Robust performances throughout Australian Professional Tour occasions will decide the gamers who earn a coveted Australian Open 2026 wildcard.
Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 4 August 2025 | Tennis Australia
A main-draw singles wildcard into Australian Open 2026 is likely one of the main incentives on provide on this 12 months’s Australian Professional Tour, which returns with an expanded calendar, new regional areas and a reshaped schedule.
In a significant enhance for the collection, the best-performing Australian female and male gamers throughout the occasions will earn a coveted major draw singles wildcard into AO 2026, in what could possibly be a career-defining alternative for rising stars of the sport.
The 2025-26 Professional Tour will broaden deeper into regional Australia, with new occasions added in Tamworth and Wagga Wagga, alongside 15K tournaments in Tweed Heads and Brisbane. In one other first, Darwin will host girls’s skilled tennis, giving followers within the Northern Territory a entrance row seat to worldwide motion.
The wildcard race can be determined throughout three occasions in November:
- Brisbane: ATP 75 and ITF W50
- Sydney: ATP 75 and ITF W75
- Playford (Adelaide): ATP 75 and ITF W75
This shift sees the higher-level ATP Challenger and ITF 50-75 occasions moved from October to November, permitting Australia’s prime gamers to complete their season at dwelling and put together for the summer season on native courts.
“We’re happy with how the Australian Professional Tour continues to develop as a world class platform for rising and established tennis gamers,” stated Paul Kilderry, Tennis Australia Director of Skilled Tennis.
“The additions to the calendar not solely create extra worldwide stage taking part in alternatives on dwelling soil, but in addition convey the tour to new areas, giving tennis followers throughout extra of the nation the prospect to look at skilled tennis nearer to dwelling.
“With an AO major draw wildcard on the road, there’s by no means been a extra thrilling time for Australian gamers to compete with a real shot at making their Grand Slam breakthrough proper right here at dwelling.”
The 2025-26 Australian Professional Tour is now underway, with girls’s competitors in Tweed Heads and males’s motion in Brisbane.
In regards to the Australian Professional Tour
- The Australian Professional Tour is a collection {of professional} tennis occasions supporting native and worldwide gamers as they transition onto the ATP and WTA Excursions
- Every Australian Professional Tour occasion affords prize cash and beneficial world rating factors
- The Australian Professional Tour spans all eight states and territories, providing USD $1.48m yearly in prize cash and delivering greater than $30m in financial profit to host cities and cities.
For extra details about the Australian Professional Tour, go to www.tennis.com.au/protour. For extra data on the ITF World Tennis Tour, go to www.itftennis.com.
