The US Open 2024 tennis tournament will get underway at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York on Monday.
The final Grand Slam tennis tournament of the year, in its 144th edition, will be available for live streaming and broadcast in Australia.
World No. 10 Alex de Minaur and world No. 28 Alexei Popyrin will lead Australia’s strongest main draw singles representation at the US Open in 45 years.
Twenty Australian tennis playerscomprising 12 men and eight women, will feature at Flushing Meadows, equalling the representation from the 1979 tournament, where 14 men and six women represented the nation.
The 25-year-old Alex de Minaur is the highest-seeded Australian man at the US Open in 19 years. The opening-round clash against world No. 46 Marcos Giron of the USA will be the Aussie’s first singles match since a hip injury affected his Wimbledon campaign in July.
Alexei Popyrin is seeded at a Grand Slam tournament for the first time in his career thanks to his ATP Masters 1000 title triumph in Montreal earlier this month. However, he could end up facing defending champion Novak Djokovic of Serbia in the third round.
Max Purcell and Aleksandar Vukic will face each other in an all-Australian showdown in the opening round of the men’s singles.
Eight Australian women will feature in the women’s singles with world No. 93 Daria Saville and world No. 119 Ajla Tomljanovic facing a player from the qualifying round in their opening contests. Taylah Preston, 18, will make her US Open main draw debut as a wildcard entry.
Qualifiers Destanee Aiava and Priscilla Hon will have a formidable task getting past Kazakh Elena Rybakina and Aryna Sabalenka, respectively, while fellow qualifier Kimberly Birrell faces Paris 2024 Olympics silver medallist Donna Vekic of Croatia.
In the men’s doubles event, all eyes will be on Paris 2024 Olympics champion Matthew Ebden. The Aussie, along with Indian partner Rohan Bopanna, is also the reigning Australian Open champion. They have been seeded second behind Marcel Granollers of Spain and his Argentine partner Horacio Zeballos.
Ebden-Bopanna had reached the US Open final last year before falling short to Rajeev Ram of the USA and Joe Salisbury of Great Britain.
How to watch US Open 2024 tennis live in Australia
The US Open 2024 tournament will also be broadcast live on Channel 9 on TV in Australia and will be live streamed on the 9Now app and website.
Australian tennis players at US Open 2024
Men’s singles: Alex de Minaur [10]Alexei Popyrin [28]Jordan Thompson, Rinky Hijikata, James Duckworth, Thanasi Kokkinakis, Christopher O’Connell, Alexander Vukic, Max Purcell, Adam Walton, Li Tu [Q]Tristan Schoolkate [WC]
Women’s singles: Daria Saville, Arina Rodionova [Q]Ajla Tomljanovic, Maya Joint [Q]Taylah Preston [WC]Kimberly Birrell [Q]Destanee Aiava vs [Q]Priscilla Hon [Q]
Men’s doubles: TBC
Women’s doubles: TBC
Mixed doubles: TBC
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