AO Event Guide: Tennis, tennis everywhere

Find more event details – and much more – in the Australian Open Official Program. Your guide to all things AO and tennis generally, the souvenir publication is packed with player profiles, feature stories, stunning imagery as well as stats and facts. You can purchase your copy at Melbourne Park, in Australian newsagents or online at the Australian Open shop.

There's entertainment and action aplenty at Melbourne Park, with almost 20 adjacent tennis events across the two weeks of the Australian Open 2025 main draw.

We take you through them in the latest piece in our 'AO Event Guide' series.

AO wheelchair championships

As well as the men’s, women’s and quad singles and doubles events, AO 2025 will see the introduction of junior wheelchair singles tournaments.

ENTRY LISTS: World’s top wheelchair players confirmed for AO 2025

Catch Japanese sensation Tokito Oda, British superstars Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid and a host of emerging Aussie talents as the wheelchair action unfolds from 21-25 January.

AO junior championships

You could be witnessing a future tennis superstar in the junior events, as the world’s best 18/u players battle for Grand Slam glory at Melbourne Park.

Australian talent Emerson Jones advanced to the girls’ final at AO 2024, while former AO junior champions include Andy Roddick, Victoria Azarenka, Marcos Baghdatis, Jelena Jankovic, Gael Monfils, Karolina Pliskova and Nick Kyrgios.

HONOUR ROLL: Australian Open junior champions

Legends Cup

Featuring retired fan favourites, the Legends Cup presented by Marriot Bonvoy sees much-loved former pros compete in a refreshed format at AO 2025.

Team Australia — represented by Lleyton Hewitt, Pat Rafter, Mark Philippoussis, Sam Stosur, Alicia Molik and Casey Dellacqua — takes on Team World’s Tommy Haas, James Blake, Marcos Baghdatis, Andrea Petkovic and Iva
Majoli.

Cue the nostalgia on 18-24 January.

Glam Slam

The annual Glam Slam presented by Ralph Lauren returns for AO 2025.

The LGBTQ+ tennis event, overseen by the Gay and Lesbian Tennis Alliance, sees 200 players from around the world competing during the second week of the AO. With a ground pass, fans can catch the Glam Slam finals on men’s final day, staged on Court 6 next to the AO Courtside Bar.

Australian Tennis Championships

In another example of the AO’s inclusivity, the Australian Tennis Championships play out at Melbourne Park in the second week of the tournament, giving players with an intellectual impairment and deaf and hard-of-hearing athletes the chance to compete for national glory at the site of one of the sport’s four Grand Slam tournaments.