% to a tournament record A$50,000,000.

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

• Ivo Karlović came from two sets to love down to defeat Horacio Zeballos 6–7, 3–6, 7–5, 6–2, 22–20. The 84 games which were played is the longest Australian Open match (by number of games played) since the introduction of tiebreaks in 1971. Time-wise, the match was the second-longest in Australian Open history, only behind the five-hour and 53-minute 2012 final between Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal. Karlovic also set a new Australian Open record, hitting 75 aces in the match.[3]

• Denis Istomin defeated 6-time champion Novak Djokovic in five sets. It was Djokovic's earliest exit from a grand slam since his second round loss at the 2008 Wimbledon Championships.[4]
• Mirjana Lučić-Baroni defeated Agnieszka Radwańska in two sets. It was Radwańska's earliest exit in the tournament since her first round loss at the 2009 Australian Open. As a result, Lučić-Baroni advanced to the third round of the Australian Open for the first time since the 1998 Australian Open.[5]

• Grigor Dimitrov defeated Richard Gasquet in three sets. The 122-minute match began at 11:58 pm which is the latest start to a match in Australian Open history.[6] This late start occurred as a result of the Alexander Zverev–Rafael Nadal match, which lasted 245 minutes and delayed the beginning of the night session. The first night session match, between Daria Gavrilova and Timea Bacsinszky, began at 9:00 pm, and did not conclude until shortly before midnight.[7]

• 50th ranked Mischa Zverev defeated men's No. 1 seed Andy Murray in four sets. The last time Murray fell to an opponent ranked outside the top 50 at a Grand Slam was to 51st-ranked Juan Ignacio Chela at the 2006 Australian Open. Murray is the first top seed to exit the Australian Open this early in the competition since Lleyton Hewitt lost at the same stage in 2003.[8] It marks the first time since 2002 that neither the Men's No. 1 nor the No. 2 seed has reached the Australian Open quarterfinals.[9]
• Coco Vandeweghe defeated defending champion and women's No. 1 seed Angelique Kerber. The loss marked the first time in the Open era that both men's and women's No. 1 seeds have been knocked out of the Australian Open before the quarterfinals.[10]

• David Goffin became the first Belgian man to reach the quarter-finals of the Australian Open.[11]
• Mirjana Lučić-Baroni reached her first Grand Slam quarter-final in 18 years. Her previous Grand Slam quarter-final came at the 1999 Wimbledon Championships, where she reached the semi-finals.[11]

• Venus Williams defeated Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the quarter final. This was her 50th singles victory at the Australian Open. She also became the oldest woman to make a grand slam semi-final since Martina Navratilova at 1994 Wimbledon Championships.[12]

• Rafael Nadal defeated Milos Raonic in the quarter final. This was his 50th singles victory at the Australian Open.[13]

• Venus Williams defeated Coco Vandeweghe to reach her second Australian Open final, last appearing in 2003 where she lost to her sister Serena. Venus, at 36 years old, became the oldest Australian Open singles finalist of the Open Era. This was her first Grand Slam singles final since she lost the 2009 Wimbledon final to Serena.[14]
• Serena also made the final, making it the ninth time the Williams sisters would meet in a grand slam final.[15]
• Roger Federer defeated the 2014 champion Stan Wawrinka and became the second man in open Era to reach six Australian Open Finals, after Novak Djokovic.

• Rafael Nadal also made the final, making it the ninth time he would meet Roger Federer in a grand slam final.
• For the first time in the Open era, all four singles finalists were older than 30.[16]
• All four singles finalists were former world No.1 and multiple Grand Slam champions.

• After Serena Williams defeated her sister Venus Williams in straight sets, she set a new record by winning the tournament for the 7th time. Serena also reclaimed the No. 1 ranking and claimed her 23rd Grand Slam, surpassing Steffi Graf's Open Era record of 22 Grand Slams.[17]

• Roger Federer defeated Rafael Nadal in a five-set match, 6–4, 3–6, 6–1, 3–6, 6–3 extending his record for the most Grand Slams won in men's singles to 18 and becoming the first man ever to win at least 5 times in 3 different Grand Slam tournaments each. Nadal was leading the fifth set after breaking Federer's service in the first game, but Federer mounted a comeback, breaking back and then going up another service break. The Swiss held on to win the set and match for his first Major victory over Nadal since the 2007 Wimbledon Championships. Federer, brought to tears when Nadal's challenge to a forehand winner on championship point was ruled unsuccessful, admitted after the match that he would have been "happy to lose" and said, "Tennis is a tough sport, there are no draws but if there was going to be one I would have been very happy to accept a draw tonight and share it with Rafa."[18] The 2017 Australian Open men singles final between Federer and Nadal was the most highly anticipated tennis match in not only the tournament's history but also all of Grand Slam and tennis history.[19][20]

