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{{TennisEventInfo|2010|Medibank International Sydney|
| date=10–16 January 2010
| edition=118th
| category=[[ATP World Tour 250]] <br />  [[WTA Premier tournaments|WTA Premier]]
| location=[[Sydney]], Australia
| venue=[[NSW Tennis Centre]]
| champms={{flagicon|CYP}} [[Marcos Baghdatis]]
| champws={{flagicon|RUS}} [[Elena Dementieva]]
| champmd={{flagicon|CAN}} [[Daniel Nestor]] / {{flagicon|SRB}} [[Nenad Zimonjić]]
| champwd={{flagicon|ZIM}} [[Cara Black]] / {{flagicon|USA}} [[Liezel Huber]]
| main_name = Sydney International
}}

The '''2010 Medibank International Sydney''' was a [[tennis]] tournament played on outdoor [[hard court]]s. It was the 118th edition of the event known that year as the [[Medibank International Sydney]], and was part of the [[ATP World Tour 250 series]] of the [[2010 ATP World Tour]], and of the [[WTA Premier tournaments]] of the [[2010 WTA Tour]]. Both the men's and the women's events took place at the [[NSW Tennis Centre]] in [[Sydney]], Australia, from 10 through 16 January 2010.

Coverage of the event was on [[Seven Network|Channel Seven]], with live coverage of the day sessions and delayed coverage of the night sessions.

==WTA entrants==

===Seeds===
{|class="sortable wikitable"
|-
! width="70"| Country
! width="175"| Player
! Rank*
! Seed
|-
|{{flagu|USA}}
|[[Serena Williams]]
|1
|1
|- 
|{{flag|RUS}}
|[[Dinara Safina]]
|2
|2
|-
|{{flag|RUS}}
|[[Svetlana Kuznetsova]]
|3
|3
|-
|{{flag|DEN}}
|[[Caroline Wozniacki]]
|4
|4
|-
|{{flag|RUS}}
|[[Elena Dementieva]]
|5
|5
|-
|{{flag|BLR}}
|[[Victoria Azarenka]]
|7
|6
|-
|{{flag|SRB}}
|[[Jelena Janković]]
|8
|7
|-
|{{flag|RUS}}
|[[Vera Zvonareva]]
|9
|8
|}
* As of 4 January 2010

===Other entrants===
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
* {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Casey Dellacqua]]
* {{flagicon|BEL}} [[Justine Henin]] (withdrew due to left gluteal strain)

The following players received entry into the singles main draw through qualifying:
* {{flagicon|USA}} [[Jill Craybas]]
* {{flagicon|JPN}} [[Kimiko Date-Krumm]]
* {{flagicon|RUS}} [[Vera Dushevina]]
* {{flagicon|GER}} [[Anna-Lena Grönefeld]]
* {{flagicon|USA}} [[Varvara Lepchenko]]
* {{flagicon|HUN}} [[Ágnes Szávay]]

The following players received entry into the singles main draw through the virtue of being a lucky loser:
* {{flagicon|SWI}} [[Timea Bacsinszky]]

==ATP entrants==

===Seeds===
{|class="sortable wikitable"
|-
! width="70"| Country
! width="175"| Player
! Rank<sup>1</sup> 
! Seed
|-
|{{flag|FRA}}
|[[Gaël Monfils]]
|13
|1
|-
|{{flag|CZE}}
|[[Tomáš Berdych]]
|20
|2
|- 
|{{flag|SUI}}
|[[Stanislas Wawrinka]]
|21
|3
|- 
|{{flag|AUS}}
|[[Lleyton Hewitt]]
|22
|4
|- 
|{{flagu|USA}}
|[[Sam Querrey]]
|25
|5
|-
|{{flag|SRB}}
|[[Victor Troicki]]
|29
|6
|-
|{{flag|RUS}}
|[[Igor Andreev]]
|35
|7
|- 
|{{flag|GER}}
|[[Benjamin Becker]]
|40
|8
|}

===Other entrants===
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
* {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Carsten Ball]]
* {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Nick Lindahl]]
* {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Peter Luczak]]

The following players received entry into the singles main draw through qualifying:
* {{flagicon|ARG}} [[Juan Ignacio Chela]]
* {{flagicon|POR}} [[Frederico Gil]]
* {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Marinko Matosevic]]
* {{flagicon|ARG}} [[Leonardo Mayer]]

The following players received the lucky loser spot:
* {{flagicon|USA}} [[Taylor Dent]]
* {{flagicon|ESP}} [[Daniel Gimeno Traver]]

==Finals==

===Men's singles===
{{Main|2010 Medibank International Sydney – Men's singles}}
{{flagicon|CYP}} [[Marcos Baghdatis]] defeated {{flagicon|FRA}} [[Richard Gasquet]], 6–4, 7–6<sup>(7–2)</sup>
*It was Baghdatis' first title of the year and fourth of his career.

===Women's singles===
{{Main|2010 Medibank International Sydney – Women's singles}}
{{flagicon|Russia}} [[Elena Dementieva]] defeated {{flagicon|USA}} [[Serena Williams]], 6–3, 6–2
* It was Dementieva's first title of the year, 15th of her career, and her second consecutive title at the event.

===Men's doubles===
{{Main|2010 Medibank International Sydney – Men's doubles}}
{{flagicon|CAN}} [[Daniel Nestor]] / {{flagicon|SRB}} [[Nenad Zimonjić]] defeated {{flagicon|GBR}} [[Ross Hutchins]] / {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Jordan Kerr]], 6–3, 7–6<sup>(7–5)</sup>.

===Women's doubles===
{{Main|2010 Medibank International Sydney – Women's doubles}}
{{flagicon|ZIM}} [[Cara Black]] / {{flagicon|USA}} [[Liezel Huber]] defeated {{flagicon|ITA}} [[Tathiana Garbin]] / {{flagicon|RUS}} [[Nadia Petrova]], 6–1, 3&ndash;6, [10–3]

==External links==
*[http://www.medibankinternational.com/ Official website]
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{{Sydney International tournaments}}
{{2010 ATP World Tour}}
{{2010 WTA Tour}}
{{2010 in tennis}}

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