2021 Great Ocean Road Open Sunday’s Schedule of Play with Sinner vs. Travaglia

Alongside another ATP 250 tournament in Melbourne, the 2021 Great Ocean Road Open will provide a great taste of the Australian summer for the players ahead of the Australian Open.

A week filled with tennis is at an end which means we have a final on our hands and it's an all-Italian clash between Travaglia and Sinner. Both players played well all week long and they found themselves deservedly in the finals. Travaglia will have a very hard task at hand against his countrymen who has been exceptional all week long. He will have his chances as the young Italian played some very physically challenging and long matches leading up to the finals.

Sinner is the overwhelming favourite but his fitness will be an issue heading into this one. If he does win it will be his 2nd trophy in his career having won his first at the Sofia Open which was the last event of 2020. They never played an official match so this will be their first match and it's going to be played at 04:00 on Sunday CET.

04:00 Travaglia S. (Ita) - Sinner J. (Ita)

The semifinals are upon us on Saturday morning where we will see the winners of the double shift on Friday. These players played and won two matches in the span of several hours to earn a place in the semifinal and a chance to win the trophy. The programme will start much later than usual at 04:30 and it will be Monteiro vs Travaglia. Both players defeated strong opposition en route to the semifinals. They never played before so there should be excitement in the match. The 2nd semifinal will feature better-known players in Sinner and Khachanov. The young Italian is continuing a steady rise this year but Khachanov is the toughest player he is yet to face. The Russian is no stranger to deep runs on hard courts and he will be eyeing the trophy as the highest-ranked player left in the draw.

04:30 Monteiro T. (Bra) - Travaglia S. (Ita)
06:00 Sinner J. (Ita) - Khachanov K. (Rus)

A packed Friday day at the Ocean Road Open will feature 8 matches that will span through the day. The programme will start at 00:30 CET and because of the postponed schedule, almost all of the matches will be played at the same1 time.

We will see several interesting matches including Sinner- Bedene, Hurkacz - Cuevas, and a banger between heavy hitters Khachanov and Anderson. Australians will see Jordan Thompson play which should draw crowds as well as 17-year old Spanish sensation Carlos Alcaraz who will take on Thiago Monteiro. We'll also see matches between Alexander Bublik and Stefano Travaglia and Reilly Opelka who will play Botic Van De Zandschulp. Match reports are also in store for you so don't go far.

00:30 Kecmanovic M. (Srb) - Caruso S. (Ita)
00:30 Bedene A. (Slo) - Sinner J. (Ita)
00:30 Opelka R. (Usa) - Van De Zandschulp B. (Ned)
00:30 Anderson K. (Rsa) - Khachanov K. (Rus)
00:30 Thompson J. (Aus) - Vilella M. M. (Esp)
00:30 Alcaraz C. (Esp) - Monteiro T. (Bra)
00:30 Travaglia S. (Ita) - Bublik A. (Kaz)
02:00 Hurkacz H. (Pol) - Cuevas P. (Uru)

A packed day 3 at the Ocean Road Open will feature 16 matches that will span throughout the day. An abundance of great players will step onto the courts such as Khachanov, Opelka, Anderson and Goffin. The native Australian crowd will get to see plenty of Aussies compete as well such as Vukic who will take on Italian sensation Jannik Sinner. Another young sensation to play tomorrow is Alcaraz from Spain who is only 17 years old. He will face David Goffin in the last match of the day closing out the Wednesday programme.

02:00 Bedene A. (Slo) - Sweeny D. (Aus)
02:00 Caruso S. (Ita) - Sandgren T. (Usa)
02:00 Vukic A. (Aus) - Sinner J. (Ita)
03:30 Haase R. (Ned) - Cuevas P. (Uru)
03:30 Hurkacz H. (Pol) - Torpegaard M. (Den)
03:30 Kecmanovic M. (Srb) - Soonwoo K. (Kor)
04:00 Thompson J. (Aus) - Herbert P. (Fra)
05:00 Ebden M. (Aus) - Monteiro T. (Bra)
05:00 Querrey S. (Usa) - Travaglia S. (Ita)
05:00 Van De Zandschulp B. (Ned) - Majchrzak K. (Pol)
06:30 O'Connell C. (Aus) - Bublik A. (Kaz)
06:30 Opelka R. (Usa) - Stakhovsky S. (Ukr)
06:30 Vilella M. M. (Esp) - Basilashvili N. (Geo)
08:00 Purcell M. (Aus) - Khachanov K. (Rus)
08:30 Anderson K. (Rsa) - Stebe C. (Ger)
08:30 Goffin D. (Bel) - Alcaraz C. (Esp)

The last year's Australian Open quarter-finalist Tennys Sandgren opens the second day against John-Patrick Smith. The young Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz takes upon Attila Balazs, while the home star Jordan Thompson faces Gianluca Mager. Sam Querrey and Henri Laaksonen should play a tight match, just like the former promising junior Roman Safiullin and Sergiy Stakhovsky.

01:00 Smith J. P. (Aus) vs Sandgren T. (Usa)
02:00 Alcaraz C. (Esp) vs Balazs A. (Hun)
02:00 Cressy M. (Usa) vs Herbert P. (Fra)
02:00 Cuevas P. (Uru) vs Andujar-Alba P. (Esp)
02:00 Nam Ji S. (Kor)vs Sweeny D. (Aus)
02:30 Thompson J. (Aus) vs Mager G. (Ita)
03:30 Coppejans K. (Bel) vs Haase R. (Ned)
03:30 Torpegaard M. (Den) vs Martinez P. (Esp)
04:00 Querrey S. (Usa) vs Laaksonen H. (Sui)
05:00 Dzumhur D. (Bih) vs Delbonis F. (Arg)
05:00 Hanfmann Y. (Ger) vs Vilella M. M. (Esp)
06:30 Dellien H. (Bol) vs Stebe C. (Ger)
06:30 Safiullin R. (Rus) vs Stakhovsky S. (Ukr)
07:00 Monteiro T. (Bra) vs Pospisil V. (Can)
08:00 Van De Zandschulp B. (Ned) vs Schoolkate T. (Aus)

The tournament begins on Monday, and the most of the higher-ranked players will have a day off as they were seeded automatically to the second round.

Some of the most interesting names that we'll see on the first day include Feliciano Lopez, Kevin Anderson, Andreas Seppi and Dominik Koepfer.

And it will be the first two mentioned that will set up probably the most interesting clash of the first day. Feliciano Lopez and Kevin Anderson met already 5 times with the experienced South African winning 4 of the matches.

00:30 Bedene A. (Slo) - Uchiyama Y. (Jpn)