Iga Swiatek, the No. 1 ranked women’s tennis player in the world, is the betting favorite to win the 2024 Australian Open. In fact, the top 5 in the WTA world rankings make up the top five favorites on the opening odds board for the year’s first Grand Slam event. Defending champion and No. 2 ranked Aryna Sabalenka is slotted as the third favorite behind No. 3 ranked Elena Rybakina. The top three all opened with odds of +450 or shorter suggesting a three-person race to the title. Coco Gauff is listed as the fourth favorite with Jessica Pegula rounding out the top 5 favorites, though she’s well off the pace.
Sabalenka entered last year’s tournament as the No. 5 seed and dropped only one set en route to her first career major singles title. That set loss came in the final when she rallied to defeat Rybakina 4-6, 6-3, 6-4. History is not on Sabalenka’s side, though, since there hasn’t been a back-to-back winner since Victoria Azarenka won her second straight Australian Open in 2013. And since then there have been nine different champions in the past 11 tournaments. The field gets an infusion of talent with former champions Naomi Osaka and Caroline Wozniacki as well as Elina Svitolina all returning after recently giving birth.
The 2024 Australian Open runs from January 14-27 at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Since 1987 it has been the first of four Grand Slam tournaments inside the professional tennis season. Visit BookMaker.eu for complete odds and to place your wager.
2024 Australian Open Tennis Championship – Women’s
Dates: January 14-28, 2024
Location: Melbourne Park, Melbourne, Australia
Television: ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN3, Tennis Channel
2024 Women’s Australian Open Betting Odds
Iga Swiatek +172
Elena Rybakina +400
Aryna Sabalenka +450
Cori Gauff +600
Jessica Pegula +1600
Naomi Osaka +2500
Ons Jabeur +3000
Qinwen Zheng +3000
Mirra Andreeva +4000
Jelena Ostapenko +4000
Maria Sakkari +4000
Emma Raducanu +4500
Elina Svitolina +4500
Madison Keys +5000
Marketa Vondrousova +5000
Leylah Fernandez +5000
Beatriz Haddad Maia +5000
Six former Australian Open champions are included among the field with betting favorite and world No. 1 Iga Swiatek NOT among them. Still, Swiatek earned the No. 1 overall seed for the tournament based on recent results. Since losing in the Round of 16 at the U.S. Open last September, Swiatek is 17-1 with 16 consecutive match wins of which 13 were won in straight sets. Just a few months ago in Mexico Swiatek knocked off five of the world’s top 7 players all in straight sets regaining her perch atop the rankings with a 6-3, 6-2 win over then No. 1 Sabalenka.
Facing a tough schedule for a No. 1 seed, Swiatek’s road to a first AO title isn’t going to be easy. She opens with a test against 2020 WTA Player of the Year and that year’s AO champion Sofia Kenin.
A two-time former AO champ, Osaka has some value at her price, though her maternity leave puts her behind most players in the field in terms of conditioning. Osaka didn’t compete in 2023 and recently got a little tune-up in Brisbane winning one match before falling to Karolina Pliskova.
Gauff has value and is the most likely player not among the top 3 favorites to have a chance. The reigning U.S. Open champion also reached the quarterfinals at Roland Garros last year falling to Swiatek in hotly-contested match. She also enters on a roll having won five matches with only one set loss at the ASB Classic in New Zealand earlier this month.
While the wealth is spread around on the women’s tour it seems to stay within a particular group of players. The door did open for others, though, when former world No. 1 and 2022 AO champ Ashleigh Barty retired and the suspension of two-time Grand Slam winner Simon Halep. Azarenka has experience and success in Melbourne winning back-to-back titles in 2012 and 2013. She returned to the semifinals last year knocking off top 10 seeds Madison Keys and Jessica Pegula before falling to Rybakina in straight sets.
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It seems as though the top three or four players are always battling each other at major tournaments. There is the occasional exception like last year’s Wimbledon champ Marketa Vondrousova, who became the first unseeded player to win. It is cliché to back the favorite, but Swiatek is at another level and she’s dominated on hard courts during her career. The road to the quarterfinals is tough, but she’ll be battle-tested when she gets there.
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