2020 Australian Open – Main draw wildcard entries

2020 Australian Open – Main draw wildcard entries
2020 Australian Open – Main draw wildcard entries
Date	November 2019 – January 2020
Edition	108th
Category	Grand Slam (ITF)
Location	(various) United States ; Zhuhai, China ; Melbourne, Australia

Last updated November 21, 2022

The 2020 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 2020 Australian Open, as well as seven male and seven female doubles teams plus eight mixed-doubles teams.

Wildcard entries

Men's singles

Country	Name	Method of Qualification
USA	Michael Mmoh ^{[lower-alpha 1]}^[1]	American Wildcard Challenge
JPN	Tatsuma Ito ^[2]	Asia-Pacific Wildcard Playoff
FRA	Hugo Gaston ^[3]	French internal selection
AUS	John-Patrick Smith ^[4]	Australian Wildcard Playoff
AUS	Christopher O'Connell ^[5]	Australian internal selection
AUS	Marc Polmans ^[5]	Australian internal selection
AUS	Alex Bolt	Australian internal selection
AUS	Andrew Harris	Australian internal selection

Women's singles

Country	Name	Method of Qualification
USA	CoCo Vandeweghe ^[1]	American Wildcard Challenge
KOR	Han Na-lae ^[2]	Asia-Pacific Wildcard Playoff
FRA	Pauline Parmentier ^[3]	French internal selection
AUS	Arina Rodionova ^[6]	Australian Wildcard Playoff
AUS	Astra Sharma ^[5]	Australian internal selection
AUS	Lizette Cabrera ^[5]	Australian internal selection
AUS	Priscilla Hon ^[5]	Australian internal selection
RUS	Maria Sharapova ^[7]	Australian internal selection

Men's doubles

Country	Name	Method of Qualification
KOR KOR	Nam Ji-sung Song Min-kyu ^[8]	Asia-Pacific Wildcard Playoff
AUS AUS	Alex Bolt Matthew Ebden	Australian internal selection
AUS AUS	James Duckworth Marc Polmans	Australian internal selection
AUS AUS	Blake Ellis Alexei Popyrin	Australian internal selection
AUS AUS	Andrew Harris Christopher O'Connell	Australian internal selection
AUS AUS	Lleyton Hewitt Jordan Thompson	Australian internal selection
AUS AUS	Max Purcell Luke Saville	Australian internal selection

Women's doubles

Country	Name	Method of Qualification
TPE TPE	Lee Ya-hsuan Wu Fang-hsien ^[8]	Asia-Pacific Wildcard Playoff
AUS AUS	Alexandra Bozovic Amber Marshall ^[9]	Australian Wildcard Playoff
AUS AUS	Destanee Aiava Lizette Cabrera	Australian internal selection
AUS AUS	Jaimee Fourlis Arina Rodionova	Australian internal selection
AUS AUS	Priscilla Hon Storm Sanders	Australian internal selection
AUS AUS	Maddison Inglis Kaylah McPhee	Australian internal selection
AUS AUS	Jessica Moore Astra Sharma	Australian internal selection

Mixed doubles

Country	Name	Method of Qualification
AUS ESP	Monique Adamczak David Vega Hernández	Australian internal selection
AUS AUS	Jessica Moore Matthew Ebden	Australian internal selection
LAT IND	Jeļena Ostapenko Leander Paes	Australian internal selection
AUS AUS	Ellen Perez Luke Saville	Australian internal selection
AUS AUS	Arina Rodionova Andrew Harris	Australian internal selection
AUS AUS	Storm Sanders Marc Polmans	Australian internal selection
AUS AUS	Astra Sharma John-Patrick Smith	Australian internal selection
AUS AUS	Belinda Woolcock Blake Mott	Australian internal selection

American Wildcard Challenge

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 2019. For the men, the events included ATP Paris, Shenzhen, Charlottesville, Playford, Bratislava, Knoxville, Kobe, Houston, Champaign, Helsinki, Ortisei and Pune events. For the women, the events included Macon, Poitiers, Saguenay, Tyler, Toronto, Liuzhou, Nantes, Las Vegas, Shenzhen, Houston, Taipei and Tokyo events. 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. Any player who otherwise qualified for the main draw of was excluded from wildcard considerations (as happened, in the case of Marcos Giron).

