Australian Open Day 5 Qualifying Wrap
One day after Shelby Rogers and Ann Li qualified into the 2020 Australian Open, two more U.S. players have advanced, with Caty McNally and Chris Eubanks winning their third-round qualifying matches Saturday to book their spots in the main draw of the year's first major.
No. 10 seed McNally (pictured above), an 18-year-old from Cincinnati, dropped just two games in her 62-minute, 6-1, 6-1 win over Elena Ruse of Romania on Saturday.
She will make her Melbourne debut against home-country favorite and 2011 US Open women's champion Sam Stosur on Day 1 of the tournament Monday.
Eubanks, who played three years of college tennis at Georgia Tech, defeated Belgium’s Kimmer Coppejans, 6-4, 7-6 (3), to qualify into the Australian Open for the second straight year.
The 23-year-old from Atlanta will play another qualifier, Peter Gojowczyk of Germany, on Day 2 of play Tuesday.
With four American qualifiers in Melbourne, the U.S. has a total of 34 players (22 women, 12 men) in the Australian Open main draw, the most since 1999, when there were 36.
The 22 women in the main draw is the most for the U.S. since 1999, when 23 American women competed Down Under. It is the first time since 2012 that three U.S. women have qualified into the tournament.
With Eubanks qualifying, at least one American man has advanced through qualies to the Australian Open main draw since 1991.
In other matches featuring Americans on Day 5, No. 19 seed Barbora Krejcikova of the Czech Republic defeated Sachia Vickery, 6-3, 6-0, and Leylah Fernandez of Canada beat Danielle Lao, 7-5, 7-5.
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