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Evans or Norrie might face Rafael Nadal in third spherical; Dominic Thiem in Novak Djokovic’s half and Daniil Medvedev in Nadal’s; Johanna Konta, Heather Watson, Katie Boulter and Fran Jones handed beneficial draw; Simona Halep, Serena Williams, Iga Swiatek and Aryna Sabalenka all in identical half
By Raz Mirza
Final Up to date: 05/02/21 11:21am
Dan Evans will meet compatriot Cameron Norrie in a Battle of the Brits on the Australian Open following the draw on Friday, whereas Yorkshire’s Fran Jones, who was born with a uncommon genetic situation, will make her Grand Slam debut in opposition to Shelby Rogers.
British No 1 Evans, who has continued his optimistic preparation for the primary Grand Slam of the yr with a nice run on the Murray River Open, will tackle Norrie for the primary time since their assembly at a Challenger occasion in California 5 years in the past – a match which Evans received in straight units.
There’s the carrot for the winner of a potential third-round conflict with second seed Rafael Nadal, whereas the pairing not less than means there is not going to be a repeat of the French Open in October, the place no British singles gamers reached the
second spherical.
Norrie
Ivashka or Safiullin
Nadal
Fognini
Tsitsipas
Medvedev
Djokovic
Evans is the thirtieth seed and Britain’s predominant hope for run together with girls’s thirteenth seed Johanna Konta, who will play Slovenian world No 104 Kaja Juvan within the opening spherical.
Juvan
Paquet or Sherif
Brady
Kenin
Svitolina
Barty
Halep
Qualifier Jones, 20, who was born with a rare genetic condition referred to as Ectrodactyly Ectodermal Dysplasia Syndrome – she has three fingers and a thumb on every hand, three toes on her proper foot and 4 toes on her left – will make her Grand Slam predominant draw debut in opposition to big-hitting American Rogers.
Heather Watson faces a rematch with Czech Kristyna Pliskova, who she beat on the identical stage final yr, whereas Katie Boulter will tackle former top-10 participant Daria Kasatkina.
High Half:
Barty vs Martic
Bencic vs Pliskova
Kenin vs Konta
Azarenka vs Svitolina
Backside Half:
Andreescu vs Kvitova
Muguruza vs Osaka
Sabalenka vs Serena
Swiatek vs Halep
Among the many prime seeds, world No 1 Ashleigh Barty’s first Grand Slam match for a yr shall be in opposition to Danka Kovinic whereas Serena Williams, bidding to win a record-equalling twenty fourth main, takes on Germany’s Laura Siegemund and defending champion Sofia Kenin faces Australian wild card Maddison Inglis.
US Open champion Naomi Osaka has a tricky opener in opposition to Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, who has reached the quarter-finals in three of the final 4 years. The 2019 champion, has a sequence of probably robust matches and will face Caroline Garcia and Ons Jabeur in her subsequent two rounds earlier than a probable match-up with both Garbine Muguruza or Angelique Kerber within the fourth spherical.
Second seed Simona Halep, a crushed finalist at Melbourne Park three years in the past, will play wild card, Lizette Cabrera, whereas fifth-seeded Ukrainian Elina Svitolina faces Marie Bouzkova.
Grand Slam champions Osaka, Serena Williams, Halep, Iga Swiatek, Angelique Kerber, Garbiñe Muguruza, Petra Kvitova, Venus Williams, Bianca Andreescu are all in a stacked backside half of the ladies’s draw together with in-form Aryna Sabalenka.
Andreescu is gearing as much as play her first match since October 2019.
The Canadian rocketed to the highest of the sport that season, successful the US Open as a young person, however a knee harm sidelined her firstly of final yr and he or she didn’t play competitively when the tour resumed final summer season.
There stay query marks over her bodily frailty, however Andreescu mentioned: “I am working actually, actually exhausting to stop as a lot as potential. Generally you actually cannot. Issues simply occur.
“Proper now I had an extended interval the place I can deal with these issues and prepare to one of the best of my capabilities, which I have been doing. I do not at all times need to deal with the previous. I need to deal with the longer term now.
“At this level I am simply tremendous grateful to be again, wholesome. And I am actually wanting ahead to it.”
Males’s prime seed Novak Djokovic opens in opposition to skilled Frenchman Jeremy Chardy and is in the identical half as US Open champion Dominic Thiem, who meets Mikhail Kukushkin.
Nadal, looking for a primary title on the main since 2009, faces Laslo Djere in his opener, however he has a path that would embrace a quarter-final assembly with Stefanos Tsitsipas and a semi-final in opposition to fourth seed Daniil Medvedev.
The Spaniard is degree with Roger Federer on 20 Grand Slam titles and trying to overtake the Swiss, who will not be taking part in this yr following knee surgical procedure.
High Half:
Djokovic vs A. Zverev
Schwartzman vs Thiem
Backside Half:
Medvedev vs Rublev
Tsitsipas vs Nadal
Detrimental outcomes
On Frida, the 507 folks re-tested for coronavirus all returned unfavorable outcomes.
Preparations had been thrown into chaos once more two days earlier when an worker at one of many motels used for the obligatory fortnight of quarantine examined optimistic for the virus.
Recent restrictions had been imposed on Melbourne, which had skilled no group instances for practically a month, however to this point the town has seen no different optimistic exams apart from these in quarantine
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