Men's standings

Place	Player	ATP Paris Shenzhen Charlottesville Playford	Bratislava Knoxville Kobe	Houston Champaign Helsinki Ortisei Pune	Best Two Results
1	~~Marcos Giron~~	15	—	~~125~~	~~140~~
2	Michael Mmoh	0	80	25	105
3	J. J. Wolf	3	7	80	87
4	Mitchell Krueger	7	—	45	52
5	Sebastian Korda	3	3	48	51

Women's standings

Place	Player	Macon Poitiers Saguenay	Tyler Toronto Liuzhou Nantes	Las Vegas Shenzhen	Houston Taipei Tokyo	Best Three Results
1	CoCo Vandeweghe	21	21	—	95	137
2	Katerina Stewart	115	—	1	—	116
3	Francesca Di Lorenzo	8	80	—	1	89
4	Alexa Glatch	—	70	15	1	86
5	Danielle Lao	42	42	—	1	85

Asia-Pacific Wildcard Playoff

The Asia-Pacific Australian Open Wildcard Play-off featured 16-players in the men's and women's singles draws and took place from 4 to 8 December 2019 at Hengqin International Tennis Centre in Zhuhai, China.

Men's singles

Seeds

Jason Jung (final)
Tatsuma Ito (Winner)
Ramkumar Ramanathan (first round)
Denis Istomin (first round)
Lee Duck-hee (semifinals)
Nam Ji-sung (quarterfinals)
Sasikumar Mukund (quarterfinals)
Yang Tsung-hua (first round)

Draw

First round				Quarterfinals					Semifinals					Final

1	J Jung	6	6
WC	Cui Jie	3	4	1	J Jung	6	6
8	T-h Yang	3	3	Q	Y Mochizuki	1	4
Q	Yuki Mochizuki	6	6						1	J Jung	6	6
3	R Ramanathan	3	0						5	D-h Lee	2	1
	Ze Zhang	6	6		Ze Zhang	5	3
5	D-h Lee	6	6	5	D-h Lee	7	6
Q	S Shimabukuro	2	1											1	J Jung	5	4
Q	Sidharth Rawat	3	2											2	T Ito	7	6
7	S Mukund	6	6	7	S Mukund	4	3
	Y-s Chung	7	6		Y-s Chung	6	6
4	D Istomin	5	3							Y-s Chung	6	4	4
WC	Bu Yunchaokete	4	0						2	T Ito	1	6	6
6	J-s Nam	6	6	6	J-s Nam	6	1	1
Q	Jumpei Yamasaki	2	2	2	T Ito	3	6	6
2	T Ito	6	6

Women's singles

Seeds

Han Na-lae (Winner)
Ayano Shimizu (final)
Lee Ya-hsuan (first round)
Jang Su-jeong (quarterfinals)
Junri Namigata (quarterfinals)
Sun Ziyue (first round)
Eri Hozumi (quarterfinals)
Kim Da-bin (first round)

Draw

First round					Quarterfinals					Semifinals				Final

1	N-l Han	6	6
	E Hayashi	3	2		1	N-l Han	6	6
7	E Hozumi	6	6		7	E Hozumi	1	1
WC	X Sun	3	2							1	N-l Han	6	6
4	S-j Jang	6	6							Q	K-c Chang	0	4
Q	X Jiang	3	3		4	S-j Jang	1	5
6	Z Sun	6	4	0	Q	K-c Chang	6	7
Q	K-c Chang	4	6	6										1	N-l Han	6	6
WC	Q Tang	0	7⁷	7										2	A Shimizu	2	2
8	D-b Kim	6	6⁴	5	WC	Q Tang	6	3	1
Q	S-h Park	6	6		Q	S-h Park	4	6	6
3	Y-h Lee	4	1							Q	S-h Park	4	2
Q	Q Ye	2^r								2	A Shimizu	6	6
5	J Namigata	3			5	J Namigata	4	1
WC	A Tere-Apisah	1	6	2	2	A Shimizu	6	6
2	A Shimizu	6	1	6

Men's doubles

Seeds

Gong Maoxin / Zhang Ze (final)
Nam Ji-sung / Song Min-kyu (Winners)
Arjun Kadhe / Ramkumar Ramanathan (quarterfinals)
Rhett Purcell / Jumpei Yamasaki (semifinals)

Draw

First round				Quarterfinals					Semifinals				Final

				1	M Gong Ze Zhang	6	6
					Cui Jie Bu Yunchaokete	2	0
									1	M Gong Ze Zhang	7⁷	6
										Y Mochizuki S Shimabukuro	6³	3
				3	A Kadhe R Ramanathan	3	6	[11]
	Yuki Mochizuki S Shimabukuro	6	6		Y Mochizuki S Shimabukuro	6	3	[13]
	H-y Peng T-h Yang	3	4										1	M Gong Ze Zhang	6	2	[6]
													2	J-s Nam M-k Song	4	6	[10]
					Zhao Zhao Zheng Baoluo	5	6	[3]
				4	R Purcell Jumpei Yamasaki	7	4	[10]
									4	R Purcell J Yamasaki	5	3
									2	J-s Nam M-k Song	7	6
					Li Zekai Lu Pengyu	2	4
				2	J-s Nam M-k Song	6	6

