2025 Australian Open Women's Singles Entry List: Sabalenka, Gauff, Swiatek & More

The 2025 Australian Open is right around the corner, and the entry list for the women's singles has already been released.

The excitement is at an all-time high again as fans eagerly anticipate the start of the new season. The end of the 2024 season was wild, and it included many spectacular and controversial on-court and off-court moments.

Aryna Sabalenka became the World No. 1 player late in the season, even though her move to the No. 1 position was slightly controversial as she and Iga Swiatek were punished for not competing in enough WTA 500 tournaments.

As a result, both lost points, but since Swiatek lost more, the Belarusian player moved to the World No. 1 position. She then clinched the year-end No. 1 rank at the 2024 WTA Finals, a tournament that Coco Gauff sensationally won.

Unfortunately, all of that was overshadowed by Swiatek's doping case. By the time the 2025 Australian Open rolls around, the focus will hopefully return back to tennis, and it will be these three players that will draw the most eyeballs.

Sabalenka will enter the tournament as the defending champion for the second year in a row after she won the tournament in 2024, and she will also enter it as the top seed.

Gauff will be the player to watch. She already bested the Belarusian in one Grand Slam final, and late last year, she showed why she's called one of the most talented players.

Swiatek, on the other hand, will have a lot to prove. She lost the World No. 1 rank because of her suspension, which prevented her from playing in two WTA 1000 tournaments. Although she has made it past the fourth round in Melbourne only once, the Pole will certainly arrive motivated.

But she won't be the only motivated player in the draw. There will be other 127 players that will be motivated, including plenty of former champions, such as Victoria Azarenka and Sofia Kenin.

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But the main title challengers lie within the Top 10 of the rankings. Elena Rybakina knows how it feels to stand in the Australian Open final, and she will try to replicate that feeling and make that winning step in 2025.

Qinwen Zheng, who is the 2024 finalist, had a very successful season, and she will also want to make it one step further in Melbourne after losing to Sabalenka.

Jessica Pegula is now also a Grand Slam finalist, and she will want to use that experience to prove that she has what it takes to become a major winner.

The likes of Paula Badosa, Emma Navarro, Jasmine Paolini, and Mirra Andreeva will want to prove that they possess enough talent to compete for Grand Slam trophies.

Ons Jabeur, Emma Raducanu, and Naomi Osaka are among the players who are not seeded but certainly deserve attention, as they all made significant marks on the sport in the past.

There are also six players who will use their special ranking to enter the tournament. Belinda Bencic, who returns from pregnancy, leads the list of those players, followed by Caty McNally, Julia Grabher, Jodie Burrage, Saisai Zheng, and Danka Kovinic.

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2025 Australian Open Women's Players' Entry List: