Betting on the Australian Open means betting on the first Grand Slam of the tennis year, played on hard courts at Melbourne Park, and the 2027 edition runs from January 11 to 31, 2027, on the tournament’s own dates. The markets are the same as at any major: match winners, game handicaps, set betting, totals and the outright winner.

The last edition was won by Carlos Alcaraz, who beat Novak Djokovic 2-6 6-2 6-3 7-5 in the men’s final, and Elena Rybakina, who beat Aryna Sabalenka 6-4 4-6 6-4 on January 31, 2026. Both finals were played on Rod Laver Arena.

When and where the Australian Open is played

The Australian Open site lists the 2027 tournament as January 11 to 31, 2027. The 2026 event ran over the same stretch of the calendar: ESPN’s tournament window opened on January 11 and the men’s final was played on February 1, local time.

The tournament has been at Melbourne Park since 1988, the year it moved from grass to hard courts. The courts have been blue GreenSet since 2020, after Rebound Ace from 1988 to 2007 and Plexicushion from 2008 to 2019. Rod Laver Arena, John Cain Arena and Margaret Court Arena all have retractable roofs, so play on the three main courts can go on through rain or extreme heat.

The main betting markets

• Match winner: the player to win the match, priced as a moneyline.
• Game handicap: a line on total games won. A +3.5 bet wins if your player finishes no more than three games behind across the whole match, whoever wins it.
• Set betting: the exact score in sets. Men play best of five, so there are six possible results; women play best of three, so there are four.
• Totals: over or under a number of games or sets.
• Outrights: who wins the tournament, open well before the draw is made.

A deciding set that reaches 6-6 goes to a tiebreak to 10, won by two, at all four majors since 2022. For totals, that caps a best-of-five men’s match at 65 games.

Our guide to reading odds shows how to turn a price into a chance. A price of +400 implies 20.0%, and -200 implies 66.7%.

The 2026 tournament as the record

The men’s semifinals went the distance. Alcaraz, the top seed, beat Alexander Zverev 6-4 7-6(7-5) 6-7(3-7) 6-7(4-7) 7-5, and Djokovic, seeded fourth, beat the second seed and 2025 champion Jannik Sinner 3-6 6-3 4-6 6-4 6-4. Djokovic then won the first set of the final 6-2 before Alcaraz took the next three.

In the women’s draw, Sabalenka, the top seed, beat Elina Svitolina 6-2 6-3 in one semifinal, and Rybakina, seeded fifth, beat Jessica Pegula 6-3 7-6(9-7) in the other. Rybakina then won the final in three sets. The 2025 women’s champion was Madison Keys.

Event	2026 champion	Beat in the final	Score
Men’s singles	Carlos Alcaraz	Novak Djokovic	2-6 6-2 6-3 7-5
Women’s singles	Elena Rybakina	Aryna Sabalenka	6-4 4-6 6-4
Men’s doubles	Christian Harrison / Neal Skupski	Jason Kubler / Marc Polmans	7-6(7-4) 6-4
Women’s doubles	Elise Mertens / Zhang Shuai	Anna Danilina / Aleksandra Krunic	7-6(7-4) 6-4
Mixed doubles	Olivia Gadecki / John Peers	Kristina Mladenovic / Manuel Guinard	4-6 6-3 10-8

Reading form before Melbourne

The Australian Open is the first major of the season, so there is less current form to go on than at any other Slam. The last major before it is the US Open, the other hard-court Slam. In 2026 Rybakina won both: she beat Sabalenka in the Melbourne final in January and again in the New York final on September 12.

The ranking is the other guide. ESPN’s update of September 17, 2026 has Jannik Sinner first in the ATP on 11,500 points, Zverev second on 9,690 and Alcaraz third on 5,560. On the WTA side, Rybakina is first on 9,901, Sabalenka second on 7,875 and Pegula third on 7,265.

No price is posted yet

No price for the 2027 Australian Open is used here. ESPN’s futures feed had no ATP or WTA markets for the 2027 season when this page was updated. When books post outrights, each price implies a chance, and a futures bet is worth making only when you rate the player’s chance higher than the price does.

For the other majors, see our guides to the US Open, the French Open and Wimbledon, or our tennis betting guide. For paid picks, our handicapper site reviews compare the services.