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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Aryna Sabalenka admitted she was a little bit nervous with Rod Laver and Roger Federer in the crowd for her first-round win at the Australian Open on Sunday.

The top-ranked Sabalenka, who won the Australian title in 2023 and ’24 and was runner-up last year to Madison Keys, lost the first three points and dropped her opening service game before rallying to beat Tiantsoa Rakotomanga Rajaonah 6-4, 6-1.

“I didn’t start my best. She showed up. Fired on. She was playing great,” Sabalenka said of the left-handed Rakotomanga Rajaonah, a 20-year-old French wild-card entry. “It was a tricky start. I’m super happy I found my rhythm at the end of the second set.”

Sabalenka prepared for the first major of the season with a title in Brisbane, which included a quarterfinal win over Keys. She has been in good form, and is into her 74th week with the women's No. 1 ranking.

In her on-court interview, she said she'd snuck a look and saw Laver, the Australian great who has the main court named in his honor, and 20-time major winner Federer sitting in adjoining seats.

“I’m a huge fan. I wanted to show great tennis so you guys enjoyed watching me play,” she said. “There was definitely a lot of pressure. I was walking thinking ‘don’t look there, don’t look there!’”

She shrugged that off and found her rhythm and was content with a straight-sets win.

“I mean, first of all, it’s the first match, right? You’re always kind of trying to figure out where you are,” she said.

Day 1

Alexander Zverev, runner-up here last year to Jannik Sinner, shrugged off a sluggish start to beat Gabriel Diallo 6-7 (7), 6-1, 6-4, 6-2 in the afternoon match on the first of 15 days in the tournament. He’s into the second round at Melbourne Park for the 10th straight year.

“Definitely, when I saw the draw, wasn’t too happy to be honest,” Zverev said of the tricky challenge presented by No. 41-ranked Diallo. “He’s very young, very talented. Unbelievably aggressive.

“First set wasn’t my best tennis, I would say. It got a lot better after that for me.”

Two of the women’s seeds went out in the opening afternoon, with Elsa Jacquemot ousting No. 20 Marta Kostyuk 6-7 (4), 7-6 (4), 7-6 (7) and Turkish qualifier Zeynep Sönmez upsetting No. 11 Ekaterina Alexandrova 7-5, 4-6, 6-4.

Sönmez halted her match briefly in the second set to help a ballkid who appeared to be struggling in the heat before the tournament medical team took over.

Seventh-seeded Jasmine Paolini beat Aliaksandra Sasnovich 6-1, 6-2, and No. 12 Elina Svitolina and Maria Sakkari also advanced in straight sets.

Former Wimbledon champion Marketa Vondrousova withdrew because of a shoulder injury before her scheduled first-round match, giving a place in the main draw to Taylor Townsend, the lucky loser from qualifying, to take on Hailey Baptiste.

In a 2 1/2-hour all-American contest on Court 13, Baptiste prevailed 6-3, 6-7 (3), 6-3.

On the men's side, No. 29 Frances Tiafoe overpowered Jason Kubler 7-6 (4), 6-3, 6-2 and Michael Zheng fended off Sebastian Korda 6-4, 6-4, 3-6, 6-7 (0), 6-3 in an all-American first-round match on Kia Arena.

Zheng, a college star at Columbia who advanced through qualifying to make his tour-level debut, will next face No. 32 Corentin Moutet, who was booed after his underarm serve on match point in a 6-4, 7-6 (1), 6-3 win over Tristan Schoolkate.

No. 20 Flavio Cobolli became the first of the seeded men’s players to exit the tournament in a 7-6 (1), 6-4, 6-1 loss to British qualifier Arthur Fery.

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More AP tennis: https://apnews.com/hub/tennis

3b:T1159,

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Aryna Sabalenka admitted she was a little bit nervous with Rod Laver and Roger Federer in the crowd for her first-round win at the Australian Open on Sunday.

In her on-court interview, she said she'd snuck a look and saw Laver, the Australian great who has the main court named in his honor, and 20-time major winner Federer sitting in adjoining seats.

She shrugged that off and found her rhythm and was content with a straight-sets win.

“I mean, first of all, it’s the first match, right? You’re always kind of trying to figure out where you are,” she said.

Day 1

“First set wasn’t my best tennis, I would say. It got a lot better after that for me.”

Sönmez halted her match briefly in the second set to help a ballkid who appeared to be struggling in the heat before the tournament medical team took over.

Seventh-seeded Jasmine Paolini beat Aliaksandra Sasnovich 6-1, 6-2, and No. 12 Elina Svitolina and Maria Sakkari also advanced in straight sets.

In a 2 1/2-hour all-American contest on Court 13, Baptiste prevailed 6-3, 6-7 (3), 6-3.

No. 20 Flavio Cobolli became the first of the seeded men’s players to exit the tournament in a 7-6 (1), 6-4, 6-1 loss to British qualifier Arthur Fery.

