Former tournament champion and Belarusian former ball queen Azarenka had a bad start at the 2025 Australian Open on the 13th local time, losing 2:6, 6:7 (2:7) to Italy's Bronzetti, ranked 76th in the world, and stopped in the first round of the women's singles.

Former tournament champion, Belarusian front and back Azarenka

The 35-year-old Azarenka has reached at least the last 16 of the women's singles in the past three years after the Australian Open in 2012 and 13, and this time she is ranked 21st seeded, but she did not find her best form in the first match, with 37 unforced errors, three breaks in the first set, and forced the line to tie-break in the second set, but she fell into an absolute disadvantage of 1:6 from the beginning, and finally struggled to turn the tide and swallowed the second set in straight sets.

It is worth mentioning that the first round of the tournament is not over yet, but this is already the third Grand Slam champion to go out of the Australian Open women's singles this year, including the 2017 US Open women's singles champion Stephens lost in the first round to the Belarusian star Sabalenka, who is seeking to defend the title, and the 2020 Australian Open women's singles champion Sofia Kenin lost to American rising star Gauff 3:6 on the 13th.