Nine of the top 10 women's players have been seeded at Australian Open 2024.
Led by world no.1 Iga Swiatek, the top 10 also features the likes of 2023 Australian Open winner Aryna Sabalenka, Elena Rybakina and Coco Gauff.
Number 10 ranked Karolina Muchova misses the tournament through injury.
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Australian Open 2024 seedings and eliminations: Women's singles
No. Seed | Player | Nationality | Ranking |
1 | Iga Swiatek | Poland | 1 |
2 | Aryna Sabalenka | Spain | 2 |
3 | Elena Rybakina | Kazakhstan | 3 |
4 | Coco Gauff | USA | 4 |
5 | Jessica Pegula | USA | 5 |
6 | Ons Jabeur | Tunisia | 6 |
7 | Czechia | 7 | |
8 | Maria Sakkari | Greece | 8 |
9 | Barbora Krejickova | Czechia | 9 |
10 | Beatriz Haddad Maia | Brazil | 11 |
11 | Jelena Ostapenko | Norway | 12 |
12 | Qinwen Zhang | China | 13 |
13 | Bulgaria | 14 | |
14 | Daria Kasatkina | 15 | |
15 | 16 | ||
16 | Caroline Garcia | France | 20 |
17 | USA | 21 | |
18 | Victoria Azarenka | 22 | |
19 | Elina Svitolina | Ukraine | 23 |
20 | Poland | 24 | |
21 | Croatia | 25 | |
22 | Romania | 26 | |
23 | 27 | ||
24 | Ukraine | 28 | |
25 | Elise Mertens | Belgium | 29 |
26 | Jasmine Paolini | Italy | 30 |
27 | Emma Navarro | US | 31 |
28 | Lesia Tsurenko | Ukraine | 32 |
29 | China | 33 | |
30 | China | 34 | |
31 | Czechia | 35 | |
32 | Leylah Fernandez | Canada | 36 |
How do the Australian Open seedings work?
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Just like the other three Grand Slams, the Australian Open uses the current WTA women's rankings to determine the women's seed order - which is 32 players.
Organisers usually take the WTA rankings from the previous Monday before the tournament begins.
French Open and US Open have had the same system for seedings in recent times, but Wimbledon only recently moved over to it in 2021.
Until the 2021 tournament, Wimbledon organisers had used a computer-based system favouring grass court results to decide the seedings, giving players who had gone far at Wimbledon the previous year an advantage.
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