2024 Australian Open WTA Entry List - Swiatek, Sabalenka, Gauff & more

| by Nurein Ahmed

The first Grand Slam tournament of the 2024 season is on the horizon, and the entry list for the women's edition of the Australian Open has been released.

Running from January 14th to 28th, next year's Australian Open will have a historic Sunday start. One hundred twenty-eight women will compete in the biggest party of Australian summer, but only one player will be lucky enough to emerge from the fortnight with the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup.

The Australian Open is played on outdoor hard courts at its famed home - Melbourne Park. It's been ten years since there was a successful title defense in the women's tournament, so is that trend likely to continue, or will Belarus Aryna Sabalenka defend the crown she won 12 months ago?

Looking at the entry list, Iga Swiatek will be the top seed for the second year in a row thanks to her scintillating run of form towards the end of last season, which enabled her to reclaim the World No. 1 ranking. The woman she represented at the summit is the defending champion Aryna Sabalenka, who will be seeded at No. 2.

2024 Brisbane International WTA Entry List - Sabalenka, Rybakina, Osaka & more
2024 Brisbane International WTA Entry List - Sabalenka, Rybakina, Osaka & more

Coco Gauff's career-best year in 2023 yielded a Grand Slam title and a new career-high ranking of World No. 3. The young American will be among the favorites to add to her Grand Slam trophy cabinet. Last year's finalist, Elena Rybakina, is the fourth seed.

USA's Jessica Pegula hasn't reached the semifinal stage and beyond at a major. Could 2024 be her breakthrough year? That will be fascinating to see. Three Czech players are among the Top 10 seeds, led by Wimbledon champion Marketa Vondrousova.

Tunisia's Ons Jabeur is reportedly not looking to play any warmup events. The three-time Grand Slam finalist is still itching to get her hands on one of the coveted four trophies in tennis. Greece's Maria Sakkari is also among the Top 10 seeds.

As many as seven players are using a Special Ranking (SR) to play at the 2024 Australian Open, which has reduced the cut-off entry mark to 99. However, with many withdrawal, British tennis sensation Emma Raducanu also made it to the main draw.

Two players using SR are returning mothers and former Australian Open champions. These are Naomi Osaka and Angelique Kerber, who last featured on tour in 2022. Newlywed Shelby Rogers is making a comeback from injury, having missed the entire second half of 2023.

Rogers' compatriot, Amanda Anisimova, will rejoin the tour next season. Anismova is coming off a mental health break.

There were also many notable withdrawals, as world no. 8, Karolina Muchova withdrew from the tournament, as well as two-time semifinalist Madison Keys, and Jennifer Brady also announced her withdrawal. The entry list for the 2024 Australian Open women's tournament is below.

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2024 Australian Open WTA Entry List:

Seed Name Entry Ranking
1 Iga Swiatek 1
2 Aryna Sabalenka 2
3 Coco Gauff 3
4 Elena Rybakina 4
5 Jessica Pegula 5
6 Ons Jabeur 6
7 Marketa Vondrousova 7
8 Maria Sakkari 9
9 Barbora Krejcikova 10
10 Beatriz Haddad Maia 11
11 Jelena Ostapenko 13
12 Qinwen Zheng 15
13 Liudmila Samsonova 16
14 Daria Kasatkina 18
15 Veronika Kudermetova 19
16 Caroline Garcia 20
17 Ekaterina Alexandrova 21
18 Victoria Azarenka 22
19 Donna Vekic 23
20 Magda Linette 24
21 Elina Svitolina 25
22 Sorana Cirstea 26
23 Anhelina Kalinina 27
24 Anastasia Potapova 28
25 Elise Mertens 29
26 Jasmine Paolini 30
27 Lesia Tsurenko 31
28 Emma Navarro 32
29 Sofia Kenin 33
30 Marie Bouzkova 34
31 Leylah Fernandez 35
32 Xinyu Wang 36
Lin Zhu 37
Karolina Pliskova 38
Marta Kostyuk 39
Petra Martic 40
Linda Noskova 41
Martina Trevisan 42
Varvara Gracheva 43
Caroline Dolehide 44
Katerina Siniakova 45
Sloane Stephens 46
Sara Sorribes Tormo 47
Elisabetta Cocciaretto 48
Peyton Stearns 49
Anna Blinkova 50
Arantxa Rus 51
Danielle Collins 52
Camila Giorgi 53
Tatjana Maria 54
Katie Boulter 55
Mirra Andreeva 56
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 57
Mayar Sherif 58
Greet Minnen 59
Clara Burel 60
Lucia Bronzetti 61
Alycia Parks 62
Magdalena Frech 63
Rebeka Masarova 64
Paula Badosa 65
Ana Bogdan 66
Bernarda Pera 67
Yulia Putintseva 68
Nadia Podoroska 69
Xiyu Wang 71
Yanina Wickmayer 72
Anna Karolina Schmiedlova 73
Elina Avanesyan 74
Anna Kalinskaya 76
Yue Yuan 77
Camila Osorio 78
Viktoriya Tomova 79
Taylor Townsend 80
Ashlyn Krueger 81
Clara Tauson 82
Tamara Korpatsch 83
Viktorija Golubic 84
Zhuoxuan Bai 85
Laura Siegemund 86
Emina Bektas 87
Diana Shnaider 88
Kayla Day 89
Cristina Bucsa 90
Jaqueline Cristian 91
Aliaksandra Sasnovich 92
Linda Fruhvirtova 93
Diane Parry 94
Nao Hibino 95
Oceane Dodin 97
Jodie Burrage 98
Claire Liu 99
Kamilla Rakhimova 100
Wang Yafan 101
Tamara Zidansek 103
Sara Errani 104
Kaja Juvan 105
Angelique Kerber 31 SR
Ajla Tomljanovic 33 SR
Naomi Osaka 46 SR
Shelby Rogers 51 SR
Amanda Anisimova 61 SR
Aleksandra Krunic 99 SR
Emma Raducanu 103 SR
Caroline Garcia WC
Kimberly Birrell WC
Olivia Gadecki WC
Taylah Preston WC
Daria Saville WC
Mai Hontama WC
Alize Cornet WC
McCartney Kessler WC

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