2010 Australian Open Explained

The 2010 Australian Open was a tennis tournament that took place in Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia, from 18 to 31 January. It was the 98th edition of the Australian Open, and the first Grand Slam event of the year.

In the singles competition, Rafael Nadal and Serena Williams were the defending champions. Williams was able to retain her title with a win over Justine Henin, 6–4, 3–6, 6–2 in the final,^[1] while Nadal retired in his quarterfinals match against Andy Murray owing to a quadriceps injury. Roger Federer was the men's champion, defeating finalist Andy Murray in straight sets 6–3, 6–4, 7–6(11).^[2]

In doubles, the 2009 champion pairs were successful in their respective title defenses – Bob and Mike Bryan in men's doubles and Serena and Venus Williams in women's doubles. Sania Mirza and Mahesh Bhupathi were not able to defend their mixed doubles title because they withdrew from the event beforehand. In mixed doubles, Cara Black and Leander Paes won the title, which made a mixed doubles career grand slam for Black.

Point distribution

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

Senior

Event	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 32	Round of 64		Q	Q3	Q2	Q1
Men's singles	2000	1200	720	360	180	90	45	10	25	16	8	0
Men's doubles							0	—	—	—	—	—
		1400	900	500	280	160	100	5	60	50	40	2
							5	—	—	—	—	—

Wheelchair

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

Junior

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						—	—	—

Singles players

Men's singles

Champion		Runner-up
Roger Federer (1)		Andy Murray (5)
Semifinals out
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (10)		Marin Čilić (14)
Quarterfinals out
Nikolay Davydenko (6)	Novak Djokovic (3)	Andy Roddick (7)	Rafael Nadal (2)
4th round out
Lleyton Hewitt (22)	Fernando Verdasco (9)	Łukasz Kubot	Nicolás Almagro (26)
Fernando González (11)	Juan Martín del Potro (4)	John Isner (33)	Ivo Karlović
3rd round out
Albert Montañés (31)	Marcos Baghdatis	Stefan Koubek	Juan Mónaco (30)
Denis Istomin	Mikhail Youzhny (20)	Tommy Haas (18)	Alejandro Falla
Feliciano López	Evgeny Korolev	Stanislas Wawrinka (19)	Florian Mayer
Florent Serra	Gaël Monfils (12)	Ivan Ljubičić (24)	Philipp Kohlschreiber (27)
2nd round out
Victor Hănescu	Stéphane Robert	Donald Young	David Ferrer (17)
Ivan Sergeyev	Ivan Dodig	Michaël Llodra	Illya Marchenko
Marco Chiudinelli	Michael Berrer	Jan Hájek	Santiago Giraldo
Taylor Dent	Janko Tipsarević	Benjamin Becker	Marcel Granollers
Thomaz Bellucci	Rainer Schüttler	Tomáš Berdych (21)	Marsel İlhan
Bernard Tomic	Igor Kunitsyn	Viktor Troicki (29)	James Blake
Marc Gicquel	Jarkko Nieminen	Louk Sorensen	Antonio Veić
Julien Benneteau	Andrey Golubev	Wayne Odesnik	Lukáš Lacko
1st round out
Igor Andreev	Juan Ignacio Chela	Potito Starace	Óscar Hernández
Ricardo Hocevar	Christophe Rochus	Paolo Lorenzi	Frederico Gil
Carsten Ball	Dudi Sela	Rajeev Ram	Juan Carlos Ferrero (23)
Ernests Gulbis	Martín Vassallo Argüello	Carlos Moyá	Dieter Kindlmann
Daniel Gimeno Traver	Marinko Matosevic	Kristof Vliegen	Jérémy Chardy
Richard Gasquet	Robby Ginepri	Mischa Zverev	Tommy Robredo (16)
Sergiy Stakhovsky	Fabio Fognini	Ryan Harrison	Simon Greul
Xavier Malisse	Grega Žemlja	Marcos Daniel	Robin Söderling (8)
Thiemo de Bakker	Teymuraz Gabashvili	Pablo Cuevas	Sam Querrey (25)
Robin Haase	Daniel Brands	Sébastien Grosjean	Olivier Rochus
Fabrice Santoro	Guillaume Rufin	José Acasuso	Guillermo García López
Nicolás Lapentti	Philipp Petzschner	Arnaud Clément	Michael Russell
Kevin Anderson	Simone Bolelli	Nick Lindahl	Jürgen Melzer (28)
Andreas Seppi	Lu Yen-hsun	Daniel Köllerer	Matthew Ebden
Radek Štěpánek (13)	David Guez	Mardy Fish	Jason Kubler
Horacio Zeballos	Blaž Kavčič	Leonardo Mayer	Peter Luczak

