Our experts assess prospects of the seven British players set to compete in Melbourne and predict who will make the headlines Down Under

THE Australian Open is set to get underway this Sunday with British stars Emma Raducanu and Jack Draper hoping to shake off injury concerns to make some noise Down Under. Former US Open champion

Emma Raducanu has been handed a nightmare draw as she returns to competition at the Australian Open. The British No. 2 was forced to pull out of her first tournament of the season, the ASB Classic, with a back injury and little is known about her fitness going into Melbourne.

World No.86 Jacob Fearnley will face Nick Kyrgios in his home Grand Slam as the Aussie bad boy returns to action after two years on the sidelines, but it's bad news for Emma Raducanu's hopes of making

MELBOURNE — Emma Raducanu will have to produce some of her best tennis after being handed a tricky Australian Open draw. The world No 60 will face the 26th seed Ekaterina Alexandrova in the first round next week and could, if she makes it that far, come up against world No 2 Iga Swiatek in the third.

Emma Raducanu has been drawn against a seed in the first round of Sunday’s Australian Open, which features seven Britons now that all our qualifying prospects have been snuffed out.