Jannik Sinner will start his 2024 season at the Kooyong Classic exhibition tournament, which takes place in Melbourne from 10 to 12 January. Sinner will play against world number 116 Marc Polmans in the opening match.
Sinner will not play in any official ATP tournament before the Australian Open after a very successful 2023 season highlighted by the Davis Cup triumph in Malaga, his first Masters 1000 title in Toronto and the championships match at the Nitto ATP Finals in Turin.
The Kooyong tournament will feature two-time Wimbledon and Olympic champion Andy Murray, Holger Rune, finalist at the Masters 1000 tourments in Monte-Carlo, Karen Khachanov, 2018 Paris Masters 1000 champion, 2014 US Open champion Marin Cilic and Frances Tiafoe.
Rune lost in the fourth round at the 2023 Australian Open and will make his debut at the Kooyong tournament.
The line-up is completed by former Australian Open champion Stan Wawrinka, a finalist at the Kooyong tournament in 2009, former Australian Open finalist Dominic Thiem, who took part at this event twice, including in 2023, and Zhizhen Zhang, who became the first Chinese player to reach the quarter final at a Masters 1000 tournament.
