2017 Australian Open

• Roger Federer defeated Rafael Nadal, 6–4, 3–6, 6–1, 3–6, 6–3

This was a rematch of the 2009 Australian Open final, which Rafael Nadal won to become the first (and to date, only) Spaniard to win the Australian Open title. The final saw the two holding service for six games of the first set, whilst during the seventh game was the pivotal break of serve giving Federer the opening set. Nadal quickly broke Federer's serve in the second set racing out to a lead that Federer could not overcome, giving him the second set and leveling the match at one set apiece. The third set was a rather lopsided affair seeing Nadal secure his service game only in the fourth game of the set. The fourth set started off competitively with the two holdings serve until Nadal broke in the fourth game of the set, a lead he would never surrender, evening the match at two sets apiece. The decisive fifth set commenced with a break of Federer's serve by Nadal, giving him a lead in the early going; however, Nadal's serve got broken during the sixth game of the set, leveling the match at two sets and three games apiece. Federer won the next three games breaking Nadal's service in the eighth game of the set to allow him to successfully serve out the match in the final ninth game. This was Roger Federer's 18th Grand Slam singles title, the most ever by a man in the history of tennis, and it was his fifth Australian Open title, just one shy of the record co-held by Novak Djokovic and Roy Emerson.[3] Federer would go on to equal this record by defending his title successfully the next year.

• Serena Williams defeated Venus Williams, 6–4, 6–4

This was a rematch of the 2003 Australian Open final, where Serena Williams completed the first "Serena Slam" and her career Grand Slam, whilst Serena won five more Australian Open titles in the interim and her sister Venus had no other final appearances at the event. They each broke the others' serve twice to start the match with Venus finally holding serve in the fifth service game and her sister Serena holding her own serve in the subsequent game. The seventh game was the pivotal break of service that Serena Williams got on her sister Venus' serve, costing her the set just a mere three games later. During the second set, the two traded held service games for the first six games to start the set, whilst Venus started serving first. She would get broken again during the seventh game of the set, which eventually surrendered the match to sister Serena. This was Serena Williams' 23 Grand Slam singles title and seventh Australian Open title for her career, both being Open era records, whilst being one shy of Margaret Court's record of 24 in the history of tennis.[4]

• Henri Kontinen / John Peers defeated. Bob Bryan / Mike Bryan, 7–5, 7–5

• Bethanie Mattek-Sands / Lucie Šafářová defeated Andrea Hlaváčková / Peng Shuai, 6–7^(4–7), 6–3, 6–3

• Abigail Spears / Juan Sebastián Cabal defeated Sania Mirza / Ivan Dodig, 6–2, 6–4

• Gustavo Fernández defeated Nicolas Peifer, 3–6, 6–2, 6–0

• Yui Kamiji defeated Jiske Griffioen, 6–7^(2–7), 6–3, 6–3

• Dylan Alcott defeated Andrew Lapthorne, 6–2, 6–2

• Joachim Gérard / Gordon Reid defeated Gustavo Fernández / Alfie Hewett, 6–3, 3–6, [10–3]

• Jiske Griffioen / Aniek van Koot defeated Diede de Groot / Yui Kamiji, 6–3, 6–2

• Andrew Lapthorne / David Wagner defeated Dylan Alcott / Heath Davidson, 6–3, 6–3

• Zsombor Piros defeated Yshai Oliel, 4–6, 6–4, 6–3

• Marta Kostyuk defeated Rebeka Masarova, 7–5, 1–6, 6–4

• Hsu Yu-hsiou / Zhao Lingxi defeated Finn Reynolds / Duarte Vale, 6–7^(8–10), 6–4, [10–5]

• Bianca Andreescu / Carson Branstine defeated Maja Chwalińska / Iga Świątek, 6–1, 7–6^(7–4)