• Roger Federer defeated Rafael Nadal, 6–4, 3–6, 6–1, 3–6, 6–3

This was a rematch of the 2009 Australian Open final, which Rafael Nadal won to become the first (and to date, only) Spaniard to win the Australian Open title; as of 2020 it remains his only title at the tournament. The final saw the two holding service for six games of the first set, whilst during the seventh game was the pivotal break of serve giving Federer the opening set. Nadal quickly broke Federer's serve in the second set racing out to a lead that Federer could not overcome, giving him the second set and levelling the match at one set apiece. The third set was a rather lopsided affair seeing Nadal secure his service game only in the fourth game of the set. The fourth set started off competitively with the two holding serve, until Nadal broke in the fourth game of the set, a lead he would never surrender, evening the match at two sets apiece. The decisive fifth set commenced with a break of Federer's serve by Nadal, giving him a lead in the early going; however, Nadal's serve got broken during the sixth game of the set, levelling the match at two sets and three games apiece. Federer won the next three games breaking Nadal's service in the eighth game of the set to allow him to successfully serve out the match in the final ninth game. This was Roger Federer's 18th Grand Slam singles title, the most ever by a man in the history of tennis, and it was his fifth Australian Open title, just one shy of the record co-held by Novak Djokovic and Roy Emerson. [21]Federer would go on to equal this record by defending his title successfully the next year.

• Serena Williams defeated Venus Williams, 6–4, 6–4

This was a rematch of the 2003 Australian Open final, where Serena Williams completed the first "Serena Slam" and her career Grand Slam, whilst Serena won five more Australian Open titles in the interim and her sister Venus had no other final appearances at the event. They each broke the others' serve twice to start the match with Venus finally holding serve in the fifth service game and her sister Serena holding her own serve in the subsequent game. The seventh game was the pivotal break of service that Serena Williams got on her sister Venus' serve, costing her the set just a mere three games later. During the second set, the two traded held service games for the first six games to start the set, whilst Venus started serving first. She would get broken again during the seventh game of the set, which eventually surrendered the match to sister Serena. This was Serena Williams' 23 Grand Slam singles title and seventh Australian Open title for her career, both being Open era records, whilst being one shy of Margaret Court's record of 24 in the history of tennis.[22]

• Henri Kontinen / John Peers defeated. Bob Bryan / Mike Bryan, 7–5, 7–5

• Bethanie Mattek-Sands / Lucie Šafářová defeated Andrea Hlaváčková / Peng Shuai, 6–7^(4–7), 6–3, 6–3

• Abigail Spears / Juan Sebastián Cabal defeated Sania Mirza / Ivan Dodig, 6–2, 6–4

• Zsombor Piros defeated Yshai Oliel, 4–6, 6–4, 6–3

• Marta Kostyuk defeated Rebeka Masarova, 7–5, 1–6, 6–4

• Hsu Yu-hsiou / Zhao Lingxi defeated Finn Reynolds / Duarte Vale, 6–7^(8–10), 6–4, [10–5]

• Bianca Andreescu / Carson Branstine defeated Maja Chwalińska / Iga Świątek, 6–1, 7–6^(7–4)

• Gustavo Fernández defeated Nicolas Peifer, 3–6, 6–2, 6–0

• Yui Kamiji defeated Jiske Griffioen, 6–7^(2–7), 6–3, 6–3

• Dylan Alcott defeated Andrew Lapthorne, 6–2, 6–2

• Joachim Gérard / Gordon Reid defeated Gustavo Fernández / Alfie Hewett, 6–3, 3–6, [10–3]

• Jiske Griffioen / Aniek van Koot defeated Diede de Groot / Yui Kamiji, 6–3, 6–2

• Andrew Lapthorne / David Wagner defeated Dylan Alcott / Heath Davidson, 6–3, 6–3

