The in-form Kimberly Birrell headlines the 25 Australian gamers who start their Australian Open 2025 qualifying campaigns on Monday.
Melbourne, Australia, 5 January 2025 | Vivienne Christie
The search to qualify for his or her residence Grand Slam begins on Monday for 25 Australians as Australian Open 2025 will get underneath means at Melbourne Park on Monday.
Kimberly Birrell, who arrives in Melbourne after a quarterfinal run on the Brisbane Worldwide, leads the sphere of 14 girls within the 128-player qualifying draw.
The Queenslander climbed to a career-high world No.99 following the career-best efficiency, nevertheless her rating was exterior the main-draw cut-off when entries closed in December.
“I’m actually excited to play in Melbourne. I really like the circumstances down there. I’ve additionally performed some nice tennis,” mentioned the 27-year-old Birrell at Pat Rafter Area.
“I’m going to proceed to simply preserve backing myself … the boldness that I’ve gained this week has been unreal. You simply can’t replicate that in follow. You’ll want to actually show on the match court docket that you are able to do it.
“Having actually finished that this week, I’m going to make use of that going into subsequent week, and proceed this momentum hopefully for the entire yr.”
Birrell is joined within the draw by fellow top-200 gamers Maddison Inglis, Taylah Preston, Arina Rodionova and Destanee Aiava.
The One hundred and seventieth-ranked Preston, at age 19, is amongst three youngsters within the native qualifying contingent. She is joined by Melisa Ercan (additionally 19 and ranked No.343) and 17-year-old Alana Subasic, who’s at present ranked exterior the world’s prime 1000.
Australian Open 2025 – Australians in girls’s qualifying
| Lizette Cabrera | v | [3] Harriet Dart (GBR) |
| Taylah Preston | v | Mona Barthel (GER) |
| Jaime Fourliss | v | [5]Sara Sorribes Tormo (ESP) |
| Maddison Inglis | v | Elsa Jacquemot (FRA) |
| Elena Micic | v | Elena Pridankina |
| Tina Smith | v | [7] Anna Schmiedlova (SVK) |
| [9] Kimberly Birrell | v | Sara Saito (JPN) |
| Priscilla Hon | v | Usue Maitane Arconada (USA) |
| Astra Sharma | v | Mai Hontama (JPN) |
| Destanee Aiva | v | [10] Ana Bogdan (ROU) |
| Melisa Ercan | v | Panna Udvardy (HUN) |
| Arina Rodionova | v | Aliona Falei |
| Petra Hule | v | [16] Petra Martic (CRO |
| Alana Subasic | v | Veronika Erjavec (SVO) |
> VIEW: Australian Open 2025 girls’s qualifying draw
At world No.157, Alex Bolt is the highest-ranked participant amongst 11 locals who will take their place within the Australian Open males’s qualifying draw.
The 31-year-old is focusing on a seventh main-draw look in his residence Grand Slam. Bolt’s finest Melbourne Park efficiency got here in 2019, when he upset Jack Sock and Gilles Simon to achieve the third spherical.
Many eyes will even be on Cruz Hewitt, who at age 16 is the youngest member of the Australian males’s qualifying contingent.
Hayden Jones, at age 18, is one other teenager eyeing to compete in the principle attract Melbourne for a primary time.
Australian Open 2025 – Australians in males’s qualifying
| Blake Ellis | v | Antoine Escoffier (FRA) |
| Pavle Marinkov | v | [2] Mattia Belluci (ITA) |
| Matthew Bellavedova | v | Terence Atmane (FRA) |
| Cruz Hewitt | v | Nikoloz Basilashvili (GEO) |
| Jason Kubler | v | [6] Thiago Monteiro (BRA) |
| Marc Polmans | v | Valentin Royer (FRA) |
| Alex Bolt | v | [25] Mackenzie McDonald (USA) |
| Dane Sweeny | v | Pierre-Hugues Hubert (FRA) |
| Edward Winter | v | Carlos Taberner (ESP) |
| Hayden Jones | v | August Holmgren (DEN |
| Bernard Tomic | v | [21] Jozef Kovalik (SVK) |
> VIEW: Australian Open 2025 males’s qualifying draw
First-round matches, which begin at 10am at Melbourne Park on Monday, will probably be performed over two days.
Go to AusOpen.com for the full schedule of play.
Australian Open tickets can be found at Ticketmaster.
