While Cameron Norrie maintains his place as the sole Briton in the top 20, he has handy support in top-40 fixture Daniel Evans and three-time major champion Andy Murray.
And British tennis also enjoys a boost with the emergence of women's No.1 Katie Boulter, who is just outside the top 50, and rising stars Jack Draper and Emma Raducanu, the latter a major champion on the comeback trail from injury.
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Here we profile Great Britain’s top-50 players, and those coming up fast behind them, eager to make a mark at the 2024 Australian Open.
Cameron Norrie
A breakout dash to the Wimbledon semifinals in 2022 brought a whirlwind of attention Norrie’s way.
Despite having already cracked the top 10 and taken the reins as the flag-bearer of British men’s tennis, the Johannesburg-born, New Zealand-raised southpaw had enjoyed a relatively low profile.
Suddenly, it was harder to fly under the radar popping out for a coffee around home in Putney, in southwest London.
While unable to halt eventual champion Novak Djokovic in the last four that fortnight, his star had risen.
It was a result he had been building towards since reaching his first of 13 tour finals in January 2019 in Auckland.
The 28-year-old’s 2023 has not reaped the same level of success, but he did maintain a top-20 ranking for the season straight year and enjoyed a sizzling start to the season, winning 21 of his first 24 matches.
His trip to Rio de Janeiro was an early season highlight, where he denied Carlos Alcaraz for his fifth career title.
Dan Evans
A flashy shot-maker, Birmingham’s Evans has been a top-40 fixture and a Davis Cup stalwart for Great Britain for the past four years.
The 33-year-old was instrumental to the team’s run to the finals stage in Malaga this year after he won four of five matches he played in singles and doubles in Manchester in the group stage.
He reached semifinals on clay in Barcelona and Marrakech prior to Roland Garros in 2023 before a lean spell in which he did not win a match in almost four months.
That was snapped emphatically when he captured his first ATP 500 title in Washington in August to close on the brink of a top-20 debut.
Evans has enjoyed success on the hardcourts at Melbourne Park before; just shy of his 31st birthday he won his first title at an ATP 250 event there in 2021.
Andy Murray
Great Britain’s long-time standard-bearer, Andy Murray, may not in 2023 have hit the heights that carried him to three major titles between 2012 and 2016, but his passion for competition remains unwavering.
The 36-year-old found his best early in the season on hard courts with back-to-back five-set wins at the Australian Open, including over then-No.14 Matteo Berrettini.
He scored four straight three-set triumphs, including over Alexander Zverev and a five-match-point-saving feat against Jiri Lehecka, before Daniil Medvedev denied him a 47th career title in the Doha final in February.
The Scot returned to the top 40 for the first time in more than five years in June.
As a five-time runner-up at the Australian Open, a first fourth-round showing at a major since Wimbledon 2017 would be a welcome achievement at Melbourne Park in January.
Best of the rest
While just outside the top 50, Great Britain’s top-ranked woman, Katie Boulter, has enjoyed her strongest season in 2023.
The 27-year-old collected her maiden tour-level title on home turf in Nottingham after she claimed a first all-British women’s tour final in 46 years against Jodie Burrage.
A month later, the 24-year-old Burrage joined her compatriot in the top 100.
Surprise 2021 US Open champion Emma Raducanu missed the bulk of 2023 due to hand and ankle surgery but will make a comeback to tennis at the WTA Auckland event in January, flagging the 2024 Olympics in Paris as one of her goals.
Best rising British men’s hope Jack Draper notched a semifinal run at the Adelaide 2 event on the eve of his Australian Open debut in 2023 and climbed to a career-best mark of world No.38 later that month.
He subsequently struggled with abdominal and shoulder injuries for much of the season but managed a fourth-round appearance at Flushing Meadows.