The US Open 2024 in Tennis The tournament begins on Monday at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York.
The last Grand Slam tennis The tournament of the year will be available in its 144th edition in Australia via live streaming and broadcast.
World ranking 10 Alex de Minaur and world ranking 28 Alexey Popyrin will lead Australia’s strongest singles main draw at the US Open in 45 years.
Twenty Australian tennis playersconsisting of 12 men and eight women, will compete in Flushing Meadows. This means that the team size is the same as in the 1979 tournament, when 14 men and six women represented the nation.
Alex de Minaur, 25, is the highest seeded Australian at the US Open in 19 years. The opening match against Marcos Giron of the USA, ranked number 46 in the world, will be the Australian’s first singles match since he was forced to withdraw from Wimbledon in July due to a hip injury.
Alexei Popyrin is seeded at a Grand Slam tournament for the first time in his career thanks to his ATP Masters 1000 title win in Montreal earlier this month, but he could face defending champion Novak Djokovic of Serbia in the third round.
Max Purcell and Aleksandar Vukic will face each other in the opening round of the men’s singles in an all-Australian showdown.
Eight Australians will compete in the women’s singles. World number one Daria Saville and world number 119 Ajla Tomljanovic will face a qualifying round player in their opening matches. 18-year-old Taylah Preston will make her US Open main draw debut as a wildcard.
Qualifiers Destanee Aiava and Priscilla Hon will face a daunting task in getting past Kazakhstan’s Elena Rybakina and Aryna Sabalenka respectively, while fellow qualifier Kimberly Birrell will face Paris 2024 Olympic silver medalist Donna Vekic of Croatia.
In the men’s doubles, all eyes are on the Paris 2024 Olympic champion Matthew Ebden. The Australian is also the reigning Australian Open champion along with his Indian partner Rohan Bopanna. They are seeded second behind Spaniard Marcel Granollers and his Argentinian partner Horacio Zeballos.
Ebden-Bopanna reached the final of the US Open last year, where he lost to Rajeev Ram of the USA and Joe Salisbury of Great Britain.
How to watch the 2024 US Open tennis matches live in Australia
The 2024 US Open tournament will also be televised live in Australia on Channel 9 and streamed live via the 9Now app and website.
Australian tennis players at the 2024 US Open
Men’s singles: Alex de Minaur (10), Alexei Popyrin (28), Jordan Thompson, Rinky Hijikata, James Duckworth, Thanasi Kokkinakis, Christopher O’Connell, Aleksandar 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: To be announced
Women’s doubles: To be announced
Mixed Doubles: To be announced
