# Australian Open 2027

> There is no public ticket ballot or lottery for Australian Open 2027; tickets go through Tennis Australia's official routes, listed below.

- Canonical: https://theticketlottery.com/ballots/australian-open-2027
- Sport: Tennis
- Status on 2026-09-08: No ballot
- Public ballot: no
- Access: draw
- Ballot type: none
- Event dates: AO Opening Week 2027-01-11 to 2027-01-16; main draw 2027-01-17 to 2027-01-31 (official ausopen.com ticket-info and Ticketmaster AU)
- Location: Melbourne Park, Melbourne, Australia
- Organizer: Tennis Australia
- Entry cost: n/a - no ballot exists; tickets bought at general sale (AO Extras sign-up for presale access is free)
- Eligibility: n/a - general sale open to everyone via Ticketmaster Australia
- Ticket prices if you win: Ground Pass from AUD 49 at early-bird pricing, held until 12:59 on 2026-11-30; Tennis Australia states the Ground Pass price has not risen since 2019. Reserved seats at Rod Laver Arena, Margaret Court Arena and John Cain Arena are priced by session through Ticketmaster Australia. AO Reserve premium ticketing and travel and experience packages are sold separately.
- Official site: https://ausopen.com/ticket-info
- Last verified: 2026-09-07 (confidence: high)

## Where it stands

There is no ballot for the Australian Open, and AO 2027 tickets are already sold. Tennis Australia published the whole timetable in its own articles of 2026-07-21 and 2026-07-28: the accessibility pre-sale ran 12:00 AEST 2026-07-28 to 23:59 AEST 2026-08-04, the Mastercard pre-sale 12:00 AEST 2026-08-05 to 12:00 AEST 2026-08-06, the AO Extras and tennis-community pre-sale 14:00 AEST 2026-08-06 to 23:59 AEST 2026-08-12, and general public sale opened at 12:00 AEST on 2026-08-13 through Ticketmaster Australia. That is the earliest AO on-sale on record, roughly seven weeks ahead of the 2026 cycle. Ground Pass early-bird pricing from AUD 49 runs until 12:59 on 2026-11-30, and Tennis Australia says daily Ground Pass allocations are capped for the first time, so week one of the main draw is the part expected to sell through first. Nothing is drawn here: there is no ballot to enter and no result to wait for, only a first-come sale.

## How tickets actually work

No ballot. Buy through the official partner Ticketmaster Australia (ticketmaster.com.au/ausopen), whose on-sale uses a waiting room that assigns a random queue position at the moment sales start; that is queue randomisation, not a ballot, and it decides order rather than entitlement. General public sale opened 12:00 AEST on 2026-08-13 and the three earlier pre-sales (accessibility, Mastercard, AO Extras and tennis community) all closed before it. AO Extras sign-up is free and is the route that carries pre-sale access in the next cycle.

## Your odds

There is no draw, so there are no ballot odds. The demand context Tennis Australia publishes: AO 2026 drew 1,368,043 fans across the three-week event, including 217,999 during AO Opening Week, and for 2027 the daily Ground Pass allocation is capped for the first time. Its own stated reason for selling earlier than ever is that demand is expected to be strongest in week one of the main draw.

## Good to know

- Nothing here is drawn. The Australian Open runs no ballot, lottery or random selection, so there is no application to submit and no result to wait for. Tickets go to whoever completes checkout first.
- Ticketmaster's waiting room is not a ballot. It shuffles everyone present into a random order the moment the sale opens, which decides who is served first, not who is entitled to buy. Arriving before the on-sale time is the whole game; arriving an hour early gains nothing.
- The on-sale moved a long way forward. The 2026 cycle went on sale in early October 2025 and the 2027 cycle on 2026-08-13, so working from last year's month is how people miss it.
- The cheapest ticket is now finite per day. Tennis Australia caps daily Ground Pass allocations for the first time in 2027 and expects week one of the main draw to go first, which is the combination a late buyer is most likely to find gone.
- Official resale through the Ticketmaster Resale platform opened for AO 2027 on 2026-08-13 and is the only resale route the tournament recognises. AO Reserve tickets cannot be resold, so they never appear there.

## Full guide

- [Australian Open 2027 Tickets: There Is No Ballot](https://theticketlottery.com/guides/australian-open-2027-tickets)

## Sources

- https://ausopen.com/articles/news/your-guide-australian-open-2027-ticket-pre-sales
- https://ausopen.com/articles/news/australian-open-2027-tickets-on-sale-earlier-ever
- https://ausopen.com/articles/news/australian-open-2026-tickets-on-sale-7-october
- https://ausopen.com/ticket-info
- https://www.ticketmaster.com.au/ausopen
- https://ausopen.com/ticket-faqs