Jones to resume junior profession at Australian Open 2025 | 17 January, 2025 | All Information | Information and Options | Information and Occasions

Sixteen-year-old Emerson Jones begins his junior Australian Open 2025 marketing campaign on Saturday, with Aussie No.1 Alex de Minaur additionally in motion on Day 7.

Melbourne, VIC, 17 January 2025 | Jackson Mansell

Emerson Jones will relaunch his bid for a primary Grand Slam title on Saturday when his 2025 Australian Open marketing campaign begins.

The younger world No.1 faces qualifier Anastasia Lizunova on Court docket 3 within the opening spherical, as she goals to enhance on her look within the 2024 Australian Open closing.

Though he’s but to win a minor Grand Slam, Jones’ current wave of type provides him the proper alternative to realize this.

The 16-year-old recorded her first WTA high 50 win on tour debut, defeating world No.37 Wang Xinyu 6-4 6-0 on the Adelaide Worldwide.

“I believe mentally I’ve improved rather a lot from final 12 months and this 12 months,” Jones mentioned after his win on the Adelaide Worldwide final week. “I believe I play quite a lot of matches and I attempt to inform myself earlier than each match that I must be constructive as a result of that is most likely essentially the most talked about tennis.”

His earlier two encounters have been robust thus far. After falling to world quantity 10 Daria Kasatkina within the second spherical in Adelaide, Jones was met with the prospect of defeating world quantity 7 Elena Rybakina in her first main ladies’s match.

In different motion, Alex de Minaur will face his largest problem but when he takes the court docket in opposition to Francisco Cerundolo who’s the thirty first participant.

The World No.8 might be coming off one other straight win in opposition to American qualifier Tristan Boyer on Thursday afternoon. It’s the first time in his profession that De Minaur has gained his first 4 matches of the season in straight units.

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The 25-year-old is aiming to change into the primary Australian male because the introduction of the 128-player draw to enter the spherical of 16 at Melbourne Park for 4 consecutive years.

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“He’s a really harmful participant, he has tips. He has extra firepower from the bottom than earlier than. He had nice scalps for the journey. He isn’t afraid to play large video games. It will likely be a conflict. I am wanting ahead to it,” mentioned De Minaur. “I’ve to be prepared from the start, deliver that depth, play an aggressive fashion of tennis, deliver out the very best model of me, which I believe I do daily.”

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