Australian Open Tennis Preview And Betting Latest
A new year means a new season for tennis fans and it doesn’t take long for players to get back into Slam action. The Australian Open is the first Slam event of the new year and takes place four months ahead of the second Slam event, the French Open, in May.
Both the men’s and women’s tournaments offer fans a wealth of tennis betting action over the two weeks of the tournament and we have given you a quick preview of both of these tournaments below.
Australian Open – Details
- Prize Money – AU$96,000,000
- Venue – Melbourne Park
- Surface – Hard Court
First contested back in 1905, the original Australian Open was played on grass up until 1987, when the venue and surface changed to the hard courts in Melbourne Park. Novak Djokovic holds the record for most title wins by a male player with ten, while Margaret Court holds that record in the women’s game with 11 titles won.
Played in the southern hemisphere summer, the Australian Open is one of the most physically demanding of all Slam events, given the often high temperatures, exacerbated by the reflective heat from the hard court making conditions tough for players.
Women’s Tournament
- Current Holder – Madison Keys (US)
- Pre-tournament betting favourites – Aryna Sabalenka (2/1), Iga Swiatek (9/2), Elena Rybakina (8/1), Coco Gauff (10/1), Amanda Anisamova (10/1), Mirra Andreeva (14/1), 16/1 bar.
If women’s Grand Slam events have been predictable over the last couple of years, it is only because of their unpredictability! Last year’s tournament saw Madison Keys surprise many by taking the title in what proved to be another very open tournament.
Belarusian number one Aryna Sabalenka starts the tournament as favourite, with Pole Iga Swiatek the second favourite, but this is a very open tournament as the number of players on relatively mid-range odds suggests.
One to Watch – Coco Gauff (USA) – 10/1
Gauff stormed to the French Open title last season, adding to her US Open success in 2023. She has reached the semi-finals here once before in 2024 but will be seeking to go one better. She performs better on hard courts and clay than grass and with 11 career titles and a current ranking of fourth in the world, she
Men’s Tournament
- Current Holder – Jannik Sinner (ITA)
- Pre-tournament betting favourites – Sinner (10/11), Alcaraz (6/4), Djokovic (10/1), Alexander Zverev (18/1), Danil Medvedev (25/1), Felix Augur Aliassime (35/1) 40/1 bar
If women’s tournaments have been very open of late, in the men’s game it has pretty much been a closed shop with two men, Italy’s Jannik Sinner and Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz, dominating the game and pocketing the four Slam events between them last season.
You can see from the betting odds that the bookies feel the winner of this event will likely be one or other of the top two seeds and given their performances in slam events over the past 12 months in particular, it is hard to argue with that fact.
One to Watch – Jannik Sinner (ITA) – 10/11
Sinner has won this tournament in both 2024 and 2025 and hard courts tend to be his favoured surface, so it is hard to back against him winning three tournaments back to back here.
The tournament starts on the 18th January and runs until the 1st February, with plentiful betting options on a vast range of single and doubles matches available each day.