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More AP tennis: https://apnews.com/hub/tennis

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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Get ready for the 2026 Australian Open with a guide that tells you everything you need to know about how to watch the first Grand Slam tennis tournament of the season on TV, who the defending champions are, what the schedule is and more:

Opening day at Melbourne Park

Singles play begins Sunday at 11 a.m. local time (7 p.m. Saturday EST) around the grounds, with the first match in Rod Laver Arena scheduled to begin at 11:30 a.m. (7:30 p.m. Saturday EST).

Where to watch the Australian Open on TV

— In the U.S.: ESPN and Tennis Channel

— Other countries are listed here

Defending champions at the Australian Open

Madison Keys of the United States and Jannik Sinner of Italy won the 2025 singles trophies. Keys beat No. 1-ranked Aryna Sabalenka 6-3, 2-6, 7-5 for her first Grand Slam trophy. Sinner beat Alexander Zverev 6-3, 7-6 (4), 6-3 to successfully defend his title at Melbourne Park.

Sunday's Australian Open schedule

Seventh-seeded Jasmine Paolini will play Aliaksandra Sasnovich in the opening match on Rod Laver Arena, followed by men's No. 3 Alexander Zverev against Gabriel Diallo. The center court night session will feature Sabalenka against Tiantsoa Rakotomanga Rajaonah followed by Carlos Alcaraz against Adam Walton. Emma Raducanu has the closing match on Margaret Court Arena against Mananchaya Sawangkaew. Venus Williams has the last match on John Cain Arena on Day 1 against Olga Danilovic.

Top seeds at Melbourne Park

Sabalenka will be the top-seeded woman and Alcaraz the top-seeded man. The draw was held Thursday.

Australian Open betting favoritesMore about the year’s first Grand Slam tournament

The Australian Open is played outdoors on hard courts at Melbourne Park, located along the Yarra River near downtown Melbourne. There are retractable roofs at Rod Laver Arena, Margaret Court Arena and John Cain Arena. Women play best-of-three-set matches with a first-to-10, win-by-two tiebreaker at 6-all in the third; men play best-of-five with a tiebreaker at 6-all in the fifth. Like at the U.S. Open and French Open, there are night sessions. The tournament is staged each year around the last two weeks of January, during the school summer break Down Under.

What's new at this year's Australian Open

The Australian Open has introduced “opening week” where the Melbourne Park precinct is open to the public from the start of the qualifying tournament, and live music was staged every night at Grand Slam Oval. Fans were able to watch open practice sessions in Rod Laver Arena to see some of the sport's biggest names preparing for the first major of the year. Tennis Australia says more than 175,000 fans attended across Monday to Friday. On Wednesday, as part of the pre-tournament activities, a little-known local amateur player beat Jannik Sinner and went on to make himself a millionaire in Australian dollars after winning the 1 Point Slam.

Who's back this year at Melbourne Park

Williams is set to become the oldest woman at 45 to compete in an Australian Open main draw, surpassing the record previously held by Japan's Kimiko Date, who was 44 when she lost in the first round at Melbourne Park in 2015. Williams received a wild-card entry. And another familiar face is back but not playing competitively — Roger Federer. He was part of Saturday night's opening ceremony. On Friday, Federer returned to a packed-out Rod Laver Arena for the first time since 2020 for a practice session with Casper Rudd.

Who's missing at the Australian Open

Matteo Berrettini, the 2021 Wimbledon runner-up, withdrew from the Australian Open just before the start of the tournament, citing an oblique injury. He was supposed to face No. 6 seed Alex de Minaur of Australia in the first round. Mackenzie McDonald, an American who lost in qualifying, was moved into the main draw to replace Berrettini and will play de Minaur.

Singles schedule at the Australian Open

— Jan. 18-19-20: First Round (Women and Men)

— Jan. 21-22: Second Round (Women and Men)

— Jan. 23-24: Third Round (Women and Men)

— Jan. 25-26: Fourth Round (Women and Men)

— Jan. 27-28: Quarterfinals (Women and Men)

— Jan. 29: Women’s Semifinals

— Jan. 30: Men’s Semifinals

— Jan. 31: Women’s Final

— Feb. 1: Men’s Final

Get caught up before the Australian Open begins

— Alcaraz, Sinner and Swiatek head to Australian Open in search of a career Grand Slam

— Novak Djokovic is taking a new approach to Grand Slam appearances

— Venus Williams is excited to be back at Melbourne Park after a 5-year absence

— What to know about the 2026 Australian Open

— Madison Keys pictures herself as a champion again in Australia

— The 1 Point Slam isn’t likely to be a one-hit wonder

— Alcaraz, Sinner, Djokovic, Shelton lead the 2026 Australian Open men’s field

— Sabalenka, Swiatek, Gauff, Keys and Venus Williams highlight the 2026 Australian Open women’s field

— Top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka describes the season schedule as ‘insane’

— Coco Gauff adds some context on the 'worst' fans

— The ATP is adding a heat rule like the one the women have had for 30 years

— Nick Kyrgios will play doubles but not singles at the Australian Open

2026 prize money at the Australian Open

Australian Open prize money has increased by 16% from last year to a record total in local currency of 111.5 million Australian dollars ($75 million). That was up from 96.5 million Australian dollars in 2025. The women’s and men’s singles champions will win 4.15 million Australian dollars ($2.8 million), a 19% increase from last year.

