Russian Roman safiullin, number 146 of the ATP, fulfilled the predictions by winning by 6-1 and 6-4 to Bernard tomic, Australian tennis player, number 257 in the ATP, in the qualifying round of the Australian Open. With this result, the winner manages to add new points to his ranking to gain access to the Australian Open.
In the tournament Melbourne (Australian Open Indiv. Masc.) a pre-qualification phase is carried out that the tennis players with the lowest scores have to pass to enter the official tournament. In it specifically, a total of 128 tennis players face. Likewise, it takes place from January 9 to 30 on an outdoor hard court.