Australian Open 2010 Draw Results
The Australian Open 2010 draw has been performed today. LiveTennis.org covered it live online with both live text commentary and free live video stream option.
Our visitors had the pleasure to watch Ana Ivanovic performing the draw for the Women’s torunament, while John McEnroe had the honor to lead the proceedings on the Men’s competition.
Both Women’s and Men’s Singles draws had their controversies. Yanina Wickmayer, world No. 16, had to play the Qualifiers in order to get on the main table, because of a problem with one of her doping tests. It was solved to late to allow the Belgian youngster to be seeded.
Andy Murray was the unlucky guy for the Men’s Singles draw. He did not play last week in Doha, lost a few points and dropped on the 5th ATP spot. Juan Martin Del Potro overtook him. But, Del Potro did not play this week in Sydney and he will lose points too, meaning that Murray will climb back at world No.4 starting with Monday. However this was just enough to qualify Del Potro as seed No.4 for the 2010 Australian Open. Murray being 5th is exposed to playing one of the top 4 guys as early as the quarter-final stage.
Australian Open 2010 Draw Results
Men’s Singles – Important 1st Round Matches with 2nd Round pairing
Roger Federer SUI (1) vs Igor Andreev RUS
Juan Ignacio Chela ARG vs Victor Hanescu ROU
Fernando Verdasco ESP (9) vs Carsten Ball AUS
Qualifier vs Dudi Sela ISR
Carlos Moya ESP vs Qualifier
Qualifier vs Nikolay Davydenko RUS (6)
Novak Djokovic SRB (3) vs Daniel Gimeno-Traver ESP
Marinko Matosevic AUS vs Marco Chiudinelli SUI
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga FRA (10) vs Sergiy Stakhovsky UKR
Fabio Fognini ITA vs Taylor Dent USA
Alejandro Falla COL vs Marcos Daniel BRA
Marcel Granollers ESP vs Robin Soderling SWE (8)
Andy Roddick USA (7) vs Thiemo de Bakker NED
Teimuraz Gabashvili RUS vs Thomaz Bellucci BRA
James Blake USA vs Arnaud Clement FRA
Michael Russell USA vs Juan Martin Del Potro ARG (4)
Andy Murray GBR (5) vs Qualifier
Marc Gicquel FRA vs Simone Bolelli ITA
Lukas Lacko SVK vs Leonardo Mayer ARG
Peter Luczak AUS vs Rafael Nadal ESP (2)
Women’s Singles – Important 1st Round Matches with 2nd Round pairing
Serena Williams USA (1) vs Urszula Radwanska POL
Petra Kvitova CZE vs Jill Craybas USA
Arantxa Parra Santonja ESP vs Sybille Bammer AUT
Lucie Safarova CZE vs Venus Williams USA (6)
Elena Dementieva RUS (5) vs Vera Dushevina RUS
Kirsten Flipkens BEL vs Justine Henin BEL
Kim Clijsters BEL (15) vs Qualifier
Sesil Karatantcheva KAZ vs Tamarine Tanasugarn THA
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova RUS vs Anastasija Sevastova LAT
Anastasia Rodionova AUS vs Svetlana Kuznetsova RUS (3)
Maria Sharapova RUS (14) vs Maria Kirilenko RUS
Qualifier vs Timea Bacsinszky SUI
Jelena Jankovic SRB (8) vs Monica Niculescu ROU
Patricia Mayr AUT vs Katie O’brien GBR
Barbora Zahlavova Strycova CZE vs Qualifier
Magdalena Rybarikova SVK vs Dinara Safina RUS (2)
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