Tennis News : All the women and men in the top 50 have confirmed that they will start the 2020 season at the first Grand Slam, the Australian Open.
World number 1 tennis player, Rafael Nadal and Ashleigh Barty will be the first seed of the 115th edition of the Australian Open which will be held on January 20 – February 7, 2020.
The Australian Open in 2020 will also be the first tournament for former world number 3 Juan Martin del Potro. The Argentine will return to the Australian Open using a protected ranking after being absent for six months due to injury.
Tennis player who has won the Australian Open seven times, Serena Williams will again try to win the 24th Grand Slam title in her career at the Australian Open, an achievement that will make it equal the Margaret Court record.
Serena’s sister, Venus Williams, who is 39 years old, will also return to Melbourne.
The top 50 ranking players who will miss the Australian Open next season are the players who have won it twice, Victoria Azarenka who withdrew before the list of players to participate was released for reasons that are not yet specific.
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Over the past decade, with the exception of Stan Wawrinka’s victory in the 2014 season, the men’s singles Australian Open has been dominated by Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer, while Nadal won the only Australian Open title in the 2009 season.
Djokovic is the defending champion and is eyeing the eighth Australian Open title. While the 38-year-old tennis player, Federer is eyeing the seventh Australian Open title.
In the women’s singles number, chances are more open after seven different winners in the past decade, including Naomi Osaka who won it in the 2019 season.
While the 2018 Australian Open champion, Caroline Wozniacki has recently announced that the Australian Open will be her last tournament before hanging the racket.
Previously, Ashleigh Barty was selected as the best female tennis player this year after she won the first Grand Slam Slam in her career and was ranked world number one.
In the 2019 season, 23-year-old Barty won 57 matches, the most out of all the girls by only losing 12.
“Barty scored success in all types of fields, won tournaments in each field (Miami-hard-court, French Open-clay-court, and Birmingham-grass-court), and ended in the top 10,” the WTA wrote on its official website .
