Australian Open 2022: Courts
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Courts
The whole tournament happened at Melbourne Park, on the eastern edge of the city — sixteen championship courts inside one set of gates, from Rod Laver Arena, where all five finals were played, out to the numbered courts that carried the first rounds. The plan below draws every court where it actually sat, to scale, from surveyed footprints — and each one opens to exactly which matches were played on it, in the order they were played, with the time each began wherever the tournament’s own record of it survives.
Rod Laver ArenaMen's FFinalWomen's FFinalMen's Doubles FFinalWomen's Doubles FFinalMixed Doubles FFinal14,82059 matches
Centre court since the precinct opened in 1988, when it was plain “National Tennis Centre at Flinders Park” — the first tennis venue anywhere with a retractable roof, an idea the Victorian premier floated as a compromise between an open-air court and a closed arena. It took Rod Laver’s name in January 2000 and seats 14,820 for tennis. A 2018 upgrade cut the roof’s closing time from thirty minutes to five. In 2022 it staged all five finals — the mixed doubles included — and carried 59 main-draw matches, more than any other court.
Daniil Medvedev
Krejčíková / 
Danilina / 
Maia
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Mladenovic / 
Dodig
Matteo Berrettini
Stefanos Tsitsipas
Aoyama / 
Escobar
Iga Świątek
Zeballos
Félix Auger-Aliassime
Kaia Kanepi
Simona Halep
Victoria Azarenka
Clara Tauson
Elina Svitolina
Jeļena Ostapenko
Xinyu Wang
Harriet Dart
Henri Laaksonen
Mikael Ymer
Camila OsorioMargaret Court ArenaMen's Doubles SFSemi-finalWomen's Doubles SFSemi-finalMixed Doubles SFSemi-final7,50047 matches
Show Court 1 when the grounds opened in 1988, and Margaret Court Arena since — rebuilt for the 2015 tournament from 6,000 seats to 7,500 and given the fastest retractable roof of its kind, five minutes open to shut. It is the third of Melbourne Park’s roofed courts, which is what makes this the only Grand Slam venue that can put three matches under cover at once, and at 47 matches it carried the heaviest slate of the fortnight outside Rod Laver Arena.
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Polášek
Mirza / 
Qureshi
Olmos / 
Arévalo
Tamara Zidanšek
Botic van de Zandschulp
Danka Kovinić
Soonwoo KwonJohn Cain Arena10,50029 matches
The People’s Court — the second-largest arena here, opened in 2000 and renamed four times before it settled (Vodafone, Hisense, Melbourne, and since December 2020 John Cain, for the premier who kept the Australian Open in Melbourne). It seats 10,500 for tennis, has its own retractable roof and a velodrome track under the seating, and it is the one show court a ground pass gets you into, which is most of why it sounds the way it does when an Australian is playing.
Puetz / 
Venus (6)✓
Kubler / O'Connell
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Radu Albot
Nikoloz BasilashviliKia Arena5,00036 matches
The newest court on the grounds and the signature piece of a $271.5 million redevelopment stage: a 5,000-seat bowl sunk into the ground between Rod Laver and John Cain arenas, built over the old Eastern Courts 16–23 and opened for the 2022 tournament. A roof structure shades most of the seats without closing over the court, so it plays outdoors in all weather — the largest court here that a rain delay still stops.
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Klaasen / 
Eikeri
Behar / 
Cristian Garín
Huey / 
Rungkat
Ričardas Berankis
Erlich / 
João Sousa1573 Arena3,00025 matches
Show Court 2 by construction, 1573 Arena by contract — named from the 2019 tournament for Guojiao 1573, a baijiu distilled by Luzhou Laojiao, in the first of the show-court sponsorships. It has stood since the grounds opened in 1988 and seats 3,000, open to the sky.
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Emil RuusuvuoriCourt 33,00028 matches
The last of Melbourne Park’s major show courts to be known by a number: opened with the grounds in 1988, 3,000 seats, shaded since 2020, and reachable on a ground pass, which makes it the best value on the site for a seeded first-round match. It took a sponsor’s name four tournaments after this one and is ANZ Arena from 2026. In 2022 it played 28 main-draw matches, more than any other court that carries a number and more than one of the show courts.
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Grigor Dimitrov
Panna UdvardyCourt 5—16 matches
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Chun-hsin TsengCourt 6—17 matches
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Court 7—23 matches
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Nuria Párrizas Díaz✓
Maryna ZanevskaCourt 8—24 matches
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Court 12—15 matches
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Court 13—14 matches
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Court 14—14 matches
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Court 15—21 matches
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Brkić / Court 16—16 matches
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Court 17—27 matches
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Plipuech / Why do the numbered courts start at 3?
The numbered courts that hosted 2022 main-draw tennis are Court 3, then 5 to 8, and 12 to 17. There is no Court 1, 2 or 4, because the first two numbers were spent on show courts that outgrew them: Margaret Court Arena opened in 1988 as Show Court 1, and 1573 Arena is Show Court 2 under a sponsor’s name. Court 3 kept its number through this tournament and the three after it, and became ANZ Arena days before the 2026 edition.
Courts 9, 10 and 11 appear nowhere in this record: none drew a main-draw match, and none is in the tournament’s own courts table for 2022. The far end of the range is what this edition shares with the next one and with no other — championship tennis on both Court 16 and Court 17, which between them carried 43 matches here. The 2023 tournament used both as well; the 2024 tournament used 17 and not 16, and the 2025 and 2026 tournaments used neither.
The pale courts around the edge of the plan are practice and public courts, including the National Tennis Centre’s. They host no championship matches and carry no numbers on the public plan, so they stay unlabelled here too.
Matches are listed in the order they were played, on Australian Eastern Daylight Time — eleven hours ahead of UTC, and far enough east that a day session here was the evening before at home. Each start time is the tournament’s own record of when that match began; where the record did not survive, the match keeps its place in the day’s order without a time rather than borrowing one from another source.
The grounds plan is drawn from OpenStreetMap building footprints (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL).