AO main draws

[Brinyi]

Ze seeds

Men:
1. Roger Federer (Switzerland)
2. Andy Roddick (U.S.)
3. Lleyton Hewitt (Australia)
4. David Nalbandian (Argentina)
5. Nikolay Davydenko (Russia)
6. Guillermo Coria (Argentina)
7. Ivan Ljubicic (Croatia)
8. Gaston Gaudio (Argentina)
9. Fernando Gonzalez (Chile)
10. Thomas Johansson (Sweden)
11. David Ferrer (Spain)
12. Dominik Hrbaty (Slovakia)
13. Robby Ginepri (U.S.)
14. Richard Gasquet (France)
15. Juan Carlos Ferrero (Spain)
16. Tommy Robredo (Spain)
17. Radek Stepanek (Czech Republic)
18. Mario Ancic (Croatia)
19. Tomas Berdych (Czech Republic)
20. James Blake (U.S.)
21. Nicolas Kiefer (Germany)
22. Gael Monfils (France)
23. Igor Andreev (Russia)
24. Olivier Rochus (Belgium)
25. Sebastien Grosjean (France)
26. Jarkko Nieminen (Finland)
27. Taylor Dent (U.S.)
28. Fernando Verdasco (Spain)
29. Filippo Volandri (Italy)
30. Max Mirnyi (Belarus)
31. Feliciano Lopez (Spain)
32. Carlos Moya (Spain)

Women:
1. Lindsay Davenport (U.S.)
2. Kim Clijsters (Belgium)
3. Amelie Mauresmo (France)
4. Maria Sharapova (Russia)
5. Mary Pierce (France)
6. Nadia Petrova (Russia)
7. Patty Schnyder (Switzerland)
8. Justine Henin-Hardenne (Belgium)
9. Elena Dementieva (Russia)
10. Venus Williams (U.S.)
11. Nathalie Dechy (France)
12. Anastasia Myskina (France)
13. Serena Williams (U.S.)
14. Svetlana Kuznetsova (Russia)
15. Francesca Schiavone (Italy)
16. Nicole Vaidisova (Czech Republic)
17. Daniela Hantuchova (Slovakia)
18. Elena Likhovtseva (Russia)
19. Dinara Safina (Russia)
20. Flavia Pennetta (Italy)
21. Ana Ivanovic (Serbia & Montenegro)
22. Anna-Lena Groenefeld (Germany)
23. Jelena Jankovic (Serbia & Montenegro)
24. Tatiana Golovin (France)
25. Maria Kirilenko (Russia)
26. Ai Sugiyama (Japan)
27. Marion Bartoli (France)
28. Anabel Medina Garrigues (Spain)
29. Klara Koukalova (Czech Republic)
30. Vera Zvonareva (Russia)
31. Gisela Dulko (Argentina)
32. Sania Mirza (India)

[Brinyi]

Men's draw

Roger Federer SUI (1) vs. Denis Istomin UZB
Hyung-Taik Lee KOR vs. Florian Mayer GER
Qualifier (Jacob Adaktusson SWE) vs. Davide Sanguinetti ITA
Thierry Ascione FRA vs. Max Mirnyi BLR (30)
Olivier Rochus BEL (24) vs. Michael Llodra FRA
Ivo Minar CZE vs. Peter Luczak AUS
Paul Goldstein USA vs. Novak Djokovic SCG
Tommy Haas GER vs. Richard Gasquet FRA (14)

Dominik Hrbaty SVK (12) vs. Qualifier (Oliver Marach AUT)
Qualifier (Zack Fleishman USA) vs. Dick Norman BEL
Qualifier (Pavel Snobel CZE) vs. Raemon Sluiter NED
Nicolas Almagro ESP vs. Igor Andreev RUS (23)

Filippo Volandri ITA (29) vs. Nathan Healey AUS
Potito Starace ITA vs. Amer Delic USA
Qualifier (Harel Levy ISR) vs. Kevin Kim USA
Ivo Karlovic CRO vs. Nikolay Davydenko RUS (5)

Lleyton Hewitt AUS (3) vs. Robin Vik CZE
Andy Murray GBR vs. Juan Ignacio Chela ARG
Christophe Rochus BEL vs. Kristof Vliegen BEL
Kenneth Carlsen DEN vs. Fernando Verdasco ESP (28)

Nicolas Kiefer GER (21) vs. Paradorn Srichaphan THA
Wayne Arthurs AUS vs. Boris Pashanski SCG
Andreas Seppi ITA vs. Qualifier (Janko Tipsarevic SCG)
Tomas Zib CZE vs. Juan Carlos Ferrero ESP (15)

