A record-breaking six Australians qualify at US Open 2024 | 23 August, 2024 | All Information | Information and Options | Information and Occasions

Six Australians have accomplished profitable qualifying campaigns, and set new data within the course of, at US Open 2024.

Arina Rodionova, Maya Joint, Kimberly Birrell, Priscilla Hon, Destanee Aiava and Li Tu all certified in New York at the moment, boosting the overall variety of Australians on this 12 months’s singles foremost attracts to twenty (12 males and eight girls).

That is the primary time in event historical past that 5 Australian girls have earned main-draw berths by qualifying and virtually triples the earlier report of two (from 2009 and 2014).

It additionally marks the primary time in 11 years that Australia has had qualifiers in each the boys’s and girls’s occasions at Flushing Meadows.

Rodionova is the one participant amongst this record-breaking group of Aussies to have beforehand accomplished a profitable qualifying marketing campaign at a Grand Slam event. Nonetheless, it’s the first time the 34-year-old has achieved the feat on the US Open.

World No.118 Rodionova, who final certified at a significant event at Wimbledon 2019, scored a 6-4 6-2 victory in opposition to Thailand’s Mananchaya Sawangkaew in at the moment’s last spherical.

Joint scored the most important win of her burgeoning Grand Slam profession, triumphing 6-2 6-1 in opposition to world No.106 Hailey Baptiste in a swift 52 minutes. This earns a Grand Slam main-draw debut for the promising 18-year-old.

The 26-year-old Birrell, who fell on the last stage in qualifying finally 12 months’s US Open, secured her main-draw spot with a 6-3 6-3 victory in opposition to 15-year-old American wildcard Julieta Pareja.

World No.180 Aiava powered previous Croatian Ana Konjuh 6-3 6-2, needing solely 69 minutes to dismiss the former top-20 participant and US Open 2016 quarterfinalist. This was 24-year-old Aiava’s third straight-sets victory this week.

The 26-year-old Hon shocked prime seed Kamilla Rakhimova to qualify, edging out a hard-fought 7-6(4) 6-7(2) 6-4 victory in opposition to the world No.104 in a two-hour and 47-minute battle. That is world No.205 Hon’s finest Grand Slam-level win since Australian Open 2020.

Tu scored a formidable victory of his personal in opposition to a seeded opponent within the last spherical of the boys’s qualifying singles competitors, beating sixth-seeded Dutchman Jesper de Jong 3-6 6-1 7-5.

The 28-year-old from Adelaide saved two match factors late within the deciding set, earlier than reeling off three consecutive video games to report the most important win of his Grand Slam profession.

These efforts guarantee Australia can have its largest illustration in a US Open males’s singles attract 45 years and probably the most girls’s singles rivals in 35 years.