Tahlia Kokkinis, Renee Alame, and Cruz Hewitt will characteristic in US Open juniors competitors.
New York, USA, 31 August 2025 | Jackson Mansell
Tahlia Kokkinis, Renee Alame, and Cruz Hewitt will fly the Australian flag in US Open juniors motion, starting on Monday morning (AEST).
Kokkinis and Alame signify Australia’s probabilities of producing their first women’ singles champion at Flushing Meadows since Jelena Dokic in 1998.
With women’ world No.2 Emerson Jones opting to not play juniors at US Open 2025, Kokkinis enters because the top-ranked Australian junior.
Ranked world No.46, the 17-year-old has been strong at Grand Slam degree in 2025. Kokkinis reached the quarterfinals of her house main in January, earlier than advancing to the spherical of 16 on the All England Membership.
She additionally boasts a 6-3 document on laborious courts this season. Most lately, Kokkinis reached the ultimate 16 on the ITF J300 match in School Park, Maryland, holding her in good stead for US Open 2025.
Kokkinis will likely be joined within the women’ singles draw by Alame, who additionally progressed to the ultimate 16 in School Park.
Alame options within the first worldwide Grand Slam of her profession. Regardless of her restricted Grand Slam expertise, the 16-year-old is a severe hardcourt risk.
The Sydneysider has reached two J300 hardcourt semifinals in 2025, reaching the feat in Kuala Lumpur and Nonthaburi, Thailand.
The world No.68 was additionally chosen in Australia’s Junior Billie Jean King Cup workforce that travelled to Kazakhstan in Could.
Twenty-eight years after his father made his US Open debut, Cruz Hewitt will compete at Flushing Meadows for the primary time.
Hewitt, too, has a powerful hardcourt document this yr, profitable 11 of 16 matches. He was a finalist at a J300 occasion in Kuala Lumpur and Nonthaburi.
The 16-year-old is the one Australian junior to compete in the primary draw of all 4 Grand Slams in 2025. His finest outcomes got here at Melbourne Park and the All England Membership, the place he made second-round appearances.
He hopes to change into Australia’s first boys’ singles champion since Omar Jasika in 2014.
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