2012 Australian Open
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The 2012 Australian Open is a tennis tournament that will take place in Melbourne Park
in Melbourne
, Australia
from January 16 to January 29, 2012. It will be the 100th edition of the Australian Open, and the first Grand Slam event of the year.
s (AUD); doubles prize money is distributed per pair.
Melbourne Park
Melbourne Park is a sports venue in the Melbourne Sports and Entertainment Precinct in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Since 1988, Melbourne Park has been home of the Australian Open in tennis, which is played annually in January...
in Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
from January 16 to January 29, 2012. It will be the 100th edition of the Australian Open, and the first Grand Slam event of the year.
Prize money
All prize money is in Australian dollarAustralian dollar
The Australian dollar is the currency of the Commonwealth of Australia, including Christmas Island, Cocos Islands, and Norfolk Island, as well as the independent Pacific Island states of Kiribati, Nauru and Tuvalu...
s (AUD); doubles prize money is distributed per pair.
Men's and Women's Singles
- Winners: $2,300,000
- Runners-up: $1,150,000
- Semi-finalists: $437,000
- Quarter-finalists: $218,500
- Fourth round: $109,250
- Third round: $54,625
- Second round: $33,300
- First round: $20,000
Men's and Women's Doubles
- Winners: $454,500
- Runners-up: $227,250
- Semi-finalists: $113,000
- Quarter-finalists: $56,000
- Third round: $31,500
- Second round: $17,200
- First round: $9,600
Mixed Doubles
- Winners: $135,500
- Runners-up: $67,500
- Semi-finalists: $33,900
- Quarter-finalists: $15,500
- Second round: $7,800
- First round: $3,800