Alexei Popyrin, Thanasi Kokkinakis and Adam Walton are amongst 11 Australians scheduled to compete on day 4 at Wimbledon 2024.
London, Nice Britain, 4 July 2024 | Leigh Rogers
Alexei Popyrin, Thanasi Kokkinakis and Adam Walton are all aiming to increase career-best runs on day 4 at Wimbledon 2024.
Popyrin has progressed to the second spherical on the All England Membership for the second time in his profession, matching his effort on debut in 2019.
World No.31 Tomas Martin Etcheverry now stands within the 24-year-old’s manner of a maiden third-round look on the prestigious grass-court Grand Slam.
“It’s not going to be a simple match,” world No.47 Popyrin stated of his match-up with the 24-year-old Argentine. “I’ve identified him since I used to be 13 or 14 years previous. We performed juniors collectively and he’s a extremely good participant. I feel he’s extra of a clay-courter, however he bought by way of his first spherical fairly simply towards a stable grass-court participant.
“I’m going to should convey a extremely good stage to beat him.”
After finishing a heroic comeback to attain his first top-20 win at a Grand Slam in 9 years, Kokkinakis can advance to Wimbledon’s third spherical for the primary time if he beats French qualifier Lucas Pouille.
Though Pouille is at present ranked world No.212, he’s a former top-10 participant.
“I haven’t seen him taking part in shortly, however I do know these days he’s been discovering his kind once more,” Kokkinakis famous of the Wimbledon 2016 quarterfinalist. “We’re good mates off the court docket, so it’s good to see him coming again.
“It’s going to be powerful, I’m anticipating to play a tricky match and for him to convey his greatest stage.”
The 25-year-old Walton scored his personal milestone Grand Slam win earlier this week and is set to proceed his breakout run towards one other Argentine, Francisco Comesana.
The unheralded Comesana scored a serious upset within the opening spherical, eliminating world No.6 Andrey Rublev in 4 units. It was the world No.122’s first tour-level win and solely his second skilled grass-court match.
“I don’t actually know a lot about him, however clearly it’s not Rublev,” world No.101 Walton stated. “I’d slightly play this man slightly than Rublev for certain.”
Ninth seed Alex de Minaur is again in motion on day 4 as properly, going through Spaniard Jaume Munar within the second spherical for the second consecutive Grand Slam. In addition they met at this stage at Roland Garros, the place De Minaur scored a straight-sets win.
“I’m very intrigued for this match-up,” De Minaur stated. “Clearly I performed him on clay, however I feel I can’t take something out of that match, if I’m fully trustworthy, going into taking part in him on grass. It’s fully polar reverse surfaces. I feel it’s going to be much more on my racquet.
“Possibly I’ve bought just a little bit extra expertise than he does on the grass, however he’s performed some good matches. I keep in mind him taking part in towards (Cameron) Norrie and having an absolute battle one 12 months right here (Wimbledon 2022), so I’m undoubtedly not taking it flippantly. I’m trying to attempt to play my tennis, play some constructive tennis and hopefully that can give me an excellent probability.”
The 25-year-old De Minaur is aiming to progress to Wimbledon’s third spherical for a 3rd time in his profession and for the primary time since 2022.
Daria Saville headlines the motion on Courtroom 14, taking up world No.19 Marta Kostyuk in a second-round girls’s singles match. The match was postponed yesterday, after inclement climate impacted play on the All England Membership.
An additional six Australians function in doubles motion on day 4, together with the first-time pairing of Rinky Hijikata and John Friends. The Aussie pair tackle the Murray brothers, Andy and Jamie, at Centre Courtroom.
It’s the first opening-round doubles match scheduled on Wimbledon’s famed Centre Courtroom since 1995.
> READ: Friends and Hijikata excited to problem Murray brothers at Wimbledon
Wimbledon is broadcast reside in Australia on the 9 Community and Stan Sport, with protection starting from 7.30pm AEST.
Aussies in motion on day 4:
Males’s singles, second spherical
[9] Alex de Minaur (AUS) v Jaume Munar (ESP), No.3 Courtroom, first match (from 8pm AEST)
Adam Walton (AUS) v Francisco Comesana (ARG), Courtroom 16, first match (from 8pm AEST)
Alexei Popyrin (AUS) v [30] Tomas Martin Etcheverry (ARG), Courtroom 11, second match
Thanasi Kokkinakis (AUS) v [Q] Lucas Pouille (FRA), Courtroom 8, third match
Girls’s singles, second spherical
Daria Saville (AUS) v [18] Marta Kostyuk (UKR), Courtroom 14, first match (from 8pm AEST)
Males’s doubles, first spherical
John-Patrick Smith (AUS)/Andreas Mies (GER) v Victor Cornea (ROU)/Fabian Marozsan (HUN), Courtroom 6, first match (from 8pm AEST)
[15] Max Purcell (AUS)/Jordan Thompson (AUS) v [WC] Jay Clarke (GBR)/Marcus Willis (GBR), Courtroom 10, second match
Rinky Hijikata (AUS)/John Friends (AUS) v [WC] Andy Murray (GBR)/Jamie Murray (GBR), Centre Courtroom, third match
Girls’s doubles, first spherical
[3] Ellen Perez (AUS)/Nicole Melichar-Martinez (USA) v [WC] Sarah Beth Gray (GBR)/Tara Moore (GBR), Courtroom 9, first match (from 8pm AEST)
Daria Saville (AUS)/Yuan Yue (CHN) v [9] Lyudmyla Kichenok (UKR)/Jelena Ostapenko (LAT), Courtroom 16, fourth match
> VIEW: Full Wimbledon 2024 day 4 schedule
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