Australian Open 2024 women's seedings: Full list and eliminations

Kieran Francis

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It's been a dangerous year to be a seed at the Australian Open.

The women's singles draw has been unpredictable as ever at Melbourne Park, with several big names eliminated early in proceedings.

Remarkably, 20 of the 32 seeded players failed to progress past the second round.

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Australian Open 2024 seedings and eliminations: Women's singles

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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 Marketa Vondrousova 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 Liudmila Samsonova Bulgaria 14
14 Daria Kasatkina   15
15 Veronika Kudermetova   16
16 Caroline Garcia France 20
17 Ekaterina Alexandrova USA 21
18 Victoria Azarenka   22
19 Elina Svitolina Ukraine 23
20 Magda Linette Poland 24
21 Donna Vekic Croatia 25
22 Sorana Cirstea Romania 26
23 Anastasia Potapova   27
24 Anhelina Kalinina Ukraine 28
25 Elise Mertens Belgium 29
26 Jasmine Paolini Italy 30
27 Emma Navarro US 31
28 Lesia Tsurenko Ukraine 32
29 Lin Zhu China 33
30 Xinyu Wang China 34
31 Marie Bouzkova 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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Kieran Francis

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Kieran Francis is a senior editor at The Sporting News based in Melbourne, Australia. He started at Sportal.com.au before being a part of the transition to Sporting News in 2015. Just prior to the 2018 World Cup, he was appointed chief editor of Goal.com in Australia. He has now returned to The Sporting News where his passions lay in football, AFL, poker and cricket - when he is not on holiday.