2025 Brisbane International WTA Draw With Sabalenka, Jabeur, Badosa & More

The first WTA 500 tournament of the season will be held at the 2025 Brisbane International, and the draw for the event has been released.

Running from December 29th, 2024, until January 5th, 2025, the Brisbane International is the first WTA 500 tournament in the calendar. In 2024, Elena Rybakina won the title in Brisbane, but she chose not to defend it in 2025 and compete at the United Cup instead.

She is one of a few players who chose to compete at the United Cup, as Coco Gauff also chose not to play at the ASB Classic in Auckland, where she competed previously, to play at the United Cup.

Without Rybakina in the draw, there will be one very clear favorite to win the 2025 Brisbane International, and it will be her opponent from the 2024 final, Aryna Sabalenka.

The World No. 1 player will begin her season in Brisbane, and like all seeded players in the draw, she has a first-round bye. In the second round, she will play against the winner of the match between Viktoriya Tomova and Renata Zaruzua.

On the other side of the draw is the second-seeded Emma Navarro. The American player was one of the most consistent players of the 2024 season, and she will want to back up her results in 2025.

In the second round of the Brisbane International, she will meet either home qualifier Priscilla Hon or another Australian player, Kimberly Birrell, who received a wild card.

One unseeded player in the draw that might trouble many opponents is Ons Jabeur. The former World No. 2 and a three-time Grand Slam finalist will start in the first round against Saisai Zheng. If she wins the match, her second-round opponent will be Ekaterina Alexandrova.

If Jabeur also progresses past that stage and makes it to the third round of the tournament, her opponent might be her good friend Paula Badosa, who is the fourth seed.

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But the Spanish player will have a challenging draw herself. She will start against the winner of the match between Elina Avanesyan and Rebecca Sramkova, who was one of the best players at the end of the 2024 season.

Since Russian and Belarusian players are not allowed to compete in the United Cup, many players in the draw are from these countries. The third-seeded Daria Kasatkina will play against fellow compatriot Veronika Kudermetova, whose sister Polina is also in the draw, or Peyton Stearns.

The fifth-seeded Diana Shnaider will clash with either Anhelina Kalinina or Yafan Wang, and the sixth-seeded Anna Kalinskaya will await the winner of the match between Ashlyn Krueger and Moyuka Uchijima.

Another Russian player in the draw, the eighth-seeded Mirra Andreeva, will play against the winner of the match between her compatriot Anna Blinkova and Czech qualifier Sara Bejlek.

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