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AP tennis: https://apnews.com/hub/tennis

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Opening day at Melbourne Park

Singles play begins Sunday at 11 a.m. local time (7 p.m. Saturday EST) around the grounds, with the first match in Rod Laver Arena scheduled to begin at 11:30 a.m. (7:30 p.m. Saturday EST).

Where to watch the Australian Open on TV

— In the U.S.: ESPN and Tennis Channel

— Other countries are listed here

Defending champions at the Australian Open

Sunday's Australian Open schedule

Top seeds at Melbourne Park

Sabalenka will be the top-seeded woman and Alcaraz the top-seeded man. The draw was held Thursday.

Australian Open betting favoritesMore about the year’s first Grand Slam tournament

What's new at this year's Australian Open

Who's back this year at Melbourne Park

Who's missing at the Australian Open

Singles schedule at the Australian Open

— Jan. 18-19-20: First Round (Women and Men)

— Jan. 21-22: Second Round (Women and Men)

— Jan. 23-24: Third Round (Women and Men)

— Jan. 25-26: Fourth Round (Women and Men)

— Jan. 27-28: Quarterfinals (Women and Men)

— Jan. 29: Women’s Semifinals

— Jan. 30: Men’s Semifinals

— Jan. 31: Women’s Final

— Feb. 1: Men’s Final

Get caught up before the Australian Open begins

— Alcaraz, Sinner and Swiatek head to Australian Open in search of a career Grand Slam

— Novak Djokovic is taking a new approach to Grand Slam appearances

— Venus Williams is excited to be back at Melbourne Park after a 5-year absence

— What to know about the 2026 Australian Open

— Madison Keys pictures herself as a champion again in Australia

— The 1 Point Slam isn’t likely to be a one-hit wonder

— Alcaraz, Sinner, Djokovic, Shelton lead the 2026 Australian Open men’s field

— Sabalenka, Swiatek, Gauff, Keys and Venus Williams highlight the 2026 Australian Open women’s field

— Top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka describes the season schedule as ‘insane’

— Coco Gauff adds some context on the 'worst' fans

— The ATP is adding a heat rule like the one the women have had for 30 years

— Nick Kyrgios will play doubles but not singles at the Australian Open

2026 prize money at the Australian Open

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AP tennis: https://apnews.com/hub/tennis

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TORONTO (AP) — Top-seeded Alexander Zverev beat Adam Walton 7-6 (6), 6-4 at the National Bank Open on Tuesday night in his first match since Wimbledon.

Zverev is trying to get back on track after reaching the Australian Open final in a strong start to the season. He was upset by Arthur Rinderknech in the first round at Wimbledon, saying afterward he was struggling mentally.

"!’m trying to find ways to kind of get out of this hole. I keep kind of finding myself back in it in a way,” Zverev said.

The German is ranked third but seeded No. 1 in this tournament that he won in 2017 after the withdrawals of Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz. Zverev won a 52-shot rally in the tiebreaker to earn a set point.

“It was a very important moment and a very important point for me,” Zverev said. “I was lucky to get through in the first set and then finish it off in two.”

Third-seeded Lorenzo Musetti beat Australian qualifier James Duckworth 7-5, 6-1, while No. 5 Holger Rune was a 7-6 (7), 6-3 winner over Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard on a hot, sunny afternoon.

All seeded players had a first-round bye in the Masters 1000 tournament that also saw No. 5 Jack Draper and No. 6 Novak Djokovic withdraw.

No. 8 seed Casper Ruud, No. 10 Daniil Medvedev, No. 11 Karen Khachanov, No. 14 Francisco Cerundolo and No. 18 Alexei Popyrin, the defending champion, were among the other winners. Reilly Opelka upset 16th-seeded Tomas Machac in three sets.

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AP tennis: https://apnews.com/hub/tennis

3f:T711,

TORONTO (AP) — Top-seeded Alexander Zverev beat Adam Walton 7-6 (6), 6-4 at the National Bank Open on Tuesday night in his first match since Wimbledon.

"!’m trying to find ways to kind of get out of this hole. I keep kind of finding myself back in it in a way,” Zverev said.

“It was a very important moment and a very important point for me,” Zverev said. “I was lucky to get through in the first set and then finish it off in two.”

Third-seeded Lorenzo Musetti beat Australian qualifier James Duckworth 7-5, 6-1, while No. 5 Holger Rune was a 7-6 (7), 6-3 winner over Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard on a hot, sunny afternoon.

All seeded players had a first-round bye in the Masters 1000 tournament that also saw No. 5 Jack Draper and No. 6 Novak Djokovic withdraw.

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AP tennis: https://apnews.com/hub/tennis

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