Sixteen-year-old Emerson Jones begins her Australian Open 2025 junior marketing campaign on Saturday, with Aussie No.1 Alex de Minaur additionally in motion on Day 7.
Melbourne, VIC, 17 January 2025 | Jackson Mansell
Emerson Jones will relaunch her bid for a maiden junior Grand Slam title on Saturday when her Australian Open 2025 marketing campaign begins.
The junior world No.1 faces qualifier Anastasia Lizunova on Court docket 3 within the opening spherical, as she goals to enhance on her Australian Open 2024 finals look.
Whereas she is but to win a junior Grand Slam, Jones’ latest wave of kind supplies her with the optimum probability to attain this feat.
The 16-year-old recorded her first WTA high 50 triumph on tour debut, downing world No.37 Wang Xinyu 6-4 6-0 on the Adelaide Worldwide.
“I believe mentally I’ve improved lots from final 12 months and this 12 months,” Jones stated after her Adelaide Worldwide victory final week. “I believe simply taking part in extra matches and attempting to inform myself earlier than each single match that I must be mentally good as a result of that’s in all probability what principally tennis is about.”
Her earlier two encounters have been her most tough up to now. After falling to world No.10 Daria Kasatkina through the second spherical in Adelaide, Jones was met with the formidable prospect of defeating world No.7 Elena Rybakina in her girls’s main debut.
In different motion, Alex de Minaur will face his largest problem but when he takes to centre courtroom in opposition to thirty first seed Francisco Cerundolo.
The world No.8 is coming off one other straight-sets victory in opposition to American qualifier Tristan Boyer on Thursday afternoon. It marks the primary time in his profession that De Minaur has received his first 4 matches of a season in straight units.
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The 25-year-old is aiming to develop into the primary Australian male for the reason that introduction of a 128-player draw to make the spherical of 16 at Melbourne Park for 4 straight years.
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“He’s a really harmful participant, very tough. He’s acquired quite a lot of firepower from the baseline with that forehand. He’s had some large scalps on tour. He’s not afraid to play some large matches. It’s going to be a battle. I’m wanting ahead to it,” De Minaur stated. “I’ve acquired to be up for it from the very first level, deliver that depth, play some aggressive fashion of tennis, deliver out a greater model of myself, which I believe I’m doing daily.”
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