Fernando Gonzalez CHI (9) vs. Qualifier (Alex Bogomolov Jr. USA)
Arnaud Clement FRA vs. Paul-Henri Mathieu FRA
Carlos Berlocq ARG vs. Bjorn Phau GER
Luis Horna PER vs. Gael Monfils FRA (22)

Sebastien Grosjean FRA (25) vs. Mark Philippoussis AUS
Jean-Rene Lisnard FRA vs. Juan Monaco ARG
Juan Antonio Marin CRC vs. Alberto Martin ESP
Victor Hanescu ROM vs. Guillermo Coria ARG (6)

Gaston Gaudio ARG (8) vs. Razvan Sabau ROM
Qualifier (Lars Burgsmuller GER) vs. Rainer Schuettler GER
Fabrice Santoro FRA vs. Vincent Spadea USA
Andrei Pavel ROM vs. Carlos Moya ESP (32)

Mario Ancic CRO (18) vs. Agustin Calleri ARG
Jan Hernych CZE vs. Fernando Vicente ESP
Daniele Bracciali ITA vs. Qualifier (Yen-Hsun Lu TPE)
Florent Serra FRA vs. David Ferrer ESP (11)

Tommy Robredo ESP (16) vs. Jiri Vanek CZE
Tim Henman GBR vs. Dmitry Tursunov RUS
Qualifier (Jean-Christophe Faurel FRA) vs. Alexander Waske GER
Jose Acasuso ARG vs. James Blake USA (20)

Jarkko Nieminen FIN (26) vs. Marc Kimmich AUS
Mariano Zabaleta ARG vs. Yeu-Tzuoo Wang TPE
Stanislas Wawrinka SUI vs. Albert Montanes ESP
Qualifier (Danai Udomchoke THA) vs. David Nalbandian ARG (4)

Ivan Ljubicic CRO (7) vs. Chris Guccione AUS
Lukas Dlouhy CZE vs. Philipp Kohlschreiber GER
Ricardo Mello BRA vs. Gilles Muller LUX
Tomas Behrend GER vs. Feliciano Lopez ESP (31)

Tomas Berdych CZE (19) vs. Bobby Reynolds USA
Qualifier (Gilles Simon FRA) vs. Nicolas Massu CHI
Xavier Malisse BEL vs. Mikhail Youzhny RUS
Cyril Saulnier FRA vs. Thomas Johansson SWE (10)

Robby Ginepri USA (13) vs. Jurgen Melzer AUT
Jonas Bjorkman SWE vs. Qualifier (Denis Gremelmayr GER)
Justin Gimelstob USA vs. Marcos Baghdatis CYP
Qualifier (Bjorn Rehnquist SWE) vs. Radek Stepanek CZE (17)

Taylor Dent USA (27) vs. Guillermo Garcia-Lopez ESP
Marcos Daniel BRA vs. Qualifier (Julien Benneteau FRA)
Wesley Moodie RSA vs. Oscar Hernandez ESP
Qualifier (Michael Lammer SUI) vs. Andy Roddick USA (2)

[Brinyi]

Women's draw

Lindsay Davenport USA (1) vs. Casey Dellacqua AUS
Alona Bondarenko UKR vs. Karolina Sprem CRO
Emmanuelle Gagliardi SUI vs. Galina Voskoboeva RUS
Evgenia Linetskaya RUS vs. Maria Kirilenko RUS (25)
Tatiana Golovin FRA (24) vs. Mara Santangelo ITA
Katarina Srebotnik SLO vs. Stephanie Foretz FRA
Tatiana Panova RUS vs. Arantxa Parra Santonja ESP
Lauren Breadmore AUS vs. Svetlana Kuznetsova RUS (14)

Venus Williams USA (10) vs. Tszvetana Pironkova BUL
Qualifier (Kathrin Woerle GER) vs. Laura Granville USA
Lourdes Dominguez Lino ESP vs. Virginia Ruano Pascual ESP
Lisa Raymond USA vs. Elena Likhovtseva RUS (18)

Ai Sugiyama JPN (26) vs. Conchita Martinez Granados ESP
Jelena Dokic AUS vs. Virginie Razzano FRA
Hana Sromova CZE vs. Akiko Morigami JPN
Marta Domachowska POL vs. Justine Henin-Hardenne BEL (8)

