Australian Open men's qualifying draw unveiled
The men's qualifying draw for the Australian Open was unveiled on Sunday.
Richard Gasquet will have to go through the qualifiers, and will not have been able to take advantage of additional forfeits to integrate Lucas Pouille without a wild card. He will face Duje Ajdukovic.
The in-form Joao Fonseca, recent winner of the Next Gen Finals and the Canberra Challenger, is unseeded and will face Federico Agustin Gomez.
On the French side, we have Grégoire Barrere against Tien, Enzo Couacaud against Zachary Svajda, Pierres-Hugue Herbert against Dayne Sweeny, Terence Atmane against Matthew Dellavedova, Hugo Grenier against Christopher Eubanks, Luca van Assche against Alibek Kachmazov, Constant Lestienne against Vit Kopriva.
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