[Edisesyethisp]

Tournament Name: AUSTRALIAN OPEN
Location: MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA
Dates: 18 JANUARY-31 JANUARY 2010
Prize Money: AUS $24,094,000
128 DRAW (128Q)
SITE: Melbourne Park
Batman Avenue, Melbourne
Victoria 3000 Australia
SURFACE: Plexicushion
BALL: Wilson Australian Open
WEB SITE: www.AustralianOpen.com

Qualifying draw: Tuesday, January 12, TBA
Main draw: Friday, January 15, TBA
Men's doubles draw: TBA (Entry deadline: Monday, January 11, 5:00 p.m.)
Mixed doubles draw: Wednesday, January 20, 4:00 p.m.



Entry deadline: December 7, 2009
Seeding: January 11, 2010

ATP Main Draw


(WC) Ball, Carsten AUS
(WC) Kubler, Jason AUS (Optus 18s Australian Champion)
(WC) Tomic, Bernard AUS
(WC) TBA (TA)
(WC) Lindahl, Nick AUS (TA Play-off Champion)
(WC) TBD (ATF)
(WC) Grosjean, Sebastien FRA (FFT)
(WC) Harrison, Ryan USA (USTA)

Has there ever been a GS with a worse information policy? The qualifying has already started but still no word on two WCs for men's and women's singles each. That's really annoying.

[Edisesyethisp]

Has there ever been a GS with a worse information policy? The qualifying has already started but still no word on two WCs for men's and women's singles each. That's really annoying.

finally:

The final Australian Open wildcards were announced today, with Victorians Jarmila Groth and Marinko Matosevic both granted main draw berths.

Jarmila Groth had a promising beginning to 2009 – she reached the round of 32 at the French Open and Eastbourne, and reached the second round of Wimbledon before being derailed by eventual champion Serena Williams.

Groth achieved a career high ranking of 57 in July before being derailed by an ankle injury and subsequent surgery. She returned to the tour playing qualifying in Brisbane and Sydney this year.

“We are very pleased to grant Jarmila a wildcard into Australian Open 2010,” Fed Cup Captain and national selector David Taylor said today.

“She was just one place out of the main draw cut off (she is currently ranked 114), and her come back from injury is on track. We believe she deserves the opportunity to compete and wish her all the best.”

Twenty-four year-old Matosevic has had a breakthrough year in 2009, reaching a career high ranking of 159 and finishing the year ranked184.

Matosevic made his ATP main draw debut at the Medibank Sydney International, winning over James Duckworth (AUS), Sergei Bubka (UKR) and Daniel Gimeno-Traver (ESP). He ran into world No.49 Andreas Seppi in the first round, losing 6-4 6-4.

Todd Woodbridge, Davis Cup Coach and national selector said, “Marinko has worked hard to achieve more consistency in his game and his improving results and rankings reflect this. It was great to see him have some good results and qualify in Sydney and I wish him well for the Australian Open next week.”

As the Grand Slam of the Asia Pacific, the Australian Open also grants two wildcards to players from the region.

This year the Asia Pacific wildcards have been granted to 20-year-old world No. 132 Sesil Karatantcha, and 22-year-old Andrey Golubev, ranked 132. Both players are from Kazakhstan.

Australian Open wildcards are as follows:

Men

Nick Lindahl (AO Play-off winner), Bernard Tomic (discretionary), Carsten Ball (discretionary), Jason Kubler (discretionary), Marinko Matosevic (discretionary), Sebastien Grosjean (French Open reciprocal), Ryan Harrison (US Open reciprocal), Andrey Golubev (Asia Pacific).

Women

Casey Dellacqua (AO Play-off winner), Alicia Molik (discretionary), Olivia Rogowska (discretionary), Jarmila Groth (discretionary), Stephanie Cohen-Aloro (French Open reciprocal), Coco Vandeweghe (US Open reciprocal), Sesil Karatantcheva (Asia Pacific).

http://www.tennis.com.au/pages/News....se&newsid=6654

[agracias]

WOMEN'S QUALIFYING DRAW

Yanina Wickmayer BEL (1) v Yurika Sema JPN
Alexandra Panova RUS v Naomi Cavaday GBR
Marija Mirkovic AUS v Arina Rodionova RUS
Eva Hrdinova CZE v Lourdes Dominguez Lino ESP (22)
Regina Kulikova RUS (2) v Lindsay Lee-Waters USA
Ksenia Palkina KGZ v Ryoko Fuda JPN
Lenka Wienerova SVK v Kurumi Nara JPN
Aniko Kapros HUN v Ksenia Pervak RUS (17)
Shenay Perry USA (3) v Melanie South GBR
Ivana Lisjak CRO v Elena Chalova RUS
Misaki Doi JPN v Carly Gullickson USA
Shannon Golds AUS v Vesna Manasieva RUS (20)


