2025 Australian Open: How many points will Aryna Sabalenka, Iga Swiatek, Coco Gauff, Emma Raducanu defend?

Ewan West 07 Jan 2025 4:24 PM

Aryna Sabalenka, Iga Swiatek, Coco Gauff and Emma Raducanu at the 2024 Australian Open

Aryna Sabalenka, Iga Swiatek and Coco Gauff will headline the 2025 Australian Open, but how many points will they be defending from the 2024 edition?

World No 1 and three-time major champion Sabalenka will be defending 2,000 points as she won her second successive Australian Open title in 2024.

Zheng Qinwen, the current world No 5 who lost to Sabalenka in her maiden Grand Slam final in Melbourne last year, will defend 1,300 points.

Gauff (3) is set to defend the 780 points she collected for reaching the semi-finals a year ago, while Ukraine’s Dayana Yastremska earned 820 points for her stunning run to the last four as a qualifier.

Anna Kalinskaya (14), Marta Kostyuk (18) and Linda Noskova (30) will each defend 430 points for making the quarter-final.

World No 10 Barbora Krejcikova — who also reached the last eight — will lose her 430 points as she has been forced to withdraw from the 2025 Australian Open due to injury.

Jasmine Paolini (4), Mirra Andreeva (15), Victoria Azarenka (22), Elina Svitolina (29) and Amanda Anisimova (36) are some of the players who exited at the last 16 stage in 2024 — and they will each be defending 240 points.

Swiatek, a five-time Grand Slam winner and world No 2, will only defend 130 points after her shock third round loss to Noskova last year. Emma Navarro (8) and Paula Badosa (12) are two other stars who fell in the third round in 2024.

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Elena Rybakina (6), Jessica Pegula (7), Daria Kasatkina (9) and Danielle Collins (11), who will all be seeded in the top 10, will each defend just 70 points after second round exits last year.

Emma Raducanu (60) and Ons Jabeur (40), who will both be unseeded in Melbourne, are also defending 70 points.

Two-time Australian Open winner Naomi Osaka, the current world No 50, lost in the first round last year, so she will defend only 10 points.

Projected 2025 Australian Open women’s singles seeds – points to defend from 2024

1. Aryna Sabalenka – 2,000
2. Iga Swiatek, Poland – 130
3. Coco Gauff, United States – 780
4. Jasmine Paolini, Italy – 240
5. Zheng Qinwen, China – 1,300
6. Elena Rybakina, Kazakhstan – 70
7. Jessica Pegula, United States – 70
8. Emma Navarro, United States – 130
9. Daria Kasatkina – 70
10. Danielle Collins, United States – 70
11. Paula Badosa, Spain – 130
12. Diana Shnaider – 10
13. Anna Kalinskaya – 430
14. Mirra Andreeva – 240
15. Beatriz Haddad Maia, Brazil – 130
16. Jelena Ostapenko, Latvia – 130
17. Marta Kostyuk, Ukraine – 430
18. Donna Vekic, Croatia – 10
19. Madison Keys, United States – 0
20. Karoline Muchova, Czech Republic – 0
21. Victoria Azarenka – 240
22. Katie Boulter, Great Britain – 70
23. Magdalena Frech, Poland – 240
24. Yulia Putintseva, Kazakhstan – 10
25. Liudmila Samsonova – 10
26. Ekaterina Alexandrova – 10
27. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova – 70
28. Elina Svitolina, Ukraine – 240
29. Linda Noskova, Czech Republic – 430
30. Leylah Fernandez, Canada – 70
31. Maria Sakkari, Greece – 70
32. Dayana Yastremska, Ukraine – 820