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Aussies in action: Week of 22 August 2022 | 22 August, 2022 | All News | News and Features | News and Events

Aussies in action: Week of 22 August 2022 | 22 August, 2022 | All News | News and Features | News and Events

Australia, 22 August 2022 | tennis.com.au

Daria Saville has charged into the second round at a WTA 250 tournament in Granby.

The ninth-seeded Australian recorded a 6-3 6-3 victory against Slovak Anna Karolina Schmiedlova in first-round action today.

For seven Australian women, the focus is on this week’s US Open qualifying competition and trying to earn a main draw spot at the final Grand Slam tournament of the season.

Event/Location Level Surface Aussie competitors
US Open qualifying
New York, USA
Grand Slam Hard Maddison Inglis, Priscilla Hon, Astra Sharma, Lizette Cabrera, Seone Mendez, Kimberly Birrell
Tennis in the Land
Cleveland, USA
WTA 250 Hard Sam Stosur, Ellen Perez
Granby
Granby, Canada
WTA 250 Hard Daria Saville, Jaimee Fourlis, Olivia Tjandramulia
Zubr Cup
Prerov, Czech Republic
ITF 60 Clay Alexandra Bozovic, Alexandra Osborne
Goyang
Goyang, South Korea
ITF 25 Hard Talia Gibson, Kaylah McPhee
Bad Waltersdorf
Bad Waltersdorf, Austria
ITF 15 Clay Ana Prso
Cairo
Cairo, Egypt
ITF 15 Clay Lisa Mays
Magic Tours
Monastir, Tunisia
ITF 15 Hard Angelina Graovac, Estelle Najean

Jason Kubler and Chris O’Connell have both qualified for an ATP 250 tournament at Winston-Salem.

Kubler secured his place in the main draw with a 6-4 6-0 win against Hungary’s Marton Fucsovics, while O’Connell qualified with a 7-6(4) 7-6(4) win over world No.45 Tallon Griekspoor of the Netherlands.

They join John Millman, Thanasi Kokkinakis, James Duckworth and Alexei Popyrin in the main draw.

Kokkinakis and Duckworth face-off in an all-Australian first-round clash.

Event/Location Level Surface Aussie competitors
US Open qualifying
New York, USA
Grand Slam Hard Aleksandar Vukic, Marc Polmans
Winston-Salem Open
Winston-Salem, USA
ATP 250 Hard John Millman, Thanasi Kokkinakis, James Duckworth, Alexei Popyrin, Jason Kubler, Chris O’Connell, Matt Ebden
Granby
Granby, Canada
ATP Challenger 80 Hard Jordan Thompson, Edward Winter, Luke Saville
Nonthaburi
Nonthaburi, Thailand
ATP Challenger 50 Hard Akira Santillan, Dane Sweeny, Omar Jasika, James McCabe, Tristan Schoolkate, Philip Sekulic, Dayne Kelly
Roehampton
London, Great Britain
ITF 25 Hard Nicholas Jovanovski, Patrick Fitzgerald
Talex Open
Poznan, Poland
ITF 25 Clay Brandon Walkin
Magic Hotel Tour
Monastir, Tunisia
ITF 15 Hard Matthew…

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