Respectively seeded number 1 and 2 in the men’s and women’s draw, Jannik Sinner and Iga Swiatek qualified this Monday for the second round of the 2025 Australian Open.
Title holder in Melbourne, world No.1 Jannik Sinner showed effort to beat Chilean Nicolas Jarry on Monday in the first round of the Australian Open, with Iga Swiatek (2nd) and Coco Gauff (3rd) winning more quickly during a day full of posters. Controlled start for the title holder: world No.1 Jannik Sinner, who played the first match of his 2025 season in Melbourne on Monday, dominated Chilean Nicolas Jarry (36th) in three sets in the first round. The 23-year-old Italian, winner 7-6 (7/2), 7-6 (7/5), 6-1 in 2h40, joins his runner-up in the ATP ranking Alexandre Zverev (2nd) in the second round, qualified from Sunday . World No.3 Carlos Alcaraz must also enter the fray on Monday, against Kazakh Alexander Shevchenko (77th). On a sunny Rod Laver Arena, the double Grand Slam winner (Australian Open and US Open 2024) came up against fierce resistance from Jarry for two sets, before finally managing to break him at the start of the third round and then unwind.
Finalist in Melbourne in 2023, the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas (12th) was on the other hand eliminated as soon as he entered the fray, picked up cold by the young American Alex Michelsen, 42nd in the world at 20 years old and winner in four sets: 7-5, 6 -3, 2-6, 6-4. At the end of a disappointing 2024 season, Tsitsipas suffered his earliest elimination on Monday in Melbourne since 2018, where he also lost in the first round against Canadian Denis Shapovalov. “I didn’t manage to play the way I hoped this year”the Greek could only observe, frustrated at having “way too much time to recover» before his next official match. The American Frances Tiafoe (16th) also suffered against the Frenchman Arthur Rinderknech but emerged after a five-set battle lasting more than four hours. After Sinner’s qualification, ten-time Australian Open winner Novak Djokovic is expected at the Rod Laver Arena around 7:00 p.m. (9:00 a.m.), for a duel against the American Nishesh Basavareddy (107th).
-Swiatek and Pegula also qualified
Second player in the world, Iga Swiatek wasted little time in the first round, winning 6-3, 6-4 in 1 hour 20 minutes against the Czech Katerina Siniakova (50th). The Pole will challenge in the next round the Slovak Rebecca Sramkova (49th), who defeated the American Katie Volynets (60th) on Monday with a score of 3-6, 6-2, 6-2. World No.3 Coco Gauff also had an uneventful first round on Monday. In a 100% American duel, the 20-year-old Floridian beat 6-3, 6-3 her compatriot Sofia Kenin (74th), winner of the tournament in 2020. After this successful debut on the Rod Laver Arena, Gauff will face second round the British Jodie Burrage (173rd), who dismissed in two sets 6-2, 6-4, the French qualifier Léolia Jeanjean (149th).
With the qualification on Sunday of the double title holder Aryna Sabalenka (1st) and the 2024 finalist Zheng Qinwen (5th), all the members of the top 5 have for the moment validated their ticket for the 2nd round, while waiting for the entry into the running of Jasmine Paolini (4th) on Tuesday. Sixth in the world, the American Jessica Pegula began her tournament on Monday around 5:15 p.m. in Melbourne (7:15 a.m.). The finalist of the last US Open faces the Australian Maya Joint (105th) in the first round. On the Rod Laver Arena, the day will end with the duel between double winner of the Australian Open Naomi Osaka (2019, 2021) and Frenchwoman Caroline Garcia, winner of the WTA Finals in 2022.
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