The 2024 Australian Open singles draw is over. China's Golden Flower has a mediocre draw, with all four players in the quarters, with Wang Xiyu and Wang Yafan facing the 27th and 22nd seeds in the first round. Although Shang Juncheng and Zhang Zhizhen are not seeded in the first round and are expected to advance, they will encounter tough battles from the second round.
Zheng Qinwen, who is ranked as the No. 12 seed, will face Kruger in the first round, the top seed will face No. 5 seed Pegula, the No. 29 seed Zhu Lin will face Dodin, the No. 30 Wang Xinyu will face Parry, Wang Xiyu will face the No. 27 seed Ema Navaro, Yuan Yue will face Usain Bolt in the first round, Bai Zhuoxuan and Avanne will face the round of 64, and Wang Yafan will face the 22nd seed Kostya.
Just looking at the opponent, China Jinhua did not play against the big-seeded players in the first round, and even Wang Xiyu and Wang Yafan, who were seeded, were not without the possibility of winning the game, so the signing was not bad. But if you look at it from the zoning, it looks average, a total of 7 Chinese Jinhua players participated in the main competition, and the result was that 4 people were divided into two-quarters of the district, namely Yuan Yue, Wang Yafan, Zhu Lin and Zheng Qinwen.
In other words, only one of these four Chinese players will have a chance to advance to the quarterfinals. If Zheng Qinwen and Yuan Yue can make it past the first round, the two will meet in the second round to compete for the round of 32. In addition, if Wang Yafan can reach the third round, the Jinhua civil war will be staged again. In the fourth round, Zhu Lin may also become a potential opponent for Zheng Qinwen or Yuan Yue.
The most interesting first round of the women's singles is the six Grand Slam champions and runners-up matchups, namely four-time Grand Slam winner Swiatek against 20-time Australian Open champion Kenin, two-time Australian Open champion Naomi Osaka against Garcia, '22 Wimbledon champion Rybakina and '21 Wimbledon runner-up Ka Pliskova, and three tennis veterans of Kerber, Wozniacki and Azarenka against Collins, Linette and Giorgi respectively.
In the men's singles, Shang Juncheng, who is a wild card, will play McDonald in the first round, Bubrik in the second round, Alcaraz in the third round, Zhang Zhizhen will play Coria in the first round, Ember in the second round, and Hurkacz in the third round, hoping that the two men's singles players can make it past the first round.
Although the first round of the men's singles was not as involuted as the first round of the women's singles, the excitement was not bad, and these six matches are worth paying attention to, namely Thiem vs Aliassime, Berrettini vs Tsitsipas, De Minaur vs Raonic, Wawrinka vs Mannarino, Tiafoe vs Čurić and Dimi vs Fociovic.