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The top 32 ranked men's players at Australian Open 2025 have been given a seeding.
This means those players will be protected from facing other seeds until later in the tournament.
It also designates that players ranked 1-4 cannot play against each other until at least the semi-finals.
The Sporting News lists the men's seedings for this year's tournament.
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Men's Australian Open 2025 seedings, eliminations
| Seeding | Name | Country |
| 1 | Jannik Sinner | ITA |
| 2 | Alexander Zverev | GER |
| 3 | Carlos Alcaraz | ESP |
| 7 | Novak Djokovic | SRB |
| 8 | Alex de Minaur | AUS |
| 12 | Tommy Paul | USA |
| 13 | Holger Rune | DEN |
| 21 | Ben Shelton | USA |
How do the Australian Open seedings work?
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Just like the other three Grand Slams, the Australian Open uses the current ATP men's rankings to determine the men's seed order - which is 32 players.
Organisers usually take the ATP 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.
When does the Australian Open finish?
The Australian Open 2025 main draw began on Sunday, January 12.
It marks the second consecutive year that the tournament has begun on a Sunday, with the extra day added to ease scheduling pressures.
The action will conclude at Melbourne Park on Sunday, January 26 – the day of the men's singles final.
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