Marinkov making his mark at Australian Open 2024 | 23 January, 2024 | All Information | Information and Options | Information and Occasions

Pavle Marinkov has charged into the third spherical of the Australian Open boys’ singles competitors for the second consecutive 12 months.

Twelve months after attaining the feat as a wildcard ranked outdoors the world’s prime 100, he’s now the thirteenth seed and feeling at dwelling on the Grand Slam stage.

“I’d say the most important factor tennis-wise, is that I’m keen to remain a bit extra strong on the courtroom,” the 17-year-old from Sydney famous of his largest enchancment prior to now 12 months.

“I’m not making an attempt to take the simple method out in factors. This has been an actual focus of mine on this previous 12 months.

“It’s additionally helped to have had this expertise final 12 months as properly, it’s been actually good for the arrogance simply to know that I’m capable of play at this stage and go deep into the draw. Hopefully I can go even deeper.”

Marinkov sits at a career-high world No.16 within the junior rankings after progressing to the semifinals at an ITF J300 match in Traralgon final week.

This supplied one other spotlight in an impressive summer time for the Nationwide Tennis Academy athlete, who additionally scored his largest pro-level win towards world No.118 Luca Nardi at an ATP Challenger in Canberra earlier this month.

Marinkov continued his spectacular kind to notch a 6-2 6-4 victory towards German Diego Dedura-Palomero in second-round motion at present at 1573 Area.

“It was so much hotter on the market than the previous few days,” Marinkov stated.

“The solar was actually, actually vibrant and made the courtroom actually scorching, so I’m completely satisfied to get by as a result of he was taking part in rather well.

“I performed him in doubles two days in the past they usually obtained the higher of us, so I’m simply completely satisfied I used to be capable of play properly sufficient to get on prime.”

Marinkov joins 17-year-old Hayden Jones within the third spherical. This marks the primary time since 2016 that two Aussies contenders have reached this stage in an Australian Open boys’ singles draw.