Maria Sharapova RUS (4) vs. Sandra Kloesel GER
Qualifier (Ashley Harkleroad USA) vs. Shuai Peng CHN
Mashona Washington USA vs. Jelena Kostanic CRO
Zuzana Ondraskova CZE vs. Anabel Medina Garrigues ESP (28)

Daniela Hantuchova SVK (17) vs. Saori Obata JPN
Dally Randriantefy MAD vs. Akgul Amanmuradova UZB
Mariana Diaz-Oliva ARG vs. Camille Pin FRA
Na Li CHN vs. Serena Williams USA (13)

Elena Dementieva RUS (9) vs. Julia Schruff GER
Elena Vesnina RUS vs. Qualifier (Ting Li CHN)
Qualifier (Tzipora Obziler ISR) vs. Qualifier (Olga Savchuk UKR)
Jill Craybas USA vs. Jelena Jankovic SCG (23)

Klara Koukalova CZE (29) vs. Ekaterina Bychkova RUS
Maria Elena Camerin ITA vs. Qualifier (Yvonne Meusburger AUT)
Qualifier (Jarmila Gajdosova SVK) vs. Martina Muller GER
Sophie Ferguson AUS vs. Nadia Petrova RUS (6)

Patty Schnyder SUI (7) vs. Eleni Daniilidou GRE
Shahar Peer ISR vs. Shinobu Asagoe JPN
Alize Cornet FRA vs. Aiko Nakamura JPN
Maret Ani EST vs. Gisela Dulko ARG (31)

Dinara Safina RUS (19) vs. Tathiana Garbin ITA
Maria Vento-Kabchi VEN vs. Sofia Arvidsson SWE
Jamea Jackson USA vs. Qualifier (Tamarine Tanasugarn THA)
Yuliana Fedak UKR vs. Anastasia Myskina RUS (12)

Nicole Vaidisova CZE (16) vs. Qualifier (Anastasiya Yakimova BLR)
Anna Chakvetadze RUS vs. Jie Zheng CHN
Martina Sucha SVK vs. Anna Smashnova ISR
Qualifier (Cara Black ZIM) vs. Flavia Pennetta ITA (20)

Sania Mirza IND (32) vs. Qualifier (Victoria Azarenka BLR)
Michaella Krajicek NED vs. Kristina Brandi PUR
Emilie Loit FRA vs. Viktoriya Kutuzova UKR
Tiantian Sun CHN vs. Amelie Mauresmo FRA (3)

Mary Pierce FRA (5) vs. Nicole Pratt AUS
Iveta Benesova CZE vs. Rika Fujiwara JPN
Emma Laine FIN vs. Nuria Llagostera Vives ESP
Martina Hingis SUI vs. Vera Zvonareva RUS (30)

Ana Ivanovic SCG (21) vs. Shenay Perry USA
Samantha Stosur AUS vs. Severine Bremond FRA
Eva Birnerova CZE vs. Sybille Bammer AUT
Zi Yan CHN vs. Nathalie Dechy FRA (11)

Francesca Schiavone ITA (15) vs. Antonella Serra Zanetti ITA
Vera Dushevina RUS vs. Catalina Castano COL
Lucie Safarova CZE vs. Maria Sanchez Lorenzo ESP
Laura Pous Tio ESP vs. Anna-Lena Groenefeld GER (22)

Marion Bartoli FRA (27) vs. Amy Frazier USA
Roberta Vinci ITA vs. Meghann Shaughnessy USA
Qualifier (Meng Yuan CHN) vs. Melinda Czink HUN
Yoon Jeong Cho KOR vs. Kim Clijsters BEL (2)

[DBBN]

Martina Hingis SUI vs. Vera Zvonareva RUS (30)

[Brinyi]

hurley said:

Martina Hingis SUI vs. Vera Zvonareva RUS (30)

That's not quite the draw Tina needed, I don't think. She might beat Zvonareva but not Pierce too.

[Brinyi]

On the other hand, Patty has a great draw. So does ED. The middle of the women's draw looks pretty soft to me.

[Brinyi]

Rich did not need to have to play the Haas Been in 1R.

Either Hewitt-Murray or Hewitt-Chela 2R will be amusing.
/me spits.

Can't complain about Dave's draw. Could reach the final if the tummy aches subside.

I have Berdych in the semis, getting past Ljub and Roddick. Yes, I am mad!
/me foams at the mouth

[DBBN]

I think Nastya has a great draw since she got Patty

Tina-Vera is very tough to call but I think Vera will need to win in two. If Tina gets inside her head it will be 6-0 in the third to the Swiss. That's actually a very interesting match since it will show where both of their comebacks stand.

