The men’s Australian Open qualifying tournament is starting tomorrow at the Doha’s Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex.
For the first time the qualifying matches will not be played in Australia, because of the current situation with the COVID-19 pandemic. While the women’s tournament has switched to the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Stadium, the men will play in Doha (Qatar).
The players will battle from the 10th to the 13th of January, and the 16 winners will have the chance to fly to Melbourne for the mandatory quarantine before the Australian Open. The Wild-Cards for the qualifying draw have been given to Blake Mott, Jason Kubler, Akira Santillan, Matthew Ebden, Rinky Hijikata, Dane Sweeny, Tristan Schoolkate and John-Patrick Smith.
USA’s Sebastian Korda, Croatia’s Ivo Karlovic, Argentine’s Leonardo Mayer and Spain’s Nicola Kuhn are among the players who have withdrawn. France’s Gregoire Barrere and Bolivia’s Hugo Dellien will be the first two seeds.
NEWS: Dmitry Popko pulls out and he’s replaced by Blake Mott. Mott’s Wild-Card goes to Harry Bourchier.
NEWS: Kyle Edmund has withdrawn from AO main draw, Ilya Ivashka takes his place. Mischa Zverev receives the last qualifying Wild-Card.
Australian Open (Doha, QAT) qualifying, entry list: OUT Sousa, Pedro (POR)OUT Seppi, Andreas (ITA)OUT Majchrzak, Kamil (POL)OUT Ivashka, Ilya (BLR)
Barrere, Gregoire (FRA)
Dellien, Hugo (BOL)
Karatsev, Aslan (RUS)
Kudla, Denis (USA)
Daniel, Taro (JPN)
Seyboth Wild, Thiago (BRA)
Dzumhur, Damir (BIH)
Hoang, Antoine (FRA)
Donskoy, Evgeny (RUS)
Bagnis, Facundo (ARG)
Stebe, Cedrik-Marsel (GER)
Seyboth Wild, Thiago (BRA)
Daniel, Taro (JPN)OUT Korda, Sebastian (USA)
Dzumhur, Damir (BIH)OUT O’Connell, Christopher (AUS)
Hoang, Antoine (FRA)
Donskoy, Evgeny (RUS)
Bagnis, Facundo (ARG)
Stebe, Cedrik-Marcel (GER)
Musetti, Lorenzo (ITA)
Gunneswaran, Prajnesh (IND)OUT Altmaier, Daniel (GER)
Kuznetsov, Andrey (RUS) PR
Kovalik, Jozef (SVK)OUT Jung, Jason (TPE)
Soeda, Go (JPN)
Laaksonen, Henri (SUI)OUT Mayer, Leonardo (ARG)OUT Nagal, Sumit (IND)
Gaio, Federico (ITA)
Milojevic, Nikola (SRB)
Cerundolo, Francisco (ARG)
Otte, Oscar (GER)
Alcaraz, Carlos (ESP)
Petrovic, Danilo (SRB)
Taberner, Carlos (ESP)
Rodionov, Jurij (AUT)
Gojowczyk, Peter (GER)
Lorenzi, Paolo (ITA)OUT Karlovic, Ivo (CRO)
Huesler, Marc-Andrea (SUI)
Zapata Miralles, Bernabe (ESP)
Klizan, Martin (SVK)
Giustino, Lorenzo (ITA)
Griekspoor, Tallon (NED)
Safwat, Mohamed (EGY)
Rola, Blaz (SLO)
Van de Zandschulp, Botic (NED)OUT Varillas, Juan Pablo (PER)
Ofner, Sebastian (AUT)
