2017 Brisbane International

Coordinates: 27°31′30″S 153°0′26″E / 27.52500°S 153.00722°E / -27.52500; 153.00722 (Queensland Tennis Centre)

2017 Brisbane International
Date 1 – 8 January
Edition 9th
Prize money $461,330 (men)
$1,000,000 (women)
Surface Hard / outdoor
Location Tennyson, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Venue Queensland Tennis Centre
2016 Champions
Men's Singles
Canada Milos Raonic
Women's Singles
Belarus Victoria Azarenka
Men's Doubles
Finland Henri Kontinen / Australia John Peers
Women's Doubles
Switzerland Martina Hingis / India Sania Mirza

The 2017 Brisbane International will be a tournament of the 2017 ATP World Tour and 2017 WTA Tour. It will be played on outdoor hard courts in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It will be the ninth edition of the tournament and will take place at the Queensland Tennis Centre in Tennyson. It will be held from 1 to 8 January 2017 as part of the Australian Open Series in preparation for the first Grand Slam of the year.

It was announced on 24 August 2016 that 14-times Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal will play at the event for the first time.[1]

Points and prize money

Point distribution

Event W F SF QF Round of 16 Round of 32 Q Q3 Q2 Q1
Men's Singles 250 150 90 45 20 0 12 6 0 0
Men's Doubles 0 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Women's Singles 470 305 185 100 55 1 25 18 13 1
Women's Doubles 1 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

Prize money

Event W F SF QF Round of 16 Round of 321 Q3 Q2 Q1
Men's Singles $72,000 $37,900 $20,545 $11,705 $6,900 $4,085 $1,840 $920 N/A
Men's Doubles * $21,850 $11,500 $6,230 $3,570 $2,090 N/A N/A N/A N/A
Women's Singles $193,210 $103,850 $55,306 $22,483 $12,077 $6,587 $3,435 $1,830 $1,025
Women's Doubles * $45,990 $24,518 $13,419 $6,830 $3,702 N/A N/A N/A N/A

1Qualifiers prize money is also the Round of 32 prize money.
*per team

ATP singles main draw entrants

Seeds

Country Player Rank1 Seed[2]
 CAN Milos Raonic 3 1
  SUI Stan Wawrinka 4 2
 JPN Kei Nishikori 5 3
 AUT Dominic Thiem 8 4
 ESP Rafael Nadal 9 5
 FRA Lucas Pouille 15 6
 BUL Grigor Dimitrov 17 7
 ESP David Ferrer 21 8

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

ATP doubles main draw entrants

Seeds

Country Player Country Player Rank1 Seed[2]
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Other entrants

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:

WTA singles main draw entrants

Seeds

Country Player Rank1 Seed[3]
 GER Angelique Kerber 1 1
 SVK Dominika Cibulková 5 2
 CZE Karolína Plíšková 6 3
 ESP Garbiñe Muguruza 7 4
 RUS Svetlana Kuznetsova 9 5
 ESP Carla Suárez Navarro 12 6
 UKR Elina Svitolina 14 7
 RUS Elena Vesnina 16 8

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

WTA doubles main draw entrants

Seeds

Country Player Country Player Rank1 Seed[3]
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Other entrants

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:

Champions

Men's Singles

Women's Singles

Men's Doubles

Women's Doubles

Broadcast

Selected matches will air in Australia on 7Two, with live coverage of both day and night sessions.

References

External links

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