Aryna Sabalenka and Iga Swiatek lead 11 Grand Slam champions and 101 of the current Top 103 players in the world in the 2026 Australian Open main-draw entry list.

Aryna Sabalenka won her first Grand Slam at the 2023 Australian Open. But little does anyone know about the lead-up to that.

Sabalenka and Kyrgios have already been participating in exhibition matches in America, along with Naomi Osaka. All three players are signed to the Evolve management agency, which was founded by Osaka and her long-time agent, Stuart Duguid.

The American superstar was followed directly by world number one Sabalenka, who earned $30 million in 2025. And third in the list was Swiatek with $23.1 million, while Keys occupied eighth place with earnings of $13.4 million. It was indeed a year dominated by tennis players, who account for 10 of the 15 highest-paid female athletes.

Sabalenka laughed all the way to the bank in 2025, amassing $15 million over the course of the year. She set a new record for most prize money earned in a single season by a woman with her haul, surpassing the previous mark of $12.3 million set by Serena Williams in 2013.

Despite shutting down the idea herself, talk of Serena Williams making a tennis comeback still hasn’t gone away. The speculation kicked off after she rejoined the drug-testing pool earlier this month,

Amanda Anisimova and World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka will face off in the US Open women's singles final on Saturday in New York. Anisimova, who took an eight-month break from tennis in 2023 due to burnout and depression, reached the final after defeating Naomi ...