Melbourne – last year’s finalist Dominic Thiem meets the Kazakhs in the first round of the Tennis Australian Open Mikhail Kukushkin. In the draw in Melbourne on Friday, the Lower Austrian was placed as number three in the upper half of the grid, in that of the top-placed defending champion Novak Djokovic. Against the Serbs, there could be a new edition of the 2020 final in the semifinals. Dennis Novak meets the French Adrian Mannarino, the number 32.