Seed	Rank	Player	Points before	Points defending	Points won	Points after	Status
1	1	Angelique Kerber	8,875	2,000	240	7,115	Fourth round lost to Coco Vandeweghe
2	2	Serena Williams	7,080	1,300	2,000	7,780	Champion, defeated Venus Williams [13]
3	3	Agnieszka Radwańska	5,625	780	70	4,915	Second round lost to Mirjana Lučić-Baroni
4	4	Simona Halep	5,073	10	10	5,073	First round lost to Shelby Rogers
5	5	Karolína Plíšková	4,970	130	430	5,270	Quarter-finals lost to Mirjana Lučić-Baroni
6	6	Dominika Cibulková	4,865	10	130	4,985	Third round lost to Ekaterina Makarova [30]
7	7	Garbiñe Muguruza	4,420	130	430	4,720	Quarter-finals lost to Coco Vandeweghe
8	10	Svetlana Kuznetsova	3,745	70	240	3,915	Fourth round lost to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova [24]
9	9	Johanna Konta	4,055	780	430	3,705	Quarter-finals lost to Serena Williams [2]
10	12	Carla Suárez Navarro	2,985	430	70	2,625	Second round lost to Sorana Cîrstea
11	13	Elina Svitolina	2,895	70	130	2,955	Third round lost to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova [24]
12	15	Timea Bacsinszky	2,347	70	130	2,407	Third round lost to Daria Gavrilova [22]
13	17	Venus Williams	2,240	10	1,300	3,530	Runner-up, lost to Serena Williams [2]
14	18	Elena Vesnina	2,229	2[11]	130	2,357	Third round lost to Jennifer Brady [Q]
15	19	Roberta Vinci	2,210	130	10	2,090	First round lost to Coco Vandeweghe
16	16	Barbora Strýcová	2,295	240	240	2,295	Fourth round lost to Serena Williams [2]
17	20	Caroline Wozniacki	2,175	10	130	2,295	Third round lost to Johanna Konta [9]
18	21	Samantha Stosur	2,016	10	10	2,016	First round lost to Heather Watson
19	22	Kiki Bertens	1,956	10	10	1,956	First round lost to Varvara Lepchenko
20	23	Zhang Shuai	1,885	470	70	1,485	Second round lost to Alison Riske
21	24	Caroline Garcia	1,765	10	130	1,885	Third round lost to Barbora Strýcová [16]
22	26	Daria Gavrilova	1,665	240	240	1,665	Fourth round lost to Karolína Plíšková [5]
23	25	Daria Kasatkina	1,700	130	10	1,580	First round lost to Peng Shuai
24	27	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	1,620	10	430	2,040	Quarter-finals lost to Venus Williams [13]
25	28	Tímea Babos	1,545	70	10	1,485	First round lost to Nicole Gibbs
26	30	Laura Siegemund	1,502	130	10	1,382	First round lost to Jelena Janković
27	29	Irina-Camelia Begu	1,502	10	70	1,562	Second round lost to Kristýna Plíšková
28	43	Alizé Cornet	1,242	70	70	1,242	Second round lost to Maria Sakkari
29	46	Monica Puig	1,215	130	70	1,155	Second round lost to Mona Barthel [Q]
30	34	Ekaterina Makarova	1,377	240	240	1,377	Fourth round lost to Johanna Konta [9]
31	31	Yulia Putintseva	1,450	130	70	1,390	Second round lost to Jeļena Ostapenko
32	33	Anastasija Sevastova	1,425	110	130	1,445	Third round lost to Garbiñe Muguruza [7]

The following players would have been seeded, but they withdrew from the event.

Rank	Player	Points before	Points defending	Points after	Withdrawal reason
8	Madison Keys	4,137	240	3,897	Wrist injury[12]
11	Petra Kvitová	3,485	70	3,415	Off-court injury[13]
14	Victoria Azarenka	2,591	430	2,161	Maternity[14]

Team		Rank1	Seed
Bethanie Mattek-Sands	Mike Bryan	6	1
Sania Mirza	Ivan Dodig	16	2
Andrea Hlaváčková	Édouard Roger-Vasselin	26	3
Chan Hao-ching	Max Mirnyi	33	4
Chan Yung-jan	Łukasz Kubot	35	5
Kateřina Siniaková	Bruno Soares	36	6
Lucie Hradecká	Radek Štěpánek	46	7
Barbora Krejčíková	Rajeev Ram	49	8

• ¹ Rankings are as of 9 January 2017.

Below is a series of tables for each of the competitions showing the ranking points offered for each event.

The Australian Open total prize money for 2017 was increased by 14% to a tournament record A$50,000,000.

¹Qualifiers prize money was also the Round of 128 prize money.
*per team