[Matthieu]

Eight Wildcards. Two already known.

Hugo Gaston has received the French reciprocal.
Marcos Giron has won the USA wildcard challenge based on points in certain American fall challengers.

The Asian-Pacific nomination goes to the winner of a pre-qualifying tournament. It seems that it's already in the final and its Jason Jung v Tatsuma Ito for that.

There is a 16 man Australian tournament that starts this week. A. Bolt, A. Harris, M. Purcell, B. Mott, A. Vukic, H. Bourchier, J. Smith, L. Saville, M. Banes, D. Kelly, J. Grills, T. Fancutt, R. Hijikata, T. Schoolkate and two more make that 16.

After that there are four more at the federations discretion for the remaining and eight more to give for qualifying as well.

 

[Chris.]

I assume O’Connell already has a wildcard hence not playing. Maybe Polmans as well.

 

[Matthieu]

I assume O’Connell already has a wildcard hence not playing. Maybe Polmans as well.

Yes, I'd say they both have one for sure... now how about Kokkinakis...

 

[NextGenKing]

Yes, I'd say they both have one for sure... now how about Kokkinakis...

Has been hitting so id imagine playing...PR??

 

[azza]

O'Connell absolutely deserves it won 79 matches on the ITF/Challenger circuit and got his ranking from 1000 120!

Polmans... prob has it as his TA love child, decent ranking but hus completely overrated and weaponless

Kubler and Kok both innjured if im not mistaken

 

[Servebots=GOAT]

TOMIC!!!!!! We need him to make it so we can see some more attempts at returning serve with the racquet handle.

 

[PortlandTimbers]

Tatsuma Ito won the Asia-Pacific-Playoff.
It will be his fifth AO Main Draw participation.

Final
[2] Tatsuma Ito (JPN) - [1] Jason Jung (TPE) 7-5 6-4

Semifinal
[1] Jason Jung (TPE) - [5] Duckhee Lee (KOR) 6-2 6-1
[2] Tatsuma Ito (JPN) - Yunseong Chung (KOR) 1-6 6-4 6-4

Quarterfinal
[1] Jason Jung (TPE) - Yuki Mochizuki (JPN) 6-1 6-4
[5] Duckhee Lee (KOR) - Ze Zhang (CHN) 7-5 6-3
Yunseong Chung (KOR) - [7] Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND) 6-4 6-3
[2] Tatsuma Ito (JPN) - [6] Ji Sung Nam (KOR) 3-6 6-1 6-1

Round of 16
[1] Jason Jung (TPE) - Jie Cui (CHN) 6-3 6-4
Yuki Mochizuki (JPN) - Tsung-Hua Yang (TPE) 6-3 6-3
Ze Zhang (CHN) - [3] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) 6-3 6-0
[5] Duckhee Lee (KOR) - Sho Shimabukuro (JPN) 6-2 6-1
Yunseong Chung (KOR) - [4] Denis Istomin (UZB) 7-5 6-3
[7] Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND) - Sidharth Rawat (IND) 6-3 6-2
[6] Ji Sung Nam (KOR) - Bu Yunchaokete (CHN) 6-4 6-0
[2] Tatsuma Ito (JPN) - Jumpei Yamasaki (JPN) 6-2 6-2

Participants:
128 Jason Jung (TPE)
148 Tatsuma Ito (JPN)
175 Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND)
179 Denis Istomin (UZB)
250 Duckhee Lee (KOR)
252 Ji Sung Nam (KOR)
270 Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND)
291 Tsung-Hua Yang (TPE)
321 Yunseong Chung (KOR)
359 Ze Zhang (CHN)
445 Sho Shimabukuro (JPN)
453 Jumpei Yamasaki (JPN)
499 Sidharth Rawat (IND)
570 Yuki Mochizuki (JPN)
572 Jie Cui (CHN)
- Bu Yunchaokete (CHN)

 

[Triggervic]

Darn, I was really hoping Jung could win the wildcard

 

[Matthieu]

Tatsuma Ito won the Asia-Pacific-Playoff.
It will be his fifth AO Main Draw participation.

Final
[2] Tatsuma Ito (JPN) - [1] Jason Jung (TPE) 7-5 6-4

The Australian Open Qualifying tournament is now underway as well - billed as the "December Showdown."

First Round

(1) A. Bolt v B. Mott (PR)
(2) A. Harris v T. Schoolkate (WC)
(3) M. Purcell v D. Sweeny (WC)
(4) A. Vukic v J. Grills
(5) H. Bourchier v C. Puttergill (WC)
(6) J. Smith v B. Walkin
(7) L. Saville v T. Fancutt
(8) M. Banes v R. Hijikata (WC)

There is a live scoreboard available here...

Official scoreboard

 

[George Stobbart]

Mott sustained a wrist injury while leading and had to retire: https://www.tennis.com.au/news/2019/12/09/ao-play-off-schoolkate-stuns-harris-in-five

 

[chilazon]

At least there's one youngin (Schookate) into R2 among a sea of journeymen.

 

[Kyrginakis]

Marcos Giron has won the USA wildcard challenge based on points in certain American fall challengers.

Giron is 102 in the ranks, so he will be in the MD anyway (if it won't be 3+ protected ranking players in the field), so probably Mmoh will replace him as a WC, won't he?

 

[enlightenedth]

Giron is 102 in the ranks, so he will be in the MD anyway (if it won't be 3+ protected ranking players in the field), so probably Mmoh will replace him as a WC, won't he?

"Giron moved up to a career-high ATP ranking of No. 102 with his title; in the likely event that he earns direct entry into Melbourne, second-place finisher Michael Mmoh will get the wild card."

 

[Matthieu]

"Giron moved up to a career-high ATP ranking of No. 102 with his title; in the likely event that he earns direct entry into Melbourne, second-place finisher Michael Mmoh will get the wild card."

In the December showdown....

Andrew Harris losing in five to Schoolkate being the major upset of round 1

Quarterfinals -

A. Bolt (1) v L. Saville (7)
M. Purcell (3) v H. Bourchier (5)
J. Smith (6) v A. Vukic (4)
M. Banes (8) v T. Schoolkate (WC)

 

[Manuromero90]

Asia-Pacific-Playoff I was shock with the Istomin upset.

Any recommendation from the Australian Playoff from today?

 

[chilazon]

Did anyone watch Banes vs Schoolkate? Curious how Schoolkate did?

 

[NextGenKing]

Mott sustained a wrist injury while leading and had to retire: https://www.tennis.com.au/news/2019/12/09/ao-play-off-schoolkate-stuns-harris-in-five

Shame. I had him winning this thing. Bolt prob will now id say.

 

[guitarra]

The real question here is: will Bernie get one?

I've heard he's running out of money which only means his motivation to do well in the Ozzy Open will increase dramatically.

 

[JediFed]

Will Murray get one? I see he's at 128, would need one to get into the MD. I can't see him having to play qualifying again.

 

[kingroger]

The real question here is: will Bernie get one?

I've heard he's running out of money which only means his motivation to do well in the Ozzy Open will increase dramatically.

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