Alex de Minaur, Alexei Popyrin and Jordan Thompson are seeded at Australian Open 2025, recalling a well-known trio from Wimbledon in 2000.
Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 8 January 2025 | Jackson Mansell
No matter what occurs at Australian Open 2025, Australia has already achieved a 25-year first.
This Australian Open would be the first time three Australian males are seeded at a Grand Slam since Wimbledon 2000, when it was Lleyton Hewitt, Mark Philippoussis and Pat Rafter assigned seeds at that match.
A repeat of this feat – achieved by Alex de Minaur, Alexei Popyrin and Jordan Thompson at at AO 2025 – symbolises the start of one other robust period for Australian males’s tennis, after a banner 2024 season.
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In July, 10 Aussies featured contained in the ATP prime 100 for the primary time in 43 years, and beneath Hewitt’s tutelage, Australia reached the Davis Cup semifinals for a 3rd straight yr.
This present contingent may doubtlessly current Australia’s greatest likelihood to have a male Grand Slam champion since Hewitt in 2002.
De Minaur, seeded eighth at Australian Open 2025, has been nearing a serious breakthrough. Within the type of his profession over the past 12 months, the 25-year-old reached three out of a potential 4 Grand Slam quarterfinals.
He additionally grew to become the primary Australian since Hewitt in 2004 to qualify for the ATP Finals in singles.
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Damage plagued his season following Wimbledon, however De Minaur confirmed promising indicators of an imminent Slam breakthrough.
For the previous three years, De Minaur has fallen within the fourth spherical at Melbourne Park – the one Grand Slam venue at which he’s but to achieve the quarterfinals.
His most up-to-date AO encounter was arguably his most gut-wrenching, shedding to Andrey Rublev – the person he just lately overtook within the ATP rankings – in 5 units.
Alexei Popyrin and Jordan Thompson have obtained seeds at their dwelling Grand Slam for the primary time, given their rankings of No.25 and No.27 respectively.
Popyrin skyrocketed up the rankings after successful the Montreal Masters. The 25-year-old climbed 32 spots following his first Masters 1000 title, the place he defeated 5 top-20 gamers alongside the best way.
On the US Open, Popyrin made his first fourth-round look, which included the most important win of his profession over defending champion Novak Djokovic. The New South Welshman rounded out his 2024 marketing campaign with a win over world No.5 Daniil Medvedev on the Paris Masters.
Thompson is coming off a career-best singles season throughout which he constructed a 9-8 report towards top-20 opponents, together with wins over Alexander Zverev, Taylor Fritz and Casper Ruud – defeating the latter 3 times.
The 30-year-old additionally made his maiden Masters quarterfinal in Paris in November and claimed his first ATP singles crown on the Los Cabos Open in February.
Not since Australian Open 1982 – 43 years in the past – have so many Australian males been seeded at their dwelling Slam. Again then, when the match was performed at Kooyong, Aussies Mark Edmonson, John Alexander, Phil Dent and Paul McNamee have been seeded.
