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MELBOURNE, Australia – A lot of upsets meant that of the 32 original seeds on the men’s side, 15 are left.
That’s just under 50 per cent which – without going into the weeds – probably isn’t that far out of the ordinary.
On the women’s side, it was exactly the same – 15, after Jil Teichmann pulled out her late evening win.
Among the unseeded players you might not have had a shot to get to the big show are Aussies Destanee Aiava, Frenchwomen Léolia Jeanjean (who play each other) and Aussie Destanee Aiava.
On the men’s side: American Mitchell Krueger, Lebanese Olympian Hady Habib (his teammate Benjamin Hassan was eliminated in the second round) and unknown Belgian Gauthier Onclin.
The two young rising stars on the men’s side, Martin Landaluce and Joao Fonseca, were unseeded. But their arrival in the final round isn’t much of a surprise. And they both made it.
Fonseca will play Andrey Rublev in a tasty one in the first round.
(Melbourne is 16 hours ahead of ET).
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Australian Open
Qualifying, final round
Thursday, January 9, 2025
Final results
(1st-round opponents in brackets)
Women’s qualifiers
AIAVA, Destanee (AUS) def [23] LYS, Eva (GER) 61 26 64 (Greet Minnen)
BEJLEK, Sara (CZE) def [26] TEICHMANN, Jil (SUI) 75 63 (Caroline Dolehide)
[9] BIRRELL, Kimberly (AUS) def [PR] SELEKHMETEVA, Oksana (RUS) 63 67 (4) 64 ([13] Anna Kalinskaya)
[20] CHWALINSKA, Maja (POL) def FRUHVIRTOVA, Brenda (CZE) 63 64 (Jule Niemeier)
ERJAVEC, Veronika (SLO) def [16] MARTIC, Petra (CRO) 62 61 (Suzan Lamens)
[27] FETT, Jana (CRO) def CIRIC BAGARIC, Lucija (CRO) 63 76 (6) (Marketa Vondrousova)
[2] GOLUBIC, Viktorija (SUI) def VICKERY, Sachia (USA) 62 64 (Elise Mertens)
HIBINO, Nao (JPN) def [3] DART, Harriet (GBR) 64 75 ([17] Marta Kostyuk)
JEANJEAN, Léolia (FRA) def JANICIJEVIC, Selena (FRA) 63 76 (5) (Jodie Burrage)
[6] KUDERMETOVA, Polina (RUS) def [WC] MICIC, Elena (AUS) 64 75 ([23] Magdalena Frech)
[19] RIERA, Julia (ARG) def [WC] INGLIS, Maddison (AUS) 46 61 62. ([15] Beatriz Haddad Maia)
[15] RUSE, Elena-Gabriela (ROU) def BEKTAS, Emina (USA) 62 75 (Irina-Camelia Begu)
[30] SNIGUR, Daria (UKR) def MASAROVA, Rebeka (SUI) 75 62 ([10] Danielle Collins)
[12] TODONI, Anca (ROU) def [21] LEPCHENKO, Varvara (USA) 63 62 ([5] Zheng Qinwen)
[25] WEI, Sijia (CHN) def STOJANOVIC, Nina (SRB) 46 64 76 [11-9] ([4] Jasmine Paolini)
ZIDANSEK, Tamara (SLO) def MONNET, Carole (FRA) 63 57 63 (Anastasia Potapova)
[LL] MARTIC, Petra (CRO) (Jaqueline Cristian)
Men’s qualifiers
BASILASHVILI, Nikoloz (GEO) def [5] PASSARO, Francesco (ITA) 63 63 (Jakub Mensik)
[26] BOYER, Tristan (USA) def [4] EUBANKS, Christopher (USA) 64 64 (Federico Coria)
DOUGAZ, Aziz (TUN) def [PR] GOJO, Borna (CRO) 64 36 61 (Yoshihito Nishioka)
[17] FARIA, Jaime (POR) def LAJAL, Mark (EST) 64 26 64 (Pavel Kotov)
FONSECA, Joao (BRA) def [12] TIRANTE, Thiago Agustin (ARG) 64 61 ([9] Andrey Rublev)
GARIN, Cristian (CHI) def [18] DELLIEN, Hugo (BOL) 62 63 (Borna Coric)
[32] GIGANTE, Matteo (ITA) def ROCHA, Henrique (POR) 64 75 ([14] Ugo Humbert)
HABIB, Hady (LBN) def CHIDEKH, Clément (FRA) 64 36 76 [10-8] (Bu Yunchaokete)
[28] KLEIN, Lukas (SVK) def ATMANE, Terence (FRA) 64 61 ([22] Sebastian Korda)
[1] KOEPFER, Dominik (GER) def [WC] ELLIS, Blake (AUS) 75 75 ([27] Jordan Thompson)
KRUEGER, Mitchell (USA) def UCHIYAMA, Yasutaka (JPN) 63 6 7(5) 64 (Rinky Hijikata)
LANDALUCE, Martin (ESP) def SVRCINA, Dalibor (CZE) 26 61 75 ([WC] James McCabe)
[14] MAJCHRZAK, Kamil (POL) def [19] HARRIS, Billy (GBR) 75 62 (Pablo Carreño Busta)
[6] MONTEIRO, Thiago (BRA) def COPPEJANS, Kimmer (BEL) 64 63 ([PR] Kei Nishikori)
ONCLIN, Gauthier (BEL) def [25] MCDONALD, Mackenzie (USA) 67 (7) 76 (5) 61 ([PR] Reilly Opelka)
[16] TIEN, Learner (USA) def [21] KOVALIK, Jozef (SVK) 63 64 (Camilo Ugo Carabelli)
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