Saturday, January 11, 2014

Australian Open 2014 Starts Monday...


It's finally here! Grand slam season! The first grand slam in hot Melbourne heat will begin Monday (Sunday here in the US)! Rafa Nadal and Serena Williams are the top seeds in the singles brackets. Defending men's singles champ Novak Djokovic is the #2 seed in the men's singles draw, while defending women's singles champion Victoria Azarenka is the #2 seed in the women's singles draw.

With that in mind...the singles draw for the first round:

Singles
(notable matches of interest)
MEN
(1) Rafael Nadal v Bernard Tomic
(2) Novak Djokovic v Lukas Lacko
(3) David Ferrer v Alejandro Gonzalez
(4) Andy Murray v Go Soeda
(5) Juan Martin Del Potro v Rhyne Williams
(6) Roger Federer v James Duckworth
(7) Tomas Berdych v Aleksandr Nedovyesov
(8) Stan Wawrinka v Andrey Golubev
(9) Richard Gasquet v David Guez
(10) Jo Wilfried Tsonga v Filippo Volandri
(11) Milos Raonic v Daniel Gimeno Traver
(12) Tommy Haas v Guillermo Garcia Lopez
(13) John Isner v Martin Klizan
(14) Mikhail Youzhny v Jan Lennard Struff
(15) Fabio Fognini v Alex Bogomolov Jr.
(16) Kei Nishikori v Marinko Matosevic
(17) Tommy Robredo v Lukas Rosol
(18) Gilles Simon v Daniel Brands
(19) Kevin Anderson v Jiri Vesely
(20) Jerzy Janowicz v Jordan Thompson
(21) Philipp Kohlschreiber v Aljaz Bedene
(22) Grigor Dimitrov v Bradley Klahn
(23) Ernests Gulbis v Juan Monaco
(24) Andreas Seppi v Lleyton Hewitt
(25) Gael Monfils v Ryan Harrison
(26) Feliciano Lopez v Somdev Devvarman
(27) Benoit Paire v Frank Dancevic
(28) Vasek Pospisil v Samuel Groth
(29) Jeremy Chardy v Jesse Huta Galung
(31) Fernando Verdasco v Ze Zhang
(32) Ivan Dodig v Ivo Karlovic
Nicolas Mahut v Matthew Ebden
Alex Dolgopolov v Ricardas Berankis
Sam Querrey v Santiago Giraldo
Marin Cilic v Marcel Granollers
Marcos Baghdatis v Denis Istomin
Michael Llodra v Michael Berrer
Radek Stepanek v Blaz Kavcic
Jack Sock v Tobias Kamke
Julien Benneteau v Pablo Carreno Busta
Sergiy Stakhovsky v Teymuraz Gabashvili
Donald Young v Robin Haase
Nikolay Davydenko v Lukasz Kubot
Florian Mayer v Denis Kudla
Steve Johnson v Adrian Mannarino
Benjamin Becker v Nick Kyrgios
Carlos Berlocq v Edouard Roger Vasselin
Jan Hajek v Damir Dzumhur
Yen Hsun Lu v Jimmy Wang
Kenny de Schepper v Di Wu
Dudi Sela v Jarkko Nieminen
Alejandro Falla v Mikhail Kukushkin

WOMEN
(1) Serena Williams v Ashleigh Barty
(2) Victoria Azarenka v Johanna Larsson
(3) Maria Sharapova v Bethanie Mattek Sands
(4) Na Li v Ana Konjuh
(5) Agnieszka Radwanska v Yulina Putinseva
(6) Petra Kvitova v Luksika Kumkhum
(7) Sara Errani v Julia Goerges
(8) Jelena Jankovic v Misaki Doi
(9) Angelique Kerber v Jarmila Gajdosova
(10) Caroline Wozniacki v Lourdes Dominguez Lino
(11) Simona Halep v Katarzyna Piter
(12) Roberta Vinci v Jie Zheng
(13) Sloane Stephens v Yaroslava Shvedova
(14) Ana Ivanovic v Kiki Bertens
(15) Sabine Lisicki v Mirjana Lucic Baroni
(16) Carla Suarez Navarro v Vania King
(17) Sam Stosur v Klara Zakopalova
(18) Kirsten Flipkens v Laura Robson
(19) Svetlana Kuznetsova v Elina Svitolina
(20) Dominika Cibulkova v Francesca Schiavone
(21) Sorana Cirstea v Marina Erakovic
(22) Ekaterina Makarova v Venus Williams
(23) Elena Vesnina v Alison Riske
(24) Kaia Kanepi v Garbine Mugurza
(25) Alize Cornet v Polona Hercog
(26) Lucie Safarova v Julia Glushko
(28) Flavia Pennetta v Alexandra Cadantu
(29) Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova v Teliana Pereira
(31) Daniela Hantuchova v Heather Watson
(32) Magdalena Rybarikova v Andrea Petkovic
(33) Bojana Jovanovski v Jana Sepelova
Kimiko Date Krumm v Belinda Bencic
Vera Zvonareva v Casey Dellacqua
Tsvetana Pironkova v Silvia Soler Espinosa
Madison Keys v Patricia Mayr Achleitner
Yanina Wickmayer v Dinah Pfizenmaier
Virginie Razzano v Alison van Uytvanck
Anna Medina Garrigues v Irina Falconi
Shuai Peng v Kurumi Nara
Anna Tatishvili v Monica Puig
Varvara Lepchenko v Lesia Tsurenko
Christina McHale v Yung Jan Chan
Irina Camelia Begu v Galina Voskoboeva
Barbora Zahlavova Strycova v Su Wei Hsieh
Karin Knapp v Paula Ormaechea
Camila Giorgi v Storm Sanders

LIVE (and exclusive) to ESPN (and maybe Tennis Channel?) in the US. Also the Aussie Open app is a good thing as well. AO Radio online is also back too.


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