This Monday (from 02:00 in the morning, Spanish time), the preliminary phase of the Open the Australia with teams of 124 players and ten Spanish tennis players in contention, three in the men’s and ten in the women’s: Carlos Taberner, Pablo Andújar, Fernando VerdascoCristina Bucsa, Rebeka Masarova, Aliona Bolsova, Leyre Romero, Marina Bassols, Jessica Bouzas and Rosa Vicens.
On the first day of competition, five Spaniards perform. Bolsova, 141st in the world, will face a difficult rival, the British Heather Watson, 139th. Andújar, seeded 14th, will face Australian guest Adam Walton (432nd) in his last year as a professional. Bucsa, fourth favorite, will face a local player, Kaylah McPhee (580th). Romero (169th), with the Uzbek Nigina Abduraimova (180th) and Vicens (221st), with the German Eva Lys (22nd favourite).
For Tuesday there will be the matches of Taberner (165th) against the American Aleksandar Kovacevic (158th), Verdasco (16th seed) against the Croatian Nino Serdarusic (234th), Masarova (25th favourite) against the Romanian Gabriela Lee (200th), Bassols (18th in the qualifying), against the Greek Valentini Grammatikopoulou (199th) and Bouzas (193rd) against the Dutch Arantxa Rus (12th favourite).
good turnout
The Chilean Alejandro Tabilo and the American Alycia Parks lead the tables with illustrious participants such as Marco Cecchinato, Damir Dzumhur, Jan-Lennard Struff, Mikhail Kukushkin, Benoit Paire, Federico Delbonis, Eugenie Bouchard, Sara Errani, Coco Vandeweghe and Kiki Mladenovic.
