{"id":326014,"date":"2023-08-25T08:18:54","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T08:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=326014"},"modified":"2023-08-25T14:01:09","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T14:01:09","slug":"aussie-stars-return-locked-in-as-brutal-draw-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=326014","title":{"rendered":"Aussie star's return locked in as brutal draw revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ajla Tomljanovic\ufeff<\/a> will make her long-awaited return from injury at the US Open<\/a>, but she and fellow Australians have been dealt a tough draw.<\/p>\n

\ufeffTomljanovic\ufeff will be looking to replicate her quarter-finals run from last year – which included victory over Serena Williams<\/a> – but will have to overcome some stiff competition if she hopes to go all the way.<\/p>\n

She will face Hungary's\ufeff Panna Udvardy in first match of the tournament, but then will likely meet fourth-seed Elena Rybakina<\/a>, last year's Wimbledon<\/a> champion, in the second round.<\/p>\n

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\"Australias<\/p>\n

Tomljanovic makes her return after knee surgery that ruled her out of competition for nine months.\ufeff<\/p>\n

Daria Saville also has a tough road ahead, taking on US teen Clervie Ngounoue in the first round, before a potential meeting with World No.1 Iga \u015awi\u0105tek<\/a> if she wins her first round match.<\/p>\n

Meantime, Storm Hunter from Queensland will take one 10th seed Karol\u00edna Muchov\u00e1 from the Czech Republic in the opening round.<\/p>\n

\"Thanassi<\/p>\n

As for the men, Max Purcell has copped a dreaded draw, facing good friend and Australian Chris O'Connell, with the winner \ufeffto take on third seed Daniil Medvedev in round two.<\/p>\n

Thanasi Kokkinakis and Alexei Popyrin will both play qualifiers in the first round.<\/p>\n

Aleksandar Vukic will then face Germany's Olympic champion Alexander Zverev.<\/p>\n

Nick Kyrgios will miss the US Open due to injury, with competition kicking off on Monday.\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ajla Tomljanovic\ufeff will make her long-awaited return from injury at the US Open, but she and fellow Australians have been dealt a tough draw. \ufeffTomljanovic\ufeff […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":326016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326014"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=326014"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326019,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326014\/revisions\/326019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/326016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=326014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=326014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=326014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}