Australia’s quartet of Hobart International qualifying wildcards have learnt their fate for the opening round of action following Friday afternoon’s draw. Teenagers Emerson Jones (14), Lily Taylor (16) and 17-year-old pair Lily Fairclough and Zara Larke all represent the next generation of national talent and will fly the home town flag when matches kick off Saturday morning. Gold Coaster Jones, the daughter of former Olympic triathlon silver medallist Loretta Jones (Harrop) and the world’s highest ranked 2008-born player, has drawn a tough task in her opening round assignment against Czech world No. 71 Tereza Martincova, the second qualifying seed who has a WTA finals appearance (Prague, 2021) to her name. Brisbane’s Taylor is pitted against Chinese 10th seed Xinyu Wang, Fairclough will face Hungarian Panna Udvardy and Larke will clash with Tamara Zidansek (Slovenia) in her WTA debut. Belgian Ysaline Bonaventure, who was entered into qualifying, has received a special exemption in...