It was very hard for the Belarusian to beat Aryna Sabalenka after she won the Australian Open last year.
Sabalenka was the queen of double faults in 2022, and by the end of that year, she thought she would never make it past the semifinals at a grand slam again.
But in 2023, she ruled Melbourne and won the Australian Open. That same year, she also made it to the final of the US Open and was ranked number one in the world.
Now that she is ranked No. 2, she wants to protect her title and stop Iga Swiatek from winning her first Australian Open title.
After winning the WTA Tour Finals, Swiatek took back the No. 1 title from Sabalenka. However, they are not the only ones trying to win at the Australian Open.
Ten women have won this event before Sabalenka. Naomi Osaka, Sofia Kenin, Caroline Wozniacki, Angelique Kerber, and Victoria Azarenka are the other five. Elena Rybakina and Coco Gauff are also in the running.
It looks like the first major of 2024 will be very exciting…
Tracking the women’s seeds for the 2024 Australian Open
At the end of each day’s play in the event, this list will be updated to show which seeds have been eliminated and which ones they lost to.
1. Iga Swiatek
2. Aryna Sabalenka
3. Elena Rybakina
4. Coco Gauff
5. Jessica Pegula
6. Ons Jabeur
7. Marketa Vondrousova
8. Maria Sakkari
9. Barbora Krejcikova
10. Beatriz Haddad Maia
11. Jelena Ostapenko
12. Zheng Qinwen
13. Liudmila Samsonova
14. Daria Kasatkina
15. Veronika Kudermetova
16. Caroline Garcia
17. Ekaterina Alexandrova
18. Victoria Azarenka
19. Elina Svitolina
20. Magda Linette
21. Donna Vekic
22. Sorana Cirstea
23. Anastasia Potapova
24. Anhelina Kalinina
25. Elise Mertens
26. Jasmine Paolini
27. Emma Navarro
28. Lesia Tsurenko
29. Zhu Lin
30. Wang Xinyu
31. Marie Bouzkova
32. Leylah Fernandez