Women's singles

Champion		Runner-up
Serena Williams (1)		Justine Henin
Semifinals out
Li Na (16)		Zheng Jie
Quarterfinals out
Victoria Azarenka (7)	Venus Williams (6)	Nadia Petrova (19)	Maria Kirilenko
4th round out
Samantha Stosur (13)	Vera Zvonareva (9)	Caroline Wozniacki (4)	Francesca Schiavone (17)
Yanina Wickmayer	Svetlana Kuznetsova (3)	Alona Bondarenko (31)	Dinara Safina (2)
3rd round out
Carla Suárez Navarro (32)	Alberta Brianti	Gisela Dulko	Tathiana Garbin
Shahar Pe'er (29)	Daniela Hantuchová (22)	Agnieszka Radwańska (10)	Casey Dellacqua
Alisa Kleybanova (27)	Sara Errani	Kim Clijsters (15)	Angelique Kerber
Jelena Janković (8)	Marion Bartoli (11)	Roberta Vinci	Elena Baltacha

Day-by-day summaries

See main article: 2010 Australian Open – Day-by-day summaries.

Seniors

Men's singles

See main article: 2010 Australian Open – Men's singles. Roger Federer defeated Andy Murray, 6–3, 6–4, 7–6^(13–11)

• This was Federer's first title of the year and his 62nd overall. It was his 16th career Grand Slam title, and his 4th Australian Open title tying Andre Agassi for most Australian Open titles in the Open Era (Novak Djokovic later surpassed this record by winning his 5th title in 2015, while Federer won the title for the 5th time in 2017). This was Federer's 5th final at the Australian Open which tied him with Stefan Edberg for the Open Era record.

Women's singles

See main article: 2010 Australian Open – Women's singles. Serena Williams defeated Justine Henin, 6–4, 3–6, 6–2

• This was Williams's first title of the year, a record 5th Australian Open title in the Open Era. The title was Williams' 12th major title, which tied her for 6th all-time with Billie Jean King and Suzanne Lenglen, and in the Open Era solo 4th having surpassed Court's 11 mark, which Williams' is behind Graf (22), Evert and Navratilova with (18) each.

Men's doubles

See main article: 2010 Australian Open – Men's doubles. Bob Bryan / Mike Bryan defeated Daniel Nestor / Nenad Zimonjić, 6–3, 6–7^(5–7), 6–3

• This was the Bryan brothers' 57th doubles title together, 4th Australian Open title, and 8th major title.

Women's doubles

See main article: 2010 Australian Open – Women's doubles. Serena Williams / Venus Williams defeated Cara Black / Liezel Huber, 6–4, 6–3

• This is the Williams Sisters' 11th Grand Slam doubles title together and 4th Australian Open title.

Mixed doubles

See main article: 2010 Australian Open – Mixed doubles. Cara Black / Leander Paes defeated Ekaterina Makarova / Jaroslav Levinský, 7–5, 6–3

This was the pair's 3rd consecutive grand slam final and the 4th overall. The victory makes Paes India's joint-lead grand slam winner alongside his ex- doubles partner Mahesh Bhupathi with a total of 11 grand slam doubles titles. This title gave Black a career mixed doubles grand slam, which Black has won one of each slam in mixed doubles.

Juniors

Boys' singles

See main article: 2010 Australian Open – Boys' singles. Tiago Fernandes defeated Sean Berman, 7-6 (7-5), 6–3

Girls' singles

See main article: 2010 Australian Open – Girls' singles. Karolína Plíšková defeated Laura Robson, 6–1, 7–6(5)

Boys' doubles

See main article: 2010 Australian Open – Boys' doubles. Justin Eleveld / Jannick Lupescu defeated Kevin Krawietz / Dominik Schulz, 6–4, 6–4

Girls' doubles

See main article: 2010 Australian Open – Girls' doubles. Jana Čepelová / Chantal Škamlová defeated Tímea Babos / Gabriela Dabrowski, 7–6(1), 6–2

Other events

Wheelchair men's singles

See main article: 2010 Australian Open – Wheelchair men's singles. Shingo Kunieda defeated Stéphane Houdet, 7–6(3), 2–6, 7–5