[Brinyi]

hurley said:

I think Nastya has a great draw since she got Patty

I guess that's the thing about soft draws, everyone thinks they got lucky. ;D

[Grarliner]

The whole bottom half looks soft. On the upside, there will be no Serena/Venus title.

Pierce to make third Slam final in last four???

[Grarliner]

hurley said:

I think Nastya has a great draw since she got Patty

Tina-Vera is very tough to call but I think Vera will need to win in two. If Tina gets inside her head it will be 6-0 in the third to the Swiss. That's actually a very interesting match since it will show where both of their comebacks stand.

I think Martina might want to invite Pistolesi to sit in her box during that match ...

[Tennislurker]

how many games will the uzbek win against fed?

did he beat someone in quallies?

[Brinyi]

No, Neo, he won the Asian wild card tournament. He will win 5 games.

[Brinyi]

Order of play

Rod Laver Arena, 11am
1-Lindsay Davenport (US) v Casey Dellacqua (Aus)
Danai Udomchoke (Tha) v 4-David Nalbandian (Arg)
4-Maria Sharapova (Rus) v Sandra Kloesel (Ger)
7.30pm:
Na Li (Chn) v 13-Serena Williams (US)
Michael Lammer (Swi) v 2-Andy Roddick (US)

Vodafone Arena, 11am
13-Robby Ginepri (US) v Jurgen Melzer (Aut)
10-Venus Williams (US) v Tszvetana Pironkova (Bul)
7-Ivan Ljubicic (Cro) v Chris Guccione (Aus)
Marta Domachowska (Pol) v 8-Justine Henin-Hardenne (Belg)

Margaret Court Arena, 11am
8-Gaston Gaudio (Arg) v Razvan Sabau (Rom)
Jelena Dokic (Aus) v Virginie Razzano (Fra)
27-Taylor Dent (US) v Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (Spa)
7.30pm:
Tim Henman (GB) v Dmitry Tursunov (Rus)

Show Court 2, 11am
9-Elena Dementieva (Rus) v Julia Schruff (Ger)
Sophie Ferguson (Aus) v 6-Nadia Petrova (Rus)
Andrei Pavel (Rom) v 32-Carlos Moya (Spa)
Cyril Saulnier (Fra) v 10-Thomas Johansson (Swe)

Show Court 3, 11am
17-Daniela Hantuchova (Svk) v Saori Obata (Jpn)
18-Mario Ancic (Cro) v Agustin Calleri (Arg)
Jose Acasuso (Arg) v 20-James Blake (US)

Court 4, 11am
Dally Randriantefy (Mad) v Akgul Amanmuradova (Uzb)
Stanislas Wawrinka (Swi) v Albert Montanes (Spa)
Wesley Moodie (SAf) v Oscar Hernandez (Spa)
Ricardo Mello (Brz) v Gilles Muller (Lux)

Court 6, 11am
Hana Sromova (Cze) v Akiko Morigami (Jpn)
26-Ai Sugiyama (Jpn) v Conchita Martinez Granados (Spa)
Mariano Zabaleta (Arg) v Yeu-Tzuoo Wang (Tai)
Ashley Harkleroad (US) v Shuai Peng (Chn)

Court 7, 11am
Florent Serra (Fra) v 11-David Ferrer (Spa)
Evgenia Linetskaya (Rus) v 25-Maria Kirilenko (Rus)
16-Tommy Robredo (Spa) v Jiri Vanek (Cze)
Lisa Raymond (US) v 18-Elena Likhovtseva (Rus)

Court 8, 11am
Lars Burgsmuller (Ger) v Rainer Schuettler (Ger)
Emmanuelle Gagliardi (Swi) v Galina Voskoboeva (Rus)
Gilles Simon (Fra) v Nicolas Massu (Chi)
Mashona Washington (US) v Jelena Kostanic (Cro)

Court 10, 11am
Daniele Bracciali (Ita) v Yen-Hsun Lu (Tai)
Katarina Srebotnik (Svn) v Stephanie Foretz (Fra)
Jean-Christophe Faurel (Fra) v Alexander Waske (Ger)
Mariana Diaz-Oliva (Arg) v Camille Pin (Fra)

Court 11, 11am
Jan Hernych (Cze) v Fernando Vicente (Spa)
Elena Vesnina (Rus) v Ting Li (Chn)
Marcos Daniel (Brz) v Julien Benneteau (Fra)
29-Klara Koukalova (Cze) v Ekaterina Bychkova (Rus)

