{"id":77618,"date":"2025-01-08T10:07:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T15:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=77618"},"modified":"2025-01-08T10:07:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T15:07:43","slug":"reigning-champions-sinner-sabalenka-leads-australian-open-seeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2025\/01\/08\/reigning-champions-sinner-sabalenka-leads-australian-open-seeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Reigning Champions Sinner and Sabalenka Lead Australian Open Seeds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Top-ranked Jannik Sinner is preparing to defend his title at the Australian Open, where he holds the top seed position as the tournament announced the complete list of 32 seeds on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

World #2 Alexander Zverev occupies the second seed in Melbourne, while Carlos Alcaraz, who aims to be the youngest player to achieve a career Slam<\/a>, is in third place. The record 10-time champion, Novak Djokovic, is placed seventh.<\/p>\n

Three-time finalist Daniil Medvedev, who announced the birth of his second child on Tuesday<\/a>, is seeded fifth and must be fired up to go one step further to win his second Major title.<\/p>\n

In last year\u2019s final, Sinner rallied from a two-set deficit against Medvedev<\/a> to claim his first of two Major championships.<\/p>\n

On the women’s side, defending champion and World #1 Aryna Sabalenka is the top seed, with rival Iga Swiatek second and American phenom Coco Gauff third.<\/p>\n

The draws are scheduled to be revealed Thursday, January 9 at Melbourne Park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
Men’s Seeds<\/td>\nWomens Seeds<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1. Jannik Sinner<\/p>\n

2. Alexander Zverev<\/p>\n

3. Carlos Alcaraz<\/p>\n

4. Taylor Fritz<\/p>\n

5. Daniil Medvedev<\/p>\n

6. Casper Ruud<\/p>\n

7. Novak Djokovic<\/p>\n

8. Alex de Minaur<\/p>\n

9. Andrey Rublev<\/p>\n

10. Grigor Dimitrov<\/p>\n

11. Stefanos Tsitsipas<\/p>\n

12. Tommy Paul<\/p>\n

13. Holger Rune<\/p>\n

14. Ugo Humbert<\/p>\n

15. Jack Draper<\/p>\n

16. Lorenzo Musetti<\/p>\n

17. Frances Tiafoe<\/p>\n

18. Hubert Hurkacz<\/p>\n

19. Karen Khachanov<\/p>\n

20. Arthur Fils<\/p>\n

21. Ben Shelton<\/p>\n

22. Sebastian Korda<\/p>\n

23. Alejandro Tabilo<\/p>\n

24. Jiri Lehecka<\/p>\n

25. Alexei Popyrin<\/p>\n

26. Tomas Machac<\/p>\n

27. Jordan Thompson<\/p>\n

28. Sebastian Baez<\/p>\n

29. Felix Auger-Aliassime<\/p>\n

30. Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard<\/p>\n

31. Francisco Cerundolo<\/p>\n

32. Flavio Cobolli<\/td>\n

1. Aryna Sabalenka<\/p>\n

2. Iga Swiatek<\/p>\n

3. Coco Gauff<\/p>\n

4. Jasmine Paolini<\/p>\n

5. Qinwen Zheng<\/p>\n

6. Elena Rybakina<\/p>\n

7. Jessica Pegula<\/p>\n

8. Emma Navarro<\/p>\n

9. Daria Kasatkina<\/p>\n

10. Danielle Collins<\/p>\n

11. Paula Badosa<\/p>\n

12. Diana Shnaider<\/p>\n

13. Anna Kalinskaya<\/p>\n

14. Mirra Andreeva<\/p>\n

15. Beatriz Haddad Maia<\/p>\n

16. Jelena Ostapenko<\/p>\n

17. Marta Kostyuk<\/p>\n

18. Donna Vekic<\/p>\n

19. Madison Keys<\/p>\n

20. Karolina Muchova<\/p>\n

21. Victoria Azarenka<\/p>\n

22. Katie Boulter<\/p>\n

23. Magdalena Frech<\/p>\n

24. Yulia Putintseva<\/p>\n

25. Liudmila Samsonova<\/p>\n

26. Ekaterina Alexandrova<\/p>\n

27. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova<\/p>\n

28. Elina Svitolina<\/p>\n

29. Linda Noskova<\/p>\n

30. Leylah Fernandez<\/p>\n

31. Maria Sakkari<\/p>\n

32. Dayana Yastremska<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Main Photo Credit: Mike Frey-USA TODAY Sports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Top-ranked Jannik Sinner is preparing to defend his title at the Australian Open, where he holds the top seed position as the tournament announced the complete list of 32 seeds on Wednesday. World #2 Alexander Zverev occupies the second seed in Melbourne, while Carlos Alcaraz, who aims to be the youngest player to achieve a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4883,"featured_media":63297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7,2,9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atp","category-australian-open","category-featured","category-news","category-wta"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4883"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77618"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77652,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77618\/revisions\/77652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}