Three Australian gamers, together with Adam Walton, scored top-100 victories in qualifying at an ATP 250 match in Adelaide.
Adelaide, Australia, 7 January 2024 | Leigh Rogers
Australian contenders have made a sensational begin within the Adelaide Worldwide males’s qualifying singles competitors.
Three Aussies – Alex Bolt, Matthew Dellavedova and Adam Walton – scored top-100 wins of their opening-round matches at present at The Drive.
The 31-year-old Bolt, who’s presently ranked No.328 and snuck into the draw as an alternate, misplaced solely 4 factors on serve in a shocking 6-1 6-1 demolition of world No.78 Tomas Machac.
That is Bolt’s seventeenth profession top-100 win – however first since September 2021.
The South Australian competitor will now play world No.456 Dellavedova within the ultimate qualifying spherical on the ATP 250 match.
Dellavedova, a 23-year-old wildcard contesting his first ATP-level occasion, recorded his maiden top-100 victory with a 6-3 0-6 6-4 upset of world No.83 Juan Pablo Varillas.
The best-ranked opponent that Dellavedova had beforehand overwhelmed was the world No.223 (finally week’s ATP Challenger occasion in Canberra).
World No.169 Walton notched his career-first top-100 win too, defeating world No.70 Pedro Cachin 7-5 7-6(2) of their first-round conflict.
This propels the 24-year-old Walton, who served 5 aces within the one-hour and 53-minute encounter, right into a ultimate spherical showdown with world No.80 Bernabe Zapata Miralles.
James McCabe, a promising 20-year-old Australian, can also be by way of to the ultimate qualifying spherical.
The world No.272, who was introduced as an Australian Open wildcard recipient this week, posted a 6-1 6-4 victory towards Mikalai Haliak.
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TODAY’S RESULTS
Males’s qualifying singles, first spherical
Adam Walton (AUS) d [2] Pedro Cachin (ARG) 7-5 7-6(2)
James McCabe (AUS) d [Alt] Mikalai Haliak 6-1 6-4
[Alt] Alex Bolt (AUS) d [3] Tomas Machac (CZE) 6-1 6-1
[WC] Matthew Dellavedova (AUS) d [6] Juan Pablo Varillas (PER) 6-3 0-6 6-4
[4] Thiago Seyboth Wild (BRA) d [Alt] Luke Saville (AUS) 1-6 6-3 6-2
[5] Bernabe Zapata Miralles (ESP) d [Alt] Blake Ellis (AUS) 6-3 6-2
[8] Arthur Rinderknech (FRA) d [WC] Jacob Bradshaw (AUS) 6-3 6-4
COMING UP
Males’s qualifying singles, ultimate spherical
Adam Walton (AUS) v [5] Bernabe Zapata Miralles (ESP)
James McCabe (AUS) v [8] Arthur Rinderknech (FRA)
[Alt] Alex Bolt (AUS) v [WC] Matthew Dellavedova (AUS)
Males’s singles, first spherical
Alexei Popyrin (AUS) v [7] Jiri Lehecka (CZE)
Jordan Thompson (AUS) v Qualifier
[WC] Thanasi Kokkinakis (AUS) v Dusan Lajovic (SRB)
[WC] Rinky Hijikata (AUS) v Dan Evans (GBR)
[WC] Chris O’Connell (AUS) v Yoshihito Nishioka (JPN)
> VIEW: Adelaide Worldwide 2024 males’s singles draw
Ladies’s singles, first spherical
[WC] Taylah Preston (AUS) v Caroline Garcia (FRA)
> VIEW: Adelaide Worldwide 2024 ladies’s singles draw
Males’s doubles, first spherical
[2] Matt Ebden (AUS)/Rohan Bopanna (IND) v Bye
Andrew Harris (AUS)/Harri Heliovaara (FIN) v Francisco Cabral (POR)/Henry Patten (GBR)
John-Patrick Smith (AUS)/Andreas Mies (GER) v Ariel Behar (URU)/Adam Pavlasek (CZE)
[WC] Blake Ellis (AUS)/Calum Puttergill (AUS) v Marcelo Melo (BRA)/Matwe Middelkoop (NED)
[WC] Alex Bolt (AUS)/Luke Saville (AUS) v Constantin Frantzen (GER)/Hendrik Jebens (GER)
Ladies’s doubles, first spherical
[4] Ellen Perez (AUS)/Nicole Melichar-Martinez (USA) v Caroline Garcia (FRA)/Kristina Mladenovic (FRA)
[WC] Elena Micic (AUS)/Tina Smith (AUS) v Veronika Kudermetova/Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
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