Australians Li Tu, Omar Jasika, Philip Sekulic and Tristan Schoolkate are all set to compete within the Wimbledon qualifying competitors for the primary time.
London, Nice Britain, 24 June 2024 | Leigh Rogers
4 first-time opponents are among the many Australian hopefuls contesting the Wimbledon 2024 males’s qualifying singles occasion.
This consists of Tristan Schoolkate, who grew up taking part in on grass courts in Perth. The 23-year-old has charged up the rankings this season, bettering greater than 70 spots since April.
Philip Sekulic, a 20-year-old from Brisbane, has been in career-best type too and earned himself a spot in Wimbledon qualifying after breaking into the world’s high 240 final month.
Li Tu, a 28-year-old from Adelaide, and Omar Jasika, a 27-year-old from Melbourne, are additionally set to make their Wimbledon qualifying debuts. It’s a welcome reward for perseverance for the 2 athletes, who’ve each reached new career-high rankings this season after coming back from prolonged stints on the sidelines.
A complete of seven Australians will compete for a coveted main-draw spot at Roehampton in London this week, marking our highest illustration in a Wimbledon males’s qualifying singles competitors in 5 years.
The skilled James Duckworth headlines the Australian contingent, seeking to construct on his spectacular type which has netted eight grass-court wins previously month.
The in-form 32-year-old, who has skyrocketed up the rankings to world No.88, is the fourth seed within the draw.
Duckworth, who has beforehand accomplished profitable Wimbledon qualifying campaigns in 2013 and 2014, begins his quest towards Germany’s Benjamin Hassan, one of many highest-ranked unseeded gamers within the draw.
Marc Polmans and Dane Sweeny spherical out the Australian probabilities. The 27-year-old Polmans is contesting Wimbledon qualifying for a fifth time. He certified in 2021 and progressed to the ultimate qualifying spherical final yr, whereas that is 23-year-old Sweeny’s second qualifying look on the match.
| Wimbledon 2024 Males’s qualifying singles, first spherical |
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| Participant | Rank | Participant | Rank | |
| [4] James Duckworth (AUS) | No.88 | v | Benjamin Hassan (GER) | No.143 |
| Tristan Schoolkate (AUS) | No.183 | v | [10] Damir Dzumhur (BIH) | No.110 |
| Li Tu (AUS) | No.202 | v | Valentin Royer (FRA) | No.199 |
| Omar Jasika (AUS) | No.210 | v | [3] Zizou Bergs (BEL) | No.77 |
| Marc Polmans (AUS) | No.212 | v | [9] David Goffin (BEL) | No.109 |
| Philip Sekulic (AUS) | No.240 | v | Hugo Dellien (BOL) | No.175 |
| Dane Sweeny (AUS) | No.244 | v | Bernabe Zapata Miralles (ESP) | No.193 |
> VIEW: Wimbledon 2024 males’s qualifying singles draw
9 Australian males, led by Alex de Minaur, have already obtained direct acceptance into the singles principal draw at this yr’s grass-court Grand Slam. The world No.7 will compete alongside Jordan Thompson, Alexei Popyrin, Chris O’Connell, Rinky Hijikata, Aleksandar Vukic, Thanasi Kokkinakis, Max Purcell and Adam Walton.
The Wimbledon 2024 qualifying competitors begins on Monday 24 June, with opponents needing to win three rounds to safe a main-draw berth.
> VIEW: Wimbledon 2024 qualifying day one schedule
The Wimbledon 2024 ladies’s qualifying singles competitors, which is able to characteristic 9 Australian contenders, begins on Tuesday 25 June.
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