Wheelchair women's singles

See main article: 2010 Australian Open – Wheelchair women's singles. Korie Homan defeated Florence Gravellier, 6–2, 6–2

Wheelchair quad singles

See main article: 2010 Australian Open – Wheelchair quad singles. Peter Norfolk defeated David Wagner, 6–2, 7–6(4)

Wheelchair men's doubles

See main article: 2010 Australian Open – Wheelchair men's doubles. Stéphane Houdet / Shingo Kunieda defeated Maikel Scheffers / Robin Ammerlaan, 6–2, 6–2

Wheelchair women's doubles

See main article: 2010 Australian Open – Wheelchair women's doubles. Florence Gravellier / Aniek Van Koot defeated Lucy Shuker / Daniela Di Toro, 6–3, 7–6(2)

Wheelchair quad doubles

See main article: 2010 Australian Open – Wheelchair quad doubles. Nicholas Taylor / David Wagner defeated Peter Norfolk / Johan Andersson, 6–2, 7–6(5)

Singles seeds

Sd	Rank	Player	Points		Points won	New points	Status
1	1	Roger Federer	10550	1200	2000	11350
2	2	Rafael Nadal	9310	2000	360	7670	Retired in quarterfinal to Andy Murray [5]
3	3	Novak Djokovic	8310	360	360	8310	Quarterfinal lost to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga [10]
4	5		6785	360	180	6605	4th round lost to Marin Čilić [14]
5	4	Andy Murray	6780	180	1200	7800	Runner-Up, Final lost to Roger Federer [1]
6	6	Nikolay Davydenko	4930	0	360	5290	Quarterfinal lost to Roger Federer [1]
7	7	Andy Roddick	4510	720	360	4150	Quarterfinal lost to Marin Čilić [14]
8	8	Robin Söderling	3410	45	10	3375	1st round lost to Marcel Granollers
9	9	Fernando Verdasco	3300	720	180	2760	4th round lost to Nikolay Davydenko [6]
10	10	Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	2875	360	720	3235	Semifinal lost to Roger Federer [1]
11	11	Fernando González	2870	180	180	2870	4th round lost to Andy Roddick [7]
12	12	Gaël Monfils	2610	180	90	2520	3rd round lost to John Isner [33]
13	13	Radek Štěpánek	2525	90	10	2445	1st round lost to Ivo Karlović
14	14	Marin Čilić	2430	180	720	2970	Semifinal lost to Andy Murray [5]
15	15	Gilles Simon	2275	360	0	1915	Withdrew before the tournament^[3]
16	16	Tommy Robredo	2175	180	10	2005	1st round lost to Santiago Giraldo
17	18	David Ferrer	1825	90	45	1780	2nd round lost to Marcos Baghdatis
18	17	Tommy Haas	1855	90	90	1855	3rd round lost to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga [10]
19	19	Stanislas Wawrinka	1765	90	90	1765	3rd round lost to Marin Čilić
20	20	Mikhail Youzhny	1690	10	90	1770	Withdrew in 3rd round to Łukasz Kubot
21	21	Tomáš Berdych	1680	180	45	1545	2nd round lost to Evgeny Korolev
22	22	Lleyton Hewitt	1600	10	180	1770	4th round lost to Roger Federer [1]
23	23	Juan Carlos Ferrero	1555	10	10	1555	1st round lost to Ivan Dodig [Q]
24	24	Ivan Ljubičić	1405	45	90	1450	3rd round lost to Ivo Karlović
25	29	Sam Querrey	1240	10	10	1240	1st round lost to Rainer Schüttler
26	25	Nicolás Almagro	1305	90	180	1395	4th round lost to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga [10]
27	26	Philipp Kohlschreiber	1260	45	90	1305	3rd round lost to Rafael Nadal [2]
28	27	Jürgen Melzer	1260	90	10	1180	1st round lost to Florent Serra
29	30	Viktor Troicki	1220	45	45	1220	2nd round lost to Florian Mayer
30	33	Juan Mónaco	1170	10	90	1260	3rd round lost to Nikolay Davydenko [6]
31	32	Albert Montañés	1185	10	90	1265	3rd round lost to Roger Federer [1]
32	34	Jérémy Chardy	1090	45	10	1065	1st round lost to Denis Istomin
33	28	John Isner	1260	10	180	1430	4th round lost to Andy Murray [5]

