Taylah Preston and Tristan Schoolkate will make their US Open debuts after the rising West Australian abilities had been awarded essential draw wildcards.
Melbourne, Australia, 15 August 2024 | Tennis Australia
Taylah Preston and Tristan Schoolkate will make their US Open debuts after the rising West Australian abilities had been awarded essential draw wildcards.
Schoolkate turns into the eleventh Australian man within the US Open essential draw, alongside Alex de Minaur, Alexei Popyrin, Jordan Thompson, Rinky Hijikata, James Duckworth, Max Purcell, Thanasi Kokkinakis, Adam Walton, Christopher O’Connell and Aleksandar Vukic.
Preston joins countrywomen Ajla Tomljanovic and Daria Saville within the girls’s singles essential draw.
Preston and Schoolkate have been rewarded for breakthrough seasons, throughout which each have considerably improved their rankings.
Aussie wildcards within the concrete jungle 🗽 See you in NYC!
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Preston is considered one of Australia’s brightest teenage abilities, rising from exterior the highest 200 to a peak of world No.134 in March.
The 18-year-old reached her largest remaining on the WTA 125K occasion in Puerto Vallarta in February, earlier than heading to San Diego and profitable her first WTA main-draw match.
That win was towards world No.42 Magdalena Frech, considered one of two top-100 wins she has notched in 2024.
The highly effective ball-striker additionally made her Billie Jean King Cup debut for Australia in April, clinching the decisive level towards Mexico.
Preston turned the primary teenager to make a profitable Billie Jean Cup debut for Australia since Ash Barty in 2013, and by profitable that tie, Australia returns to the competitors finals in November.
Schoolkate, like Preston, started the season exterior the highest 200 – he was ranked 264th in February – earlier than rising virtually 100 locations over the following 5 months.
The 23-year-old peaked at world No.176 in July, because of an impressively constant season that has seen him attain at the least the quarterfinal stage at eight ATP Challenger occasions.
He went all the best way to the trophy in Guangzhou, China, beating fellow Aussie Adam Walton for the largest title of his profession, and his most up-to-date Challenger quarterfinal got here in Lincoln, Nebraska, as he hones his hard-court sport forward of the US Open.
Having grown up on grass and arduous courts in Perth, Schoolkate’s aggressive sport and attacking instincts are a pure match for the short arduous courts of North America.
The US Open begins at Flushing Meadows in New York on 26 August.