Court 13, 11am
Alona Bondarenko (Ukr) v Karolina Sprem (Cro)
Justin Gimelstob (US) v Marcos Baghdatis (Cyp)
Zuzana Ondraskova (Cze) v 28-Anabel Medina Garrigues (Spa)
Xavier Malisse (Belg) v Mikhail Youzhny (Rus)

Court 14, 11am
Jarmila Gajdosova (Svk) v Martina Muller (Ger)
Tzipora Obziler (Isr) v Olga Savchuk (Ukr)
Lukas Dlouhy (Cze) v Philipp Kohlschreiber (Ger)
Maria Elena Camerin (Ita) v Yvonne Meusburger (Aut)

Court 18, 11am
24-Tatiana Golovin (Fra) v Mara Santangelo (Ita)
26-Jarkko Nieminen (Fin) v Marc Kimmich (Aus)
19-Tomas Berdych (Cze) v Bobby Reynolds (US)
Lauren Breadmore (Aus) v 14-Svetlana Kuznetsova (Rus)

Court 19, 11am
Bjorn Rehnquist (Swe) v 17-Radek Stepanek (Cze)
Jill Craybas (US) v 23-Jelena Jankovic (Serb-Mon)
Tomas Behrend (Ger) v 31-Feliciano Lopez (Spa)
Lourdes Dominguez Lino (Spa) v Virginia Ruano Pascual (Spa)

Court 21, 11am
Jonas Bjorkman (Swe) v Denis Gremelmayr (Ger)
Kathrin Woerle (Ger) v Laura Granville (US)
Fabrice Santoro (Fra) v Vincent Spadea (US)
Tatiana Panova (Rus) v Arantxa Parra Santonja (Spa)

[DBBN]

Seems like a weak-ish day to me. Wouldn't mind having Vodafone tickets, I suppose, with sojourns out to 18 and 19 for a while, along with the usual constant roaming.

[Brinyi]

Monday gooooooooooooooooooooos

Fat Dave (sorry Danai!)!
Li Na!
Lammer!
Tszvetana!
Ljubie!
JHH!
Sabau!
La Razz!
GGL!
Timmy!
ED!
Carlosh!
TJ!
Augie!
J.Blake!
D A L L Y !
Stan the Man!
Mello Yello!
Mpaperfolding!
Ai!
Amazing Yeu-Tzuoo Wang!
Peng!
Vampiro!
Mashonita!
Foretz
MDO!
Hernych!
Tingley!
Marcos Daniel!
Kouky!
Bagh Boy!
Funky Cold!
Youzhny!
Fishin' Hat!
Berdman!
Pathetic Bjorn Rehnquist!
ViVi!
Bjosse!
Gnomie!
Aranchita!

Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[Brinyi]

/me would shuttle between 2, 6 and 11

[DBBN]

brinyi said:

/me would shuttle between 2, 6 and 11

Court 6 does seem to be the designated Asian court, does it not?

[Brinyi]

hurley said:

brinyi said:

/me would shuttle between 2, 6 and 11

Court 6 does seem to be the designated Asian court, does it not?

Yes indeedy!

[janie]

hurley said:

Seems like a weak-ish day to me. ....

What??? A day that features Dally vs Akgul the Giant can't possibly be considered weak-ish!

[janie]

WOOHOO!!!! 45 MINUTES TILL *LIVE TENNIS* ON ESPN2!

[DBBN]

HAT, Fishin 6
SHORTS, Booty 4

[janie]

Fishin' Hat will now choke, just wait and see.

[janie]

ED fans will be jumping off bridges and skyscrapers galore tonight! She's getting Schruffed!

[janie]

Akgul is KILLING Dally in this 3rd set!

[janie]

Hat, Fishin has broken back in the 2nd ... dare I hope ... no, I am afraid, very afraid ...

[janie]

Now Mara has to serve to stay in the set ... Golovin held at love; what was that all about, Mara?? ... I have to stop paying attention to the scoreboard for a bit because i make Mara nervous!

[DBBN]

The Schruffing is complete! Therefore my GSC ends before it could begin!

Robby was picked by a hefty plurality of people to be one of the Top 20 seeds most likely to suffer a 1R upset. He won 1 4 and 2 and of course

[janie]

Nice choke, Mara. Suddenly she could barely win a point in those last 2 games. Hope you lose the 3rd set 0-6, chokin hat!

[DBBN]

HAT, Fishin' 6 4
SHORTS, Ass 4 6