The 2025 Australian Open will begin the tennis calendar off with a bang, as the most important names within the sport converge down underneath for the primary main grand slam of the 12 months. Alongside the event’s high companions akin to Kia and Rolex, Infosys and CyberCX are additionally set to return this 12 months as official companions.
Kicking off on January 12, 2025, this 12 months’s two-week version of the Australian Open will go into the books as essentially the most profitable version in historical past, with whole prize cash up practically 12% on 2024 to a complete of AUD $96.5 million. The lads’s and girls’s singles champions will every earn AUD $3.5 million.
On the boys’s aspect, world #1 Jannik Sinner is hoping to duplicate 2024, when he gained his first main by defeating Daniil Medvedev, a run that included ending Novak Djokovic’s 33-match Australian Open successful streak. Different huge names akin to Carlos Alcaraz, Alexander Zverev, and US gamers Taylor Fritz, Tommy Paul, and Frances Tiafoe are all aiming to come back out on high in Melbourne.
Within the ladies’s singles event, high seed Aryna Sabalenka is trying to be the primary participant to win three straight championships since Martina Hingis did so in 1999. Nevertheless, the competitors might be fierce, with Iga Swiatek, Coco Gauff and Jessica Pegula all thought to be main contenders.
Infosys and CyberCX
For the hundreds of thousands of followers within the stadiums and hooked to their screens, Infosys will by know certainly ring a bell. The long-time official Digital Innovation Accomplice for Tennis Australia, Infosys makes certain that every one in-game, participant and event statistics are captured and offered in (dwell) broadcasts.
Leveraging information and synthetic intelligence, the expertise agency has lately enriched its suite with a spread of recent statistics, akin to strain level metrics, how gamers capitalize on breaks, and information damaged by a participant by way of the course of the event.
Infosys additionally hosts the event’s Tennis Platform (a match middle), the participant intranet portal (PlayerZone), the Australian Open cell app, and all types of guides for followers.
One other official associate of the Australian Open 2025 is CyberCX, which not too long ago prolonged its partnership with Tennis Australia and can proceed because the Official Cyber Safety Accomplice of the grand slam event.
CyberCX CEO John Paitaridis stated, “We’re proud to as soon as once more be the Cyber Safety Accomplice of the Australian Open because the eyes of the world flip to Australia for one of many pre-eminent sporting occasions globally. Our mission is to assist defend and defend the digital property of the Australian Open 2025.”
Final 12 months, CyberCX additionally grew to become the Official Cyber Safety Accomplice of Collingwood Soccer Membership, following comparable partnerships with rugby outfits the Wallabies and the Wallaroos.