AUSTRALIAN OPEN - 18th Jan - 1st Feb 2026

Australian Open 2026.

Qualies have started. Results for 1st day here. h ttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/articles/c62w60e71g9o

Katie Boulter has not had to play qualifying as she is now in the main draw due to withdrawals.

Arthur Fery won his QR1 match. British losers were Dan Evans, Ollie Crawford and Jay Clarke.

Arthur Fery won his second qualifying round and plays Prizmic in the next round at midnight tonight court 15.

George Loffhagen won his qualifying second round also and plays Basavereddy at midnight tonight court 17.

Arthur won, George lost.

Thanks Sally.

The draw is out.

h ttps://ausopen.com/draws


From the BBC

Raducanu will face Thailand's Mananchaya Sawangkaew in her opening match.

Katie Boulter, now ranked outside the world's top 100, moved into the main draw after several withdrawals and takes on in-form Swiss 10th seed Belinda Bencic.

Sonay Kartal faces 31st seed Anna Kalinskaya, while Francesca Jones takes on Polish qualifier Linda Klimovicova.

Cameron Norrie, the 26th seed, opens against France's Benjamin Bonzi, while Jacob Fearnley plays Poland's Kamil Majchrzak.

Qualifier Arthur Fery, making his first overseas Grand Slam appearance, will face Italian 20th seed Flavio Cobolli.

oop for Sunday - h ttps://ausopen.com/schedule#!43225

Emma Raducanu, Arthur Fery and Cameron Norrie are all playing.

Thanks Cazza. For some reason I wasn't expecting it to start until Monday.

I wasn't expecting it to start until tomorrow either! What UK time do they get under way?

Feel a bit sorry for Emma as she wasn't able to get to Melbourne until Saturday as she was in the quarters elsewhere. So she has not had enough time to adapt. She is also second night match after a men's five setter so it could be a very late start for her. But that is good for us as we can watch on Sunday morning.

I watched the opening ceremony on the YouTube channel, today. It felt like the opening ceremony of the Olympics, but without the razzmatazz. It was good that they showed the doubles match (Roger Federer, Andre Agassi, Lleyton Hewitt, Pat Rafter and Ash Barty) in full.

Has anyone worked out how to get "courtside" on TNT sports/discovery plus with the -presenters such as Laura Robson etc. I am watching on a Firestick/Discovery Plus.

Wins for Aurthur Fery, Cameron Norrie and Emma Raducanu on the 1st day.



oop for Monday - h ttps://ausopen.com/schedule#!43226

Jacob Fearnley 3rd on Court 12.

Francesca Jones 2nd on Court 15.

Fran Jones out with injury.
ht tps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/articles/c1kl0z9e27go

Fearnley lost 1-3 but it was a very tight match with the Pole winning 3 tie-break sets.