2014 Australian Open

2014 Australian Open
2014 Australian Open
Date	13–26 January 2014
Edition	102nd
Category	Grand Slam (ITF)
Draw	128S/64D/32X
Prize money	A$33,000,000
Surface	Hard (Plexicushion)
Location	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Venue	Melbourne Park
Attendance	643,280
Champions
Men's singles
	Stan Wawrinka
Women's singles
	Li Na
Men's doubles
	Łukasz Kubot / Robert Lindstedt
Women's doubles
	Sara Errani / Roberta Vinci
Mixed doubles
	Kristina Mladenovic / Daniel Nestor
Wheelchair men's singles
	Shingo Kunieda
Wheelchair women's singles
	Sabine Ellerbrock
Wheelchair quad singles
	David Wagner
Wheelchair men's doubles
	Stéphane Houdet / Shingo Kunieda
Wheelchair women's doubles
	Yui Kamiji / Jordanne Whiley
Wheelchair quad doubles
	Andrew Lapthorne / David Wagner
Boys' singles
	Alexander Zverev
Girls' singles
	Elizaveta Kulichkova
Boys' doubles
	Lucas Miedler / Bradley Mousley
Girls' doubles
	Anhelina Kalinina / Elizaveta Kulichkova
Men's legends doubles
	Todd Woodbridge / Mark Woodforde
Women's legends doubles
	Nicole Bradtke / Rennae Stubbs

The 2014 Australian Open was a tennis tournament that took place at Melbourne Park between 13 and 26 January 2014.^[1] It was the 102nd edition of the Australian Open, and the first Grand Slam tournament of the year. The tournament consisted of events for professional players in singles, doubles and mixed doubles play. Junior and wheelchair players competed in singles and doubles tournaments.

Li Na won the women's singles, beating Dominika Cibulková in the final. Stanislas Wawrinka defeated Rafael Nadal in the men's singles final to win his first grand slam title. Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci defended their women's doubles title with a victory over Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina. Łukasz Kubot and Robert Lindstedt took the men's doubles title with a victory over Eric Butorac and Raven Klaasen. The mixed doubles were won by Kristina Mladenovic and Daniel Nestor, with Sania Mirza and Horia Tecău the runners-up.

Both defending singles champions lost in the quarterfinals, the first time in the open era.^[2] Novak Djokovic was the three-time defending champion in the men's singles, but failed to defend his title, losing to eventual champion Wawrinka. Two-time defending champion Victoria Azarenka also failed to defend her title in the women's singles, losing to Agnieszka Radwańska. In addition, the men's doubles defending champions Bob & Mike Bryan also failed to defend their title, while Errani and Vinci managed to retain their title. As in previous years, this tournament's title sponsor was Kia.

Tournament

The 2014 Australian Open was the 102nd edition of the tournament and was held at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

The tournament was run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and was part of the 2014 ATP World Tour and the 2014 WTA Tour calendars under the Grand Slam category. The tournament consisted of both men's and women's singles and doubles draws as well as a mixed doubles event. There were singles and doubles events for both boys and girls (players under 18), which is part of the Grade A category of tournaments, and also singles, doubles and quad events for men's and women's wheelchair tennis players as part of the NEC tour under the Grand Slam category.

The tournament was played on hard courts and took place over a series of 16 courts, including the three main showcourts: Rod Laver Arena, Hisense Arena and Margaret Court Arena. The latter was undergoing refurbishment, as part of the Melbourne Park Redevelopment project.^[3]

Broadcast

In Australia, all matches were broadcast live by the Seven Network. The majority of matches were shown on the network's primary channel Channel Seven, however during news programming nationwide and most night matches in Perth, coverage shifted to 7Two. Coverage was presented by Johanna Griggs, Jim Wilson, Matt White, Hamish McLachlan and Basil Zempilas, with commentary from Bruce McAvaney, Jim Courier, Sam Smith, Todd Woodbridge, John Newcombe, Rennae Stubbs, Henri Leconte and John Fitzgerald. Lleyton Hewitt, who was competing in the tournament, would become a commentator if he is knocked out.^[4] Some outside court matches were shown on Fox Sports on Foxtel.

