Cutoff at an extremely low 97

Cutoff at an extremely low 97


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The field for the 2024 Australian Open was announced this week.

For Grand Slams, the 128-man draws are made up of 104 direct entrants, 16 qualifiers, and eight wild cards. That means a ranking of No. 104 or better generally gets a player into the main draw of a slam.

The upcoming Aussie Open, however, has an amazingly low direct-entry cutoff of No. 97. That’s because seven men have used protected rankings to gain entry into the event. They are allowed to do so if they missed a certain amount of time due to injury and had a good enough ranking at the time of getting injured.

Rafael Nadal, Marin Cilic, Denis Shapovalov, Milos Raonic, Reilly Opelka, Jiri Vesely, and Soonwoo Kwon are the seven PR entrants. Meanwhile, wild cards have been issued to James, Duckworth, Marc Polmans, and Adam Walton. Five wild-card spots remain.

Here is the 2024 Australian Open men’s singles entry list:

Seed* Name Current Ranking Entry Ranking
1 Novak Djokovic 1 1
2 Carlos Alcaraz 2 2
3 Daniil Medvedev 3 3
4 Jannik Sinner 4 4
5 Andrey Rublev 5 5
6 Stefanos Tsitsipas 6 6
7 Alexander Zverev 7 7
8 Holger Rune 8 8
9 Hubert Hurkacz 9 9
10 Taylor Fritz 10 10
11 Casper Ruud 11 11
12 Alex de Minaur 12 12
13 Tommy Paul 13 13
14 Grigor Dimitrov 14 14
15 Karen Khachanov 15 15
16 Frances Tiafoe 16 16
17 Ben Shelton 17 17
18 Cameron Norrie 18 18
19 Nicolas Jarry 19 19
20 Ugo Humbert 20 20
21 Francisco Cerundolo 21 21
22 Adrian Mannarino 22 22
23 Tallon Griekspoor 23 23
24 Sebastian Korda 24 24
25 Jan-Lennard Struff 25 25
26 Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 26 26
27 Lorenzo Musetti 27 27
28 Sebastian Baez 28 28
29 Felix Auger-Aliassime 29 29
30 Tomas Martin Etcheverry 30 30
31 Jiri Lehecka 31 31
32 Alexander Bublik 32 32
Laslo Djere 33 33
Christopher Eubanks 34 34
Aslan Karatsev 35 35
Arthur Fils 36 36
Borna Coric 37 37
Daniel Evans 38 38
Roman Safiullin 39 39
Alexei Popyrin 40 40
Mackenzie McDonald 41 41
Andy Murray 42 42
Sebastian Ofner 43 43
Matteo Arnaldi 44 44
Max Purcell 45 45
Lorenzo Sonego 46 46
Yoshihito Nishioka 47 47
Alexander Shevchenko 48 48
Stan Wawrinka 49 49
Botic van de Zandschulp 50 50
Yannick Hanfmann 51 51
Dusan Lajovic 52 52
J.J. Wolf 53 53
Miomir Kecmanovic 54 54
Jordan Thompson 55 55
Daniel Altmaier 56 56
Roberto Bautista Agut 57 57
Zhizhen Zhang 58 58
Marton Fucsovics 59 59
Marcos Giron 60 60
Jack Draper 61 61
Aleksandar Vukic 62 62
Roberto Carballes Baena 63 63
Fabian Marozsan 64 64
Thanasi Kokkinakis 65 65
Nuno Borges 66 66
Pavel Kotov 67 67
Christopher O’Connell 68 68
Emil Ruusuvuori 69 69
Pedro Cachin 70 70
Rinky Hijikata 71 71
Borna Gojo 72 72
Benjamin Bonzi 73 73
Gael Monfils 74 74
Taro Daniel 75 75
Richard Gasquet 76 76
Dominik Koepfer 77 77
Tomas Machac 78 78
Thiago Seyboth Wild 79 79
Bernabe Zapata Miralles 80 80
Alexandre Muller 81 81
Cristian Garin 82 82
Juan Pablo Varillas 83 83
Gregoire Barrere 84 84
Alejandro Tabilo 85 85
Jaume Munar 86 86
Constant Lestienne 87 87
Federico Coria 88 88
Albert Ramos-Vinolas 89 89
Luca Van Assche 90 90
Maximilian Marterer 91 91
Matteo Berrettini 92 92
Daniel Elahi Galan 93 93
Dominic Stricker 94 94
Facundo Diaz Acosta 95 95
Arthur Rinderknech 96 96
Alex Michelsen 97 97
Denis Shapovalov 109 27 (PR)
(WC) James Duckworth 116
(WC) Marc Polmans 150
(WC) Adam Walton 178
Soonwoo Kwon 198 80 (PR)
Jiri Vesely 291 94 (PR)
Milos Raonic 318 33 (PR)
Rafael Nadal 664 9 (PR)
Marin Cilic 666 21 (PR)
Reilly Opelka 1135 33 (PR)

The rankings at this week’s deadline are used only for entry into the main draw. Seeding will be determined by the rankings one week prior to the beginning of the Australian Open. That means players have the first week of 2024 to try to improve their positioning in hopes of being seeded for the season’s first Grand Slam.

No. 98 Dominic Thiem, No. 99 Yosuke Watanuki, and No. 100 Quentin Halys are currently the first three players out. Of course, chances are good that there will be at least a few withdrawals prior to the draw ceremony.



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