Which Australian Tennis Players Are Ranked The Highest?

Australia has an extended and storied historical past with the game of tennis. From Margaret Court docket to Lleyton Hewitt, among the most iconic tennis stars of all time have grown up within the land down beneath.

2022 is not any completely different both; there are a selection of gamers who sit within the higher echelon of the rankings that may go on to encourage the subsequent era of the Australian tennis stars.

Learn on as DMARGE takes you thru the very best ranked Australian skilled tennis gamers on the earth in the present day.

Rankings as of 25 October 2022

Nick Kyrgios

Nick Kyrgios, the dangerous boy {of professional} tennis, is a Canberra native who is sort of as well-known for his antics on and off the court docket, as he’s for his expertise on the tennis court docket.

However no matter you consider the person, his wonderful tennis potential is simple. He established himself on the world stage by defeating then world No. 1 ranked Rafael Nadal in his Wimbledon debut in 2014.

He’s solely the third participant to have crushed tennis legends Nadal, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic within the first time enjoying in opposition to them.

From there, he has gone on to win the lads’s doubles with fellow Australian Thanasi Kokkinakis on the 2022 Australian Open and attain the singles last of Wimbledon that very same yr, finally shedding to the aforementioned Djokovic. He has received a complete of seven profession titles.

His rating of 20 doesn’t totally replicate how gifted he’s as a participant, generally selecting to overlook ATP occasions in favour of specializing in Grand slams.

After the US Open in 2022, he stated. “I feel just about each different event in the course of the yr is a waste of time actually. You must simply run up and present up at a Grand Slam. That’s what you’re remembered by.”

Nonetheless, a strong consequence on the upcoming 2023 Australian Open might propel Kyrgios into the top-10 for the primary time.

Alex de Minaur

On the tender age of 23, Alex de Minaur has already established himself on the world stage as one in all tennis’ brightest younger skills.

Regardless of being born in Australia, he honed his craft in Alicante, Spain, his household shifting there when he was solely 5 years outdated. He’s nonetheless very happy with being Australian although, getting a tattoo of the quantity 109 as he was 109^th man to characterize Australia within the Davis Cup.

He’s well-known for his velocity and agility, incomes him the aptly humorous title of ‘Velocity Demon’.

The Sydney-born teen has been ranked as excessive as No. 15 final yr, having received six titles over the course of his ATP profession. De Minaur’s greatest lead to a Grand Slam is a quarter-final look within the 2020 US Open, bowing out to eventual winner Dominic Thiem.

He confirmed his potential once more in 2022, reaching the fourth spherical of each the Australian Open and Wimbledon.

Will 2023 be the yr that Alex de Minaur comes into his personal?

Ajla Tomljanovic

The best ranked Australian in ladies’s singles, Ajla Tomljanovic as initially performed for her nation of beginning, Croatia, earlier than switching allegiances after she was granted Australian citizenship in 2018.

Tomljanovic was an completed junior participant, successful the Australian Open woman’s doubles in 2009.

In her skilled profession, she has but to win any WTA titles however has carried out solidly in various Grand Slams, reaching the quarter last of Wimbledon and the US Open in 2022.

Within the US Open event, she defeated former world No.1 and arguably the ladies’s singles GOAT Serena Williams. It was Williams’ final skilled singles match, retiring after the event.

Tomljanovic stated after the match, “I’m feeling actually sorry, simply because I like Serena simply as a lot as you guys do. And what she’s completed for me, for the game of tennis, is unbelievable… she is the best of all time.”

She additionally used so far Nick Kyrgios for 2 years, with their relationship ending in 2017.

Daria Saville

Like Tomljanovic, Daria Saville switched allegiances to play for Australia in 2015, after emigrating from Russia.

Saville used to play beneath her maiden title Gavrilova, till her marriage to fellow Australian tennis participant Luke Saville. He influenced her resolution to turn out to be an Aussie, with the pair getting married in 2021.

She has one singles title and three doubles titles on the WTA tour, having beforehand ranked as excessive as No. 20 in 2017. She has crushed various former Grand Slam champions together with Maria Sharapova and Petra Kvitova.

Saville’s greatest leads to Grand Slams embody two fourth spherical appearances within the Australian open in 2016 and 2017.

Accidents have stored her out of the highest of the rankings in 2021 and 2022, the place in the intervening time she is recovering from tearing her ACL.

Let’s hope she will bounce again and have an enormous yr in 2023.

Jordan Thompson

Sporting a thick moustache and lengthy hair, Jordan Thompson is actually recognisable on the court docket.

The Sydney native has reached as excessive as No. 43 within the ATP rating, after a string of respectable finishes in Grand Slam tournaments.

He reached the fourth spherical of the US Open in 2020 and the third spherical of Wimbledon in 2021. In the course of the latter, he defeated present world No. 3 Caspar Ruud and former top-5 participant Kei Nishikori.

In 2017, he received his solely WTA tile in doubles, accomplice Thanasi Kokkinakis to turn out to be the primary Australian duo to win the Brisbane Worldwide.

Prime-10 ranked Australians within the ATP

Prime-10 Ranked Australians within the WTA

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