The draws have been announced for this week’s Melbourne Summer Set, which will be played at Melbourne Park from January 3-9. There will be h*t action as three tournaments (one ATP and two WTA) are played simultaneously at the venue.Melbourne Summer Set – ATP 250 A battle between all Australians is set for the first round of the ATP Melbourne Summer Set tournament, with Jordan Thompson facing his Sydney teammate Chris O’Connell. Although they practice together regularly, Thompson and O’Connell have only played once before at the professional level, at an ITF Futures tournament in Croatia in 2014.Alexei Popyrin, the highest-ranked Australian in the draw, begins his campaign against Italian Stefano Travaglia . While Nick Kyrgios has faced the Slovak Alex Molcan. The Australian contenders in …

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