Point and prize money distribution

Point distribution

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

Senior points

Event	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 32	Round of 64	Round of 128	Q	Q3	Q2	Q1
Men's singles	2000	1200	720	360	180	90	45	10	25	16	8	0
Men's doubles		1200	720	360	180	90	0	—	—	—	—	—
Women's singles		1300	780	430	240	130	70	10	40	30	20	2
Women's doubles		1300	780	430	240	130	10	—	—	—	—	—

Wheelchair points

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

Junior points

Girls' singles	375	270	180	120	75	30	25	20
Event	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 32	Q	Q3
Boys' singles	375	270	180	120	75	30	25	20
Boys' doubles	270	180	120	75	45	—	—	—
Girls' doubles	270	180	120	75	45	—	—	—

Prize money

The Australian Open total prize money for 2014 was increased by three million Australian dollars to tournament record A$33,000,000.^[5]^[6]

Event	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 32	Round of 64	Round of 128¹	Q3	Q2	Q1
Singles	A$2,650,000	A$1,325,000	A$540,000	A$270,000	A$135,000	A$75,000	A$50,000	A$30,000	A$14,400	A$7,200	A$3,600
Doubles *	A$520,000	A$260,000	A$130,000	A$65,000	A$36,000	A$21,000	A$13,500	—	—	—	—
Mixed doubles *	A$135,500	A$67,750	A$33,900	A$15,500	A$7,800	A$3,800	—	—	—	—	—

_{¹Qualifiers prize money is also the Round of 128 prize money.}
_{*per team}

Singles players

2014 Australian Open – Men's singles

Champion		Runner-up
Stan Wawrinka [8]		Rafael Nadal [1]
Semifinals out
Roger Federer [6]		Tomáš Berdych [7]
Quarterfinals out
Grigor Dimitrov [22]	Andy Murray [4]	David Ferrer [3]	Novak Djokovic [2]
4th round out
Kei Nishikori [16]	Roberto Bautista Agut	Stéphane Robert (LL)	Jo-Wilfried Tsonga [10]
Kevin Anderson [19]	Florian Mayer	Tommy Robredo [17]	Fabio Fognini [15]
3rd round out
Gaël Monfils [25]	Donald Young	Milos Raonic [11]	Benoît Paire [27]
Feliciano López [26]	Martin Kližan (LL)	Gilles Simon [18]	Teymuraz Gabashvili
Damir Džumhur (Q)	Édouard Roger-Vasselin	Jerzy Janowicz [20]	Jérémy Chardy [29]
Vasek Pospisil [28]	Richard Gasquet [9]	Sam Querrey	Denis Istomin
2nd round out
Thanasi Kokkinakis (WC)	Jack Sock	Andreas Seppi [24]	Dušan Lajović (Q)
Victor Hănescu	Lu Yen-hsun	Nick Kyrgios (WC)	Juan Martín del Potro [5]
Vincent Millot (Q)	Michael Berrer (Q)	Michał Przysiężny	Blaž Rola (LL)
Thomaz Bellucci (Q)	Marin Čilić	Fernando Verdasco [31]	Blaž Kavčič
Kenny de Schepper	Ivan Dodig [32]	Dominic Thiem (Q)	Guillermo García López
Mikhail Youzhny [14]	Pablo Andújar	Alexandr Dolgopolov	Adrian Mannarino
Alejandro Falla	Matthew Ebden	Julien Benneteau	Nikolay Davydenko
Jarkko Nieminen	Ernests Gulbis [23]	Dmitry Tursunov [30]	Leonardo Mayer
1st round out
Bernard Tomic	Igor Sijsling	Tobias Kamke	Ryan Harrison
Lleyton Hewitt	Robin Haase	Lucas Pouille (WC)	Marinko Matosevic
Daniel Gimeno Traver	Peter Gojowczyk (Q)	Jimmy Wang (Q)	Bradley Klahn
Frank Dancevic	Benjamin Becker	Tim Smyczek	Rhyne Williams (Q)
Go Soeda	Wayne Odesnik (Q)	Michaël Llodra	Somdev Devvarman
Aljaž Bedene	Horacio Zeballos	Federico Delbonis	John Isner [13]
Filippo Volandri	Julian Reister	Marcel Granollers	Daniel Brands
Zhang Ze (Q)	Sergiy Stakhovsky	Radek Štěpánek	James Duckworth (WC)
Oleksandr Nedovyesov	Wu Di (WC)	Jan Hájek	Ivo Karlović
Jiří Veselý	João Sousa	Carlos Berlocq	Tommy Haas [12]
Jan-Lennard Struff	Denis Kudla (Q)	Albert Ramos	Jordan Thompson (WC)
Jesse Huta Galung	Ričardas Berankis (Q)	Steve Johnson	Alejandro González
Andrey Golubev	Mikhail Kukushkin	Nicolas Mahut	Samuel Groth (WC)
Lukáš Rosol	Pablo Carreño	Łukasz Kubot	David Guez (Q)
Alex Bogomolov	Dudi Sela	Santiago Giraldo	Juan Mónaco
Michael Russell	Marcos Baghdatis	Albert Montañés	Lukáš Lacko

