The Murray River Open (Melbourne 1) and Great Ocean Road Open (Melbourne 2) will help get the ATP players match ready after their 14 days of quarantine. Melbourne Park will host the two 250 ATP tournaments, as well as the ATP Cup, in the lead up to the Australian Open. The events will now take place from the 1st to the 7th of February due to a change in schedule.
Both tournaments will have 56 singles players and 24 doubles teams, meaning that every single player in the Australian Open this year will be playing a lead up tournament of some sort.
World No. 14, David Goffin, will be the top seed at the Murray River Open. Since working with a new coach, Belgian, Germain Gigounon, the World No.14 will look to build on his semi-final appearance in Antalya, Turkey this season. Joining Goffin will be Russian young gun Karen Khachanov (World No. 20) who will be looking for his first tour title since 2018.
Australian Jordan Thompson will be the 11th seed at the tournament. The World No. 52 has been training in Canberra with Nick Kyrgios and John Millman, saying “we have been training pretty hard, at least two hours a day, and then getting in the gym afterwards.” Thompson played 8 events after the pandemic hit last year.
Other notable players include Hubert Hurkacz (World No. 29), Jannik Sinner (World No. 36), Tennys Sandgren (World No. 50) and Kevin Anderson (World No. 82).
Moving onto the Great Ocean Road Open, Stan ‘the man’ Wawrinka will lead the way as the top seed of the tournament. The World No. 18 will be hoping to claim his first ATP title since May 2017. Joining Wawrinka is the 2017 ATP Finals Champion and World No. 19, Grigor Dimitrov.
Young guns Felix Auger-Aliassime (World No. 21), Borna Coric (World No. 25) and Taylor Fritz (World No. 30) make up an exciting group of players that will in turn provide fans with with high quality tennis.
World No. 47, Nick Kyrgios, will be back in action after electing not to compete overseas during COVID-19. Kyrgios has been hard at work with Thompson, writing on Instagram that “Iron sharpens iron…thanks @jordanthompson2004 for sharpening me up.” Kyrgios seems to have put in an extensive amount of work over the offseason.
Veterans Richard Gasquet (World No. 48), and Giles Simon (World No. 64) as well as Tommy Paul (World No. 53) will also be looking to start their year off right on the hard courts.
Matches will be played mostly on the outside courts at Melbourne Park.
A full list of entries can be found below.
Draws will take place at 11am on Saturday 30th January. Wildcards will be announced in the coming days.
Melbourne 1
1 David Goffin 14
2 Karen Khachanov 20
3 Hubert Hurkacz 29
4 Jannik Sinner 36
5 Nikoloz Basilashvili 39
6 Reilly Opelka 40
7 Miomir Kecmanovic 42
8 Alexander Bublik 45
9 Tennys Sandgren 50
10 Sam Querrey 51
11 Jordan Thompson 52
12 Laslo Djere 56
13 Aljaz Bedene 58
14 Pablo Andujar 59
15 Vasek Pospisil 61
16 Feliciano Lopez 63
Dominik Koepfer 68
Pablo Cuevas 70
Stefano Travaglia 71
Salvatore Caruso 76
Federico Delbonis 77
Kevin Anderson 82
Thiago Monteiro 83
Pierre-Hugues Herbert 84
Pedro Martinez 87
Norbert Gombos 88
Attila Balazs 93
Gianluca Mager 95
Soonwoo Kwon 96
Roberto Carballes Baena 97
Yannick Hanfmann 100
Andrej Martin 101
Yasutaka Uchiyama 105
Andreas Seppi 106
Kamil Majchrzak 108
Ilya Ivashka 109
Hugo Dellien 112
Damir Dzumhur 120
Christopher O'Connell 121
Cedrik-Marcel Stebe 127
Henri Laaksonen 134
Carlos Alcaraz 145
Botic Van de Zandschulp 158
Maxime Cressy 170
Kimmer Coppejans 176
Roman Safiullin 181
Mario Vilella Martinez 187
Mikael Torpegaard 193
Aleksandar Vukic 195
Robin Haase 198
Sergiy Stakhovsky 201
Yen-Hsun Lu 1008
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Melbourne 2
1 Stan Wawrinka 18
2 Grigor Dimitrov 19
3 Felix Auger-Aliassime 21
4 Borna Coric 25
5 Casper Ruud 27
6 Taylor Fritz 30
7 Ugo Humbert 32
8 Daniel Evans 33
9 Lorenzo Sonego 34
10 Adrian Mannarino 35
11 Marin Cilic 43
12 Albert Ramos-Vinolas 46
13 Nick Kyrgios 47
14 Richard Gasquet 48
15 Tommy Paul 53
16 Marton Fucsovics 55
Frances Tiafoe 62
Gilles Simon 64
Jeremy Chardy 66
Cameron Norrie 67
Jiri Vesely 69
Ricardas Berankis 72
Marcos Giron 73
Egor Gerasimov 78
Marco Cecchinato 79
Corentin Moutet 80
Juan Ignacio Londero 81
Radu Albot 85
Emil Ruusuvuori 86
Mikhail Kukushkin 89
Lloyd Harris 90
Federico Coria 91
Mikael Ymer 94
Yuichi Sugita 102
James Duckworth 104
Pedro Sousa 107
Alexei Popyrin 114
Taro Daniel 117
Marc Polmans 124
Sumit Nagal 138
Alex Bolt 173
Michael Mmoh 175
Frederico Ferreira Silva 182
Mackenzie McDonald 194
Tomas Machac 197
Viktor Troicki 202
Elias Ymer 204
Quentin Halys 206
Alexandre Muller 208
Borna Gojo 223
Bernard Tomic 229
Thanasi Kokkinakis 264
4 WILDCARD ENTRANTS