The main event of the 2025 Australian Open is about to begin and will kick off on January 12th. The most anticipated women's singles matches will be broadcast live by CCTV throughout the tournament.
On the first day of competition, Zheng Qinwen, Wang Xinyu, and Yuan Yue will lead the charge. Among them, Zheng Qinwen will face Todorini, Wang Xinyu will face Badosa, and Yuan Yue will face Pavlyuchenkova. Whether these three Chinese players can all advance to the second round is highly anticipated.
As the No. 5 seed in the tournament, Zheng Qinwen will face qualifier Todorini, which is also her first match in her bid for the championship. Naturally, she hopes to start with a victory. Judging from the charity exhibition matches held in the past few days, Zheng Qinwen has shown remarkable form, with improvements in serving, changing lines, baseline play, and rallying, all of which are related to her winter training. She should be able to advance smoothly to the next round.
However, both Wang Xinyu and Yuan Yue face strong opponents. Especially Wang Xinyu, who was eliminated in the first round from the Brisbane Station to the Adelaide Station, is likely to be eliminated in the same way in the first round of this Australian Open, given her poor recent form.
For the new season's Australian Open, CCTV will provide live broadcasts throughout the tournament and has arranged two channels, CCTV5 and CCTV5+, to facilitate domestic fans' viewing.
The above is the broadcasting plan for the previous day of the CCTV5 channel, which scheduled to start broadcasting the Australian Open at 8:30 am, that is, Zheng Qinwen's first match. There were no further arrangements after that, and the CCTV5+ channel continued to broadcast the first round of the Australian Open at 4 pm.
Today, the official website of CCTV made a major adjustment. Not only did it arrange for the CCTV5 channel to broadcast Zheng Qinwen's match in the morning, but it also temporarily changed the broadcasting plan, abandoning the live broadcast of the domestic women's volleyball league and switching to broadcasting the first round of the Australian Open. Since the starting times for Wang Xinyu and Yuan Yue's matches are both at 2 pm, it is still unknown which player's match will be broadcast live.
Therefore, domestic fans who want to follow the Australian Open matches should pay attention to the adjustments in the live broadcast schedule by CCTV.