ATP Sydney – DRAW: Stefanos Tsitsipas and Daniil Medvedev lead charge

The world no. 15 will make his debut in Sydney as the top seed after Kyle Edmund was forced to withdraw due to a knee injury, heading to Sydney from Perth where he played for Greece at the Hopman Cup for the first time.

Super talented Greek has to beat or in the second round before the quarter-final clash against another youngster , , or , looking good to reach the semis and continue where he left last year in Stockholm and the NextGen Masters.

leads the second quarter together with the 6th seed and by the will of the draw there are three qualifiers there as well, together with and who will try to spoil the seeds party and chase that semi-final spot.

The third quarters looks much stronger and the 7th seed who almost defeated Novak Djokovic in Doha has to play the Sydney native in the first round. , , , and Pune semi-finalist are in this part of the draw as well and it should be interesting to see who will emerge as the winner and enter the last four.

The home favorite and the last years finalist faces who played well in Doha and his quarter-final rival should be the defending champion who is having a great run in Brisbane.

Daniil will have to beat or in the opening match but that should not be the problem for him if he brings his A game. <table