The second week at Australian Open 2026 is here. That means 32 players are still around in both singles draws.
Delving into the numbers, let’s break down all 32 players in bite-sized (statistical) portions, and in alphabetical order.
Carlos Alcaraz
For the third time in his young Grand Slam career, Alcaraz has not dropped a set on the way to the second week. On the other two occasions he managed this (2022 US Open and 2025 US Open), he won the tournament.
Mirra Andreeva
Of the four women who won lead-up tournaments to AO 2026, three are still in contention. Andreeva (Adelaide) is joined by Aryna Sabalenka (Brisbane) and Elina Svitolina (Auckland). The outlier is Elisabetta Cocciaretto (Hobart).
Amanda Anisimova
If Anisimova goes all the way, she would become the third player in the Open Era to win the Australian Open with the initials ‘AA’ after Arthur Ashe and Andre Agassi.
Alexander Bublik
Bublik carries a seven-match winning streak into his blockbuster against Sydneysider Alex de Minaur. He has lost just one set in 2026.
Francisco Cerundolo
If Cerundolo reaches the quarterfinals, he would become the first man from Argentina to do so at the Australian Open since Juan Martin del Potro in 2012.
Luciano Darderi
Prior to AO 2026, the Argentine-born Italian had never won three straight hardcourt matches. In defeating Karen Khachanov in the third round, Darderi collected his first top-20 victory on hard.
Alex de Minaur
When De Minaur beat No.34 Frances Tiafoe in the third round, it marked his second-best win by ranking at his home major. He seeks a first win against top-20 opponent at Melbourne Park (currently 0-7) when he meets Bublik.
Novak Djokovic
Djokovic tangles with a big server next in Jakub Mensik. But in his 20-year Australian Open career, Djokovic has only not broken serve (not including a retirement) once — against Jannik Sinner in 2024.
Taylor Fritz
Fritz leads the tournament in aces with 68. Not having to deal with the sun or wind, he hammered down 30 against Stan Wawrinka under the roof in the third round.
Coco Gauff
The 21-year-old Gauff is the youngest American woman to make four straight Australian Open fourth rounds since Lindsay Davenport made five in a row from 1994-1998.
Maddison Inglis
The last remaining Australian woman in the draw saved two match points in qualifying — in her first match and on her opponent’s serve. On the second one, lefty Leyre Romero Gormaz opened up the court with her serve but sent a forehand long.
Iva Jovic
Aged 18, Jovic is the youngest of three teens in the fourth round. The American is playing doubles in Melbourne with one of the other ones, Victoria Mboko.
Madison Keys
Of the remaining women in the draw, the defending champion has hit the fastest serve, at 194km/h (121 mph). Fellow American Alycia Parks leads at 196km/h (122 mph).
Victoria Mboko
If Mboko upsets Sabalenka in the fourth round, she would become the third teen on the WTA Tour since 2000 to make an Australian Open quarterfinal on her debut, following fellow Canadian Eugenie Bouchard (2014) and Linda Noskova (2024).
Daniil Medvedev
Of the four men who won lead up tournaments to AO 2026, three, like the women, are still in contention. Medvedev (Brisbane) is joined by Bublik (Hong Kong) and Mensik (Auckland). The exception is Tomas Machac (Adelaide).
Jakub Mensik
Mensik snapped a four-match losing skid in fifth sets when he beat Pablo Carreno Busta in the first round. In those four defeats, he led by either two sets to love or two sets to one. Redemption.
Elise Mertens
Not many can say that they made an Australian Open semifinal — and on their debut. Mertens achieved the feat in 2018 after skipping qualifying in 2017 because she was still competing in Hobart.
Karolina Muchova
Since the start of the 2019 season, the injury-hit Muchova has missed at least one edition of the Australian Open, Wimbledon and Roland Garros. The 2023 French finalist, though, has not missed a US Open.
Lorenzo Musetti
Musetti is the lone player left in singles with a one-handed backhand. Last year in the fourth round, there were none.
Tommy Paul
Paul has dropped the fewest games of any man so far (21). The 2023 semifinalist did not have to play three sets in the third round, though, as Alejandro Davidovich Fokina retired following set two.
Jessica Pegula
Pegula co-leads the women in percentage of first-serve points won (79). Her friend and fellow American Gauff tallies the same number.
Yulia Putintseva
After beating Zeynep Sonmez, the fiery Putintseva completed her second week collection at Grand Slams.
Casper Ruud
Ruud owns two wins at Grand Slams against major champions. Both have come against Marin Cilic — in the third round at AO 2026 and at the 2022 edition of Roland Garros.
Elena Rybakina
Rybakina led the women’s tour in aces in 2025. But she leads the remaining players in Melbourne in break point conversion rate (75 per cent).
Elina Svitolina
Svitolina is the lone remaining mum in singles. She was the second-highest ranked one in the draw, just behind United Cup MVP Belinda Bencic.
Aryna Sabalenka
After winning two against Anastasia Potapova in round three, Sabalenka has now won 19 straight Grand Slam tiebreaks to draw level with Djokovic for the Open Era lead. The last player to win one against the world No.1 was Muchova at the 2023 French Open.
Ben Shelton
Of all the men remaining, the left-handed Shelton has hit the fastest serve at 227km/h (141 mph). Overall, Argentina’s Thiago Agustin Tirante leads the way at 228km/h (142 mph).
Jannik Sinner
A wobbling, at times, Sinner faced 16 break points against Eliot Spizzirri in the third round, the most in his Australian Open career. The two-time defending champion was broken six times, more than in all of his AO 2025 matches combined.
Iga Swiatek
Swiatek’s bakery is back open for business. When she downed Anna Kalinskaya 6-1 1-6 6-1 in the third round, it meant that the Pole recorded a bagel (6-0) or bread stick (6-1) in her last six majors.
Learner Tien
Tien leads next opponent Medvedev 2-1 in their head-to-heads. In the two he won, Medvedev served for the match, including 12 months ago in Melbourne.
Wang Xinyu
Wang reached her third second week at a Grand Slam, now only missing Roland Garros (where she is a doubles winner). In the second round, she rallied from a set and 4-2 down against 2017 French Open singles winner Jelena Ostapenko.
Alexander Zverev
One more win for Zverev and the third seed would take sole possession of most quarterfinals by a German man at the Australian Open in the Open Era, surpassing Boris Becker’s four.