2014 Australian Open – Women's singles

Champion		Runner-up
Li Na [4]		Dominika Cibulková [20]
Semifinals out
Eugenie Bouchard [30]		Agnieszka Radwańska [5]
Quarterfinals out
Ana Ivanovic [14]	Flavia Pennetta [28]	Simona Halep [11]	Victoria Azarenka [2]
4th round out
Serena Williams [1]	Casey Dellacqua (WC)	Ekaterina Makarova [22]	Angelique Kerber [9]
Jelena Janković [8]	Maria Sharapova [3]	Garbiñe Muguruza	Sloane Stephens [13]
3rd round out
Daniela Hantuchová [31]	Samantha Stosur [17]	Zheng Jie	Lauren Davis
Lucie Šafářová [26]	Monica Niculescu	Alison Riske	Mona Barthel
Kurumi Nara	Zarina Diyas (Q)	Carla Suárez Navarro [16]	Alizé Cornet [25]
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova [29]	Caroline Wozniacki [10]	Elina Svitolina	Yvonne Meusburger
2nd round out
Vesna Dolonc	Karolína Plíšková	Tsvetana Pironkova	Annika Beck
Madison Keys	Kirsten Flipkens [18]	Virginie Razzano	Julia Görges
Belinda Bencic (Q)	Lucie Hradecká (Q)	Irina Falconi (LL)	Sabine Lisicki [15]
Alla Kudryavtseva (Q)	Yanina Wickmayer	Monica Puig	Luksika Kumkhum
Ayumi Morita	Magdaléna Rybáriková [32]	Marina Erakovic	Varvara Lepchenko
Galina Voskoboeva	Stefanie Vögele	Camila Giorgi	Karin Knapp
Olga Govortsova	Mandy Minella	Anna Karolína Schmiedlová	Christina McHale
Ajla Tomljanović	Olivia Rogowska (WC)	Bojana Jovanovski [33]	Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová
1st round out
Ashleigh Barty (WC)	Lara Arruabarrena	Pauline Parmentier (WC)	Heather Watson (Q)
Klára Zakopalová	Sílvia Soler Espinosa	Petra Martić	Kiki Bertens
Roberta Vinci [12]	Patricia Mayr-Achleitner	Vera Zvonareva (PR)	Laura Robson
Tang Haochen (WC)	Alison Van Uytvanck	Sachia Vickery (WC)	Sara Errani [7]
Ana Konjuh (Q)	Kimiko Date-Krumm	Donna Vekić	Julia Glushko
Venus Williams	Anabel Medina Garrigues	Shahar Pe'er	Mirjana Lučić-Baroni
Jarmila Gajdošová (WC)	Caroline Garcia	Dinah Pfizenmaier	Elena Vesnina [23]
Alexandra Cadanțu	Anna Tatishvili (Q)	Zhang Shuai	Petra Kvitová [6]
Misaki Doi	Nadiia Kichenok	Peng Shuai	Andrea Petkovic
Sorana Cîrstea [21]	Kateřina Siniaková (Q)	Lesia Tsurenko	Katarzyna Piter (Q)
Vania King	Irina-Camelia Begu (Q)	Kristina Mladenovic	Francesca Schiavone
Polona Hercog	Storm Sanders (WC)	Paula Ormaechea	Bethanie Mattek-Sands
Yulia Putintseva	Duan Yingying (Q)	Carina Witthöft (Q)	Teliana Pereira
Kaia Kanepi [24]	Tímea Babos	Chan Yung-jan (PR)	Lourdes Domínguez Lino
Yaroslava Shvedova	Tadeja Majerič	Mariana Duque	Svetlana Kuznetsova [19]
Jana Čepelová	Chanelle Scheepers	Hsieh Su-wei	Johanna Larsson

