Both the men's and women's top seeds won comfortably on opening day of Australian Open 2026!

Here's a quick recap of who won, who lost, and who's on court on Day 2!

✅ BUSINESS AS USUAL Despite a sprinkling of upsets lower on the seeding list, most of the big names moved on without incident.

Aryna Sabalenka, Carlos Alcaraz, Jasmine Paolini, Emma Raducanu, Elina Svitolina, Alexander Bublik, Francisco Cerundolo, Frances Tiafoe, and Cam Norrie all move through with (relative) ease.

🚨 Upset Alert! Turkiye's top player scores the biggest upset of Day 1 as Zeynep Sonmez topples #11 seed Ekaterina Alexandrova, 7-5, 4-6, 6-4. Sonmez, who had to fight through qualifying,, now has a great shot in a seedless section of the draw.

🚨 Upset Alert #2! For Roland-Garros junior champion Elsa Jacquemot pulls off a big surprise on Day 1, taking out recent Brisbane finalist Marta Kostyuk in a grinder, 6-7⁴, 7-6⁷, 7-6⁷!

🚨 Upset Alert #3! British Arthur Fery (Q) def. Flavio Cobolli (20) 7-6¹, 6-4, 6-1 to score his first grand slam main draw win outside of Wimbledon.

🚨 Upset Alert #4! 2024 semifinalist Dayana Yastremska won't be repeating the feat this year as Romania's Elena-Gabriela Ruse sidesteps the Ukrainian, 6-4, 7-5.

😮 Oh So Close... Leading 4-0 in the deciding set, 45yo Venus Williams comes agonozingly close to a major upset over world #45 Olga Danilovic. But the tenacious finds another gear, rattling off the final 6 games to win 6-7⁵, 6-3, 6-4.

After the slightly abbreviated schedule on Day 1, we've got a ton of star power on the show courts on Day 2.

ROD LAVER ARENA

Day Session

◆ Coco Gauff (3) vs. Kamilla Rakhimova

◆ Alex de Minaur (6) vs. Mackenzie McDonald (LL)

Night Session

◆ Iga Swiatek (2) vs. Yue Yuan (Q)

◆ Novak Djokovic (4) vs. Pedro Martinez

MARGARET COURT ARENA

Day Session

Daniil Medvedev (11) vs. Jesper de Jong

Amanda Anisimova (4) vs. Simona Waltert

Night Session

◆ Mirra Andreeva (8) vs. Donna Vekic

◆ Casper Ruud (12) vs. Mattia Bellucci

JOHN CAIN ARENA

Day Session

◆ Felix Auger-Aliassime (7) vs. Nuno Borges

◆ Jessica Pegula (6) vs. Anastasia Zakharova

Night Session

◆ Ajla Tomljanovic vs. Yuliia Starodubtseva (Q)

◆ Alexei Popyrin vs. Alexandre Muller

KIA ARENA

◆ Jessica Bouzas Maneiro vs. Storm Hunter (Q)

◆ Andrey Rublev (13) vs. Matteo Arnaldi

◆ Stan Wawrinka (WC) vs. Laslo Djere

◆ Diana Shnaider (23) vs. Barbora Krejcikova

1573 ARENA

◆ Emma Navarro (15) vs. Magda Linette

◆ Jordan Thompson (WC) vs. Juan Pablo Cerundolo

◆ Victoria Mboko (17) vs. Emerson Jones (WC)

◆ Jiri Lehecka (17) vs. Albert Gea (Q)

ANZ ARENA

◆ Sofia Kenin (27) vs. Peyton Stearns

◆ Priscilla Hon (WC) vs. Marina Stakusic (Q)

◆ Aleksandar Vukic vs. Thiago Tirante

◆ Denis Shapovalov (21) vs. Yunchaokete Bu (WC)

💎OUTER COURT GEMS💎

✨ Learner Tien (25) vs. Marcos Giron

✨ Iva Jovic (29) vs. Katie Volynets

✨ Shang Juncheng (PR) vs. Roberto Bautista Agut

✨ Karolina Muchova (18) vs. Jacqueline Cristian