Sd	Rank	Player	Points		Points won	New points	Status
1	1	Serena Williams	9195	2000	2000	9195
2	2	Dinara Safina	7600	1400	280	6480	Retired in 4th round to Maria Kirilenko
3	3	Svetlana Kuznetsova	6081	500	280	5861	4th round lost to Nadia Petrova [19]
4	4	Caroline Wozniacki	5785	160	280	5905	4th round lost to Li Na [16]
5	5	Elena Dementieva	5505	900	100	4705	2nd round lost to Justine Henin [WC]
6	6	Venus Williams	5126	100	500	5526	Quarterfinal lost to Li Na [16]
7	7	Victoria Azarenka	4740	280	500	4960	Quarterfinal lost to Serena Williams [1]
8	8	Jelena Janković	3965	280	160	3845	3rd round lost to Alona Bondarenko [31]
9	9	Vera Zvonareva	3560	900	280	2940	4th round lost to Victoria Azarenka [7]
10	10	Agnieszka Radwańska	3450	5	160	3605	3rd round lost to Francesca Schiavone [17]
11	11	Marion Bartoli	3325	500	160	2985	3rd round lost Zheng Jie
12	12	Flavia Pennetta	3200	160	100	3140	2nd round lost to Yanina Wickmayer [Q]
13	13	Samantha Stosur	3045	160	280	3165	4th round lost to Serena Williams [1]
14	14	Maria Sharapova	2820	0	5	2825	1st round lost to Maria Kirilenko
15	15	Kim Clijsters	2620	0	160	2780	3rd round lost Nadia Petrova [19]
16	17	Li Na	2541	0	900	3441	Semifinal lost to Serena Williams [1]
17	18	Francesca Schiavone	2445	5	280	2720	4th round lost to Venus Williams [6]
18	20	Virginie Razzano	2200	160	5	2045	1st round lost to Ekaterina Makarova
19	19	Nadia Petrova	2220	280	500	2440	Quarterfinal lost to Justine Henin [WC]
20	21	Ana Ivanovic	2127	160	100	2067	2nd round lost to Gisela Dulko
21	24	Sabine Lisicki	2035	100	100	2035	2nd round lost to Alberta Brianti
22	25	Daniela Hantuchová	1985	160	160	1985	3rd round lost to Li Na [16]
23	22	Dominika Cibulková	2063	280	5	1788	1st round lost Vania King
24	27		1970	160	100	1910	2nd round lost to Zheng Jie
25	26	Anabel Medina Garrigues	1980	280	5	1705	1st round lost to Karolina Šprem
26	23	Aravane Rezaï	2055	5	100	2150	2nd round lost to Angelique Kerber [Q]
27	31	Alisa Kleybanova	1870	280	160	1750	3rd round lost Justine Henin [WC]
28	29	Elena Vesnina	1900	5	5	1900	1st round lost to Tathiana Garbin
29	28	Shahar Pe'er	1930	5	160	2085	3rd round lost to Caroline Wozniacki [4]
30	32	Kateryna Bondarenko	1740	160	100	1680	2nd round lost to Elena Baltacha
31	30	Alona Bondarenko	1900	160	280	2020	4th round lost to Zheng Jie
32	33	Carla Suárez Navarro	1715	500	160	1375	3rd round lost to Serena Williams [1]

Wildcard entries

Men's singles wildcard entries

1. Carsten Ball
2. Andrey Golubev
3. Sébastien Grosjean
4. Ryan Harrison
5. Jason Kubler
6. Nick Lindahl
7. Marinko Matosevic
8. Bernard Tomic

Women's singles wildcard entries

1. Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro
2. Casey Dellacqua
3. Jarmila Groth
4. Justine Henin
5. Sesil Karatancheva
6. Alicia Molik
7. Olivia Rogowska
8. CoCo Vandeweghe

Men's doubles wildcard entries

1. Marinko Matosevic / Bernard Tomic
2. Prakash Amritraj / Somdev Devvarman
3. Kaden Hensel / Greg Jones
4. Matthew Ebden / Brydan Klein
5. Rameez Junaid / Peter Luczak
6. Nick Lindahl / Matt Reid
7. Samuel Groth / Jason Kubler

Women's doubles wildcard entries

1. Shannon Golds / Marija Mirkovic
2. Yayuk Basuki / Kimiko Date-Krumm
3. Sally Peers / Laura Robson
4. Jarmila Groth / Olivia Rogowska
5. Monique Adamczak / Nicole Kriz
6. Alicia Molik / Meghann Shaughnessy
7. Sophie Ferguson / Jessica Moore