Day-by-day summaries

Champions

Seniors

Men's singles

Stan Wawrinka defeated Rafael Nadal, 6–3, 6–2, 3–6, 6–3

• It was Wawrinka's 1st career Major title.

Women's singles

Li Na defeated Dominika Cibulková, 7–6^(7–3), 6–0

• It was Li's 2nd and last career Major title and her 1st and only title in Australian Open.

Men's doubles

Łukasz Kubot / Robert Lindstedt defeated Eric Butorac / Raven Klaasen, 6–3, 6–3

• It was Kubot and Lindstedt's 1st career Major doubles title.

Women's doubles

Sara Errani / Roberta Vinci defeated Ekaterina Makarova / Elena Vesnina, 6–4, 3–6, 7–5

• It was Errani and Vinci's 4th career Major doubles title and their 2nd respective title in Australian Open.

Mixed doubles

Kristina Mladenovic / Daniel Nestor defeated Sania Mirza / Horia Tecău, 6–3, 6–2

• It was Nestor's 8th career Major mixed doubles title and his 4th title in Australian Open.

• It was Mladenovic's 3rd career Major mixed doubles title and her 1st title in Australian Open.

Juniors

Boys' singles

Alexander Zverev defeated Stefan Kozlov, 6–3, 6–0

Girls' singles

Elizaveta Kulichkova defeated Jana Fett, 6–2, 6–1

Boys' doubles

Lucas Miedler / Bradley Mousley defeated Quentin Halys / Johan Sébastien Tatlot, 6–4, 6–3

Girls' doubles

Anhelina Kalinina / Elizaveta Kulichkova defeated Katie Boulter / Ivana Jorović, 6–4, 6–2

Legends

Legends' men doubles

Todd Woodbridge / Mark Woodforde defeated Jonas Björkman / Thomas Enqvist, 4–6, 6–2, [13–11]

Legends women's doubles

Nicole Bradtke / Rennae Stubbs

Wheelchair events

Wheelchair men's singles

Shingo Kunieda defeated Gustavo Fernández, 6–0, 6–1

Wheelchair women's singles

Sabine Ellerbrock defeated Yui Kamiji, 3–6, 6–4, 6–2

Wheelchair quad singles

David Wagner defeated Lucas Sithole, 3–6, 7–5, 6–3

Wheelchair men's doubles

Stéphane Houdet / Shingo Kunieda defeated Gordon Reid / Maikel Scheffers, 6–3, 6–3

Wheelchair women's doubles

Yui Kamiji / Jordanne Whiley defeated Marjolein Buis / Jiske Griffioen, 6–2, 6–7, 6–2

Wheelchair quad doubles

Andrew Lapthorne / David Wagner defeated Dylan Alcott / Lucas Sithole, 6–4, 6–4

Singles seeds

The following are the seeded players and notable players who withdrew from the event. Seeding are arranged according to ATP and WTA rankings on 6 January 2014, while ranking and points before are as of 13 January 2014.

