Australian tennis reached its lowest point after the 2009 Australian Open with no men ranked inside the top 100. It is a much different story now, but plenty had to happen to reverse the country’s fortunes.
The day after the 2009 Australian Open ended, Australia experienced a new tennis low – not one of the country’s male players was ranked in the top 100.
“Until we get more guys in the top 90, top 100 ... who get direct acceptance into the grand slams, it’s going to fall back on guys like myself and Guccione,” Hewitt said at that Australian Open. There are also signs of life on the women’s side in the post-Ash Barty era, with a record five qualifiers swelling Australia’s US Open main draw presence at this year’s tournament to eight.
His big player development move was to introduce a national academy based across major Australian cities. Tiley convinced Masur to work in the Sydney program, and he eventually took over as head coach in 2013.“It must have been pretty daunting to come to a country like Australia with the rich heritage we have, and some big egos, some big-name players – past and present – and set up the national academies,” Masur told this masthead.
De Minaur and Popyrin, junior peers who are now Australia’s top players, were born in Sydney and trained in the city’s academy, but each spent significant time training overseas. Australia had six male players in the top 100 at that stage: Bernard Tomic , Kyrgios , Sam Groth , John Millman , Kokkinakis and James Duckworth . The Tomic-Kyrgios era was a challenging one for Hewitt; he butted heads with both players at different times.Getty
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