AO Media Release, January 29, 2025

This year the Australian Open, renowned as the Happy Slam, celebrated 120 years since it started in 1905. AO 2025 introduced a range of initiatives including Coach Pods, TOPCOURT, live animated feeds and the One Point Slam.

Jannik Sinner defended his Australian Open men’s singles crown, claiming back-to-back titles, while Madison Keys won her maiden Grand Slam women’s singles title.

AO 2025 broke the main draw and three-week attendance records with 1,218,831 fans through the gates (1,110,657 in 2024). Opening Week attracted 116,528 fans (up from 89,894) and main draw 1,102,303 (1,020,763 in 2024).

Here is Australian Open 2025 by the numbers…

AO 2025 Competitors

A total of 626 players from 61 nations competed at the Australian Open across all 24 draws, including qualifying, singles, doubles, juniors, legends and wheelchair events.

Australia had the highest representation with 78 players, followed by the USA with 68 players, and France with 33.

Aussies at AO 2025

78 Australian players competed at Australian Open 2025 across all draws.

22 contested the singles main draw, 14 men and 8 women.

Destanee Aiava and Kimberly Birrell both won through qualifying, marking the first time in the Open Era that two Australian women qualified for the AO main draw.

Three men – Alex de Minaur, Alexei Popyrin and Jordan Thompson – were seeded in men’s singles, the highest number at the AO since 1982 and the highest number at a Grand Slam since Wimbledon in 2000.

No.8 seed Alex de Minaur was the highest seeded Australian man to compete at the AO since Lleyton Hewitt, seeded No.3, in 2006. De Minaur reached the quarterfinals, his best-ever AO result, becoming the first Australian man to do this since Nick Kyrgios in 2015.

Australians John Peers and Olivia Gadecki won the mixed doubles title, the first all-Australian pair to win the event since 2013.

Two Australian juniors were finalists – Emerson Jones (girls’ doubles final) and Ben Wenzel (boys’ wheelchair doubles final).

Grand Slam of Asia-Pacific

174 players from 12 Asia-Pacific nations competed in AO 2025

The Asia-Pacific Elite 14 and-under Trophy included 16 players from 11 countries competing in 40 matches over three days.

Ethan Domingo (AUS) won the boys’ singles title and Siyeon Sim (KOR) won the girls’ singles.

Attendance

For the second consecutive year, the Australian Open started on

Sunday, extending the main draw to 15 days.

AO 2025 broke the main draw attendance record with 1,102,303 fans through the gates over 15 days, compared with the previous record of 1,020,763 set in 2024.

Across three weeks from Monday 6 to Sunday 26 January, 1,218,831 people visited Melbourne Park, compared to 1,110,657 over three weeks in 2024.

Records were broken for nine individual sessions and 11 day/night totals.

Friday 17 January was the highest attended day/night in the history of the Australian Open with 97,132 fans through the gates.

335,993 people attended Summer of Tennis events held in Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Hobart, Perth and Sydney in the lead-in to AO 2025.

More than 1.5 million people attended events across the entire Australian Summer of Tennis.

Domestic broadcast

13.07 million people were reached across the 9Network’s coverage of AO25, up two per cent year on year.

89.8 million domestic hours were viewed (TV and streaming), up 10.2 per cent year on year.

Audiences on streaming platforms continue to grow, with 23.3 per cent of all domestic hours viewed coming through 9Now and Stan – up 5.7 percentage points from AO 2024.

The 9Network was the number one BVOD commercial free-to-air network by share of voice on all fifteen days of AO 2025.

Among 16-39-year-olds, 9Now’s BVOD commercial free-to-air audience share averaged over 62 per cent across AO 2025.

National total TV average audience for the women’s singles final between Madison Keys and Aryna Sabalenka was 1.56 million, up 18.5 per cent on last year’s final. The BVOD audience for the women’s singles final was 246,000, up 51.9 per cent year on year.

International broadcast

Top five countries by TV hours viewed were China, Australia, USA, Italy, Germany.

The two countries represented in the men’s singles final both had strong year on year growth in AO 2025 hours viewed – Germany up 23 per cent and Italy up 17 per cent.

In Italy, an average audience of 3.5 million watched Jannik Sinner defend his AO men’s singles title, with the men’s final enjoying a 33 per cent audience share across Eurosport and FTA channel Nove.

In Germany, the average audience for the men’s final was 1.67 million, across Eurosport and FTA channel RTL.

Elsewhere in Europe, the strongest audience growth was in Spain, where hours viewed more than doubled year on year, up 118 per cent.

Tournament Operations

400 drivers transported players and officials in 130 Kia vehicles during the tournament, including 50 all electric vehicles and 80 hybrid vehicles.

More than 50,000 people were transported during more than 27,000 transport trips.

Chief Umpire Cheryl Jenkins led the 249-strong team of AO officials from 34 nations.

AO 2025 had the largest AO Ballkid Squad in the history of the tournament with 428 ballkids aged between 12 and 15 taking part, including six First Nations ballkids, two from Korea and two from France as part of the Roland Garros exchange program.

1098 matches were officially scored.

More than 86,400 Dunlop tennis balls were used across the tournament.

7769 racquets were strung by the Yonex Stringing Team.

More than 52,000 towels and 5,500 bags of player and coach laundry was washed throughout the tournament.

Players consumed more than 5000 bananas from Queensland throughout January, equivalent to 200kg a day.

AO 2025 Partners fast facts

• Kia provided 130 vehicles for the AO 2025 fleet, including 50 EVs.
• More than 86,400 Dunlop tennis balls were used.
• 7769 racquets were strung by the Yonex Stringing Team.
• 9 tonnes of M&Ms sold.
• 632,117 eligible cans and PET bottles contributed to the Victorian Container Deposit Scheme.
• 61 Emirates cabin crew player walk-ons at Rod Laver Arena.
• More than 800 lavish MECCA packs were gifted to players, with a further 2,500 MECCA gifts for VIP guests.
• More than 14,000 AO Inductions and 1200 inspection and audits completed on SafetyCulture platform.
• 30 Rolex clocks keeping the time.