Seed	Rank	Player	Points before	Points defending	Points won	Points after	Status
1	1	Angelique Kerber	8,875	2,000	240	7,115	Fourth round lost to Coco Vandeweghe
2	2	Serena Williams	7,080	1,300	2,000	7,780	Champion, defeated Venus Williams [13]
3	3	Agnieszka Radwańska	5,625	780	70	4,915	Second round lost to Mirjana Lučić-Baroni
4	4	Simona Halep	5,073	10	10	5,073	First round lost to Shelby Rogers
5	5	Karolína Plíšková	4,970	130	430	5,270	Quarter-finals lost to Mirjana Lučić-Baroni
6	6	Dominika Cibulková	4,865	10	130	4,985	Third round lost to Ekaterina Makarova [30]
7	7	Garbiñe Muguruza	4,420	130	430	4,720	Quarter-finals lost to Coco Vandeweghe
8	10	Svetlana Kuznetsova	3,745	70	240	3,915	Fourth round lost to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova [24]
9	9	Johanna Konta	4,055	780	430	3,705	Quarter-finals lost to Serena Williams [2]
10	12	Carla Suárez Navarro	2,985	430	70	2,625	Second round lost to Sorana Cîrstea
11	13	Elina Svitolina	2,895	70	130	2,955	Third round lost to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova [24]
12	15	Timea Bacsinszky	2,347	70	130	2,407	Third round lost to Daria Gavrilova [22]
13	17	Venus Williams	2,240	10	1,300	3,530	Runner-up, lost to Serena Williams [2]
14	18	Elena Vesnina	2,229	2[29]	130	2,357	Third round lost to Jennifer Brady [Q]
15	19	Roberta Vinci	2,210	130	10	2,090	First round lost to Coco Vandeweghe
16	16	Barbora Strýcová	2,295	240	240	2,295	Fourth round lost to Serena Williams [2]
17	20	Caroline Wozniacki	2,175	10	130	2,295	Third round lost to Johanna Konta [9]
18	21	Samantha Stosur	2,016	10	10	2,016	First round lost to Heather Watson
19	22	Kiki Bertens	1,956	10	10	1,956	First round lost to Varvara Lepchenko
20	23	Zhang Shuai	1,885	470	70	1,485	Second round lost to Alison Riske
21	24	Caroline Garcia	1,765	10	130	1,885	Third round lost to Barbora Strýcová [16]
22	26	Daria Gavrilova	1,665	240	240	1,665	Fourth round lost to Karolína Plíšková [5]
23	25	Daria Kasatkina	1,700	130	10	1,580	First round lost to Peng Shuai
24	27	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	1,620	10	430	2,040	Quarter-finals lost to Venus Williams [13]
25	28	Tímea Babos	1,545	70	10	1,485	First round lost to Nicole Gibbs
26	30	Laura Siegemund	1,502	130	10	1,382	First round lost to Jelena Janković
27	29	Irina-Camelia Begu	1,502	10	70	1,562	Second round lost to Kristýna Plíšková
28	43	Alizé Cornet	1,242	70	70	1,242	Second round lost to Maria Sakkari
29	46	Monica Puig	1,215	130	70	1,155	Second round lost to Mona Barthel [Q]
30	34	Ekaterina Makarova	1,377	240	240	1,377	Fourth round lost to Johanna Konta [9]
31	31	Yulia Putintseva	1,450	130	70	1,390	Second round lost to Jeļena Ostapenko
32	33	Anastasija Sevastova	1,425	110	130	1,445	Third round lost to Garbiñe Muguruza [7]

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

Rank	Player	Points before	Points defending	Points after	Withdrawal reason
8	Madison Keys	4,137	240	3,897	Wrist injury[30]
11	Petra Kvitová	3,485	70	3,415	Off-court injury[31]
14	Victoria Azarenka	2,591	430	2,161	Maternity[32]

Team		Rank1	Seed
Bethanie Mattek-Sands	Mike Bryan	6	1
Sania Mirza	Ivan Dodig	16	2
Andrea Hlaváčková	Édouard Roger-Vasselin	26	3
Chan Hao-ching	Max Mirnyi	33	4
Chan Yung-jan	Łukasz Kubot	35	5
Kateřina Siniaková	Bruno Soares	36	6
Lucie Hradecká	Radek Štěpánek	46	7
Barbora Krejčíková	Rajeev Ram	49	8

• ¹ Rankings are as of 9 January 2017.