Australian gamers will fly the flag at tour occasions on three completely different continents this week, with Aussie No.1 Alex de Minaur main the cost on the ATP Paris Masters.
Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 28 October 2024 | Matt Trollope> DRAW: ATP Masters 1000 Paris
De Minaur, who opens his Paris Masters marketing campaign in opposition to Argentina’s Mariano Navone, sits lower than 200 factors behind eighth-placed Andrey Rublev within the race to the season-ending occasion.
Popyrin, presently ranked twenty fifth, has drawn former world No.6 Matteo Berrettini as his first-round opponent, whereas world No.29 Thompson begins in opposition to Spain’s Pedro Martinez.
Chris O’Connell and James Duckworth fell within the qualifying rounds in Paris; O’Connell got here inside a set of the primary draw earlier than shedding to Alejandro Davidovich Fokina.
WTA motion continues this week in Asia, the place Aussies Kimberly Birrell and Priscilla Hon enter the primary draw on the 250-level match in Hong Kong.
> DRAW: WTA 250 Hong Kong
Birrell, ranked 111th after her latest run to the WTA ultimate in Osaka, faces Ana Bogdan whereas Hon takes on Eudice Chong.
In Mexico, Australia’s Ajla Tomljanovic and Maya Joint will play on the WTA 250 match in Merida, with each trying to proceed their spectacular type.
Tomljanovic, the third seed who opens in opposition to a qualifier, has gained seven of her previous 9 matches and just lately reclaimed the Australian ladies’s No.1 rating.
> DRAW: WTA 250 Merida
Joint, who has risen to a career-high rating of world No.110 throughout a breakout season, contests the primary draw of a WTA match for the primary time and faces Canadian Marina Stakusic.
The 18-year-old’s solely different tour-level look got here at this yr’s US Open, the place she superior to the second spherical after qualifying for the primary draw.
Astra Sharma fell within the ultimate spherical of Merida qualifying.
