AO 2020

[Rajiv]

He is in with his PR. He has not played even any warm-up events and has not played anywhere since May 2018. Just turning up to pick up first round money which is big now.

Yes it it huge, approx USD 65k for R1 loser and Prajnesh has got a high chance to earn atleast earn $130k

[jaydeep]

Also, Safawat making the main draw makes Sumit's loss to him in Q1 a little more understandable now. Is he the first Egyptian to make the main draw of a slam or at least the first one after a while ?

Yes, I think after a long time ... The most successful Egyptian player is Ismail El Shafei, who is also the president of the Egyptian Tennis Federation ... His highest ATP ranking was #34 and best Grand Slam results were,
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open 3R (1971)
French Open 3R (1969)
Wimbledon QF (1974)
US Open 4R (1974)

Wikipedia profile: Ismail El Shafei

The Best Tennis Players from Egypt

[jaydeep]

He is in with his PR. He has not played even any warm-up events and has not played anywhere since May 2018. Just turning up to pick up first round money which is big now.

Yes it it huge, approx USD 65k for R1 loser and Prajnesh has got a high chance to earn at least earn $130k

Yes, Prajnesh is in a chance of winning around USD 89K for the second round appearance.

Australian Open Prize Money 2020

Prize Money Breakdown for the Australian Open 2020

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2020		Prize Money $ AUD	Prize Money $ USD	Prize Money £ GBP	Year on Year Increase vs 2019
Winner		$4,120,000		$2,853,079		£2,204,323		0.49%
Runner-up	$2,065,000		$1,430,002		£1,104,836		0.73%
Semifinal	$1,040,000		$1,430,002		£1,104,836		13.04%
Quarterfinal	$525,000		$363,560		£280,891		14.13%
Round 4		$300,000		$207,748		£160,509		15.38%
Round 3		$180,000		$124,649		£96,305			16.13%
Round 2		$128,000		$88,639			£68,484			21.90%
Round 1		$90,000			$62,325			£48,153			20.00%
Q3		$50,000			$34,625			£26,751			25.00%
Q2		$32,500			$22,506			£17,388			30.00%
Q1		$20,000			$13,850			£10,701			33.33%

[sameerph]

Also, Safawat making the main draw makes Sumit's loss to him in Q1 a little more understandable now. Is he the first Egyptian to make the main draw of a slam or at least the first one after a while ?

Yes, I think after a long time ... The most successful Egyptian player is Ismail El Shafei, who is also the president of the Egyptian Tennis Federation ... His highest ATP ranking was #34 and best Grand Slam results were,
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open 3R (1971)
French Open 3R (1969)
Wimbledon QF (1974)
US Open 4R (1974)

Wikipedia profile: Ismail El Shafei

The Best Tennis Players from Egypt

Thanks a lot, Jaydeep. Just found an earlier article on net where I found that Safwat had also played in French open 2018 as a lucky loser and at that time he was the first Egyptian to play grand slams since 1996 ( Tamer El Sawy ).

[Rajiv]

He is in with his PR. He has not played even any warm-up events and has not played anywhere since May 2018. Just turning up to pick up first round money which is big now.

Yes it it huge, approx USD 65k for R1 loser and Prajnesh has got a high chance to earn at least earn $130k

Yes, Prajnesh is in a chance of winning around USD 89K for the second round

Jaydeep a correction..
90k is AUD, so it works out USD65K which I mentioned earlier.

[PKBasu]

Safwat was the guy Prajnesh beat in the final of the Nanning Challenger in Kunming 2018, soon after his Davis Cup win in Tianjin. And a few weeks later, he was ranked one slot below Prajnesh, and got the LL spot in the French Open because Prajnesh had left the venue to play a Challenger in Italy. So their fates have been intertwined for quite awhile.

Ismail el-Shafei is a player I remember well as a contemporary and rival of the Amritraj brothers. In 1974, Vijay lost in R2 at Wimbledon to Ken Rosewall, who beat Stan Smith in the SF, after the latter had beaten el-Shafei in the QF. I’m surprised that his highest rank was only 34.

[PKBasu]

What wonderful news that Prajnesh finally gets a dream draw in a Slam. Tatsuma Ito got the AsiaPacific wildcard this year, but he’s past his prime and Prajnesh has an excellent head to head record against him.
Great opportunity to make R2 of a Slam for the first time, and then try upsetting one of the greats of the game.

[PKBasu]

And Prajnesh has a 3 nil h2h record.
Nothing less than R2 will do.

I'm not sure about this. ATP shows that Prajnesh and Ito have never played each other.

[Rajiv]

Apologies, you are right, I inadvertently looked at his compatriot Moriya' record.

[S_K_S]

No pressure but it's hard to think of a better opportunity to win a R1 match in a slam

[Sin Hombre]

Australian Open Prize Money 2020

Prize Money Breakdown for the Australian Open 2020

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2020		Prize Money $ AUD	Prize Money $ USD	Prize Money £ GBP	Year on Year Increase vs 2019
Winner		$4,120,000		$2,853,079		£2,204,323		0.49%
Runner-up	$2,065,000		$1,430,002		£1,104,836		0.73%
Semifinal	$1,040,000		[b]$1,430,002		£1,104,836[/b]		13.04%
Quarterfinal	$525,000		$363,560		£280,891		14.13%
Round 4		$300,000		$207,748		£160,509		15.38%
Round 3		$180,000		$124,649		£96,305			16.13%
Round 2		$128,000		$88,639			£68,484			21.90%
Round 1		$90,000			$62,325			£48,153			20.00%
Q3		$50,000			$34,625			£26,751			25.00%
Q2		$32,500			$22,506			£17,388			30.00%
Q1		$20,000			$13,850			£10,701			33.33%

Bolded are wrong.


Lucky break for Prajnesh, would say he has a 70% chance to make it to R2.

[jayakris]

Let us tap the brakes on Praj making the second round. Whenever we have looked ahead like that, bad karma has come to bite us. It is not a done deal, and Praj's wrist can act up. I think there is at least a 30-40% chance for him to lose to Ito.

[atula]

Good That Prajnesh has Qualified in the AO Main Draw..by hook or Crook..
The PrizeMoney Prajnesh Will wini, is probably the highest for anIndian Male in Singles.

Any Idea..who Leander has decided to partner in Doubles..??

[PKBasu]

Leander (ranked 110) couldn’t make it into the Doubles draw. He didn’t get a wildcard, but may get one for Mixed Doubles.

Bopanna/Uchiyama play the Bryan twins in R1.
Sharan/Sitak play Carreno-Busta/Sousa in R1.

Tough start for us in men’s doubles.

Sania/Nadiia play Xinyun Han (52) and Lin Zhu (125) in R1. They are slated to meet 9th seeds Yingying Duan (18) and Saisai Zheng (23) in R2.

[S_K_S]

Rohan will have to spring one of the biggest upsets of all the R1 draws.

Can't see how Leander can get into any of the slams, in the men's doubles, unless he pairs up with a French/English/American and can get a WC