Australian Open 2025 Attendance Record: The Official Numbers
Australian Open 2025 recorded 1,218,831 visits across its three-week program, including 116,528 during Opening Week and 1,102,303 during the main draw.
Timeline
- January 6, 2025: Opening Week began at Melbourne Park with qualifying, practice sessions and public activities.
- January 12–26, 2025: The 15-day main draw produced a then-record 1,102,303 attendances.
- February 3, 2025: Tournament organizers published the final three-week total of 1,218,831.
Australian Open 2025 reported 1,218,831 visits through the Melbourne Park gates across three weeks. Tennis Australia described that as a record for both the main draw and the expanded three-week event at the time. The total rose from 1,110,657 in 2024, an increase of 108,174 gate entries, or about 9.7 percent. [1][2]
The three-week number has two components. Opening Week drew 116,528 visits, compared with 89,894 a year earlier. The 15-day main draw accounted for 1,102,303, up from 1,020,763 in 2024. Adding the two 2025 figures produces the published 1,218,831 total, so reports that cite only the main draw answer a narrower question. [1][2]
Attendance here means people passing through the gates during sessions, not 1.2 million different named individuals. A fan who attended on several days contributes several entries. That is the normal way a multi-session event reports attendance, but it should not be confused with a count of unique visitors or with the number of seats inside Rod Laver Arena. [1][2]
Opening Week helps explain the scale. The program included qualifying matches, open practice, exhibition events and family activities before the main draw began. Counting those days reflects the Australian Open's development into a three-week public event. It also means comparisons with older editions should use the same time window rather than placing a three-week total beside an older two-week figure. [1][3]
The tournament's busiest day-night total was Friday, January 17, when organizers reported 97,123 gate entries. Records were broken for nine individual sessions and 11 combined day-night totals. Those session figures are slices of the overall count, so they should not be added again to the published three-week number. [2]
The crowd watched the 120th edition of the event. Jannik Sinner retained the men's singles title by defeating Alexander Zverev, while Madison Keys beat Aryna Sabalenka to win her first major singles championship. The program awarded 19 trophies after adding junior wheelchair singles and doubles competitions, broadening the sporting schedule alongside the attendance growth. [1][3]
The clean answer is therefore 1,218,831 three-week attendances, with 1,102,303 during the main draw. It was the tournament record when AO 2025 ended, although later editions can set higher marks. The definition, date range and comparison base are as important as the headline because they show exactly what organizers measured. [1][2]
Sources
- Australian Open — AO 2025 by the numbers
- Australian Open — 2025 economic benefits and attendance
- Australian Open — Rapid recap of AO 2025