Australian Open 2025: How to watch on TV, betting odds and more to know
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Get caught up on the Australian Open with a guide that tells you everything you need to know about how to watch the year’s first Grand Slam tennis tournament, what the betting odds are, what the schedule is and more:
— In the U.S.: ESPN and Tennis Channel.
— Other countries are listed here.
Five-time major champion Iga Swiatek plays 2021 U.S. Open winner Emma Raducanu as the third round concludes. That match is the first one on Rod Laver Arena, scheduled to begin at 11:30 a.m. local time (7:30 p.m. EST Friday). Jasmine Paolini, a finalist at Wimbledon and Roland Garros last year, plays Elina Svitolina, while Elena Rybakina, the 2022 Wimbledon champion and 2023 Australian Open runner-up, takes on Dayana Yastremska. Defending champion Jannik Sinner plays Marcos Giron at night, and 19-year-old American qualifier Learner Tien — who beat Daniil Medvedev in the second round in a marathon five-setter than ended in the wee hours of Friday — plays Corentin Moutet. In the first round, Moutet received a chorus of boos from fans after he attempted an underarm serve against an injured Alexei Popyrin while beating the Australian.
Two-time defending champion Aryna Sabalenka and Coco Gauff both remained unbeaten in 2025 with straight-set wins in the third round. Sabalenka beat Clara Tauson 7-6 (5), 6-4. It was Sabalenka’s eighth victory in a row to start the season and her 17th consecutive win at Melbourne Park. Gauff defeated 2021 U.S. Open finalist Leylah Fernandez 6-4, 6-2 and has won all 16 sets she has played this season. Naomi Osaka, who won the Australian Open in 2019 and 2021, retired because of an abdominal injury after dropping the first set against Belinda Bencic. Also reaching the fourth round were 2021 French Open runner-up Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, 11th-seeded Paula Badosa and 18th-seeded Donna Vekic, who defeated 12th-seeded Diana Shnaider 7-6 (4), 6-7 (3), 7-5. No. 7 seed Jessica Pegula was ousted by world No. 55 Olga Danilovic in two sets. Men's winners included No. 2 Alexander Zverev, No. 3 Carlos Alcaraz, No. 7 Novak Djokovic and No. 15 Jack Draper, who battled past Aleksandar Vukic 6-4, 2-6, 5-7, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (8).
Defending champions Aryna Sabalenka (+150) and Jannik Sinner (+110) remain the money-line favorites to win the tournament again, according to BetMGM Sportsbook.
— Saturday: Third Round (Women and Men)
— Sunday-Monday: Fourth Round (Women and Men)
— Tuesday-Wednesday: Quarterfinals (Women and Men)
— Thursday: Women’s Semifinals
— Jan. 24: Men’s Semifinals
— Jan. 25: Women’s Final
— Jan. 26: Men’s Final
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Get caught up:
— Naomi Osaka's Australian Open ends with an abdominal muscle injury
— Carlos Alcaraz wants a career Grand Slam — and a kangaroo tattoo
— Learner Tien, 19, upsets Medvedev. He's the youngest US man in Australia’s 3rd round since Sampras
— How about that? American Danielle Collins take on Australian crowd.
— Australian Open streaming animated feeds to mimic tennis action
— A Grand Slam innovation — the courtside coaches’ boxes in Melbourne
— The Big Three is down to just Novak Djokovic
— There isn’t really any time off for tennis players during their offseason
— Coco Gauff improved her serve and forehand heading into the Australian Open
— Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner already have a real rivalry atop men's tennis
— Jannik Sinner's doping case will have a hearing in April
Total prize money at the Australian Open is rising to a tournament-record 96.5 million Australian dollars (about $60 million). The two singles champions each will receive 3.5 million Australian dollars (about $2.15 million), up from 3.15 million Australian dollars (about $1.95 million) a year ago, but still below the pre-pandemic high of 4.12 million Australian dollars ($2.55 million) in 2020.
1 — Number of men since 2005 to win consecutive Australian Open matches after dropping the first two sets, now that Alejandro Davidovich Fokina managed to do that this week. He beat Felix Auger-Aliassime in the second round Wednesday, then Jakub Menšík in the third round Friday.
17 — Consecutive wins at the Australian Open for Aryna Sabalenka, the champion in 2023 and 2024 and now into the fourth round this year.
35 — Number of years since three teenagers beat top-10 men's seeds at a Grand Slam tournament. Learner Tien, João Fonseca and Jakub Menšík all did that at this Australian Open; the only other time it happened in the Open era was at the 1990 French Open, when Goran Ivanisevic, Sergi Bruguera and Nicklas Kulti did it.
“I told myself, ‘Well, girl, you are tough.’ So many times, I thought I was done.” — Aryna Sabalenka
“In all these years I had a lot of up-and-downs. I had decided this year to fight every point. ... Don’t look at the result.” — Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
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