Pavle Marinkov, Talia Gibson and Edward Winter are among the many native hopes competing in Australian Professional Tour occasions this week.
Australia, 9 September 2024 | Leigh Rogers
Lots of Australia’s most promising younger gamers might be in motion because the Australian Professional Tour resumes this week.
Western Australia and the Northern Territory are internet hosting back-to-back Australian Professional Tour occasions over the following fortnight, offering a possibility for Australian gamers to earn invaluable rating factors and prize cash on house soil.
Talia Gibson, a 20-year-old Western Australian ranked at a career-high world No.165, headlines the ladies’s singles discipline at this week’s Perth Worldwide #1 occasion.
Destanee Aiava, recent from qualifying on the US Open final month, and Maddison Inglis, one other Western Australian expertise, will even compete on the ITF 75 event at Perth’s State Tennis Centre.
> VIEW: Perth Worldwide #1 2024 girls’s singles draw
Males will compete on the Darwin Worldwide #1, an ITF 25 event staged on the Darwin Worldwide Tennis Centre.
The in-form Omar Jasika, who’s on a 12-match successful streak after capturing back-to-back titles in Bali previously fortnight, is the highest seed within the males’s singles draw.
The 27-year-old will face robust competitors from a big contingent of Australians, together with the promising 19-year-old Edward Winter and 18-year-old Pavle Marinkov.
The draw hasn’t been type to the Delaney brothers, with 27-year-old Jake and 25-year-old Jesse, set to fulfill within the opening spherical.
The Delaney brothers, who’ve received back-to-back doubles titles collectively in Thailand previously fortnight, additionally faced-off within the first spherical at an Australian Professional Tour occasion in Traralgon earlier this yr.
> VIEW: Darwin Worldwide #1 2024 males’s singles draw
The Australian Professional Tour is a collection of worldwide tournaments, with free entry for followers, held throughout Australia between September and March every year.
Extra occasions are scheduled to be held in Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia in coming months.
> VIEW: Australian Professional Tour calendar
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