The 2025 Hologic WTA Tour season isn’t quite over yet, but Madison Keys, Elena Rybakina and Aryna Sabalenka already know where they’ll be starting 2026.<\/p>\n
Two-time defending champion Keys will headline the field at the Adelaide International from Jan. 12-17, while former champions Elena Rybakina and Aryna Sablenka will kick off the season a week earlier at the Brisbane International from Jan. 4-11.<\/p>\n
Keys’ title run in Adelaide this year — where she beat Jessica Pegula for the title — was a springboard into her first Grand Slam title at the Australian Open, and a career-best 16-match winning streak that ended at the BNP Paribas Open.<\/p>\n
The American said that competing in Adelaide was “ideal preparation” heading into Melbourne in 2025, and is eager to run it back next year as she takes aim at back-to-back Australian Open titles.<\/p>\n
She also won the trophy in Adelaide in 2022.<\/p>\n
“I’m incredibly excited to return to Adelaide to defend my title — this tournament means so much to me, and the energy from the fans and the event organizers makes it such a special place to compete,” Keys said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Rybakina and Sabalenka have been two of the most prolific players in Brisbane since the tournament returned to the tour calendar in 2024 after a three-year hiatus.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In her tournament debut, Rybakina defeated Sabalenka 6-0, 6-3 in the 2024 final — before Sabalenka flipped the script in the Australian Open final weeks later.<\/p>\n
This year, Sabalenka went one better and defeated Polina Kudermetova in the final in Queensland.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m super happy to be heading back to Brisbane,\u201d Sabalenka said. \u201cI have a lot of great memories from Australia, it always feels like home.<\/p>\n
\u201cI enjoy playing at the Queensland Tennis Centre. I love the support and I hope it\u2019s going to be on my side when the new season rolls around.\u201d<\/p>\n
After competing at the United Cup for Kazakhstan to begin 2025, Rybakina takes an unbeaten tournament record into return to the Queensland Tennis Centre.<\/p>\n
She also went 2-0 inside Pat Rafter Arena this April in the Billie Jean King Cup Qualifiers.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m so excited to be returning to Brisbane International,\u201d Rybakina, who didn’t lose a set on the way to lifting the trophy two years ago, said. \u201cI love the city of Brisbane, and I genuinely enjoy playing here. The fans and the atmosphere make it a great experience.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2025 Hologic WTA Tour season isn’t quite over yet, but Madison Keys, Elena Rybakina and Aryna Sabalenka…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[79,1068,661,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-516373","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-text","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115410858360165395","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}