Nadal, Osaka Headline Melbourne Summer Set Ahead Of Australian Open

Rafael Nadal (photo: Brigitte Urban)

MELBOURNE, December 10, 2021 (Press Release)

The Melbourne Summer Set, comprising two WTA 250 and one ATP 250 tournaments, will feature some of the world’s biggest names warming up for the Australian Open at Melbourne Park from 3 to 9 January 2022.

Twenty of the world’s top 50 women will start the 2022 season in Victoria, including four-time Grand Slam champion and defending AO champion Naomi Osaka, world No.11 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, US Open 2021 champion Emma Raducanu and former world No.1 Simona Halep.

Twenty-time Grand Slam champion and world No.6 Rafael Nadal joins former world No.3 Grigor Dimitrov, former world No.4 Kei Nishikori alongside Australians Jordan Thompson and Alexei Popyrin in the ATP 250 Melbourne Summer Set.

Melbourne Summer Set 1 & 2

2 x WTA 250 – list to be split week of 27 December

Q: 3 Jan, MD: 4-9 Jan 

WTA 250 – Top 20 entered players

Rank

Player

Country

11

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova

RUS

13

Naomi Osaka

JPN

18

Jessica Pegula

USA

19

Emma Raducanu

GBR

20

Simona Halep

ROU

21

Elise Mertens

BEL

26

Daria Kasatkina

RUS

31

Veronika Kudermetova

RUS

34

Camila Giorgi

ITA

36

Sara Sorribes Tormo

ESP

37

Jil Teichmann

SUI

38

Sorana Cirstea

ROU

39

Liudmila Samsonova

RUS

42

Yulia Putinseva

KAZ

43

Viktorija Golubic

SUI

44

Clara Tauson

DEN

47

Ann Li

USA

48

Tereza Martincova

CZE

49

Katerina Siniakova

CZE

50

Marta Kostyuk

UKR

Full main draw entry list here

Melbourne Summer Set 3

ATP 250 – Q: 3 Jan, MD: 4-9 Jan

ATP 250 – Top 10 entered players

Rank

Player

Country

6

Rafael Nadal

ESP

26

Reilly Opelka

USA

28

Grigor Dimitrov

BUL

31

Lloyd Harris

RSA

36

Alexander Bublik

KAZ

39

David Goffin

BEL

46

Benoit Paire

FRA

47

Kei Nishikori

JPN

48

Ilya Ivashka

BLR

54

Dominik Koepfer

GER

Full main draw entry list here

Melbourne Summer Set tickets will go on sale via Ticketmaster at 12.00pm AEDT Friday 17 December.