Australian Open women’s finals live stream (1/28): How to watch Sabalenka-Rybakina online, TV, time
Aryna Sabalenka meets Elena Rybakina for the Australian Open women’s finals on Saturday, Jan. 28. The match will be live streamed on fuboTV (free trial) and Sling (half off the first month).
Sabalenka figures she’ll feel some jitters when she steps out on court to face Rybakina in the Australian Open women’s final.
Saturday’s contest is, after all, Sabalenka’s first singles title match at a Grand Slam tournament. Rybakina is more familiar with this stage: She won Wimbledon a little more than six months ago.
She is seeded No. 5; Rybakina is No. 22. Sabalenka is a 24-year-old from Belarus; Rybakina is a 23-year-old who was born in Moscow and began representing Kazakhstan in 2018 when that country offered to fund her tennis career.
That run includes victories over three-time Slam winner and Iga Swiatek, 2012-13 Australian Open champion Victoria Azarenka and 2017 French Open champ Jelena Ostapenko, along with Danielle Collins, the runner-up at Melbourne a year ago.
Both Rybakina and Sabalenka are among the most powerful players on tour, using big serves and groundstrokes to overwhelm opponents. It’s a style that evokes the way the Williams sisters went about winning when they began to transform the sport — and rather different from the way the current No. 1, Iga Swiatek, and her predecessor, the retired Ash Barty, went about things.
When is Australian Open women’s finals?
The Australian Open women’s finals between Aryna Sabalenka and Elena Rybakina is set for 2:30 a.m. (3:30 a.m. ET) on Saturday, Jan. 28.
Will it be live streamed?
FuboTV
The game will be live streamed on fuboTV, which offers a free trial. The most basic of plans is the “fubo standard” package, which comprises 121-plus channels for $69.99 per month. Like all cord-cutting alternatives, there are plenty of options, especially for sports. It comes with more than 1,000 hours of cloud-based DVR, and up to 10 screens at once.
SlingTV
SlingTV is also one of the cheaper live streaming services. It offers three different channel packages for its users: Sling Orange, Sling Blue and Sling Orange + Blue.
All three packages are offering half off the first month.
Sling Blue and Sling Orange are both $40 per month, but offer different channel selections.
The main difference between the two packages is the line of ESPN channels offered with Sling Orange as opposed to channels such as Fox News, MSNBC, Discovery and Bravo offered with Sling Blue.
Meanwhile, Sling Orange + Blue is both packages combined for $55 a month.
What TV channel will broadcast?
The Australian Open will be broadcast on ESPN.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.