Men's singles

Seed	Rank	Player	Points before	Points defending	Points won	Points after	Status
1	1	Rafael Nadal	13,130	0	1,200	14,330	Runner-up, lost to Stan Wawrinka [8]
2	2	Novak Djokovic	12,260	2,000	360	10,620	Quarterfinals lost to Stan Wawrinka [8]
3	3	David Ferrer	5,640	720	360	5,280	Quarterfinals lost to Tomáš Berdych [7]
4	4	Andy Murray	5,560	1,200	360	4,720	Quarterfinals lost to Roger Federer [6]
5	5	Juan Martín del Potro	5,415	90	45	5,370	Second round lost to Roberto Bautista Agut
6	6	Roger Federer	4,355	720	720	4,355	Semifinals lost to Rafael Nadal [1]
7	7	Tomáš Berdych	4,180	360	720	4,540	Semifinals lost to Stan Wawrinka [8]
8	8	Stan Wawrinka	3,890	180	2,000	5,710	Champion, defeated Rafael Nadal [1]
9	9	Richard Gasquet	3,140	180	90	3,050	Third round lost to Tommy Robredo [17]
10	10	Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	3,065	360	180	2,885	Fourth round lost to Roger Federer [6]
11	11	Milos Raonic	2,860	180	90	2,770	Third round lost to Grigor Dimitrov [22]
12	12	Tommy Haas	2,435	10	10	2,435	First round retired against Guillermo García López
13	13	John Isner	2,310	0	10	2,320	First round retired against Martin Kližan [LL]
14	15	Mikhail Youzhny	2,145	45	45	2,145	Second round lost to Florian Mayer
15	16	Fabio Fognini	1,930	10	180	2,100	Fourth round lost to Novak Djokovic [2]
16	17	Kei Nishikori	1,915	180	180	1,915	Fourth round lost to Rafael Nadal [1]
17	18	Tommy Robredo	1,810	10	180	1,980	Fourth round lost to Stan Wawrinka [8]
18	19	Gilles Simon	1,790	180	90	1,700	Third round lost to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga [10]
19	21	Kevin Anderson	1,580	180	180	1,580	Fourth round lost to Tomáš Berdych [7]
20	20	Jerzy Janowicz	1,615	90	90	1,615	Third round lost to Florian Mayer
21	23	~~Philipp Kohlschreiber~~	1,420	90	0	1,330	Withdrew due to hamstring injury
22	22	Grigor Dimitrov	1,460	10	360	1,810	Quarterfinals lost to Rafael Nadal [1]
23	24	Ernests Gulbis	1,418	(20)^†	45	1,443	Second round lost to Sam Querrey
24	25	Andreas Seppi	1,360	180	45	1,225	Second round lost to Donald Young
25	32	Gaël Monfils	1,245	90	90	1,245	Third round lost to Rafael Nadal [1]
26	27	Feliciano López	1,310	45	90	1,355	Third round lost to Andy Murray [4]
27	28	Benoît Paire	1,300	10	90	1,380	Third round lost to Roberto Bautista Agut
28	30	Vasek Pospisil	1,289	(20)^†	90	1,359	Third round withdrew due to back injury
29	31	Jérémy Chardy	1,255	360	90	985	Third round lost to David Ferrer [3]
30	26	Dmitry Tursunov	1,314	(45)^†	45	1,314	Second round lost to Denis Istomin
31	33	Fernando Verdasco	1,235	90	45	1,190	Second round lost to Teymuraz Gabashvili
32	34	Ivan Dodig	1,190	90	45	1,145	Second round retired against Damir Džumhur [Q]

† The player did not qualify for the tournament in 2013. Accordingly, points for his 18th best result are deducted instead.

