For the primary time since 1999, there will likely be a minimum of 9 Australians contesting the lads’s singles important draw at Roland Garros.
Paris, France, 21 Might 2024 | Leigh Rogers
The spectacular depth in Australian males’s tennis will likely be on present at Roland Garros this 12 months.
9 Australians will characteristic within the males’s singles important draw on the clay-court Grand Slam, our highest illustration since 1999.
This quantity may nonetheless rise too, with three additional Australian gamers remaining in competition within the males’s qualifying singles competitors in Paris this week.
World No.11 Alex de Minaur will lead the cost within the Roland Garros 2024 important draw, set to be the highest-seeded Australian man in Paris since Lleyton Hewitt was the highest seed in 2003.
Jordan Thompson, who’s in career-best type, and Alexei Popyrin, the Roland Garros 2017 boys’ singles champion, are additionally among the many Aussie rivals.
| Roland Garros 2024 males’s singles Australian important draw entrants | |||
| Participant | Age | Rank | Finest main-draw lead to Paris |
| Alex de Minaur | 25 | No.11 | 2R (2019, 2021, 2023) |
| Jordan Thompson | 30 | No.37 | 3R (2019) |
| Alexei Popyrin | 24 | No.51 | 2R (2019) |
| Chris O’Connell | 29 | No.64 | 1R (2021, 2022, 2023) |
| Rinky Hijikata | 23 | No.78 | Making debut |
| Max Purcell | 26 | No.92 | 2R (2023) |
| Aleksandar Vukic | 28 | No.93 | 1R (2020) |
| [WC] Adam Walton | 25 | No.95 | Making debut |
| Thanasi Kokkinakis | 28 | No.98 | 3R (2015, 2023) |
Solely host nation France (with 16, together with six wildcards) and the USA (with 11, together with one wildcard) are more likely to have extra main-draw rivals on this 12 months’s males’s singles occasion.
Australia’s notable depth within the males’s recreation can also be evident in the most recent ATP Tour singles rankings, with 9 Aussie males contained in the world’s high 100.
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Energy in numbers in a Grand Slam draw is invaluable based on Australian tennis legend Todd Woodbridge.
Woodbridge was among the many final nine-strong Australian contingent to characteristic in a Roland Garros males’s singles important draw, additionally competing alongside Hewitt, Mark Philippoussis, Pat Rafter, Jason Stoltenberg, Andrew Ilie, Richard Fromberg, Scott Draper and Mark Woodforde in 1999.
“It’s so vital to have numbers as a result of it simply feeds the positivity amongst the group,” Woodbridge famous.
“If you’ve bought friends within the draw and also you see someone that you recognize you’re pretty much as good as, otherwise you suppose you might be, they usually have a giant victory, you suppose ‘Why can’t I?’.
“It actually makes you alter the best way you take a look at issues and you might be dragged alongside by success. So usually on the majors, if the Aussies can get off to a superb begin on day one and also you get a few wins, you’ll discover that we get numerous victories.”
Primary-draw motion at Roland Garros 2024 begins on Sunday 26 Might. It will likely be broadcast stay in Australia on the 9 Community and Stan Sport.
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