For the fifth consecutive Grand Slam, two Australians are set to fulfill within the opening spherical of the lads’s singles competitors.
New York, USA, 23 August 2024 | Leigh Rogers
The US Open 2024 singles attracts have been revealed.
Alex de Minaur leads an 12-strong Australian contingent within the males’s singles competitors. That is probably the most Aussie males to function in a US Open singles draw since 1979.
The 25-year-old De Minaur, who’s the highest-seeded Australian man in New York in 19 years, has drawn world No.46 Marcos Giron within the opening spherical. This would be the tenth seed’s first singles match since a hip damage thwarted his Wimbledon marketing campaign final month.
The draw has been kinder for Alexei Popyrin, who’s seeded at a Grand Slam match for the primary time in his profession. The 25-year-old will play Korean Soonwoo Kwon, who has been fighting a shoulder damage and solely received two tour-level matches this season.
Rinky Hijikata, who made the fourth spherical at Flushing Meadows final yr in a breakout run, begins his 2024 marketing campaign towards Spaniard Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, a former world No.21 who has twice reached the fourth spherical on the match.
Thanasi Kokkinakis, Chris O’Connell and James Duckworth all meet seeded opponents within the opening spherical, whereas Max Purcell and Aleksandar Vukic face-off in an all-Australian showdown.
That is the fifth consecutive Grand Slam match to function an all-Australian battle within the opening spherical and the second yr in a row that Purcell has been pitted towards a compatriot in New York (final yr he misplaced to O’Connell within the first spherical).
| US Open 2024 Males’s singles, first spherical |
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| Participant | Rank | Participant | Rank | |
| [10] Alex de Minaur (AUS) | No.10 | v | Marcos Giron (USA) | No.46 |
| [28] Alexei Popyrin (AUS) | No.28 | v | Soonwoo Kwon (KOR) | No.342 |
| Jordan Thompson (AUS) | No.33 | v | Fixed Lestienne (FRA) | No.110 |
| Rinky Hijikata (AUS) | No.65 | v | Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (ESP) | No.57 |
| James Duckworth (AUS) | No.70 | v | [31] Flavio Cobolli (ITA) | No.31 |
| Thanasi Kokkinakis (AUS) | No.84 | v | [11] Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE) | No.11 |
| Chris O’Connell (AUS) | No.86 | v | [26] Nicolas Jarry (CHI) | No.26 |
| Max Purcell (AUS) | No.91 | v | Aleksandar Vukic (AUS) | No.94 |
| Adam Walton (AUS) | No.96 | v | Alexandre Muller (FRA) | No.76 |
| [Q] Li Tu (AUS) | No.188 | v | TBC | |
| [WC] Tristan Schoolkate (AUS) | No.195 | v | Taro Daniel (JPN) | No.88 |
> VIEW: Full US Open 2024 males’s singles draw
Eight Australians will compete within the ladies’s singles competitors, our largest illustration on the US Open since 1989.
Daria Saville and Ajla Tomljanovic will every face a qualifier of their opening matches, whereas Taylah Preston, a 18-year-old from Perth making her US Open main-draw debut as a wildcard, performs the skilled Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.
Qualifiers Arina Rodionova, Maya Joint, Kimberly Birrell, Destanee Aiava and Priscilla Hon are nonetheless ready to search out out their first-round opponents.
| US Open 2024 Girls’s singles, first spherical |
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| Participant | Rank | Participant | Rank | |
| Daria Saville (AUS) | No.93 | v | Qualifier | |
| [Q] Arina Rodionova (AUS) | No.118 | v | TBC | |
| Ajla Tomljanovic (AUS) | No.119 | v | Qualifier | |
| [Q] Maya Joint (AUS) | No.136 | v | TBC | |
| [WC] Taylah Preston (AUS) | No.145 | v | [25] Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova | No.26 |
| [Q] Kimberly Birrell (AUS) | No.147 | v | TBC | |
| [Q] Destanee Aiava (AUS) | No.180 | v | TBC | |
| [Q] Priscilla Hon (AUS) | No.205 | v | TBC | |
> VIEW: Full US Open 2024 ladies’s singles draw
Qualifiers shall be positioned on the conclusion of at present’s closing qualifying spherical matches. Seven Australians progressed to the ultimate spherical, probably the most to succeed in this stage in 30 years. This included a document six Aussie ladies.
Fundamental-draw motion at Flushing Meadows begins on Monday 26 August (from 1am Tuesday 27 August AEST). The match is broadcast stay in Australia on the 9 Community and Stan Sport.
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