Gomez, Emilio (COL)
Gaston, Hugo (FRA)
Andreozzi, Guido (ARG)
Brown, Dustin (GER) PR
Zhang, Zhizhen (CHN)
Bonzi, Benjamin (FRA)
Nakashima, Brandon (USA)
Giannessi, Alessandro (ITA)
Cressy, Maxime (USA)
Tabilo, Alejandro (CHI)OUT Popko, Dmitry (KAZ)OUT Bolt, Alex (AUS)
Fabbiano, Thomas (ITA)
Maden, Yannick (GER)
Mmoh, Michael (USA)
Domingues, Joao (POR)
Coppejans, Kimmer (BEL)
Rinderknech, Arthur (FRA)
Diez, Steven (CAN)
Marcora, Roberto (ITA)
Gulbis, Ernests (LAT)
Safiullin, Roman (FRA)
Ferreira Silva, Frederico (ESP)
Istomin, Denis (UZB)
Horansky, Filip (SVK)
Ito, Tatsuma (JPN)
Clarke, Jay (GBR)OUT Kokkinakis, Thanasi (AUS) PR
Broady, Liam (GBR)
Torpegaard, Mikael (DEN)
Ramanathan, Ramkumar (IND)
Vilella Martinez, Mario (ESP)
Krueger, Mitchell (USA)
Menezes, Joao (BRA)
Machac, Tomas (CZE)OUT Vukic, Aleksandar (AUS)
Haase, Robin (NED)
Escobedo, Ernesto (USA)
Rosol, Lukas (CZE)
Lacko, Lukas (SVK)
Troicki, Viktor (SRB)
Stakhovsky, Sergiy (UKR)
Halys, Quentin (FRA)
Collarini, Andrea (ARG)
Ymer, Elias (SWE)OUT Ficovich, Juan Pablo (ARG)
Muller, Alexandre (FRA)
Schnur, Brayden (CAN)
Marterer, Maximilian (GER)
Janvier, Maxime (FRA)
Couacaud, Enzo (FRA)
Kwiatkowski, Thai-Son (USA)
Bourgue, Mathias (FRA)
Olivo, Renzo (ARG)
Marchenko, Illya (UKR)
Copil, Marius (ROU)
Mollelker, Rudolf (GER)
Polansky, Peter (CAN)
Ilkel, Cem (TUR)
Garcia-Lopez, Guillermo (ESP)
Gojo, Borna (CRO)
Viola, Matteo (ITA)
Benchetrit, Elliot (MAR)
Robredo, Tommy (ESP)
Lestienne, Constant (FRA)
Tomic, Bernard (AUS)
Bemelmans, Ruben (BEL)
Cid Subervi, Roberto (DOM)
Harris, Andrew (AUS)
Moroni, Gian Marco (ITA)
WC Kubler, Jason (AUS)
WC Santillan, Akira (AUS)
WC Smith, John-Patrick (AUS)
WC Ebden, Matthew (AUS)
WC Hijikata, Rinky (AUS)
WC Sweeny, Dane (AUS)
WC Schoolkate, Tristan (AUS)
WC Bourchier, Harry (AUS)
WC Zverev, Mischa (GER)
Alternates:
IN Meligeni Rodrigues Alves, Felipe (BRA)
IN Kolar, Zdenek (CRO)OUT Sela, Dudi (ISR)
IN Li, Zhe (CHN)
IN Eubanks, Christopher (USA)
IN Kamke, Tobias (GER)
IN Mena, Facundo (ARG)
IN Purcell, Max (AUS)
IN De Greef, Arthur (BEL) PR
IN Moriya, Hiroki (JPN)
IN Trungelliti, Marco (ARG)
IN Blanch, Ulises (USA)
IN Wu, Tung-Lin (TPE)
IN Masur, Daniel (GER)
IN Vatutin, Alexey (RUS)
IN Moraing, Mats (GER)
IN Lenz, Julian (GER)OUT Jaziri, Malek (TUN)
OUT Kuhn, Nicola (ESP)
IN Mott, Blake (AUS) PR
IN Karlovskiy, Evgeny (RUS)
Alt.1 Kubler, Jason (AUS)
Alt.2 Cagnina, Julien (PR, BEL)
Alt.3 Zverev, Mischa (GER)
Alt.4 Menendez Maceiras, Adrian (ESP)
Alt.5 Gabashvili, Teymuraz (RUS)
Alt.6 Choinski, Jan (GBR)
Alt.7 Santillan, Akira (AUS)
Alt.8 Blancaneaux, Geoffrey (FRA)