Mixed doubles wildcard entries

1. Sophie Ferguson / Carsten Ball
2. Carly Gullickson / Bernard Tomic
3. Sally Peers / Peter Luczak
4. Alicia Molik / Matthew Ebden
5. Anastasia Rodionova / Paul Hanley
6. Jarmila Groth / Samuel Groth
7. Casey Dellacqua / Jordan Kerr

Protected ranking

The following players were accepted directly into the main draw using a protected ranking:

Men's singles

• Robin Haase
• Carlos Moyá
• Kristof Vliegen

Women's singles

• Marina Erakovic
• Tamira Paszek

Qualifiers entries

Men's qualifiers entries

See main article: 2010 Australian Open – Men's singles qualifying.

1. Xavier Malisse
2. Matthew Ebden
3. Grega Žemlja
4. Antonio Veić
5. Louk Sorensen
6. Guillaume Rufin
7. Ricardo Hocevar
8. Donald Young
9. Illya Marchenko
10. Ivan Sergeyev
11. Kevin Anderson
12. Blaž Kavčič
13. Ivan Dodig
14. David Guez
15. Stefan Koubek
16. Dieter Kindlmann

The following players received lucky loser spots in the men's draw:

1. Marsel İlhan

Women's qualifiers entries

See main article: 2010 Australian Open – Women's singles qualifying.

1. Yanina Wickmayer
2. Regina Kulikova
3. Shenay Perry
4. Han Xinyun
5. Renata Voráčová
6. Sofia Arvidsson
7. Angelique Kerber
8. Yvonne Meusburger
9. Yuliana Fedak
10. Zuzana Kučová
11. Valérie Tétreault
12. Kathrin Wörle

Withdrawals

Men's singles

• Mario Ančić → replaced by Igor Kunitsyn
• Andreas Beck → replaced by Robin Haase
• Máximo González → replaced by Santiago Giraldo
• Xavier Malisse → replaced by Jan Hájek
• Paul-Henri Mathieu → replaced by Teymuraz Gabashvili
• David Nalbandian → replaced by Stéphane Robert
• Gilles Simon → replaced by Marsel İlhan
• Dmitry Tursunov → replaced by Wayne Odesnik

Women's singles

• Anne Keothavong → replaced by Pauline Parmentier
• Patty Schnyder → replaced by Anastasiya Yakimova

Point distribution

Stage	Men's singles	Men's doubles	Women's singles	Women's doubles
Champion	2000
Finals	1200		1400
Semifinals	720		900
Quarterfinals	360		500
Round of 16	180		280
Round of 32	90		160
Round of 64	45	0	100	5
Round of 128	10	–	5	–
Qualifier	25		60
Qualifying 3rd round	16		50
Qualifying 2nd round	8		40
Qualifying 1st round	0		2

Prize money

All prize money is in Australian dollars (A$); doubles prize money is distributed per pair.^[4]

Men's and women's singles

• Winners: $2,200,168
• Runners-up: $1,050,000
• Semi-finalists: $400,000
• Quarter-finalists: $200,000
• Fourth round: $89,000
• Third round: $52,000
• Second round: $31,500
• First round: $19,500

Men's and women's doubles

• Winners: $450,000
• Runners-up: $225,000
• Semi-finalists: $112,000
• Quarter-finalists: $55,400
• Third round: $31,245
• Second round: $17,035
• First round: $9,585

Mixed doubles

• Winners: $134,460
• Runners-up: $67,230
• Semi-finalists: $33,615
• Quarter-finalists: $15,490
• Second round: $7,745
• First round: $3,755

Notes and References

1. Web site: Australian Open 2010 Tennis: Serena Williams is Women's Champion . Robin Scott . 30 January 2010 . The Global Herald . 24 Hour Trading . 30 January 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100201153259/http://theglobalherald.com/australian-open-2010-tennis-serena-williams-is-womens-champion/1988/. 1 February 2010 . live.
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3. Web site: yahoo sports. France's Gilles Simon pulls out of Australian Open . 16 January 2010. 31 January 2010 .
4. Web site: Australian Open 2010: Prize Money Breakdown. tennisguru.net. 19 January 2010. 1 February 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100129194622/http://www.tennisguru.net/2010/01/19/australian-open-2010-prize-money-breakdown/. 29 January 2010. dead.