Alex de Minaur is amongst eight Australian males to progress to the second spherical within the US Open 2024 males’s singles competitors.
New York, USA , 28 August 2024 | Leigh Rogers
Eight Australians have superior to the second spherical within the US Open males’s singles competitors for the primary time since 1976.
This unbelievable achievement provides to an ever-growing listing of data falling at Flushing Meadows this yr, which incorporates the 45-year excessive of 12 Australians that includes within the males’s singles occasion.
“Australian tennis is prospering on the prime finish on the minute,” acknowledged world No.32 Jordan Thompson after recording his most complete US Open victory earlier right now.
Thompson wasn’t the one Australian celebrating a serious particular person milestone in New York right now.
Thanasi Kokkinakis posted his best-ever Grand Slam win, upsetting world No.11 Stefanos Tsitsipas within the opening spherical, whereas tenth seed Alex de Minaur, the highest-seeded Australian man on the match in 19 years, made a profitable return from harm.
Wildcard Tristan Schoolkate proved his future his brilliant, scoring a primary Grand Slam main-draw victory. The 23-year-old clawed again from a two-set deficit for the primary time in his profession to defeat Japan’s Taro Daniel, a participant eight years his senior and ranked 105 locations increased.
Chris O’Connell fought previous world No.26 Nicolas Jarry, scoring a four-set victory towards the seeded Chilean. That is the world No.87’s biggest-ever win in New York.
You thought the Aussie upsets had been executed? 👀
Chris O’Connell pulls off one of many largest wins of his profession as he takes down world No.26 Nicolas Jarry within the opening-round of the @usopen 🤩#GoAussieshttps://t.co/pwGCIEoT2S
— TennisAustralia (@TennisAustralia) August 28, 2024
For the fifth consecutive main match, the primary spherical additionally featured an all-Australian battle. Max Purcell took the honours this time, rising triumphant towards fellow Sydneysider Aleksandar Vukic.
In the meantime, Rinky Hijikata, who at present sits at career-high rating of world No.62, outclassed harmful Spaniard Alejandro Davidovich Fokina yesterday to earn his second-round spot and world No.28 Alexei Popyrin made an encouraging begin in his first Grand Slam as a seeded participant.
| EIGHT IS GREAT Eight Australians advancing to the second spherical in a US Open males’s singles draw |
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| 1976 | Ray Ruffels, Ross Case, Alvin Gardiner, John Alexander, Kim Warwick, Geoff Masters, Barry Phillips Moore, Allan Stone |
| 2024 | Alex de Minaur, Alexei Popyrin, Jordan Thompson, Rinky Hijikata, Thanasi Kokkinakis, Chris O’Connell, Max Purcell, Tristan Schoolkate |
Two Australians, Ajla Tomljanovic and 18-year-old qualifier Maya Joint, have additionally progressed to the second spherical within the ladies’s singles competitors.
The final time a complete of 10 Australians reached the US Open second spherical in singles, throughout each the lads’s and girls’s singles attracts, was 1979.
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