Australian Open entry list: Nadal in with protected ranking, No. 97 cutoff

By Ricky Dimon
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Updated: December 7, 2023

The men’s singles field for the 2024 Australian Open Open was announced earlier this week.

At Grand Slams, 128-player draws (on both the men’s and women’s sides) are made up of 104 direct entrants, eight wild cards, and 16 qualifiers. That means a ranking of 104th or better generally gets you into the main draw of any major.

However, the 2024 Australian Open has an unusually low direct-entry cutoff of 97th in the world. That’s because seven men used protected rankings to gain entry. They are Rafael Nadal, Denis Shapovalov, Marin Cilic, Milos Raonic, Jiri Vesely, Soonwoo Kwon, and Reilly Opelka. Players are allowed to use PRs if they have missed a certain amount of time because of injuries and had a high enough ranking when their absence from tennis began.

Meanwhile, James, Duckworth, Marc Polmans, and Adam Walton are current wild-card entrants. Five WCs remain on the men’s side.

Here is the 2024 Australian Open men’s singles entry list as it stands now:

Seed*	Name	Current Ranking	Entry Ranking
1	Novak Djokovic	1	1
2	Carlos Alcaraz	2	2
3	Daniil Medvedev	3	3
4	Jannik Sinner	4	4
5	Andrey Rublev	5	5
6	Stefanos Tsitsipas	6	6
7	Alexander Zverev	7	7
8	Holger Rune	8	8
9	Hubert Hurkacz	9	9
10	Taylor Fritz	10	10
11	Casper Ruud	11	11
12	Alex de Minaur	12	12
13	Tommy Paul	13	13
14	Grigor Dimitrov	14	14
15	Karen Khachanov	15	15
16	Frances Tiafoe	16	16
17	Ben Shelton	17	17
18	Cameron Norrie	18	18
19	Nicolas Jarry	19	19
20	Ugo Humbert	20	20
21	Francisco Cerundolo	21	21
22	Adrian Mannarino	22	22
23	Tallon Griekspoor	23	23
24	Sebastian Korda	24	24
25	Jan-Lennard Struff	25	25
26	Alejandro Davidovich Fokina	26	26
27	Lorenzo Musetti	27	27
28	Sebastian Baez	28	28
29	Felix Auger-Aliassime	29	29
30	Tomas Martin Etcheverry	30	30
31	Jiri Lehecka	31	31
32	Alexander Bublik	32	32
	Laslo Djere	33	33
	Christopher Eubanks	34	34
	Aslan Karatsev	35	35
	Arthur Fils	36	36
	Borna Coric	37	37
	Daniel Evans	38	38
	Roman Safiullin	39	39
	Alexei Popyrin	40	40
	Mackenzie McDonald	41	41
	Andy Murray	42	42
	Sebastian Ofner	43	43
	Matteo Arnaldi	44	44
	Max Purcell	45	45
	Lorenzo Sonego	46	46
	Yoshihito Nishioka	47	47
	Alexander Shevchenko	48	48
	Stan Wawrinka	49	49
	Botic van de Zandschulp	50	50
	Yannick Hanfmann	51	51
	Dusan Lajovic	52	52
	J.J. Wolf	53	53
	Miomir Kecmanovic	54	54
	Jordan Thompson	55	55
	Daniel Altmaier	56	56
	Roberto Bautista Agut	57	57
	Zhizhen Zhang	58	58
	Marton Fucsovics	59	59
	Marcos Giron	60	60
	Jack Draper	61	61
	Aleksandar Vukic	62	62
	Roberto Carballes Baena	63	63
	Fabian Marozsan	64	64
	Thanasi Kokkinakis	65	65
	Nuno Borges	66	66
	Pavel Kotov	67	67
	Christopher O’Connell	68	68
	Emil Ruusuvuori	69	69
	Pedro Cachin	70	70
	Rinky Hijikata	71	71
	Borna Gojo	72	72
	Benjamin Bonzi	73	73
	Gael Monfils	74	74
	Taro Daniel	75	75
	Richard Gasquet	76	76
	Dominik Koepfer	77	77
	Tomas Machac	78	78
	Thiago Seyboth Wild	79	79
	Bernabe Zapata Miralles	80	80
	Alexandre Muller	81	81
	Cristian Garin	82	82
	Juan Pablo Varillas	83	83
	Gregoire Barrere	84	84
	Alejandro Tabilo	85	85
	Jaume Munar	86	86
	Constant Lestienne	87	87
	Federico Coria	88	88
	Albert Ramos-Vinolas	89	89
	Luca Van Assche	90	90
	Maximilian Marterer	91	91
	Matteo Berrettini	92	92
	Daniel Elahi Galan	93	93
	Dominic Stricker	94	94
	Facundo Diaz Acosta	95	95
	Arthur Rinderknech	96	96
	Alex Michelsen	97	97
	Denis Shapovalov	109	27 (PR)
	(WC) James Duckworth	116
	(WC) Marc Polmans	150
	(WC) Adam Walton	178
	Soonwoo Kwon	198	80 (PR)
	Jiri Vesely	291	94 (PR)
	Milos Raonic	318	33 (PR)
	Rafael Nadal	664	9 (PR)
	Marin Cilic	666	21 (PR)
	Reilly Opelka	1135	33 (PR)

The current rankings are used only for entry into the Australian Open. Seeding will be determined by the rankings one week prior to the beginning of the tournament.

Dominic Thiem (No. 98), Yosuke Watanuki (No. 99), and Quentin Halys (No. 100) are currently the first three players out.

Ricky contributes to 10sballs.com and also maintains his own tennis website, The Grandstand. You can follow him on Twitter at @Dimonator.