Tennis returns to Adelaide in 2025 and the
draw for the 2025
Adelaide International has been released.
Running from January 6th until 11th, the Adelaide International is the last
WTA 500 tournament before the start of the first major tournaments of the new season - the Australian Open.
In 2024,
Jelena Ostapenko won the
title in Adelaide after a straight-sets win over her good friend
Daria Kasatkina, and in 2025, both of these players will return to the tournament.
Ostapenko is the eighth seed, and in the first round of the tournament, she will take on
Magdalena Frech. The draw was brutal to her as a defending champion, as in the second round, the Latvian player could meet the winner of the match between
Beatriz Haddad Maia and
Madison Keys.
Should the defending champion reach the quarter-finals, the fans in Adelaide could see a rematch of last year's final. The third-seeded Daria Kasatkina will start against home wild card Olivia Gadecki, and if she wins, she will play against either Emerson Jones, who is another home wild card, or one of those qualifiers.
If both Ostapenko and Kasatkina win their first two matches, then they will meet already in the quarter-finals of this year's tournament, which is a bit unfortunate, given their great run into the final last year.
The top seed at the 2025 Adelaide International is
Jessica Pegula, whose draw is even more brutal than that of Ostapenko. Only the top two seeds in Adelaide have a first-round bye, so the American player is one of the beneficiaries of this first-round advantage.
She will, therefore, start in the second round, and her opponent will be the winner of the match between an extremely talented 17-year-old super talent,
Mirra Andreeva, and
Linda Noskova. In the following rounds, it won't get any easier for the winner of this section.
The fifth-seeded
Paula Badosa and
Marta Kostyuk will both meet a qualifier in the first round and if they win, they will meet in the second round. The winner of this section will then take on the winner of Pegula's section in the quarter-finals.
The fourth-seeded
Danielle Collins will take on
Ons Jabeur in a first-round blockbuster. Another great first-round match will see
Marketa Vondrousova take on
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.
The bottom part of the draw could also be named "Russians against qualifiers." The seventh-seeded
Anna Kalinskaya,
Liudmila Samsonova, and
Ekaterina Alexandrova will all play against one of the qualifiers. Joining them in this section is the second-seeded
Emma Navarro, who has a first-round bye.
2025 Adelaide International WTA Draw:
Player 1 | Player 2 |
Jessica Pegula [1] | Bye |
Linda Noskova | Mirra Andreeva |
Marta Kostyuk | Qualifier/LL |
Qualifier/LL | Paula Badosa [5] |
Danielle Collins [4] | Ons Jabeur |
Donna Vekic | Yulia Putintseva |
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova | Marketa Vondrousova |
Qualifier/LL | Diana Shnaider [6] |
Jelena Ostapenko [8] | Magdalena Frech |
Beatriz Haddad Maia | Madison Keys |
Qualifier/LL | Emerson Jones [WC] |
Olivia Gadecki | Daria Kasatkina [3] |
Anna Kalinskaya [7] | Qualifier/LL |
Qualifier/LL | Liudmila Samsonova |
Qualifier/LL | Ekaterina Alexandrova |
Bye | Emma Navarro [2] |