Jannik Sinner he won his first match, and the matches officially began Australian Open in Tennis 2025. They will be broadcast exclusively on the TV channels of Eurosport (the cartel matches on Eurosport 1 and the matches of the Italian tennis players on Eurosport 2) and for the first time in full live on the streaming platform Discovery+all from the Warner Bros. Discovery group. With glittering stars at the comment, from Boris Becker a John McEnroeyes Mats Wilander alla new entry Jim Courierpassing through Tim Henman, Alex Correja, Justine Henin and Italian Roberta Vinci.
TV audience to increase by 25% in 2024
In 2024, as the leaders of WB Discovery recall, «Eurosport obtained the greater number of spectators in 35 years of broadcasting the Australian Open. The tournament’s streaming numbers have grown in all European markets, while the television audience has increased by 25% compared to the previous year.”
With the Australian Open also begins the quest, year after year, to increasingly rich prize pools for tennis players involved in the grand slam trials: for the 2025 Melbourne event there are prizes equal to 96.5 million Australian dollars (around 58 million euros), with a growth of almost 12% compared to the 2024 edition.
Last year the prize money of the Us Open had been of 73.5 million euros (+15.38% on 2023), that of Wimbledon Of 59.4 million euros (+11.9%) and that of Roland Garros Of 53.5 million euros (+7,8%).
Higher salaries for tennis players
Returning to the 2025 Australian Open, i eliminated players in the first round they will receive 79 thousand euros, a higher check than what is offered by Roland Garros and Wimbledon 2024. Furthermore, the tournament offers significant increases for the preliminary rounds and intermediate phases, with a policy, encouraged by the ATP, which aims to support third and fourth tier tennis playersoften involved in challenger and ITF tournaments, who will have the opportunity to obtain more substantial earnings. For example, whoever is eliminated in the first round of the qualifiers will receive around 21 thousand euros.
As for the main draw, the losers at second round they will collect 120 thousand euros, and then 175 thousand euros third round253 thousand euros per quartowho comes to quarter finals takes home 400 thousand euros, up to 663 thousand semi-finals and the 1.1 million for those who lose in finale. Al overall winner a check from 2.1 million euros.
