Former US Open girls’s champion Emma Raducanu is a part of the qualifying area for the 2024 Australian Open.
Raducanu famously went by means of qualifying en path to profitable the 2021 US Open. She was the primary participant within the Open Period to start in qualifying and win a Grand Slam occasion.
Former US Open males’s champion Dominic Thiem can be a part of the qualifying area at this level. He received the 2020 US Open.
Raducanu has fallen on laborious instances since her breakthrough victory in New York and he or she underwent wrist and ankle surgical procedures this yr as her rating dropped to No 299 on this planet.
Nevertheless, she has a particular rating of No 103 as a consequence of her absences from the tour, and that leaves her 5 spots outdoors the primary draw cutoff line.
The US Open stays the lone title the Brit has received. Her highest rating was No 10 in July 2022.
Raducanu plans to play within the Auckland Traditional, one of many tournaments main as much as the Australian Open.
Thiem, 30, is at present ranked 98th, only one spot off the cutoff for the lads’s draw. He can transfer into the sector if only one participant withdraws.
The Austrian was as excessive as No 3 on this planet in March 2020 and his profession reached new heights with the US Open title.
However halfway by means of the 2021 season, Thiem sustained a severe wrist damage that led to him lacking 4 of the subsequent 5 Grand Slam occasions. He has since been on the comeback path and confirmed progress this yr.
Different males within the qualifying area embody Belgium’s David Goffin (No 111), Argentina’s Diego Schwartzman (No 114), France’s Benoit Paire (No 117) and American Maxime Cressy (No 126).
Additionally a part of the ladies’s qualifying area are Ukraine’s Dayana Yastremska (No 102), Italy’s Sara Errani (No 105), France’s Alize Cornet (No 117) and Estonia’s Kaia Kanepi (No 168).
Qualifying begins January 8 and the main-draw occasion is January 14-28.
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