Women's doubles

Seeds

Jiang Xinyu / Tang Qianhui (semifinals)
Eri Hozumi / Junri Namigata (quarterfinals)
Choi Ji-hee / Han Na-lae (semifinals)
Chen Pei-hsuan / Hsieh Yu-chieh (quarterfinals)

Draw

First round					Quarterfinals				Semifinals					Final

					1	X Jiang Q Tang	w/o
	D-b Kim Q Ye	6	6			D-b Kim Q Ye
	E Hayashi A Tere-Apisah	2	2						1	X Jiang Q Tang	6	3	[7]
										S-j Jang N-r Kim	4	6	[10]
					4	P-h Chen Y-c Hsieh	6	2^r
						S-j Jang N-r Kim	3	2
															S-j Jang N-r Kim	2	6	[7]
															Y-h Lee F-h Wu	6	3	[10]
						K-c Chang C-w Hsu	5	3
					3	J-h Choi N-l Han	7	6
									3	J-h Choi N-l Han	1	2
	Y-h Lee F-h Wu	6	2	[10]						Y-h Lee F-h Wu	6	6
	X Sun Z Sun	2	6	[5]		Y-h Lee F-h Wu	6	6
					2	E Hozumi J Namigata	4	4

Australian Wildcard Playoff

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 2020 Australian Wildcard Playoff which will be held from 9–15 December 2019 at Melbourne Park, offering a main draw singles wildcard for men and women and a main draw women's doubles wildcard.

Men's singles

Seeds

Alex Bolt (semifinals)
Andrew Harris (first round)
Max Purcell (final)
Aleksandar Vukic (quarterfinals)
Harry Bourchier (quarterfinals)
John-Patrick Smith (Winner)
Luke Saville (quarterfinals)
Maverick Banes (semifinals)

Draw

First round							Quarterfinals							Semifinals					Final

1	A Bolt	6³	6	6²	3
	B Mott	7⁷	4	7⁷	3^r		1	A Bolt	6	2	6	6
	T Fancutt	3	3	7⁷	6	3	7	L Saville	4	6	3	4
7	L Saville	6	6	6⁵	4	6								1	A Bolt	6³	2	3
3	M Purcell	6	6	6										3	M Purcell	7⁷	6	6
WC	D Sweeny	0	0	4			3	M Purcell	7⁷	6	6
WC	C Puttergill	3	3	3			5	H Bourchier	6⁴	3	1
5	H Bourchier	6	6	6															3	M Purcell	3	4	1
6	J-P Smith	6	7⁷	6															6	J-P Smith	6	6	6
	B Walkin	3	6¹	3			6	J-P Smith	6	6¹⁵	6	6
	Jacob Grills	4	4	3			4	A Vukic	3	7¹⁷	3	1
4	A Vukic	6	6	6										6	J-P Smith	6	6	6
8	M Banes	7⁷	6	6										8	M Banes	2	1	3
WC	R Hijikata	6²	4	1			8	M Banes	4	6	4	7	7
WC	T Schoolkate	4	7⁷	6	3	6	WC	T Schoolkate	6	0	6	5	5
2	A Harris	6	6²	2	6	2

Women's singles

Seeds

Maddison Inglis (quarterfinals)
Lizette Cabrera (withdrew)
Destanee Aiava (quarterfinals)
Arina Rodionova (Winner)
Ellen Perez (first round)
Jaimee Fourlis (first round)
Belinda Woolcock (semifinals)
Abbie Myers (semifinals)

Draw

First round					Quarterfinals					Semifinals					Final

1	M Inglis	2	6	6
WC	C Kempenaers-Pocz	6	3	4	1	M Inglis	3	2
	A Bai	3	4		7	B Woolcock	6	6
7	B Woolcock	6	6							7	B Woolcock	2	6	2
4	Ar Rodionova	6	6							4	Ar Rodionova	6	4	6
WC	S Tomic	1	2		4	Ar Rodionova	7	6
	O Tjandramulia	6	4	6		O Tjandramulia	5	0
6	J Fourlis	1	6	4											4	Ar Rodionova	6	7
5	E Perez	3	1													S Sanders	4	5
	S Sanders	6	6			S Sanders	6	6
WC	T Gibson	1	6²		3	D Aiava	2	3
3	D Aiava	6	7⁷								S Sanders	7⁷	6
8	A Myers	5	6	6						8	A Myers	6¹	2
	A Bozovic	7	3	4	8	A Myers	6	4	6
WC	G Da Silva-Fick	6	4	7	WC	G Da Silva-Fick	2	6	3
Alt	A Parnaby	2	6	5

