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Choose the draw
The Australian Open 2026 draw is done for the year, so add the players for the hat yourself.
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How it's drawn
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Default is one each. Anyone with extra entries above gets more automatically.
How to run an Australian Open sweepstake
- Add everyone taking part - type names, or paste a list straight from your group chat.
- Pull the draw. Each person gets an Australian Open player at random - one each by default, or set your own rules.
- Share the link (or print it), then argue about who got the best player until the final.
Common questions
What time do Australian Open matches happen in the UK?
Melbourne is 11 hours ahead of the UK in January, so day sessions run overnight into the British morning and the finals start around 8:30am UK time. For a sweepstake that mostly means waking up to results - post the overnight carnage in the group chat with your morning coffee.
How do seeds work in an Australian Open sweepstake?
The Australian Open 2026 draw is done for the year (Carlos Alcaraz and Elena Rybakina took the 2026 titles), but you can still run a sweepstake by adding the players to the hat yourself. In a live Slam, all 128 load automatically and you can switch to Seeds only for the 32 seeds.
When does the Australian Open sweepstake window open?
The tournament starts in mid-January, with the draw published a few days before. That's the moment to collect names - it's the first Slam of the year, everyone's back from the holidays with nothing to talk about, and a sweepstake fixes that. The full field loads into SlamSweep as soon as the draw is out.
Can people have more than one ticket in an Australian Open sweep?
Yes - give anyone extra entries with the + button and they'll draw proportionally more players. Useful when eight people want to cover a 128-player draw properly, or when someone insists their fiver deserves five tickets.
Is the Australian Open sweepstake generator really free?
Completely - no account, no email address, nothing to install. One small advert pays the hosting bill; the sweepstakes themselves cost nothing and never will.
The happy Slam
The Australian Open opens the tennis year each January at Melbourne Park, and the players nicknamed it the happy Slam - summer holiday crowds, blue courts, and the first big test of who did their off-season homework. It is also the hottest of the majors: when the temperature spikes past 40°C the extreme-heat policy closes the roofs, and matches turn into endurance contests as much as tennis.
For a UK office the Australian Open sweepstake is the overnight one. Melbourne is eleven hours ahead in January, so the day session plays while Britain sleeps and the finals start around 8:30am UK time - perfect for posting the overnight carnage to the group chat before the morning stand-up. Champions here are often the fittest rather than the most famous, which keeps mid-seed tickets very much alive.
About the Australian Open sweepstake
An Australian Open sweepstake is the classic office pool: everyone draws an Australian Open tennis player at random, follows them through the tournament, and whoever ends up with the champion wins the pot. SlamSweep builds your Australian Open 2026 sweepstake in seconds - free, with no sign-up - for both the Men's and Ladies' Singles draws.
The Australian Open is the hard-court Grand Slam, played in Melbourne each January. It is the first major of the tennis year and is known for its fierce summer heat.
At the 2026 tournament, Carlos Alcaraz won the Men's Singles, beating Novak Djokovic 2-6, 6-2, 6-3, 7-5 in the final, while Elena Rybakina took the Ladies' Singles title with a 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 win over Aryna Sabalenka. If you ran a sweepstake, whoever drew Carlos Alcaraz or Elena Rybakina is still dining out on it.
New to organising? Read our guides on running an office sweepstake and sweepstake rules and variations.