Michelle Larcher De Brito POR (4)v Ekaterina Dzehalevich BLR
Jessica Moore AUS v Xinyun Han CHN
Margalita Chakhnashvili GEO v Oksana Kalashnikova GEO
Anastasia Pivovarova RUS v Chanelle Scheepers RSA (16)
Maria Elena Camerin ITA (5) v Zuzana Ondraskova CZE
Anna Lapushchenkova RUS v Heidi El Tabakh CAN
Nuria Llagostera Vives ESPv Madison Brengle USA
Viktorija Rajicic AUS v Renata Voracova CZE (14)
Arantxa Rus NED (6) v Kristina Antoniychuk UKR
Anna Floris ITA v Ashling Sumner AUS
Eloisa Compostizo De Andres ESP v Katalin Marosi HUN
Sofia Arvidsson SWE v Marta Domachowska POL (24)


Angelique Kerber GER (7) v Rebecca Marino CAN
Alexandra Stevenson USA v Andrea Hlavackova CZE
Laura Robson GBR v Sophie Ferguson AUS
Claire Feuerstein FRA v Michaella Krajicek NED (18)
Yvonne Meusburger AUT (8) v Julia Cohen USA
Neuza Silva POR v Eleni Daniilidou GRE
Bethanie Mattek-Sands USA v Julia Vakulenko UKR
Severine Beltrame FRA v Sharon Fichman CAN (13)
Mariya Koryttseva UKR (9)v Olga Savchuk UKR
Yuliana Fedak UKR v Silvia Soler Espinosa ESP
Corinna Dentoni ITA v Yulia Fedossova FRA
Kristina Mladenovic FRA v Mathilde Johansson FRA (15)

Darya Kustova BLR (10)v Zuzana Kucova SVK
Nina Bratchikova RUS v Tomoko Yonemura JPN
Elena Bovina RUS v Sally Peers AUS
Shuai Zhang CHN v Julia Schruff GER (19)
Masa Zec Peskiric SLO (11) v Rika Fujiwara JPN
Junri Namigata JPN v Ekaterina Ivanova RUS
Nikola Hofmanova AUT v Monique Adamczak AUS
Camille Pin FRA v Valerie Tetreault CAN (21)
Kathrin Woerle GER (12) v Anna Tatishvili GEO
Stephanie Foretz FRA v Simona Halep ROU
Monika Wejnert AUS v Bojana Jovanovski SRB
Lauren Albanese USA v Lilia Osterloh USA (23)

[Pheboasmabs]

The "third" Belgian should qualify without a problem and then draw Serena in the first round.

[ChuttyAmult]

Lindsay Lee-Waters, Alexandra Stevenson and Elena Bovina are still at it. Good for them.

[ChuttyAmult]

And Ramon Delgado still trying for the men. And he won his 1st round qualifying match.

[Edisesyethisp]

And Ramon Delgado still trying for the men. And he won his 1st round qualifying match.

He has been doing really well lately on the South American Challenger Circuit.

[RotsLoado]

Is it just me, or has Alex Stevenson retired in every tournament she's played in the last two years. Why is she still playing?

[whatisthebluepill]

Is it just me, or has Alex Stevenson retired in every tournament she's played in the last two years. Why is she still playing?

7 retirements in her last 22 tournaments.

[whatisthebluepill]

Wickmayer lost the first set. So much for a walk in the parl

[Pheboasmabs]

Wickmayer lost the first set. So much for a walk in the parl

I hope I didn't jinx her

[whatisthebluepill]

I hope I didn't jinx her

Down a break in the third now.

[Pheboasmabs]

Down a break in the third now.

Well I guess if she doesn't qualify I won't be tempted to pick her in the SP, where she would have let me down anyways..still pretty pathetic losing in the first round of qualies as a top 20 player coming off a win in Auckland

[ChuttyAmult]

Yanina's struggles made me open the candy - Nestle Sno Caps.

[whatisthebluepill]

Well I guess if she doesn't qualify I won't be tempted to pick her in the SP, where she would have let me down anyways..still pretty pathetic losing in the first round of qualies as a top 20 player coming off a win in Auckland

She is in the secound round !!!

[Pheboasmabs]

Yanina's struggles made me open the candy - Nestle Sno Caps.

I think you can put the chocolate away - at least until the next round

[ChuttyAmult]

I think you can put the chocolate away - at least until the next round

Phew!

Must be a strange kind of pressure being a top 20 player in qualifying.

[Pheboasmabs]

She is in the secound round !!!

