2019 Australian Open – Main draw wildcard entries

The 2019 Australian Open wildcard playoffs and entries are a group of events and internal selections to choose the eight men and eight women singles wildcard entries for the 2019 Australian Open, as well as seven male and seven female doubles teams plus eight mixed-doubles teams.

American Wildcard Challenge
The USTA awarded a wildcard to the man and woman that earned the most ranking points across a group of three ATP/Challenger hardcourt events in the October and November 2018. For the men, the events included ATP Paris, $75K Canberra, $75K Charlottesville, $75K+H Shenzhen, €106K+H Bratislava, €85K+H Mouilleron-le-Captif, $150K+H Bangalore, $150K+H Houston, $75K Champaign and $50K+H Kobe events. For the women, the events included $80K Macon, $80K Tyler and $80K Las Vegas and $150K+H Houston. For men, only the best two results from the three weeks of events were taken into account. While for women only the best three results from the four weeks of events were taken into account. The winners of the wildcard challenge were Jack Sock and Whitney Osuigwe.

Australian Women's Wildcard Challenge
Tennis Australia awarded a singles wildcard and a doubles wildcard to the Australian women that earned the most ranking points across a group of two ITF hardcourt events in the October and November 2018. The events included the 2018 Bendigo Women's International and the 2018 Canberra Tennis International. The winner of the wildcards were Priscilla Hon, and Ellen Perez and Arina Rodionova.

Asia-Pacific Wildcard Playoff
The Asia-Pacific Australian Open Wildcard Play-off featured 16-players in the men's and women's singles draws and took place from 26 November to 2 December 2018 at Hengqin International Tennis Centre in Zhuhai, China.

Seeds
• # 🇰🇷 Lee Duck-hee (semifinals)

• # 🇨🇳 Zhang Ze (final)

• # 🇨🇳 Li Zhe (winner)

• # Yang Tsung-hua (first round)

• # 🇰🇷 Chung Yun-seong (quarterfinals)

• # 🇯🇵 Kaichi Uchida (semifinals)

• # 🇯🇵 Renta Tokuda (quarterfinals)

• # 🇨🇳 Wu Di (first round)

Seeds
• # 🇨🇳 Peng Shuai (winner)

• # 🇰🇷 Jang Su-jeong (quarterfinals)

• # 🇨🇳 Xun Fangying (first round)

• # 🇹🇭 Peangtarn Plipuech (first round)

• # 🇯🇵 Mai Minokoshi (first round)

• # 🇯🇵 Hiroko Kuwata (first round)

• # 🇮🇳 Pranjala Yadlapalli (quarterfinals)

• # 🇨🇳 Wang Xinyu (first round)

Seeds
• # 🇨🇳 Gong Maoxin / 🇨🇳 Zhang Ze (winners)

• # Hsieh Cheng-peng / Yang Tsung-hua (quarterfinals)

• # 🇮🇳 Sriram Balaji / 🇮🇳 Arjun Kadhe (semifinals)

• # 🇯🇵 Toshihide Matsui / 🇯🇵 Kaito Uesugi (final)

Seeds
• # 🇨🇳 Jiang Xinyu / 🇨🇳 Tang Qianhui (semifinals)

• # 🇯🇵 Rika Fujiwara / Hsieh Shu-ying (quarterfinals)

• # 🇹🇭 Peangtarn Plipuech / 🇨🇳 Ye Qiuyu (quarterfinals)

• # 🇨🇳 Xun Fangying / 🇨🇳 You Xiaodi (quarterfinals)

Australian Wildcard Playoff
The December Showdown is held annually for two weeks in December. The Showdown includes age championships for 12/u, 14/u, 16/u and 18/u age categories. It also hosts the 2019 Australian Wildcard Playoff which will be held from 10 to 16 December 2018 at Melbourne Park, offering a main draw singles wildcard for men and women and a main draw women's doubles wildcard.

Seeds
• # 🇦🇺 Alex Bolt (semifinals)

• # 🇦🇺 John-Patrick Smith (quarterfinals)

• # 🇦🇺 James Duckworth (winner)

• # 🇦🇺 Max Purcell (first round)

• # 🇦🇺 Akira Santillan (quarterfinals)

• # 🇦🇺 Maverick Banes (semifinals)

• # 🇦🇺 Bradley Mousley (first round)

• # 🇦🇺 Andrew Harris (first round)

Seeds
• # 🇦🇺 Arina Rodionova (quarterfinals)

• # 🇦🇺 Ellen Perez (semifinals)

• # 🇦🇺 Jaimee Fourlis (quarterfinals)

• # 🇦🇺 Zoe Hives (semifinals)

• # 🇦🇺 Astra Sharma (final)

• # 🇦🇺 Lizette Cabrera (first round)

• # 🇦🇺 Destanee Aiava (first round)

• # 🇦🇺 Kimberly Birrell (winner)

Seeds
• # 🇦🇺 Destanee Aiava / 🇦🇺 Naiktha Bains (winners)

• # 🇦🇺 Lizette Cabrera / 🇦🇺 Jaimee Fourlis (semifinals)

• # 🇦🇺 Alison Bai / 🇦🇺 Zoe Hives (semifinals)

• # 🇦🇺 Olivia Tjandramulia / 🇦🇺 Belinda Woolcock (first round)