Iga Swiatek leads the 2023 Australian Open entry list also featuring Emma Raducanu and Naomi Osaka

Iga Swiatek leads the 2023 Australian Open entry list also featuring Emma Raducanu and Naomi Osaka

Australian Open

The Australian Open with the other three Grand Slams is considered the most prestigious tennis tournament in the world. For those uninitiated, the tournament is played on the hard court and the best tennis players participate in this competition every year. The event has a massive following across the world and has seen some of the most iconic clashes between some of the most prominent tennis professionals.

The 2023 Australian Open will be played from the 16th to the 29th of January in Melbourne, Australia. The world will hold its breath as the female tennis players will showcase their amazing skills on the court to win the first Grand Slam title of the year.

Eminent sports journalist and member of the International Tennis Writers Association, Michal Samulski has shared the entry list of female tennis players who will be playing in the competition this year on his official Twitter handle.

“Australian Open women’s entry list,” his caption read.

The list of the players with their current rank and entry rank is given. Their seeds are also mentioned.

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Top 32 Seeds at the Australian Open 2023

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Top Seeds: Coco Gauff, Iga Swiatek, Victoria Azarenka and Petra Kvitova

The 2022 French Open and US Open champion Iga Swiatek will start the tournament as seed #1. The 2022 Wimbledon finalist Ons Jabeur is ranked No.2 in the entry list with Seed #2. The 2022 WTA Finals winner Caroline Garcia and finalist Aryna Sabalenka take the fourth and fifth spots with Seed #4 and Seed #5 respectively.

A teenage sensation and 2022 French Open finalist Coco Gauff is seeded #7. Jessica Pegula, Maria Sakkari, Daria Kasatkina, Veronika Kudermetova, and Madison Keys are also in the Top 10. Belinda Bencic and Paula Badosa are seeded #11 and #12 respectively. The 2022 Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina is seeded #22.

Besides Coco Gauff, young players such as Amanda Anisimova and Qinwen Zheng have also been able to get seeded for the tournament. Veterans such as Petra Kvitova and Victoria Azarenka are also on the list of players with respective seeds. Ajla Tomljanovic is the last-seeded player on the list with Seed #32.

The 2021 Australian Open champion Naomi Osaka and 2021 US Open champion Emma Raducanu are not seeded. However, they did manage to get their names on the entry list. The 2021 US Open finalist Leylah Fernandez is also on the entry list unseeded. Harriet Dart is placed in the Alternates list.

However, shockingly, Romanian tennis professional Simona Halep is not included in any of the lists. It is unlikely that she will get a clean chit from the authorities by the start of the season. Besides her, 23-time Grand Slam champion Serena Williams and the defending champion Ashleigh Barty will also be missed by tennis fans as they retired in 2022.

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