Phew

[agracias]

Mens Qualifying Draw:

Xavier Malisse BEL (1) v Alex Kuznetsov USA
Julian Reister GER v Martin Fischer AUT
Dusan Lojda CZE v Rik De Voest RSA
Igor Sijsling NED v Flavio Cipolla ITA (22)
Stephane Robert FRA (2) v Adrian Menendez-Maceiras ESP
Carlos Poch-Gradin ESP v Matthew Ebden AUS
Michal Przysiezny POL v Malek Jaziri TUN
Noam Okun ISR v Paul Capdeville CHI (20)
Steve Darcis BEL (3) v James Lemke AUS
Izak Van Der Merwe RSA v Nikola Mektic CRO
Nicolas Devilder FRA v Tatsuma Ito JPN
Lester Cook USA v Grega Zemlja SLO (32)
Santiago Ventura ESP (4) v Denis Gremelmayr GER
Daniel Evans GBR v Sean Berman AUS
Lars Poerschke GER v Inigo Cervantes-Huegun ESP
Antonio Veic CRO v Albert Ramos-Vinolas ESP (29)


Kevin Kim USA (5) v Kaden Hensel AUS
Todd Widom USA v Daniel King-Turner NZL
Benjamin Balleret MON v Louk Sorensen IRL
Sergei Bubka UKR v Michael Yani USA (26)
Harel Levy ISR (6) v Roberto Bautista-Agut ESP
Luke Saville AUS v Alexandre Sidorenko FRA
Guillaume Rufin FRA v Andreas Haider-Maurer AUT
Ivo Klec SVK v Dustin Brown JAM (19)
Karol Beck SVK (7) v Matthias Bachinger GER
Ricardo Hocevar BRA v Evgeny Kirillov RUS
Henri Kontinen FIN v Conor Niland IRL
Jose Checa-Calvo ESP v Jesse Witten USA (28)
Bjorn Phau GER (8) v Federico Del Bonis ARG
Marc Lopez ESP v Donald Young USA
Samuel Groth AUS v Ramon Delgado PAR
Takao Suzuki JPN v Danai Udomchoke THA (30)


Illya Marchenko UKR (9) v Jonathan Dasnieres De Veigy FRA
James Ward GBR v Matt Reid AUS
John Millman AUS v Simone Vagnozzi ITA
Philipp Oswald AUT v Brendan Evans USA (31)
Rui Machado POR (10) v Brydan Klein AUS
Alex Bogomolov Jr. USA v Pavol Cervenak SVK
Ivan Sergeyev UKR v Greg Jones AUS
Konstantin Kravchuk RUS v Thierry Ascione FRA (23)
Oleksandr Dolgopolov Jr. UKR (11) v Simon Stadler GER
Pedro Clar-Rossello ESP v Roko Karanusic CRO
Andrea Stoppini ITA v Martin Klizan SVK
Guillermo Olaso ESP v Kevin Anderson RSA (21)
Blaz Kavcic SLO (12) v Go Soeda JPN
Ilija Bozoljac SRB v Goran Tosic MNE
Riccardo Ghedin ITA v Tobias Kamke GER
James Duckworth AUS v Somdev Devvarman IND (27)


Josselin Ouanna FRA (13) v Joseph Sirianni AUS
Yuki Bhambri IND v Jan Minar CZE
Benjamin Mitchell AUS v Andrea Arnaboldi ITA
Ivan Dodig CRO v Sebastien De Chaunac FRA (18)
David Guez FRA (14) v Ruben Bemelmans BEL
Karim Maamoun EGY v Dayne Kelly AUS
Andre Begemann GER v Prakash Amritraj IND
Vincent Millot FRA v Edouard Roger-Vasselin FRA (25)
Stefan Koubek AUT (15) v Ryler DeHeart USA
Kyu Tae Im KOR v Marco Crugnola ITA
Ryan Sweeting USA v Yuichi Sugita JPN
Grigor Dimitrov BUL v Robert Kendrick USA (17)
Laurent Recouderc FRA (16) v Reda El Amrani MAR
Dieter Kindlmann GER v Pablo Santos ESP
Alex Bogdanovic GBR v Martin Slanar AUT
Peter Polansky CAN v Marsel Ilhan TUR (24)

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Tournament Name: AUSTRALIAN OPEN
Location: MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA
Dates: 18 JANUARY-31 JANUARY 2010
Prize Money: AUS $24,094,000
128 DRAW (128Q)
SITE: Melbourne Park
Batman Avenue, Melbourne
Victoria 3000 Australia
SURFACE: Plexicushion
BALL: Wilson Australian Open
WEB SITE: www.AustralianOpen.com

Qualifying draw: Tuesday, January 12, TBA
Main draw: Friday, January 15, TBA
Men's doubles draw: TBA (Entry deadline: Monday, January 11, 5:00 p.m.)
Mixed doubles draw: Wednesday, January 20, 4:00 p.m.