Women's doubles

Seeds

Jaimee Fourlis / Arina Rodionova (first round)
Destanee Aiava / Lizette Cabrera (semifinals, withdrew)
Abbie Myers / Belinda Woolcock (first round)
Gabriella Da Silva-Fick / Olivia Tjandramulia (final)

Draw

First round					Semifinals					Final

1	J Fourlis Ar Rodionova	6⁶	0

WC	T Gibson A Poulos	7⁸	6
					WC	T Gibson A Poulos	7⁷	4	2

						A Bozovic A Marshall	6⁴	6	6
3	A Myers B Woolcock	3	4

	A Bozovic A Marshall	6	6
											A Bozovic A Marshall	6	6

										4	G Da Silva-Fick O Tjandramulia	2	3
	A Parnaby S Tomic	6	1	6⁸

4	G Da Silva-Fick O Tjandramulia	4	6	7¹⁰
					4	G Da Silva-Fick O Tjandramulia	w/o

					2	D Aiava L Cabrera
	Laura Ashley I Bozicevic	4	2

2	D Aiava L Cabrera	6	6

Notes

↑ Marcos Giron was the original winner for the USTA Wildcard Challenge alongside CoCo Vandeweghe. However, when some original players in the entry list field withdrew from the tournament, Giron was moved up directly entering to the main draw as an alternate. His runner-up, Michael Mmoh replaced him.

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References

1 2 "Vandeweghe, Giron win 2020 Australian Open Wild Card Challenges". USTA. 18 November 2019. Retrieved 4 December 2019.
1 2 "Han, Ito secure Australian Open 2020 spots". Tennis Australia. 9 December 2019.
1 2 "Pauline Parmentier, Hugo Gaston and Diane Parry earn Australian Open WC's". Tennis World USA. 16 November 2019. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
↑ "JP Smith wins Australian Open 2020 Wildcard". Tennis Australia. 15 December 2019.
1 2 3 4 5 "From washing boats to Australian Open main draw". Australian Associated Press. 9 January 2019. Retrieved 9 January 2019.
↑ "Arina Rodionova wins AO Play-Off". Tennis Australia. 15 December 2019.
↑ "Maria Sharapova awarded AO2020 wildcard". Tennis Australia. 8 January 2019. Retrieved 8 January 2019.
1 2 "Top seeds Han, Jung into Asia-Pacific Wildcard Play-off finals". Tennis Australia. 8 December 2019.
↑ "Smith v Purcell in AO Play-Off Final". Tennis Australia. 13 December 2019.

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[1] Marcos Giron was the original winner for the USTA Wildcard Challenge alongside CoCo Vandeweghe. However, when some original players in the entry list field withdrew from the tournament, Giron was moved up directly entering to the main draw as an alternate. His runner-up, Michael Mmoh replaced him.

[American_WC-2] 1 2 "Vandeweghe, Giron win 2020 Australian Open Wild Card Challenges". USTA. 18 November 2019. Retrieved 4 December 2019.

[Asian_WC-3] 1 2 "Han, Ito secure Australian Open 2020 spots". Tennis Australia. 9 December 2019.

[French_internal_selection-4] 1 2 "Pauline Parmentier, Hugo Gaston and Diane Parry earn Australian Open WC's". Tennis World USA. 16 November 2019. Retrieved 6 December 2019.

[5] "JP Smith wins Australian Open 2020 Wildcard". Tennis Australia. 15 December 2019.

[AUS_WC-6] 1 2 3 4 5 "From washing boats to Australian Open main draw". Australian Associated Press. 9 January 2019. Retrieved 9 January 2019.

[7] "Arina Rodionova wins AO Play-Off". Tennis Australia. 15 December 2019.

[8] "Maria Sharapova awarded AO2020 wildcard". Tennis Australia. 8 January 2019. Retrieved 8 January 2019.

[Asian_Doubles_WC-9] 1 2 "Top seeds Han, Jung into Asia-Pacific Wildcard Play-off finals". Tennis Australia. 8 December 2019.

[10] "Smith v Purcell in AO Play-Off Final". Tennis Australia. 13 December 2019.

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2020 Australian Open – Main draw wildcard entries

Contents

Wildcard entries

Men's singles

Women's singles

Men's doubles

Women's doubles

Mixed doubles

American Wildcard Challenge

Men's standings

Women's standings

Asia-Pacific Wildcard Playoff

Men's singles

Seeds

Draw

Women's singles

Seeds

Draw

Men's doubles

Seeds

Draw

Women's doubles

Seeds

Draw

Australian Wildcard Playoff

Men's singles

Seeds

Draw

Women's singles

Seeds

Draw

Women's doubles

Seeds

Draw

Notes

Related Research Articles

References

External links