Destanee Aiava is amongst six Australian gamers to safe a coveted main-draw spot by way of qualifying at US Open 2024.
New York, USA, 23 August 2024 | Leigh Rogers
Six Australians have accomplished profitable qualifying campaigns, and set new information within the course of, at US Open 2024.
Arina Rodionova, Maya Joint, Kimberly Birrell, Priscilla Hon, Destanee Aiava and Li Tu all certified in New York at the moment, boosting the overall variety of Australians on this yr’s singles major attracts to twenty (12 males and eight girls).
That is the primary time in match historical past that 5 Australian girls have earned main-draw berths by way of qualifying and nearly triples the earlier document of two (from 2009 and 2014).
It additionally marks the primary time in 11 years that Australia has had qualifiers in each the lads’s and girls’s occasions at Flushing Meadows.
Rodionova is the one participant amongst this record-breaking group of Aussies to have beforehand accomplished a profitable qualifying marketing campaign at a Grand Slam match. Nevertheless, it’s the first time the 34-year-old has achieved the feat on the US Open.
World No.118 Rodionova, who final certified at a significant match at Wimbledon 2019, scored a 6-4 6-2 victory towards Thailand’s Mananchaya Sawangkaew in at the moment’s ultimate spherical.
Joint scored the most important win of her burgeoning Grand Slam profession, triumphing 6-2 6-1 towards world No.106 Hailey Baptiste in a swift 52 minutes. This earns a Grand Slam main-draw debut for the promising 18-year-old.
The 26-year-old Birrell, who fell on the ultimate stage in qualifying ultimately yr’s US Open, secured her main-draw spot with a 6-3 6-3 victory towards 15-year-old American wildcard Julieta Pareja.
World No.180 Aiava powered previous Croatian Ana Konjuh 6-3 6-2, needing solely 69 minutes to dismiss the former top-20 participant and US Open 2016 quarterfinalist. This was 24-year-old Aiava’s third straight-sets victory this week.
The 26-year-old Hon surprised prime seed Kamilla Rakhimova to qualify, edging out a hard-fought 7-6(4) 6-7(2) 6-4 victory towards the world No.104 in a two-hour and 47-minute battle. That is world No.205 Hon’s finest Grand Slam-level win since Australian Open 2020.
Tu scored a powerful victory of his personal towards a seeded opponent within the ultimate spherical of the lads’s qualifying singles competitors, beating sixth-seeded Dutchman Jesper de Jong 3-6 6-1 7-5.
The 28-year-old from Adelaide saved two match factors late within the deciding set, earlier than reeling off three consecutive video games to document the most important win of his Grand Slam profession.
These efforts guarantee Australia may have its largest illustration in a US Open males’s singles attract 45 years and essentially the most girls’s singles rivals in 35 years.
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Aussies in motion – US Open
RESULTS
Ladies’s qualifying singles, ultimate spherical
[16] Arina Rodionova (AUS) d Mananchaya Sawangkaew (THA) 6-4 6-2
[32] Maya Joint (AUS) d [3] Hailey Baptiste (USA) 6-2 6-1
Priscilla Hon (AUS) d [1] Kamilla Rakhimova 7-6(4) 6-7(2) 6-4
Destanee Aiava (AUS) d Ana Konjuh (CRO) 6-3 6-2
Kimberly Birrell (AUS) d [WC] Julieta Pareja (USA) 6-3 6-3
[12] Marina Bassols Ribera d Talia Gibson (AUS) 6-3 6-4
Males’s qualifying singles, ultimate spherical
Li Tu (AUS) d [6] Jesper de Jong (NED) 3-6 6-1 7-5
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