2020 Brisbane International

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2020 Brisbane International
Date6–12 January 2020
Edition12th
Category WTA Premier
Prize money$1,500,000
Surface Hard
Location Tennyson, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Venue Queensland Tennis Centre
Champions
Singles
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Karolína Plíšková
Doubles
Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg Hsieh Su-wei / Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Barbora Strýcová
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The 2020 Brisbane International was a professional tennis tournament on the 2020 WTA Tour. It was played on outdoor hard courts in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. This was the twelfth edition of the tournament, which took place at the Queensland Tennis Centre in Tennyson from 6 to 12 January 2020 [1] as part of the Australian Open Series in preparation for the first Grand Slam of the year. The ATP Tour edition of the event was replaced this year by the first edition of the ATP Cup.

Contents

Points and prize money

Point distribution

EventWFSFQFRound of 16Round of 32QQ3Q2Q1
Singles4703051851005512518131
Doubles1N/AN/AN/AN/AN/A

Prize money

EventWFSFQFRound of 16Round of 321Q3Q2Q1
Singles$266,000$142,000$75,050$40,600$22,050$12,000$6,500$3,400$1,900
Doubles *$84,000$44,800$25,000$12,900$7,000N/AN/AN/AN/A

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

Singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

CountryPlayerRank1Seed
Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Ashleigh Barty 11
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  CZE Karolína Plíšková 22
Flag of Japan.svg  JPN Naomi Osaka 33
Flag of Ukraine.svg  UKR Elina Svitolina 64
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  CZE Petra Kvitová 75
Flag of the Netherlands.svg  NED Kiki Bertens 96
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  GBR Johanna Konta 127
Flag of the United States.svg USA Madison Keys 138

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

Doubles main-draw entrants

Seeds

CountryPlayerCountryPlayerRank1Seed
Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg  TPE Hsieh Su-wei Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  CZE Barbora Strýcová 51
Flag of the United States.svg USA Nicole Melichar Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  CHN Xu Yifan 282
Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg  TPE Chan Hao-ching Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg  TPE Latisha Chan 303
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  CZE Květa Peschke Flag of the Netherlands.svg  NED Demi Schuurs 354

Other entrants

The following pair received a wildcard into the doubles main draw:

Withdrawals

During the tournament

Champions

Singles

Doubles

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