Australian Open 2024: Novak Djokovic, Iga Swiatek named top seeds

Playing true to their rankings, defending champion Novak Djokovic and Iga Swiatek will be the top seeds at the Australian Open in the first Grand Slam tournament of the year which begins Sunday at Melbourne Park. The men’s seedings mirror the ATP rankings as of Wednesday from Nos. 1-32, with 24-time major winner Djokovic followed by Wimbledon champion Carlos Alcaraz, the only player to beat him a Grand Slam event in 2023. The women’s seedings followed the WTA rankings from Nos. 1-8, then Barbora Krejcikova is promoted to No. 9 at Melbourne Park because of the injury enforced absence of her fellow Czech Karolina Muchova, the French Open finalist last year. Muchova hasn’t played since losing to eventual champion Coco Gauff in the US Open semifinals last September. Two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova is pregnant and skipping the year’s first major and last year’s US Open semifinalist Madison Keys has an injured shoulder, taking the players ranked 17th and 18th out of the equation for Australia. The seedings mean that players in the top 32 avoid each other in the early rounds when the brackets are determined for the major tournaments. The top two seeded players cannot meet before the final. A list of the seedings: Men 1. Novak Djokovic 2. Carlos Alcaraz 3. Daniil Medvedev 4. Jannik Sinner 5. Andrey Rublev 6. Alexander Zverev 7. Stefanos Tsitsipas 8. Holger Rune 9. Hubert Hurkacz 10. Alex de Minaur 11. Casper Ruud 12. Taylor Fritz 13. Grigor Dimitrov 14. Tommy Paul 15. Karen Khachanov 16. Ben Shelton 17. Frances Tiafoe 18. Nicholas Jarry 19. Cameron Norrie 20. Adrian Mannarino 21. Ugo Humbert 22. Francisco Cerundolo 23. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 24. Jan-Lennard Struff 25. Lorenzo Musetti 26. Sebastian Baez 27. Felix Auger-Aliassime 28. Tallon Griekspoor 29. Sebastian Korda 30. Tomas Martin Etcheverry 31. Alexander Bublik 32. Jiri Lehecka Women 1. Iga Swiatek 2. Aryna Sabalenka 3. Elena Rybakina 4. Coco Gauff 5. Jessica Pegula 6. Ons Jabeur 7. Marketa Vondrousova 8. Maria Sakkari 9. Barbora Krejcikova 10. Beatriz Haddad Maia 11. Jelena Ostapenko 12. Zheng Qinwen 13. Liudmila Samsonova 14. Daria Kasatkina 15. Veronika Kudermetova 16. Caroline Garcia 17. Ekaterina Alexandrova 18. Victoria Azarenka 19. Elina Svitolina 20. Magda Linette 21. Donna Vekic 22. Sorana Cirstea 23. Anastasia Potapova 24. Anhelina Kalinina 25. Elise Mertens 26.Jasmine Paolini 27. Emma Navarro 28. Lesia Tsurenko 29, Zhu Lin 30. Wang Xinyu 31. Marie Bouzkova 32. Leylah Fernandez