🏆 DOMINANCE 🇦🇺 @DjokerNole, @serenawilliams and @rogerfederer will start #AO2021 with a remarkable 21 #AusOpen singles titles between them. Will more history be made in February?
The first Major of the season (Australian Open) will take place at Melbourne Park between February 5-21, gathering the world's finest players in more different conditions than ever before in Australia.
The players will arrive in Melbourne in mid-January and embrace a two-week quarantine, practicing only with a couple of rivals and having a chance to play two ATP 250 tournaments and the ATP Cup ahead of the first Australian Open encounters. If everything goes right, all the top-60 players will chase the first Major title of the season, including the six-time champion Roger Federer, who is trying to recover in time and enter the draw.
The defending champion and the record-holder Novak Djokovic will be the top seed, seeking the ninth Melbourne crown ahead of Rafael Nadal, Dominic Thiem and Daniil Medvedev. Nadal is trying to win the first title since 2009, and Thiem is eager to go a step further than in 2020. The Austrian was two sets to one up against the Serb in the title clash, only to lose ground and suffer a five-sets loss.
Roger Federer reached the semis last January before experiencing a knee injury and skipping the rest of the season, hoping to get back and chase the 21st Major title in February. Alexander Zverev should be in contention too if he brings his best tennis, reaching the semis in Melbourne this year and hoping for more in less than two months.
1 DJOKOVIC, Novak SRB 1
2 NADAL, Rafael ESP 2
3 THIEM, Dominic AUT 3
4 MEDVEDEV, Daniil RUS 4
5 TSITSIPAS, Stefanos GRE 6
6 ZVEREV, Alexander GER 7
7 RUBLEV, Andrey RUS 8
8 SCHWARTZMAN, Diego ARG 9
9 BERRETTINI, Matteo ITA 10
10 MONFILS, Gael FRA 11
11 SHAPOVALOV, Denis CAN 12
12 BAUTISTA AGUT, Roberto ESP 13
13 RAONIC, Milos CAN 14
14 GOFFIN, David BEL 15
15 CARRENO BUSTA, ESP 16
16 FOGNINI, Fabio ITA 17
17 WAWRINKA, Stan SUI 18
18 DIMITROV, Grigor BUL 19
19 KHACHANOV, Karen RUS 20
20 AUGER-ALIASSIME, Felix CAN 21
21 DE MINAUR, Alex AUS 23
22 CORIC, Borna CRO 24
23 LAJOVIC, Dusan SRB 26
24 RUUD, Casper NOR 27
25 PAIRE, Benoit FRA 28
26 FRITZ, Taylor USA 29
27 HUMBERT, Ugo FRA 30
28 KRAJINOVIC, Filip SRB 31
29 EVANS, Daniel GBR 32
30 SONEGO, Lorenzo ITA 33
31 HURKACZ, Hubert POL 34
32 MANNARINO, Adrian FRA 35
33 STRUFF, Jan-Lennard GER 36
34 SINNER, Jannik ITA 37
35 MILLMAN, John AUS 38
36 OPELKA, Reilly USA 39
37 BASILASHVILI, Nikoloz GEO 40
38 NISHIKORI, Kei JPN 41
39 CILIC, Marin CRO 42
40 PELLA, Guido ARG 43
41 KECMANOVIC, Miomir SRB 44
42 KYRGIOS, Nick AUS 45
43 RAMOS-VINOLAS, Albert ESP 46
44 GASQUET, Richard FRA 47
45 SANDGREN, Tennys USA 49
46 BUBLIK, Alexander KAZ 50
47 THOMPSON, Jordan AUS 51
48 DAVIDOVICH FOKINA, Alejandro ESP 52
49 QUERREY, Sam USA 53
50 PAUL, Tommy USA 54
51 FUCSOVICS, Marton HUN 55
52 NISHIOKA, Yoshihito JPN 56
53 DJERE, Laslo SRB 57
54 BEDENE, Aljaz SLO 58
55 TIAFOE, Frances USA 59
56 ANDUJAR, Pablo ESP 60
57 POSPISIL, Vasek CAN 61
58 SIMON, Gilles FRA 63
59 LOPEZ, Feliciano ESP 64
60 KOEPFER, Dominik GER 66
61 CUEVAS, Pablo URU 67
62 VESELY, Jiri CZE 68
63 BERANKIS, Ricardas LTU 69
64 NORRIE, Cameron GBR 71
65 LU, Yen-Hsun TPE @71
66 JOHNSON, Steve USA 72
67 GIRON, Marcos USA 73
68 TRAVAGLIA, Stefano ITA 74
69 CHARDY, Jeremy FRA 75
70 CARUSO, Salvatore ITA 76
71 MOUTET, Corentin FRA 77
72 GERASIMOV, Egor BLR 78
73 LONDERO, Juan Ignacio ARG 79
74 CECCHINATO, Marco ITA 80
75 ANDERSON, Kevin RSA 81
76 DELBONIS, Federico ARG 82
77 HERBERT, Pierre-Hugues FRA 83
78 MCDONALD, Mackenzie USA @83
79 MONTEIRO, Thiago BRA 84
80 MARTINEZ, Pedro ESP 85
81 RUUSUVUORI, Emil FIN 86
82 HARRIS, Lloyd RSA 87
83 GOMBOS, Norbert SVK 88
84 KUKUSHKIN, Mikhail KAZ 89
85 SOUSA, Joao POR 90
86 CORIA, Federico ARG 91
87 BALAZS, Attila HUN 92
88 ALBOT, Radu MDA 93
89 YMER, Mikael SWE 94
90 KWON, Soonwoo KOR 95
91 NOVAK, Dennis AUT 96
92 CARBALLES BAENA, Roberto ESP 97
93 HANFMANN, Yannick GER 98
94 MAGER, Gianluca ITA 100
95 MARTIN, Andrej SVK 101
96 SUGITA, Yuichi JPN 102
97 DUCKWORTH, James 103
98 UCHIYAMA, Yasutaka JPN 104
🏆 DOMINANCE 🇦🇺 @DjokerNole, @serenawilliams and @rogerfederer will start #AO2021 with a remarkable 21 #AusOpen singles titles between them. Will more history be made in February?