Australia, 11 July 2022 | Leigh Rogers
The grass-court season continues for several Australian players at the Hall of Fame Open in Newport this week.
Five Australians – James Duckworth, Jordan Thompson, Alexei Popyrin, Jason Kubler and Max Purcell – are competing in singles at the ATP 250 tournament.
Thompson and Kubler, who have both enjoyed impressive grass-court swings, have been pitted against each other in the opening round.
Newly crowned Wimbledon doubles champion Purcell is a wildcard entry and faces Frenchman Adrian Mannarino in a rematch of their first-round singles clash at the All England Club.
It is a special week for Australian tennis, with Lleyton Hewitt to be officially inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame during the tournament. The former world No.1 will become the 32nd Australian to receive the honour and the first since wheelchair champion David Hall in 2015.
| Event/Location | Level | Surface | Aussie competitors |
| Hall of Fame Open Newport, USA |
ATP 250 | Grass | James Duckworth, Jordan Thompson, Alexei Popyrin, Jason Kubler, Max Purcell, John-Patrick Smith |
| Georgia’s Rome Challenger Rome, Italy |
ATP Challenger 80 | Hard | Rinky Hijikata, Li Tu, Dane Sweeny, Andrew Harris |
| Verona Verona, Italy |
ATP Challenger 80 | Clay | Bernard Tomic |
| Roehampton London, Great Britain |
ITF 25 | Grass | Tristan Schoolkate, Nicholas Jovanovski |
| Nur-Sultan Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan |
ITF 25 | Hard | Akira Santillan |
| Uriage Uriage, France |
ITF 25 | Clay | Matthew Dellavedova |
| Idanha-a-Nova Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal |
ITF 25 | Hard | Omar Jasika, Kody Pearson |
| Litija Litija, Slovenia |
ITF 15 | Clay | Brandon Walkin |
| Aprilia Aprilia, Italy |
ITF 15 | Clay | Josh Reid |
| Cancun Cancun, Mexico |
ITF 15 | Hard | Adam Walton |
| Casablanca Casablanca, Morocco |
ITF 15 | Clay | Stefan Vujic |
| Magic Hotel Tour Monastir, Tunisia |
ITF 15 | Hard | Moerani Bouzige, Ken Cavrak, Alexander Crnokrak, Tai Sach, Shuannon Tricerri, Chase Ferguson, Andrej Tasev, Jeremy Saunders, Anthony Shumsky |
Olivia Gadecki is the highest-ranked Australian woman in action this week, with the world No.160 competing at an ITF tournament in Rome.
The 20-year-old is joined by compatriots Priscilla Hon and Zoe Hives at the clay-court event.
| Event/Location | Level | Surface | Aussie competitors |
| Rome Rome, Italy |
ITF 60 | Clay | |
| Guimaraes Guimaraes, Portugal |
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