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 2017
Edition 9th
Prize money $461,330 (men)
$1,000,000 (women)
Surface Hard / outdoor
Location Tennyson, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Venue Queensland Tennis Centre
Champions
Men's Singles
Bulgaria Grigor Dimitrov
Women's Singles
Czech Republic Karolína Plíšková
Men's Doubles
Australia Thanasi Kokkinakis / Australia Jordan Thompson
Women's Doubles
United States Bethanie Mattek-Sands / India Sania Mirza

The 2017 Brisbane International was a tournament of the 2017 ATP World Tour and 2017 WTA Tour. It was played on outdoor hard courts in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was the ninth edition of the tournament and took place at the Queensland Tennis Centre in Tennyson. It was 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 would 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 $191,418 $102,887 $54,793 $22,877 $12,289 $6,703 $3,494 $1,862 $1,043
Women's Doubles * $46,796 $24,950 $13,654 $6,951 $3,767 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
 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
  • 1 Rankings as of December 26, 2016.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

Withdrawals

Before the tournament

ATP doubles main draw entrants

Seeds

Country Player Country Player Rank1 Seed
 FRA Pierre-Hugues Herbert  FRA Nicolas Mahut 3 1
 FIN Henri Kontinen  AUS John Peers 16 2
 RSA Raven Klaasen  USA Rajeev Ram 26 3
 CAN Daniel Nestor  FRA Édouard Roger-Vasselin 32 4
  • 1 Rankings as of December 26, 2016.

Other entrants

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:

WTA singles main draw entrants

Seeds

Country Player Rank1 Seed
 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
 UKR Elina Svitolina 14 6
 RUS Elena Vesnina 16 7
 ITA Roberta Vinci 18 8
  • 1 Rankings as of December 26, 2016.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

The following player received entry as a lucky loser:

Withdrawals

Before the tournament

WTA doubles main draw entrants

Seeds

Country Player Country Player Rank1 Seed
 USA Bethanie Mattek-Sands  IND Sania Mirza 6 1
 RUS Ekaterina Makarova  RUS Elena Vesnina 14 2
 USA Abigail Spears  SLO Katarina Srebotnik 48 3
 SLO Andreja Klepač  ESP María José Martínez Sánchez 71 4
  • 1 Rankings as of December 26, 2016.

Other entrants

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

Champions

Men's Singles

Women's Singles

Men's Doubles

Women's Doubles

Broadcast

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

References

  1. ↑ "Rafael Nadal to play Brisbane International". Sydney Morning Herald. 24 August 2016. Retrieved 24 August 2016.
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