WTA Auckland Classic Betting Tips, Picks, Predictions & Odds for the 2026 Edition

Get all the free WTA Auckland Classic betting tips, predictions and picks along with their latest odds for the 2026 edition of the tournament which will be held in the first week of the calendar year.

Also called the Auckland Open, this is one of the first tournaments played at the start of the tennis season on the women’s circuit.

Auckland is one of the cities in which a competitive tennis tournament was played in the 19th century, where the Auckland Championships was held. It was played between 1886 and 1942 before returning in 1956 as the Auckland Invitation competition.

In 1980, the first ever edition of the WTA Auckland Open was held before it was converted into a Tier V event in 1990.

Following that, it was played as a WTA International in 2009 before returning following a pandemic-induced break in 2023 as a WTA 250 tournament. Among the winners of this tournament, Serena Williams has been one of the biggest names to have done it.

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WTA Auckland Classic 2026 Tournament Preview

This will be updated in the week leading up to the start of the WTA Auckland.

What does the Women’s Auckland Open 2026 Draw Look Like?

The WTA Auckland Classic draw for 2026 will be updated below. The draw for the 2025 edition was released on the Saturday before the start of the tournament. Here’s how it looked:

Keys v Bronzetti
Starodubtseva v Cristian
Kenin v Wang
Tauson v Stefanini
Sun v Marino
Kasintseva v Pera
Hibino v Niemeier
Montgomery v Hontama
Volynets v E Andreeva
Li v Stephens
Minnen v Friedsam
Anisimova v Parks
Osaka v Glushko
Romero Gormaz v Grabher
Baptiste v Jamrichova
Yang v Burrage

WTA Auckland Classic 2026 Tournament Predictions

These will be updated before the 2026 edition begins.

Daily Women’s Auckland Classic 2026 Predictions

The daily predictions for the 2026 Auckland Open will be updated below in a similar fashion to these ones made during the 2025 edition.

Current WTA Auckland Classic 2026 Outright Title Odds*

These will be updated during the tournament.

*Please Note: Odds correct at the time of writing. They may change with time.

Pre-Tournament WTA Auckland Classic 2026 Outright Title Odds*

These will be updated at the start of the tournament.

*Please Note: Odds correct at the time of writing. They may change with time.

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WTA Auckland Classic 2026 Details

Here’s a list of basic information you would need to know before betting on the women’s Auckland Classic this year.

Venue

The WTA Auckland Open is held at the ASB Tennis Centre every year, a tennis arena in the New Zealand city of Auckland. It has a capacity of 3200.

Schedule

We are still awaiting the exact schedule for the 2026 edition of the women’s Auckland Open. The 2025 schedule has been updated below.

The 2025 Auckland Open women’s was played in the first week of the season. It kick-started with its qualifiers over the weekend before the start of the main draw.

The first round matches started on Monday, December 30 with the tournament going on till the singles and doubles final on Sunday, January 5.

Here’s the day by day playing schedule for the WTA Auckland Classic 2025.

December 28 & 29: Women’s Singles Qualifiers
December 30 & 31: Women’s Singles First Round
January 1 & 2: Women’s Singles Second Round
January 3: Women’s Singles Quarterfinals
January 4: Women’s Singles Semifinals
January 5: Women’s Singles Final

Other Tournament Details

Surface: Outdoor Hardcourt
Prize Money: $275,000 (2025 figures)

Main Draw Players

The player list for the 2026 edition of the Auckland Open will be released in December 2025. Here’s who featured in the previous edition of the competition.

Women’s Seeded Players

Madison Keys
Elise Mertens (withdrew)
Amanda Anisimova
Lulu Sun
Clara Tauson
Emma Raducanu (withdrew)
Naomi Osaka
Katie Volynets

Other Renowned Women’s Players

Julia Grabher
Bernarda Pera
Lucia Bronzetti
Sloane Stephens
Erika Andreeva
Sofia Kenin
Jacqueline Cristian
Jule Niemeier
Hailey Baptiste
Greet Minnen
Ann Li
Xiyu Wang
Yulia Starodubtseva
Rebecca Marino

Women’s Singles Wildcards

Vivian Yang
Renata Jamrichova

Players Opting Out of the 2026 WTA Auckland Classic

The following players will not be participating in this year’s WTA Auckland Classic.

Previous WTA Auckland Classic Winners

Women’s Singles

2025: Clara Tauson
2024: Cori Gauff
2023: Cori Gauff
2022: Not Held
2021: Not Held
2020: Serena Williams
2019: Julia Goerges
2018: Julia Goerges
2017: Lauren Davis
2016: Sloane Stephens
2015: Venus Williams
2014: Ana Ivanovic
2013: Agnieszka Radwańska
2012: Zheng Jie
2011: Greta Arn
2010: Yanina Wickmayer

What Happened in the 2025 Edition of the WTA Auckland Classic?

Clara Tauson benefitted from an injury to Naomi Osaka in the final of the 2025 edition of the Auckland Classic as she lifted her third WTA title.

The winner at the 2021 Lyon Open and Luxembourg Open, was down a set in the final before Osaka retired from the match in near-tears. This was also her third title in hardcourt competitions.

In a way, Tauson deserved the title after she overcame a match-point in her second round match against Sofia Kenin and then stunned the top seeded Madison Keys in straight sets in the quarterfinal.

Osaka, whose last title at this level had come at the 2021 Australian Open, dropped just one set in the entire tournament but suffered her abdominal injury at the most crucial juncture in the competition.

What Happened in the 2024 Edition of the WTA Auckland Classic?

Cori Gauff made it two title wins in a row when she defeated the second seeded Elina Svitolina in a hard-fought final. The American, who had Rebeka Masarova in the previous year’s final, started off as the top seed in this year’s competition and did not drop a set en route the title-deciding match.

She eased past Claire Liu in the opener, crushed qualifier Brenda Fruhvirtova in the second, routed the eighth seeded Varvara Gracheva in the quarterfinals before dropping just four games in her semifinal against fellow American Emma Navarro.

In the final, Gauff was forced to come back from losing the opening set in a tie-breaker to Svitolina but she did so with aplomb to grab the title.