New York, USA, 19 August 2024 | Leigh Rogers
A 12-strong Australian contingent will contest the ladies’s and males’s qualifying singles competitions at this 12 months’s US Open.
Rising star Maya Joint will make her US Open debut as a seeded participant within the girls’s qualifying singles draw. The promising 18-year-old, who’s the No.32 seed, begins her marketing campaign in opposition to Poland’s Maja Chwalinska.
Joint has amassed 50 wins on the skilled tour this season, serving to the Nationwide Tennis Academy athlete’s rating skyrocket up nearly 550 locations since January.
The skilled Arina Rodionova is the top-ranked Australian girl within the subject at world No.119. The sixteenth seed faces France’s Elsa Jacquemot, the highest-ranked unseeded participant within the draw, in her opening spherical.
The Australian contenders additionally embrace Astra Sharma and Olivia Gadecki, who’ve each beforehand accomplished profitable qualifying campaigns at Flushing Meadows.
| US Open 2024 Girls’s qualifying singles, first spherical |
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| Participant | Rank | Participant | Rank | |
| [16] Arina Rodionova (AUS) | No.119 | v | Elsa Jacquemot (FRA) | No.140 |
| [32] Maya Joint (AUS) | No.139 | v | Maja Chwalinska (POL) | No.168 |
| Kimberly Birrell (AUS) | No.148 | v | [6] Robin Montgomery (USA) | No.109 |
| Astra Sharma (AUS) | No.150 | v | Margaux Rouvroy (FRA) | No.220 |
| Olivia Gadecki (AUS) | No.155 | v | Viktoria Hruncakova (SVK) | No.147 |
| Talia Gibson (AUS) | No.170 | v | [25] Anastasia Zakharova | No.130 |
| Destanee Aiava (AUS) | No.182 | v | Gergana Topalova (BUL) | No.212 |
| Priscilla Hon (AUS) | No.204 | v | [WC] Akasha Urhobo (USA) | No.316 |
| Maddison Inglis (AUS) | No.226 | v | Alexandra Eala (PHI) | No.144 |
> VIEW: Full US Open 2024 girls’s qualifying singles draw
Alex Bolt faces a troublesome job to repeat his Wimbledon qualifying heroics, pitted in opposition to world No.100 Damir Dzumhur within the opening spherical of the lads’s qualifying singles competitors. The fourth-seeded Bosnian has been ranked as excessive as world No.23.
The 31-year-old Bolt, who sensationally saved match factors to finish a profitable qualifying marketing campaign at Wimbledon in June, is the top-ranked Australian man within the draw.
| US Open 2024 Males’s qualifying singles, first spherical |
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| Participant | Rank | Participant | Rank | |
| Alex Bolt (AUS) | No.176 | v | [4] Damir Dzumhur (BIH) | No.100 |
| Li Tu (AUS) | No.189 | v | Alejandro Moro Canas (ESP) | No.146 |
| Marc Polmans (AUS) | No.200 | v | Matteo Martineau (FRA) | No.180 |
> VIEW: Full US Open 2024 males’s qualifying singles draw
The four-day qualifying competitors begins in New York at this time.
To finish a profitable qualifying marketing campaign, gamers must win three rounds. In the event that they accomplish that, they may be part of 14 Australians (11 males and three girls) already within the singles principal attracts on the remaining Grand Slam event of the season.
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