The tournament will be a precursor to the first Grand Slam of the year, the Australian Open which is scheduled to commence on January 16.
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The first tennis competition on the 2023 ATP Tour and 2023 WTA Tour is the 2023 Adelaide International 1. It is a joint ATP Tour 250 and WTA 500 competition held in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, on outdoor hard courts. For the women, this is the third iteration of the competition, while for the men, it is the second. The competition will be held from January 1–8, 2023, at the Memorial Drive Tennis Centre. A week later, the same location will host the 2023 Adelaide International 2, an ATP Tour 250 and WTA 250 tournament. The preliminary rounds will take place on December 31, 2022.
The tournament will be a precursor to the first Grand Slam of the year, the Australian Open which is scheduled to commence on January 16. The two editions of the Adelaide International will play out over the course of a couple of weeks. The first one is set to begin on the first day of the new year and end on January 8. The second will commence from January 9 and end on January 14. Here is all you need to know about the first one.
The Adelaide International 1 set to begin on January first and end on January 8. There will be five rounds of play excluding the qualifiers. The qualifying matches will take place on December 31. Here is the tentative schedule of the first singles competitive tennis tournament of the new season.
| Tournament stage | Date |
|---|---|
| First round | January 1-2 |
| Second round | January 2-5 |
| Quarter-final | January 6 |
| Semi-final | January 7 |
| Final | January 8 |
| Player | Seed |
|---|---|
| Novak Djokovic | 1 |
| Felix Auger-Aliassime | 2 |
| Daniil Medvedev | 3 |
| Andrey Rublev | 4 |
| Holger Rune | 5 |
| Jannik Sinner | 6 |
| Denis Shapovalov | 7 |
| Karen Khachanov | 8 |
| Player | Seed |
|---|---|
| Ons Jabeur | 1 |
| Aryna Sabalenka | 2 |
| Daria Kasatkina | 3 |
| Veronika Kudermetova | 4 |
| Danielle Collins | 5 |
| Anett Kontaveit | 6 |
| Jelena Ostapenko | 7 |
| Ekaterina Alexandrova | 8 |
The prize money distribution is yet to be made public by the organizers of the competition which we will update as soon as it is made available. However, the points distribution of the competition both for the men’s and women’s events are mentioned below.
| Tournament stage | Men’s points | Women’s points |
|---|---|---|
| First round | NA | 1 |
| Second round | 20 | 55 |
| Quarter-finals | 45 | 100 |
| Semi-finals | 90 | 185 |
| Final | 150 | 305 |
| Winner | 250 | 470 |
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Canada – TSN
India – Tennis TV
UK – Amazon Prime Video
USA – Tennis Channel
The matches of both men’s and women’s can be live streamed on demand on the Tennis TV app and website.
