Three big-name locals will be at Tennis Australia’s mercy for next month’s Australian Open after tumbling outside the world’s top 100 this year.

Monday is the entry deadline for the year’s opening grand slam, with at least five Australian men and just one woman, Ajla Tomljanovic (No.33), set to receive direct acceptance based on their singles ranking.

Former world No.1 Ash Barty will not defend her drought-busting Melbourne Park title after retiring in March.

Daria Saville (54) also would have been in the field if not for the ACL rupture she sustained playing against dual Melbourne Park champion Naomi Osaka in Tokyo in September.

Nick Kyrgios (22), Alex de Minaur (24), Chris O’Connell (78), Jordan Thompson (83) and Thanasi Kokkinakis (94) will be in the men’s main draw.

Jason Kubler (110) needs only a handful of withdrawals to join them, but high-profile trio Alexei Popyrin (122), John Millman (149) and James Duckworth (159) will require wildcards to avoid having to qualify.

Kubler would be comfortably inside the ranking cut-off if not for the ruling body’s decision not to award ranking points at Wimbledon, where he reached the last 16 in a career-best result.

That decision followed Wimbledon banning Russian and Belarusian players in protest of the invasion of Ukraine.

Duckworth, 30, suffered the steepest fall, from a career-high No.46 after this year’s Australian Open, but hip surgery that sidelined him for three months played a role in that.