The Australian Open begins on Saturday evening and, the first major tournament on the calendar and the unofficial kick -off of the 2025 tennis season. Leave the bright sun and the electric blue fields of Melbourne transport you to the other side of the world, where it is summer instead of dreary winter.
Aryna Sabalenka and Jannik Sinner will try to defend their titles 2024, but they will each have strong competition to claim the trophies in simple female and male 2025.
Top scenarios for men
Novak Djokovic Perhaps the seventh seeded, but its previous success in Melbourne cannot be ignored. Now 37 years old, he had a year off in 2024, winning no big home for the first time since 2017. Everything that is considered, a “year deactivated” for Djokovic would be the summit of other players – in 2024, he won the Olympic gold medal that he had pursued his entire career. Armed with the new coach Andy Murray (yes, that Andy Murray), Djokovic is now looking to win his 11th Australian Open Trophy in a career and his record for the 25th Grand Chelem.
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Jannik sinner is the title champion of the Aussie Open in simple male. His trophy in 2024 was his first Grand Chelem victory, and he launched an electric year which saw him claim the world No. 1, winning his first American open, leading Italy to the Victory in the Davis Cup and win the ATP final. 2024 also saw it test positive for a prohibited substance, which, according to him, has entered its system thanks to a spray used by its massage therapist. He avoided a suspension after an independent court of the International Tennis Integrity Agency judged in August that he was not to blame. The Australian Open will be our first chance to see the sinner in 2025 because it has not yet played this year.
World n ° 3 Carlos Alcaraz will seek to recover a certain glory after the end of his season in 2024. He won his first Open in France and the second Wimbledon last year, but after that, his game gained a sharp drop. He lost in the first round of the Cincinnati Open and the second round of the US Open, which he won in 2022, and could not leave the group phase during the ATP final. He, like Sinner, has not yet played in 2025, but is preparing to know swing (both literally and metaphorically) – the Open d'Aussie is the only big home he needs to win to finish the career slam.
American Taylor Fritz made huge progress in 2024. He is now classified n ° 4 in the world and looked fantastic of the United Cup, where he passed Hubert Hurkacz to help the United States to Victory. We have long after the time to ask if his breakthrough is real. He showed us that it was. If Fritz is at the top of his game and everything breaks properly, he has a real chance of being the first American man to win the Australian Open since Andre Agassi in 2003.
Aryna Sabalenka and Jannik Sinner, the winners in 2024 of the Australian tournaments Open Women's and Men's Singles, will try to defend their titles next week. (Photo by Daniel Pockett / Getty Images)
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Top Women's scenarios
It is Aryna Sabalenka world, and we all live there. After winning the Australian Open 2023 and made the United States final, it started 2024 by winning the Aussie Open again, and finally brought the US Open trophy in September. And when Iga Swiatek, the former world n ° 1, had trouble maintaining his high level of play last year, Sabalenka entered and started to accumulate victories. It is now the world n ° 1, and with its previous domination in Melbourne, it seems that it is also anytime soon.
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Coco GauffWho had a disappointing 2024 season, ended the year with a change of coach who has already paid dividends. Not only did she won the WTA final, in which she beat Sabalenka in the semi-finals to finish the year, but she started 2025 with a victory against Iga Swiatek to conduct the American team in victory in the United Cup. She looks relaunched and, as if to prove it, she was named MVP of the United Cup. Gauff has already won an adult and is considered one of the brightest stars of female tennis, but if she continues to play as she did at the United Cup, it could be the year when she adds more major trophies to her case and heads fully in the light.
IGA SwiTEKThe world n ° 2 will be in Melbourne with a new coach, and will try to go again to the late towers. She reached the semi-finals in 2022, but was released in the third round in 2023 and 2024. She seeks to get back on a solid field on short hard, but like Sinner, remains in the shade of her PED positive test from last year.
Gauff is the best classified American woman, but she is not the only one in the top 10. Jessica Pegula is seed n ° 7, Emma Navarro is seed n ° 8 and Danielle Collins is seed n ° 10.