ATP Ranking Points
W: 2000
F: 1200
SF: 720
QF: 360
R16: 180
R32: 90
R64: 45
R128: 10 (WC: 0)
Q: +25
Q32: 14
Q64: 8
Q128: 0

Entry deadline: December 7, 2009
Seeding: January 11, 2010

ATP Main Draw

Federer, Roger SUI 1
Nadal, Rafael ESP 2
Djokovic, Novak SRB 3
Murray, Andy GBR 4
Del Potro, Juan Martin ARG 5
Davydenko, Nikolay RUS 6
Roddick, Andy USA 7
Soderling, Robin SWE 8
Verdasco, Fernando ESP 9
Tsonga, Jo-Wilfried FRA 10
Gonzalez, Fernando CHI 11
Stepanek, Radek CZE 12
Monfils, Gael FRA 13
Cilic, Marin CRO 14
Simon, Gilles FRA 15
Robredo, Tommy ESP 16
Ferrer, David ESP 17
Haas, Tommy GER 18
Youzhny, Mikhail RUS 19
Berdych, Tomas CZE 20
Wawrinka, Stanislas SUI 21
Hewitt, Lleyton AUS 22
Ferrero, Juan Carlos ESP 23
Ljubicic, Ivan CRO 24
Querrey, Sam USA 25
Almagro, Nicolas ESP 26
Kohlschreiber, Philipp GER 27
Melzer, Jurgen AUT 28
Troicki, Viktor SRB 29
Monaco, Juan ARG 30
Montanes, Albert ESP 31
Chardy, Jeremy FRA 32
Isner, John USA 34
Andreev, Igor RUS 35
Bellucci, Thomaz BRA 36
Karlovic, Ivo CRO 37
Tipsarevic, Janko SRB 38
Becker, Benjamin GER 40
Garcia-Lopez, Guillermo ESP 41
Baghdatis, Marcos CYP 42
Sela, Dudi ISR 43
Blake, James USA 44
Zeballos, Horacio ARG 45
Benneteau, Julien FRA 46
Lopez, Feliciano ESP 47
Hanescu, Victor ROU 48
Seppi, Andreas ITA 49
Cuevas, Pablo URU 50
Acasuso, Jose ARG 51
Gasquet, Richard FRA 52
Moya, Carlos ESP @52
Korolev, Evgeny RUS 53
Fognini, Fabio ITA 54
Fish, Mardy USA 55
Chiudinelli, Marco SUI 56
Rochus, Olivier BEL 57
Gicquel, Marc FRA 58
Greul, Simon GER 59
Stakhovsky, Sergiy UKR 60
Mayer, Florian GER 61
Starace, Potito ITA 62
Clement, Arnaud FRA 63
Nalbandian, David ARG 64
Serra, Florent FRA 65
Llodra, Michael FRA 67
Santoro, Fabrice FRA 68
Vliegen, Kristof BEL @68
Gil, Frederico POR 69
Hernandez, Oscar ESP 70
Koellerer, Daniel AUT 71
Gimeno-Traver, Daniel ESP 72
Chela, Juan Ignacio ARG 73
Berrer, Michael GER 74
Mayer, Leonardo ARG 75
Dent, Taylor USA 76
Luczak, Peter AUS 77
Zverev, Mischa GER 78
Ram, Rajeev USA 79
Petzschner, Philipp GER 80
Falla, Alejandro COL 81
Lacko, Lukas SVK 82
Russell, Michael USA 83
Lorenzi, Paolo ITA 84
Schuettler, Rainer GER 85
Rochus, Christophe BEL 86
Daniel, Marcos BRA 87
Nieminen, Jarkko FIN 88
Gulbis, Ernests LAT 90
Granollers, Marcel ESP 91
Brands, Daniel GER 92
Bolelli, Simone ITA 93
De Bakker, Thiemo NED 96
Lapentti, Nicolas ECU 97
Lu, Yen-Hsun TPE 98
Vassallo Arguello, Martin ARG 99
Ginepri, Robby USA 100
Kubot, Lukasz POL 101
Istomin, Denis UZB 102
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(WC) Ball, Carsten AUS
(WC) Kubler, Jason AUS (Optus 18s Australian Champion)
(WC) Tomic, Bernard AUS
(WC) TBA (TA)
(WC) Lindahl, Nick AUS (TA Play-off Champion)
(WC) TBD (ATF)
(WC) Grosjean, Sebastien FRA (FFT)
(WC) Harrison, Ryan USA (USTA)