Queensland siblings Hayden and Emerson Jones are the top-ranked Australian opponents within the Roland Garros 2024 Junior Championships.
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A finalist on the Australian Open earlier this season, Emerson is about to be highest-seeded Australian in a Roland Garros women’ singles draw in additional than 20 years and the primary seeded Australian since Priscilla Hon was the twelfth seed in 2014.
Emerson made her Roland Garros debut final yr, shedding to the eventual women’ singles champion within the third spherical.
The Nationwide Tennis Academy athlete, who’s coached by Sam Stosur’s former long-time coach David Taylor, has since established herself as one of many world’s finest juniors. She has received 17 of her 20 singles matches on the junior tour this season and superior to the ultimate in three of her 5 tournaments.
To not be outshone, her 17-year-old brother Hayden will set some firsts of his personal on this yr’s Roland Garros boys’ singles competitors.
At present sitting at world No.8 within the ITF junior rankings, he would be the first Australian seeded in a boys’ singles occasion in Paris since Rinky Hijikata was the sixteenth seed in 2019 and the highest-seeded Australian since Alexei Popyrin received the title in 2017 because the No.3 seed.
Hayden has additionally skyrocketed up the rankings this season, after profitable 25 of his 29 singles matches and claiming three titles on the ITF junior tour.
He’ll be joined within the boys’ singles competitors by Pavle Marinkov, who peaked at a career-high world No.16 within the junior rankings earlier this yr.
The 18-year-old from Sydney is making his debut at Roland Garros. He has skilled success on the Grand Slam stage earlier than, advancing to the third spherical in boys’ singles occasions at Australian Open 2023, US Open 2023 and Australian Open 2024.
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Alana Subasic, a 17-year-old from Sydney, rounds out the Australian opponents.
The wildcard recipient has received 24 of her 32 singles matches on the ITF junior tour this season, serving to her greater than halve her rating up to now six months. From simply inside the highest 300 in January, Subasic now sits at world No.94.
This will likely be Subasic’s first Roland Garros look.
The Roland Garros 2024 Junior Championships start on Sunday 2 June.
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