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Alexei Popyrin arrived in New York under a cloud of qualification questions and wildcard framing. He left his first-round court with a more useful statement: when his serve and forehand set the terms, he can still mak...
Alexei Popyrin has been handed a first-round matchup that looks less like a soft landing than an immediate examination of whether his New York power game can still bend a major draw.
Alexei Popyrin will not need to qualify for the 2026 US Open. The Australian’s reciprocal wild card is more than an administrative assist: it gives a struggling season’s most dangerous weapon a direct route back to th...
Bernard Tomic’s return to the ATP top 200 is real progress, but the broader Australian ranking picture remains defined by Alex de Minaur and a deepening group behind him. Nick Kyrgios, meanwhile, has slipped almost en...
Australia will send a healthy singles contingent to New York, but the shape of the group reveals a clear split: established depth on the ATP side, and a more fragile WTA pipeline still searching for a breakthrough.