The primary Grand Slam of the 12 months takes place at Australian Open in Melbourne as Jannik Sinner and Aryna Sabalenka look to defend their titles.
The opening main of the season begins simply 12 days into the brand new 12 months however there are a selection of questions surrounding the health of Emma Raducanu and Jack Draper, whereas Andy Murray is again in Melbourne – however this time within the nook of record-chasing Novak Djokovic.
The top-ranked gamers on the earth enter the match 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?
Qualifying for the 2025 Australian Open began on January 6.
The principle match (singles) begins on January 12, with the ladies’s closing on January 25 and the boys’s closing on January 26.
The place is the Australian Open 2025 being held?
The Australian Open takes place at Melbourne Park, Melbourne – dwelling to the Grand Slam occasion since 1988.
Melbourne Park has three present courts – the Rod Laver Area (the second largest indoor sports activities venue in Australia with a capability of 15,000), in addition to the John Cain Area (capability: 10,500) and Margaret Courtroom Area (capability: 7,500).
When is the draw for the Australian Open?
The Australian Open singles draw shall be made on Thursday, January 9 at 2.30am UK time.
Australian Open match schedule
The match takes place daily from midnight UK time every day on the surface courts and 1am on the present courts. Evening classes will begin at 8am for UK viewers.
Jan 12-14: First Spherical (Girls and Males)
Jan 15-16: Second Spherical (Girls and Males)
Jan 17-18: Third Spherical (Girls and Males)
Jan 19-20: Fourth Spherical (Girls and Males)
Jan 21-22: Quarter-finals (Girls and Males)
Jan 23: Girls’s semi-finals
Jan 24: Males’s semi-finals
Jan 25: Girls’s closing (8.30am UK time)
Jan 26: Males’s closing (8.30am UK time)
The Australian Open schedule additionally consists of:
- Males’s and ladies’s doubles: 14-26 January
- Combined doubles: 16-25 January
- Wheelchair occasions: 21-25 January
- Junior occasions: 18-27 January
Australian Open top-seeded gamers
Aryna Sabalenka poses with the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup after successful the Australian Open for a second successive 12 months in 2024
Girls’s singles
1. Aryna Sabalenka
2. Iga Swiatek (POL)
3. Coco Gauff (USA)
4. Jasmine Paolini (ITA)
5. Qinwen Zheng (CHN)
Males’s singles
1. Jannik Sinner (ITA)
2. Alexander Zverev (GER)
3. Carlos Alcaraz (ESP)
4. Taylor Fritz (USA)
5. Daniil Medvedev
Which British gamers are competing on the Australian Open 2025?
Emma Raducanu will hope to be absolutely match forward of the Australian Open
There are 4 British gamers with primary draw entry into the ladies’s singles.
Katie Boulter shall be seeded in Melbourne this 12 months after her greatest season so far – successful two WTA titles (San Diego and Nottingham) and making one other closing in Hong Kong.
Emma Raducanu has made the second spherical in every of the final three seasons and shall be hoping to push on additional in 2025.
She was pressured to withdraw from the ASB Traditional in Auckland final week with a again drawback however shall be hoping to be prepared for the Grand Slam after hiring famend health coach Yutaka Nakamura to assist finish her litany of health points since successful the US Open in 2021.
Sonay Kartal is in the principle draw for the primary time whereas Jodie Burrage is in on protected rating.
Jack Draper is on a excessive however can he recuperate from a hip damage in time to play on the first Grand Slam of 2025?
British No 1 Jack Draper will lead the line-up within the males’s singles off the again of reaching his first Grand Slam semi-final on the US Open and has risen as much as a career-high world No 15.
Draper comes on this 12 months having skipped the United Cup group occasion in Sydney due to a hip damage and shall be enjoying competitively for the primary time since dropping on the Paris Masters on the finish of October.
Cameron Norrie and rising star Jacob Fearnley each have direct entry into the principle draw.
Is Andy Murray teaching Novak Djokovic in Melbourne?
Novak Djokovic and his new coach Andy Murray follow at Melbourne Park
If you have not heard the information, Djokovic introduced the shock appointment of long-time rival and good pal Andy Murray to his teaching group in late November.
Britain’s two-time Wimbledon champion Murray ended his enjoying profession following the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games in August.
However the 37-year-old determined to tackle his first teaching function in Djokovic’s group in a blockbuster link-up with the Serbian concentrating on a record-extending eleventh Australian Open title and historic twenty fifth Grand Slam crown. Will Murray’s presence shall be sufficient to encourage Djokovic to Grand Slam glory?
What is the Australian Open prize cash?
Jannik Sinner holds the Norman Brookes Problem Cup aloft after successful final 12 months’s Australian Open
The full prize cash for the Australian Open has elevated by 11.56 per cent 12 months on 12 months and the singles winners of this 12 months’s match will go dwelling with a A$3.5 million (about £1.74m) cheque.
Full 2025 prize cash breakdown:
Champion: A$3,500,000
Runner-up: A$1,900,000
Semi-finalists: A$1,100,000
Quarter-finalists: A$665,000
Fourth spherical: A$420,000
Third spherical: A$290,000
Second spherical: A$200,000
First spherical: A$132,000
Qualifying
Third spherical: $72,000
Second spherical: $49,000
First spherical: $35,000
Key stats at Melbourne Park
Novak Djokovic shall be aiming to win an historic twenty fifth Grand Slam title in Melbourne
3 – Aryna Sabalenka shall be trying to win a 3rd consecutive girls’s singles title at Melbourne Park, one thing final completed by Martina Hingis from 1997 to 1999.
24 – The variety of Grand Slam singles championship received by Novak Djokovic, tied with Margaret Courtroom for essentially the most by anybody within the historical past of tennis. Another will give Djokovic sole possession of the report.
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