Melbourne, chance for Halep: wild card for the Australian Open qualifiers

Simona Halep will play in the qualifiers for the 2025 Australian Open. The two-time Slam champion, capable of winning the 2018 Roland Garros and 2019 Wimbledon, will play the first major event of 2025 in Melbourne. The qualifiers for the first Slam of the year will begin on January 6 (the main draw will take place from the 12th) and the Romanian will be on the pitch, with the hope of being able to repeat the amazing ride of 2018, which took her straight to the final. Halep is currently number 877 in the world and has not played any Slam tournament since 2022, due to a one and a half year disqualification due to doping. Halep, who became world number 1 at the end of 2017, at 33 wants to write the second half of her career after a long ordeal.

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Not only Halep among the surprising wild cards of the tournament. An opportunity will also be given to Cruz Hewitt, sixteen-year-old son of the legendary Lleyton, who played in the 2005 final in Melbourne and was able to win the 2001 US Open and 2002 Wimbledon. Hewitt senior, former world number 1 and Hall of Famer who made his debut at the Australian Open in 1997, when he was 15, has great faith in his son Cruz, who is currently outside the top 1000 players in the world. In Melbourne he will have the first real big chance of his career, participating in the qualifiers.