Australian John Millman is thru to the second spherical within the US Open 2023 males’s qualifying singles competitors.
New York, USA , 23 August 2023 | Leigh Rogers
John Millman has made a triumphant tour return, knocking out eleventh seed Alejandro Tabilo from Chile within the opening spherical of the US Open 2023 males’s qualifying singles competitors.
Contesting his first match since February, the 34-year-old Australian posted a 6-4 7-5 victory in opposition to the world No.110.
A again harm has sidelined Millman for the previous seven months, seeing his rating slide to world No.326.
He has used a protected rating of No.207 to enter the US Open qualifying draw.
That is Millman’s first look in a Grand Slam qualifying draw since Wimbledon 2015, when he efficiently secured a main-draw spot.
He made his solely earlier look in a US Open qualifying attract 2010, the place he reached the ultimate spherical.
To advance to that stage once more, Millman might want to beat Italian Stefano Travaglia, a 31-year-old ranked No.234, within the second spherical.
Millman recorded his career-best Grand Slam outcome on the US Open in 2018, when he upset second seed Roger Federer to achieve the quarterfinals.
In different males’s qualifying singles motion on day two, Marc Polmans additionally scored an enormous win.
The 26-year-old Australian edged out a hard-fought 6-7(5) 7-6(2) 6-3 victory in opposition to Romanian Nicholas David Ionel.
That is world No.175 Polmans’ first win in New York since reaching the ultimate qualifying spherical in 2018, snapping a six-match dropping streak on the main match.
Polmans subsequent meets Austrian Dennis Novak, who upset fifth-seeded Belgian and former top-10 star David Goffin within the opening spherical.
With James Duckworth additionally advancing to the primary spherical, it marks the primary time this century that Australian males have gone unbeaten in opening-round qualifying matches on the US Open.
Aussies in motion – US Open
RESULTS
Males’s qualifying singles, first spherical
John Millman (AUS) d [11] Alejandro Tabilo (CHI) 6-4 7-5
Marc Polmans (AUS) d Nicholas David Ionel (ROU) 6-7(5) 7-6(2) 6-3
Ladies’s qualifying singles, first spherical
Olivia Gadecki (AUS) d Concord Tan (FRA) 6-3 6-1
Priscilla Hon (AUS) d [11] Olga Danilovic (SRB) 5-7 6-4 6-1
[32] Marina Bassols Ribera (ESP) d Arina Rodionova (AUS) 5-7 7-6(8) 6-4
Vera Zvonareva d Jaimee Fourlis (AUS) 6-3 6-0
> READ: Gadecki, Hon advance in US Open qualifying
COMING UP
Males’s qualifying singles, second spherical
[12] James Duckworth (AUS) v Terence Atmane (FRA)
Marc Polmans (AUS) v Dennis Novak (AUT)
John Millman (AUS) v Stefano Travaglia (ITA)
> VIEW: US Open 2023 males’s qualifying singles draw
Ladies’s qualifying singles, second spherical
[13] Kimberly Birrell (AUS) v Darja Semenistaja (LAT)
Olivia Gadecki (AUS) v Louisa Chirico (USA)
Priscilla Hon (AUS) v Himeno Sakatsume (JPN)
> VIEW: US Open 2023 girls’s qualifying singles draw
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