2017 Australian Open
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Key facts
- Date
- 16–29 January 2017
- Edition
- 105th
- Category
- Grand Slam
- Draw
- 128S / 64D /
- Prize money
- A$ 50,000,000
- Surface
- Hard ( Plexicushion )
- Location
- Melbourne , Australia
- Venue
- Melbourne Park
- Attendance
- 728,763
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- Australia
- Followed by
- 2018 Australian Open
- Follows
- 2016 Australian Open
- Location
- Melbourne
- Sport
- tennis
- Official website
- www.ausopen.com/index.html
- Image
- Australian Open 2017 Final - Roger Federer vs Rafa Nadel (32604614845).jpg
- Organizer
- Tennis Australia
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- start time
- 2017-01-16
- end time
- 2017-01-29
- topic's main category
- Category:2017 Australian Open
- Commons category
- 2017 Australian Open
- edition number
- 105
- point in time
- 2017-00-00
- native label
- 2017 Australian Open
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Encyclopedic overview
The 2017 Australian Open was a tennis tournament that took place at Melbourne Park between 16 and 29 January 2017. It was the 105th 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. As in previous years, the tournament's title sponsor was Kia.
Novak Djokovic and Angelique Kerber were the defending champions and both were unsuccessful in their title defence; they lost to Denis Istomin and CoCo Vandeweghe in the second and fourth rounds, respectively. For the first time since the 2004 French Open, both No. 1 seeds lost before the quarterfinals, with both Andy Murray and Kerber defeated in the fourth round.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “2017 Australian Open” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.