The 2025 Australian Open is officially underway!
The Grand Slam tennis event officially kicks off on January 12, 2025 in Melbourne at Melbourne Park, and is set to wrap up on January 26, 2024. But, the qualifier tournament to help decide the final spots on the draw started January 6, 2025 and finishes January 9, 2025.
And so, without further ado, here’s everything you need to know about this year’s Australian Open…
Where is the Australian Open being held?
Since 1988, Melbourne Park has been home to the Australian Open and there are three show courts; the Rod Laver Arena (15,000 capacity), John Cain Arena (10,500 capacity) and Margaret Court Arena (7,500 capacity).
How much are tickets for the Australian Open?
If you want to head to Melbourne and watch this year’s Australian Open live in the arena, tickets start at $15 – but prices all depend on where you want to sit and what matches you’d like to attend. For example, tickets for prime seats to the grand final currently cost $5,999.00. For more information, head to Ticketmaster Australia.
Where can you watch the Australian Open?
If you aren’t able to get down to Melbourne to watch it live, Australians can tune in to the tennis tournament via Channel Nine and/or 9Now.
What time is the Australian Open on TV?
Live coverage of the Australian Open is available daily on both Channel Nine and 9Now, from 11:00am AEDT for the morning session, and 7:00pm AEDT for the evening session.
What is the Australian Open match schedule?
The tournament takes place every day from 11:00am AEDT time each day, with the women’s and men’s singles following the below match schedule.
January 12-14: First Round
January 15-16: Second Round
January 17-18: Third Round
January 19-20: Fourth Round
January 21-22: Quarter-finals
January 23: Women’s semi-finals
January 24: Men’s semi-finals
January 25: Women’s final
January 26: Men’s final
Beyond the singles tournaments, here is the schedule for the doubles, wheelchair and junior tournaments.
Men’s and women’s doubles: January 14-26
Mixed doubles: January 16-25
Junior event: January 18-27
Wheelchair events: January 21-25
Who is competing in the Australian Open 2024?
In the men’s division, notable players competing in the Australian Open include No. 1 Jannik Sinner, No. 2 Alexander Zverev, and Australia’s Alex de Minaur – who is currently world number 9 – along with Nick Kygrios, Alexei Popyrin, Jordan Thompson, Thanasi Kokkinakis and Rinky Hijikata.
In the women’s division, notable players competing in this year’s Australian Open include No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka, No. 2 Iga Swiatek, No.3 Coco Gauff and Australia’s Daria Saville, Ajla Tomljanovic, Maya Joint, Talia Gibson and Emerson Jones.
What is the prize money for the Australian Open?
The total prize pool for the 2025 Australian Open is a whopping AU$96.5 million. The winners of the men’s and women’s singles at the 2025 Australian Open will walk away with $3.5 million each, while the runners-up will win $1.9 million each.
Semi-finalists will win $1.1 million, quarter-finalists will win $665,000, and all other players who make it to the following rounds will win the following prize money:
| Fourth round | $420,000 |
| Third round | $290,000 |
| Second round | $200,000 |
| First round | $132,000 |
| Third round qualifying | $72,000 |
| Second round qualifying | $49,000 |
| First round qualifying | $35,000 |
When is the Australian Open grand final?
The women’s singles final will take place on January 25, 2025 at 7:30pm AEDT and the men’s singles final will take place on January 26, 2025 at 7:30 AEDT.
Who has won the Australian Open?
Rod Laver, Jim Courier, Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Margaret Court, Steffi Graf, Lindsay Davenport, Serena Williams, Maria Sharapova, and Ash Barty are just some of the incredible tennis players who have won the Australian Open in previous years.
Fun facts about the Australian Open
- Since 1905, the Australian Open has been hosted in five different cities: Melbourne (62 times), Sydney (17 times), Adelaide (14 times), Brisbane (8 times), Perth (three times), as well as in New Zealand (two times)
- The tournament was not held between 1916 and 1918, or 1940 and 1945, due to international conflicts happening at the time.
- The Australian Open holds the record for the highest attendance of any tennis tournament ever staged with over 812,000 people attending in 2020.
- The tournament was a grass event until 1988 when it switched to hard courts.
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