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The 2019 Australian Open wildcard playoffs and entries are a group of events and internal selections to choose the eight men and eight women singles wildcard entries for the 2019 Australian Open, as well as seven male and seven female doubles teams plus eight mixed-doubles teams.
| Country | width=160 | Name | width=300 | Method of Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 United States | Jack Sock | American Wildcard Challenge | ||
 China | Li Zhe | Asia-Pacific Wildcard Playoff | ||
 France | Jo-Wilfried Tsonga[1] | French internal selection | ||
 Australia | James Duckworth[2] | Australian Wildcard Playoff | ||
| Australia | Jason Kubler[3] | Australian internal selection | ||
| Australia | Alex Bolt[4] | Australian internal selection | ||
| Australia | Marc Polmans | Australian internal selection | ||
| Australia | Alexei Popyrin | Australian internal selection |
| Country | width=160 | Name | width=300 | Method of Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | Whitney Osuigwe | American Wildcard Challenge | ||
| China | Peng Shuai | Asia-Pacific Wildcard Playoff | ||
| France | Clara Burel | French internal selection | ||
| Australia | Priscilla Hon | Australian Wildcard Challenge | ||
| Australia | Kimberly Birrell | Australian Wildcard Playoff | ||
| Australia | Ellen Perez[5] | Australian internal selection | ||
| Australia | Destanee Aiava | Australian internal selection | ||
| Australia | Zoe Hives | Australian internal selection |
| Country | width=160 | Name | width=300 | Method of Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| China China | Gong Maoxin Zhang Ze | Asia-Pacific Wildcard Playoff | ||
| Australia Australia | Alex Bolt Marc Polmans | Australian internal selection | ||
| Australia Australia | James Duckworth Jordan Thompson | Australian internal selection | ||
| Australia Australia | Blake Ellis Alexei Popyrin | Australian internal selection | ||
| Australia Australia | Lleyton Hewitt John-Patrick Smith | Australian internal selection | ||
| Australia Australia | Nick Kyrgios Matt Reid | Australian internal selection | ||
| Australia Australia | Max Purcell Luke Saville | Australian internal selection |
| Country | width=160 | Name | width=300 | Method of Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Chang Kai-chen Hsu Ching-wen | Asia-Pacific Wildcard Playoff | ||
| Australia Australia | Destanee Aiava Naiktha Bains | Australian Wildcard Playoff | ||
| Australia Australia | Ellen Perez Arina Rodionova | Australian Wildcard Challenge | ||
| Australia Australia | Alison Bai Zoe Hives | Australian internal selection | ||
| Australia Australia | Kimberly Birrell Priscilla Hon | Australian internal selection | ||
| Australia Australia | Lizette Cabrera Jaimee Fourlis | Australian internal selection | ||
| Australia Australia | Astra Sharma Isabelle Wallace | Australian internal selection |
| Country | width=160 | Name | width=300 | Method of Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australia Australia | Monique Adamczak Matt Reid | Australian internal selection | ||
| Australia Australia | Priscilla Hon Alexei Popyrin | Australian internal selection | ||
| Australia Australia | Maddison Inglis Jason Kubler | Australian internal selection | ||
| Australia Australia | Jessica Moore Andrew Whittington | Australian internal selection | ||
| Australia Australia | Astra Sharma John-Patrick Smith | Australian internal selection | ||
Australia  India | Samantha Stosur Leander Paes | Australian internal selection | ||
 Poland Poland | Iga Świątek Łukasz Kubot | Australian internal selection | ||
| China Australia | Zhang Shuai John Peers | Australian internal selection |
The USTA awarded a wildcard to the man and woman that earned the most ranking points across a group of three ATP/Challenger hardcourt events in the October and November 2018. For the men, the events included ATP Paris, $75K Canberra, $75K Charlottesville, $75K+H Shenzhen, €106K+H Bratislava, €85K+H Mouilleron-le-Captif, $150K+H Bangalore, $150K+H Houston, $75K Champaign and $50K+H Kobe events. For the women, the events included $80K Macon, $80K Tyler and $80K Las Vegas and $150K+H Houston. For men, only the best two results from the three weeks of events were taken into account. While for women only the best three results from the four weeks of events were taken into account. The winners of the wildcard challenge were Jack Sock and Whitney Osuigwe.
| Place | width=160 | Player | width=120 | ATP Paris Canberra Charlottesville Shenzhen | width=120 | Bratislava Mouilleron-le-Captif Knoxville | width=120 | Bangalore Houston Champaign Kobe | width=70 | Best Two Results[6] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jack Sock | 180 | — | — | 180 | |||||
| 2 | — | 80 | 80 | 160 | ||||||
| 3 | 29 | 125 | 154 | |||||||
| 4 | 80 | — | 29 | 109 | ||||||
| 5 | Roy Smith | — | — | 75 | 75 |
| Place | width=160 | Player | width=100 | Macon | width=100 | Tyler | width=100 | Las Vegas | width=100 | Houston | width=70 | Best Three Results[7] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whitney Osuigwe | 10 | 115 | — | 35 | 160 | ||||||
| 2 | 115 | 10 | 15 | 140 | ||||||||
| 3 | 10 | 21 | 95 | 126 | ||||||||
| 4 | 10 | 70 | 15 | 95 | ||||||||
| 5 | 21 | 42 | 21 | — | 84 |
Tennis Australia awarded a singles wildcard and a doubles wildcard to the Australian women that earned the most ranking points across a group of two ITF hardcourt events in the October and November 2018. The events included the 2018 Bendigo Women's International and the 2018 Canberra Tennis International. The winner of the wildcards were Priscilla Hon, and Ellen Perez and Arina Rodionova.
| Place | width=160 | Player | width=100 | Bendigo | width=100 | Canberra | width=100 | Total Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Priscilla Hon | 80 | 8 | 88 | ||||
| 2 | 1 | 80 | 81 | |||||
| 3 | 15 | 48 | 63 | |||||
| 4 | 48 | 8 | 56 | |||||
| 5 | 15 | 29 | 44 |
| Place | width=160 | Player | width=100 | Bendigo | width=100 | Canberra | width=100 | Total Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ellen Perez Arina Rodionova | 80 | 80 | 160 | ||||
| 2 | 29 | 48 | 77 | |||||
| 3 | 15 | 29 | 44 | |||||
| 4 | 29 | 1 | 30 | |||||
| 5 | 0 | 29 | 29 |
The Asia-Pacific Australian Open Wildcard Play-off featured 16-players in the men's and women's singles draws and took place from 26 November to 2 December 2018 at Hengqin International Tennis Centre in Zhuhai, China.
The December Showdown is held annually for two weeks in December. The Showdown includes age championships for 12/u, 14/u, 16/u and 18/u age categories. It also hosts the 2019 Australian Wildcard Playoff which will be held from 10 to 16 December 2018 at Melbourne Park, offering a main draw singles wildcard for men and women and a main draw women's doubles wildcard.