The primary Grand Slam of the yr takes place on the Australian Open in Melbourne as Jannik Sinner and Madison Keys look to defend their titles.
Emma Raducanu and Cameron Norrie will probably be joined in the principle draw by fellow Brits Jacob Fearnley, Sonay Kartal and Fran Jones.
The top-ranked gamers on the planet enter the event mechanically on the primary draw stage, with 104 ranked gamers going straight into the singles attracts alongside eight wildcard entries and 16 qualifiers.
When is the 2025 Australian Open and when is the draw?
The principle event (singles) begins on January 18, with the ladies’s closing on January 31 and the lads’s closing on February 1.
The principle draw will takes place on Thursday, January 15 at 2.30pm native time which is 3.30am UK and Eire time.
The place is the Australian Open 2025 being held?
Rod Laver Enviornment has a capability of 15,000
The Australian Open takes place at Melbourne Park, Melbourne – house to the Grand Slam occasion since 1988.
Melbourne Park has three present courts – the Rod Laver Enviornment (the second largest indoor sports activities venue in Australia with a capability of 15,000), in addition to the John Cain Enviornment (10,500 capability) and Margaret Courtroom Enviornment (7,500 capability).
Australian Open match schedule
Madison Keys celebrates with the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup after successful her maiden Grand Slam title
The event takes place on daily basis from midnight UK and Eire time every day on the surface courts and 1am on the present courts. Night time periods will begin at 8am.
Jan 18-20: First spherical
Jan 21-22: Second spherical
Jan 23-24: Third spherical
Jan 25-26: Fourth spherical
Jan 27-28: Quarter-finals
Jan 29: Girls’s semi-finals
Jan 30: Males’s semi-finals
Jan 31: Girls’s closing (8.30am UK and Eire time)
Feb 1: Males’s closing (8.30am UK and Eire time)
The Australian Open schedule additionally consists of:
- Males’s and girls’s singles: 18 January – 1 February
- Males’s and girls’s doubles: 20-31 January
- Blended doubles: 22-30 January
- Wheelchair occasions: 27-31 January
- Junior occasions: 24 January – 1 February
Australian Open top-seeded gamers
Girls’s singles
- Aryna Sabalenka
- Iga Swiatek (POL)
- Coco Gauff (USA)
- Amanda Anisimova (USA)
- Elena Rybakina (KAZ)
Males’s singles
- Carlos Alcaraz (ESP)
- Jannik Sinner (ITA)
- Alexander Zverev (GER)
- Novak Djokovic (SRB)
- Felix Auger-Aliassime (CAN)
Who’re the Brits competing on the Australian Open and the place is Jack Draper?
Raducanu was again match for the Australian Open and reached the third spherical final yr
Emma Raducanu loved her career-best Australian Open run in 2025, defeating Ekaterina Alexandrova and Amanda Anisimova earlier than shedding out to Iga Swiatek.
The British No 1 completed final season ranked at world No 29 with spotlight outcomes together with a semi-final on the Citi Open and quarter-final on the Miami Open.
Sonay Kartal will probably be seeking to construct on her sturdy 2025 season wherein she reached the fourth spherical of Wimbledon and in addition beat Mirra Andreeva en path to her maiden WTA 1000 quarter-final on the China Open.
Fran Jones broke into the highest 100 final season with consecutive WTA 125 titles on the clay and he or she’ll be aiming for a primary Grand Slam win.
She was beforehand advised by docs she wouldn’t play tennis professionally, having been born with a uncommon genetic situation.
Jones has Ectrodactyly Ectodermal Dysplasia (EEC), which implies she has three fingers and a thumb on every hand, three toes on her proper foot and 4 toes on her left.
Katie Boulter headlines a sizeable British contingent aiming to combat their approach into the principle draw as qualifying will get underway in Melbourne on Monday January 12.
Cam Norrie loved a superb finish to the season after reaching the quarter-finals at Wimbledon and third spherical on the US Open. He was a finalist on the Moselle Open after which upset world No 1 Carlos Alcaraz on the Paris Masters.
Jacob Fearnley brought on an upset on his Australian Open debut final yr, beating Nick Kyrgios within the first spherical.
The Scot reached the third spherical earlier than happening to interrupt the highest 50 in June.
Jack Draper introduced he’ll miss the Australian Open after admitting he’s not fairly prepared for a return to top-level competitors as a result of harm
Jack Draper lately introduced that he has withdrawn from the Australian Open as a result of harm.
Draper, ranked tenth on the planet, mentioned in a video on X on Boxing Day: “Unfortunately, me and my team have decided not to head out to Australia this year.
“It is a actually, actually robust choice, clearly [with] Australia being a Grand Slam, it is one of many largest tournaments in our sport.
“However, I’ve had this injury for a long time, I’m at the very end stages of the process and to step back on court into best-of-five-set tennis so soon just doesn’t seem like a smart decision right now for me and my tennis.”
What is the Australian Open prize cash?
Sinner holds the Norman Brookes Problem Cup aloft after successful final yr’s Australian Open
The overall prize cash for the Australian Open has elevated by 16 per cent on final yr and the singles winners of this yr’s event will go house with a A$4.15m (about £2.68m) cheque – a 19 per cent improve on final yr.
Full 2025 prize cash breakdown:
Champion: A$4,150,000
Runner-up: A$2,150,000
Semi-finalists: A$1,250,000
Quarter-finalists: A$750,000
Fourth spherical: A$480,000
Third spherical: A$327,750
Second spherical: A$225,000
First spherical: A$150,000
Qualifying
Third spherical: $83,500
Second spherical: $57,000
First spherical: $40,500
Do you know?
Within the Open Period, Virginia Wade is the one British participant to have gained both a ladies’s or males’s singles title on the Australian Open in 1972.
Andy Murray has come closest on the lads’s aspect, reaching the ultimate 5 instances in seven years, however completed runner-up to both Roger Federer or Novak Djokovic on every event.
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