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

Rank	Player	Points before	Points defending	Points after	Withdrawal reason
14	Nicolás Almagro	2,290	360	1,930	Right shoulder injury^[7]
29	Jürgen Melzer	1,290	90	1,200	Shoulder injury^[8]

Women's singles

Seed	Rank	Player	Points before	Points defending	Points won	Points after	Status
1	1	Serena Williams	13,260	500	240	13,000	Fourth round lost to Ana Ivanovic [14]
2	2	Victoria Azarenka	8,151	2,000	430	6,581	Quarterfinals lost to Agnieszka Radwańska [5]
3	3	Maria Sharapova	6,076	900	240	5,416	Fourth round lost to Dominika Cibulková [20]
4	4	Li Na	5,970	1,400	2,000	6,570	Champion, defeated Dominika Cibulková [20]
5	5	Agnieszka Radwańska	5,470	500	780	5,750	Semifinals lost to Dominika Cibulková [20]
6	6	Petra Kvitová	4,835	100	10	4,745	First round lost to Luksika Kumkhum
7	7	Sara Errani	4,435	5	10	4,440	First round lost to Julia Görges
8	8	Jelena Janković	4,230	160	240	4,310	Fourth round lost to Simona Halep [11]
9	9	Angelique Kerber	4,070	280	240	4,030	Fourth round lost to Flavia Pennetta [28]
10	10	Caroline Wozniacki	3,520	280	130	3,370	Third round lost to Garbiñe Muguruza
11	11	Simona Halep	3,335	5	430	3,760	Quarterfinals lost to Dominika Cibulková [20]
12	12	Roberta Vinci	3,170	160	10	3,020	First round lost to Zheng Jie
13	13	Sloane Stephens	3,075	900	240	2,415	Fourth round lost to Victoria Azarenka [2]
14	14	Ana Ivanovic	3,010	280	430	3,160	Quarterfinals lost to Eugenie Bouchard [30]
15	15	Sabine Lisicki	2,915	5	70	2,980	Second round lost to Monica Niculescu
16	16	Carla Suárez Navarro	2,775	160	130	2,745	Third round lost to Dominika Cibulková [20]
17	17	Samantha Stosur	2,675	100	130	2,705	Third round lost to Ana Ivanovic [14]
18	19	Kirsten Flipkens	2,465	280	70	2,255	Second round lost to Casey Dellacqua [WC]
19	20	Svetlana Kuznetsova	2,202	500	10	1,712	First round lost to Elina Svitolina
20	24	Dominika Cibulková	1,856	100	1,300	3,056	Runner-up, lost to Li Na [4]
21	21	Sorana Cîrstea	2,170	160	10	2,020	First round lost to Marina Erakovic
22	22	Ekaterina Makarova	2,061	500	240	1,801	Fourth round lost to Li Na [4]
23	28	Elena Vesnina	1,745	280	10	1,475	First round lost to Alison Riske
24	23	Kaia Kanepi	1,922	0	10	1,932	First round lost to Garbiñe Muguruza
25	25	Alizé Cornet	1,840	100	130	1,870	Third round lost to Maria Sharapova [3]
26	26	Lucie Šafářová	1,775	100	130	1,805	Third round lost to Li Na [4]
27	27	~~Jamie Hampton~~	1,761	160	0	1,601	Withdrew due to hip injury
28	29	Flavia Pennetta	1,735	0	430	2,165	Quarterfinals lost to Li Na [4]
29	30	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	1,715	5	130	1,840	Third round lost to Agnieszka Radwańska [5]
30	31	Eugenie Bouchard	1,629	40	780	2,369	Semifinals lost to Li Na [4]
31	33	Daniela Hantuchová	1,475	5	130	1,600	Third round lost to Serena Williams [1]
32	35	Magdaléna Rybáriková	1,450	5	70	1,515	Second round lost to Kurumi Nara
33	34	Bojana Jovanovski	1,475	280	70	1,265	Second round lost to Yvonne Meusburger