The 2013 Australian Open men’s qualifying singles draw 1st round matches begin on Wednesday 9 January at 11am local time in Melbourne and are FREE for the public to enter and enjoy. OnCourt Advantage provides some interesting facts about the men’s qualifying and the full list of the qualifying draw below.
The 2013 Australian Open is the both the first Grand Slam tournament and the first MAJOR tournament of the “BIG 14″ tournaments each year. There are 240 players vying for the title, a maximum of 2,000 ATP ranking points and $2,430,000 in prize money for the winner. To work out when to watch the Australian Open tennis in Singapore subtract 3 hours from local Melbourne time.
The Australian Open qualifying singles event is a 128-player draw divided up between 9 Wild Cards [WC] and 119 Direct Acceptances vying for the 16 spots allocated to qualifiers in the singles main draw.
The Top 32 ranked players amongst the 120 Direct Acceptances according to the ATP rankings on 7 January 2013 become the 32 seeds. The 32 seeds were ranked from world No.110 (Andreas HAIDER-MAURER) through to No.158 (ZHANG Ze).
The 2013 Australian Open men’s qualifying singles draw is:
- Andreas HAIDER-MAURER [1] v Evgeny KOROLEV
- Christopher RUNGKAT v Peter POLANSKY
- Brydan KLEIN v Riccardo GHEDIN
- Adrian MANNARINO v [29] Ivan SERGEYEV
- Ricardas BERANKIS [2] v Peter GOJOWCZYK
- Bradley KLAHN v [WC] Nick KYRGIOS
- Gianluca NASO v Jan HERNYCH
- Paul CAPDEVILLE v [26] Jack SOCK
- Dudi SELA [3] v Sergio GUTIERREZ-FERROL
- Igor KUNITSYN v Ivo MINAR
- Dominik MEFFERT v Pierre-Hugues HERBERT
- Michal PRZYSIEZNY v [17] Michael BERRER
- Ruben BEMELMANS [4] v Andrey GOLUBEV
- Samuel GROTH v [WC] Lucas POUILLE
- Nikola MEKTIC v Marsel ILHAN
- Vincent MILLOT v [28] Danai UDOMCHOKE
- Martin ALUND [5] v Diego Sebastian SCHWARTZMAN
- Thomas FABBIANO v Yuki BHAMBRI
- Rik DE VOEST v Radu ALBOT
- Amir WEINTRAUB v [22] Wayne ODESNIK
- Kenny DE SCHEPPER [6] v Fabiano DE PAULA
- Thanasi KOKKINAKIS [WC] v Steve JOHNSON
- Jordan THOMPSON [WC] v Nicolas RENAVAND
- Alex KUZNETSOV v [21] Ryan SWEETING
- Daniel BRANDS [7] v Frank DANCEVIC
- Gregoire BURQUIER v David GUEZ
- Steven DIEZ v Pavol CERVENAK
- Javier MARTI v [30] Jimmy WANG
- Florent SERRA [8] v Andrej MARTIN
- Alex BOLT [WC] v Boy WESTERHOF
- Dustin BROWN v Hiroki MORIYA
- Jacob GRILLS [WC] v [31] Maxime AUTHOM
- (pictured above) James BLAKE [9] v Marius COPIL
- Donald YOUNG v Aldin SETKIC
- Julio Cesar CAMPOZANO v Jamie BAKER
- Matwe MIDDELKOOP v [19] Matteo VIOLA
- Matthias BACHINGER [10] v Stephane ROBERT
- Erik CHVOJKA v Adrian MENENDEZ-MACEIRAS
- Denys MOLCHANOV v Farrukh DUSTOV
- Denis ZIVKOVIC v [20] Marc GICQUEL
- Tim SMYCZEK [11] v Marcelo DEMOLINER
- Kamil CAPKOVIC v [WC] Matthew BARTON
- Daniel KOSAKOWSKI v [WC] Adam FEENEY
- Cedrik-Marcel STEBE v [23] Uladzimir IGNATIK
- Alex BOGOMOLOV Jnr. [12] v Niels DESEIN
- Potito STARACE v Tennus SANDGREN
- Michael YANI v Mirza BASIC
- CHEN Ti v [27] Simon GREUL
- Thiemo DE BAKKER [13] v Oleksandr NEDOVYESOV
- Jesse HUTA GALUNG v Jan-Lennard STRUFF
- YANG Tsung-Hua v Bastian KNITTEL
- Arnau BRUGUES-DAVI v [32] ZHANG Ze
- Yuichi SUGITA [14] v Mischa ZVEREV
- Boris PASHANSKI v James WARD
- Matt REID [WC] v Ricardo HOCEVAR
- Julian REISTER v [18] Denis KUDLA
- Rajeev RAM [15] v Nicolas DEVILDER
- Jonathan EYSSERIC v Hans PODLIPNIK-CASTILLO
- Damir DZUMHUR v Izak VAN DER MERWE
- Alessandro GIANNESSI v [25] Marco CHIUDINELLI
- Antonio VEIC [16] v Jan MERTL
- Dusan LAJOVIC v Guilherme CLEZAR
- Robert FARAH v Daniel MUNOZ-DE LA NAVA
- Maxime TEIXEIRA v [24] Jonathan DASNIERES DE VEIGHY
Photo credit: José Goulão
