Australian Open 2025: Courts
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Courts
The whole tournament happened at Melbourne Park, on the eastern edge of the city — 15 championship courts inside one set of gates, from Rod Laver Arena, where all five finals were played, out to the numbered courts that carried the first rounds. The plan below draws every court where it actually sat, to scale, from surveyed footprints — and each one opens to exactly which matches were played on it, in the order they were played, with the times they started.
Rod Laver ArenaMen's FFinalWomen's FFinalMen's Doubles FFinalWomen's Doubles FFinalMixed Doubles FFinal14,82054 matches
Centre court since the precinct opened in 1988, when it was plain “National Tennis Centre at Flinders Park” — the first tennis venue anywhere with a retractable roof, an idea the Victorian premier floated as a compromise between an open-air court and a closed arena. It took Rod Laver’s name in January 2000 and seats 14,820 for tennis. A 2018 upgrade cut the roof’s closing time from thirty minutes to five. In 2025 it staged all five finals and both men’s semi-finals, and carried 54 main-draw matches — more than any other court.
Jannik Sinner
Alexander Zverev
Siniaková / 
Hsieh / 
Ostapenko
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Gadecki / 
Novak Djokovic
Paula Badosa
Göransson / 
Verbeek
Iga Świątek
Elina Svitolina
Holger Rune
Belinda Bencic
Nuno Borges
Rebecca Šramková
Renata Zarazúa
Kasidit Samrej
Nicolás Jarry
Naomi Osaka
Caroline Garcia
Casper Ruud
Anca TodoniMargaret Court ArenaWomen's Doubles SFSemi-finalMixed Doubles SFSemi-final7,50049 matches
Show Court 1 when the grounds opened in 1988, and Margaret Court Arena since — rebuilt for the 2015 tournament from 6,000 seats to 7,500 and given the fastest retractable roof of its kind, five minutes open to shut. It is the third of Melbourne Park’s roofed courts, which is what makes this the only Grand Slam venue that can put three matches under cover at once, and at 49 matches it carried the heaviest slate of the fortnight outside Rod Laver Arena.
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Molteni
Maia / 
Elena Rybakina
Ons Jabeur
Fábián Marozsán
Donna Vekić
Elise MertensJohn Cain Arena10,50035 matches
The People’s Court — the second-largest arena here, opened in 2000 and renamed four times before it settled (Vodafone, Hisense, Melbourne, and since December 2020 John Cain, for the premier who kept the Australian Open in Melbourne). It seats 10,500 for tennis, has its own retractable roof and a velodrome track under the seating, and it is the one show court a ground pass gets you into, which is most of why it sounds the way it does when an Australian is playing.
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Viktoriya Tomova
Stefanos TsitsipasKia Arena5,00044 matches
The newest court on the grounds and the signature piece of a $271.5 million redevelopment stage: a 5,000-seat bowl sunk into the ground between Rod Laver and John Cain arenas, built over the old Eastern Courts 16–23 and opened for the 2022 tournament. A roof structure shades most of the seats without closing over the court, so it plays outdoors in all weather — the largest court here that a rain delay still stops.
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Routliffe / Venus (2)✓
Glasspool
Behar / 
Zhang / 
Bopanna✓
Townsend / 
Nys (4)
Damir Džumhur1573 Arena3,00033 matches
Show Court 2 by construction, 1573 Arena by contract — named from the 2019 tournament for Guojiao 1573, a baijiu distilled by Luzhou Laojiao, in the first of the show-court sponsorships. It has stood since the grounds opened in 1988 and seats 3,000, open to the sky. Through the first week it runs a seeded card a tier below the arenas; by the second it belongs to the doubles draws.
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Court 33,00023 matches
The last of Melbourne Park’s major show courts to be known by a number: opened with the grounds in 1988, 3,000 seats, shaded since 2020, and reachable on a ground pass, which makes it the best value on the site for a seeded first-round match. It took a sponsor’s name a year after this tournament and is ANZ Arena from 2026, so this page is one of the last records of it as Court 3. It played 23 main-draw matches here, level with Court 5 and behind only Courts 7 and 6 among the courts that carry numbers.
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Camila Osorio
Hady Habib
Zeynep SönmezCourt 5—23 matches
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Court 6—25 matches
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Danka Kovinić
Veronika ErjavecCourt 7—27 matches
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Elina AvanesyanCourt 8—20 matches
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Court 11—4 matches
Court 12—16 matches
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Nikoloz BasilashviliCourt 13—21 matches
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Court 14—15 matches
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Mayar SherifCourt 15—14 matches
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Why do the numbered courts start at 3?
The numbered courts that hosted 2025 main-draw tennis are Court 3, then 5 to 8 and 11 to 15. There is no Court 1, 2 or 4, because the first two numbers were spent on show courts that outgrew them: Margaret Court Arena opened in 1988 as Show Court 1, and 1573 Arena is Show Court 2 under a sponsor’s name. Court 3 kept its number through this tournament and lost it at the next — it became ANZ Arena days before the 2026 edition, the last of the major show courts to take a sponsor’s name.
Court 9 and Court 10 appear nowhere in this record. Neither drew a main-draw match, and unlike 2026 — when the tournament listed Court 10 in its own courts table and this record kept its row with an empty slate — neither is listed for 2025 at all, so neither gets a row. Courts 16 and above belong to qualifying, which this record does not cover.
The pale courts around the edge of the plan are practice and public courts, including the National Tennis Centre’s. They host no championship matches and carry no numbers on the public plan, so they stay unlabelled here too.
Matches are listed in the order they were played, on Australian Eastern Daylight Time — eleven hours ahead of UTC, and far enough east that a tournament day here was the night before at home. The tournament’s own posted start times survive for only part of this edition, so this record orders each day rather than printing a start time against every match.
The grounds plan is drawn from OpenStreetMap building footprints (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL).