Australian Open 2025: Overview

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Australian Open 2025

The 2025 Australian Open ran 12 January – 26 January at Melbourne Park. This board is now the permanent record — every bracket, board and number below is frozen exactly where the fortnight left it, and I re-derived all of it from the results before locking. No live scoring, no betting — just what happened, exact. The story this board tells: Jannik Sinner beat Alexander Zverev in straight sets to defend his title, and Madison Keys took her first major at the nineteenth seed — beating the top two seeds back to back, Iga Šwiątek from a set down in a third-set tiebreak and then Aryna Sabalenka 6–3 2–6 7–5 in the final. Zverev reached his final without playing it out: Novak Djokovic retired after one set of their semi-final. The men’s doubles final turned on a 16–14 opening tiebreak, which Harri Heliövaara and Henry Patten lost before winning the title anyway, and the mixed doubles was an all-Australian final between two wild-card pairs.

The road to the finals

How the titles were won — the semi-finals, the final, and the champions.

Men's Singles

Semi-finals

Jan 24

Novak Djokovic7
Alexander Zverev2
Jannik Sinner1
Ben Shelton21

Final

Jan 26

Jannik Sinner1
Alexander Zverev2

 

 

Jannik Sinner

Champion

Women's Singles

Semi-finals

Jan 23

Aryna Sabalenka1
Paula Badosa11
Madison Keys19
Iga Świątek2

Final

Jan 25

Aryna Sabalenka1
Madison Keys19

 

 

Madison Keys

Champion

Championships pulse · all five draws

411 / 411Matches played
1,146Sets of tennis
196Tiebreaks
256Singles players entered
63Seeds entered

The field, by nation

Singles entrants, top 6 nations

United States33
Australia22
Neutral19
France18
Italy13
Spain12

How it finished

Straight sets, a set dropped, or unfinished

Straight sets22254%
A set dropped17643%
Retired / walkover133%

Wins by nation

Singles match wins, top 6

United States46
Neutral28
Spain18
Italy18
France16
Germany14

Sets per match

Completed matches, by sets played

177
148
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29
2345

Match length

Total games played, completed matches

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69
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How players entered

The singles field, by route in

Direct entry19275%
Qualifier3212%
Wild card166%
Protected ranking125%
Lucky loser42%

Tiebreaks by round

Tiebreak sets, both singles draws

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30
18
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3
3
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Longest matches

Most games played, top 6

Monfils v Perricard58
Opelka v Macháč58
Wild v Marozsán58
Draper v Vukic56
Tien v Medvedev55
Walton v Halys55

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1 of 32 still in · highest seed out: [2] Alexander Zverev (Final).

Women's Singles

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1 of 31 still in · highest seed out: [1] Aryna Sabalenka (Final).

All times are AEDT

Every time on these Australian Open pages is AEDT — Australian Eastern Daylight Time, Melbourne’s clock, eleven hours ahead of UTC — far enough east that a tournament day here is the night before at home. The men’s final was played on Sunday 1 February in Melbourne and watched on Saturday evening in New York.

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