Australian Open – Day One: Live score and game-by-game updates as Aryna Sabalenka and Alexander Zverev headline a rain soaked first day in Melbourne

A lot of fans around Melbourne Park today have told me that they were a little perplexed and a little underwhelmed by the scheduling for today’s play.

There has been a lack of big names on the scheduling at Melbourne Park today.

In fact, the first round is set to spread over the course of the next three days, with home favourite Alex de Minaur getting his tournament underway on Tuesday.

I’m hearing that play is set to be suspended on the outdoor courts until 6pm (AEDT)/ 7am (GMT).

But looking out the window here at the media centre, it’s looking very unlikely that we’ll have any more play on the outdoor courts this afternoon as the rain continues to fall around Melbourne Park.

Right! Enough about the weather! There’s still plenty of action to come with the roof now shut on the John Cain Arena, Margaret Court Arena and the Rod Laver Arena.

Right now a huge tussle between two big hitters is taking place on Rod Laver, with Casper Ruud squaring off against Jaume Munar.

Ruud had taken a 2-1 lead in the match with Munar pulling back the fourth set 6-2 to pull back level with the Norwegian at 2-2.

After this match Australian Open defending champion Aryna Sabalenka will follow, as she takes on former Grand Slam winner Sloane Stephens in a hugely exciting opening round matchup.

We’re also expecting tonight to be a late one too, with Alexander Zverev set to take on Lucas Pouille after Sabalenka and Stephens have squared off on Rod Laver

Over on the John Cain Aren, Paula Badosa goes up against Xinyu Wang before Ugo Humbert gets his Australian Open campaign off to a start, with the No 14 seed taking on Matteo Gigante.

And on the Margaret Court Arena, Aussie star Daria Saville gets her tournament underway against Anna Blinkova.

All eyes will then turn to tomorrow, with some big names in action including Novak Djokovic, Coco Gauff and Nick Kyrgios.

The flash storm has caused some havoc with today’s schedulling with several matches, including British star Sonay Kartal’s first-round clash, being cancelled.

But that isn’t dampening the spirits of fans around the tennis precinct who have all been lapping up the atmosphere around Melbourne Park sporting plastic rain macs!

What’s truly bizarre about the weather is that over the past week in Melbourne we’ve had some balmy conditions, with temperatures topping 31ºc yesterday in the CBD.

Here’s some snaps from around the ground today!

Fans have been running and ducking for cover around Melbourne Park all afternoon as it seems this torrential weather is showing no sign of slowing down.

Play on the outdoor courts has also been suspended until after 5pm but the weather is unfortunately showing no signs of relenting this afternoon with rain pouring down on the show courts outside.

In fact, I understand that thousands of people around Melbourne have been left without power after the unexpected storm caused flash flooding around the city.

Cars across Victoria have bene caught up in floods and some train services have now been cancelled due to the insane conditions.

Approximately 25mm of rain have fallen in the last four hours after the heavy storm.

The Bureau of Meteorology, Vicotria has issued a severe weather warning to parts of the city with thunderstorms now sweeping their way through Melbourne, heading east towards the Yarra Valley and Dandenong Ranges.

Welcome to the opening day of the 2025 Australian Open!

It’s been a very wet and stormy day here in Australia. We’ve seen all four seasons today at Melbourne Park and the rain has just not stopped!

Thunder and lightning have rolled in too and the city skyline was engulfed in dark grey clouds earlier this afternoon.

We’ve been blessed with balmy temperatures this week with it getting up to 31ºc yesterday in the city centre.

But with 25mm of rain falling over the last four hours, not much tennis is going on on the outdoor courts right now, and having just been soaked on my journey over to the media centre, it looks like not much tennis is going to be played this week!

But that’s not stopping the party! Fans around Melbourne Park are still revelling in the atmosphere and boy have we got a lot of tennis coming up this afternoon.

Stay tuned as we’ll be bringing you all the latest news, updates and quirky stories from around Melbourne Park.