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[1]Federer vs Hartfield
Santoro vs Isner
Tipsarevic vs Sirianni
Ascione vs [25] Verdasco

[21] Monaco vs Berlocq
Kendrick vs [Q] Delic
Hernandez vs Minar
Eschauer vs [13] Berdych

[12] Blake vs Massu
Russell vs Fognini
Grosjean vs Volandri
[Q] Haase vs [17] Ljubicic

[27] Almagro vs Cilic
Vanek vs Melzer
Lee vs Guccione
[Q] Economidis vs [7] Gonzalez

[3] Djokovic vs Becker
[Q] Ram vs Bolelli
Querrey vs Rochus O
Malisse vs [32] Tursunov

[19] Hewitt vs Darcis
Istomin vs [Q] Lacko
Gulbis vs Safin
Johansson vs [15] Baghdatis

[10] Nalbandian vs Smeets
Zabaleta vs Luczak
Jones vs Montanes
Kiefer vs [22] Ferrero

[30] Stepanek vs Spadea
[Q] Gremelmayr vs Roitman
Ventura vs Del Potro
Roger-Vasselin vs [5] Ferrer

[8] Gasquet vs Lindahl
Lopez vs [Q] Odesnik
Vliegen vs Patience
Pavel vs [31] Andreev

[18] Chela vs Garcia Lopez
Falla vs [Q] Anderson
[Q] Warburg vs Brzezicki
Tsonga vs [9] Murray

[14] Youzhny vs Montcourt
[Q] Levy vs Seppi
Sela vs [Q] Slanar
[Q] Baker vs [20] Karlovic

[26] Wawrinka vs Benneteau
Lu vs Gicquel
Mahut vs Acasuso
Llodra vs [4] Davydenko

[6] Roddick vs [Q] Dlouhy
Young vs Berrer
Korolev vs [Q] Granollers-Pujol
[Q] Karanusic vs [29] Kohlschreiber

[24] Nieminen vs Dancevic
Levine vs Vassallo Arguello
Fish vs Pashanski
Zverev vs [11] Robredo

[16] Moya vs Koubek
Horna vs Calleri
Capdeville vs Klein
Hanescu vs [23] Mathieu

[28] Simon vs Reynolds
Clement vs Schuettler
Serra vs Mayer
[Q] Troicki vs [2] Nadal

Here's the link for the AO Radio:

http://www.australianopen.com./en_AU/interactive/radio/index.html

They will start at 10 am Melbourne time, 2300 GMT

Seedings for Australian Open 2008 were announced today with world No.1s Roger Federer (SUI) and Justine Henin (BEL) topping the men’s and women’s lists in what will be very strong draws.

Fans can expect to see the world’s best players at this year’s Australian Open, with all 32 of the top ranked women and all but two of the world’s top 32 men seeded.

Tommy Haas (GER) and Guillermo Canas (ARG) have withdrawn with shoulder and left wrist complaints respectively.

AUSTRALIAN OPEN 2008 MEN’S AND WOMEN’S SEEDS

Men

1. Roger Federer (SUI)
2. Rafael Nadal (ESP)
3. Novak Djokovic (SRB)
4. Nikolay Davydenko (RUS)
5. David Ferrer (ESP)
6. Andy Roddick (USA)
7. Fernando Gonzalez (CHI)
8. Richard Gasquet (FRA)
9. Andy Murray (GBR)
10. David Nalbandian (ARG)
11. Tommy Robredo (ESP)
12. James Blake (USA)
13. Tomas Berdych (CZE)
14. Mikhail Youzhny (RUS)
15. Marcos Baghdatis (CYP)
16. Carlos Moya (ESP)
17. Ivan Ljubicic (CRO)
18. Juan Ignacio Chela (ARG)
19. Lleyton Hewitt (AUS)
20. Ivo Karlovic (CRO)
21. Juan Monaco (ARG)
22. Juan Carlos Ferrero (ESP)
23. Paul-Henri Mathieu (FRA)
24. Jarkko Nieminen (FIN)
25. Fernando Verdasco (ESP)
26. Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI)
27. Nicolas Almagro (ESP)
28. Gilles Simon (FRA)
29. Philipp Kohlschreiber (GER)
30. Radek Stepanek (CZE)
31. Igor Andreev (RUS)
32. Dmitry Tursunov (RUS)

Women

1. Justine Henin (BEL)
2. Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS)
3. Jelena Jankovic (SRB)
4. Ana Ivanovic (SRB)
5. Maria Sharapova (RUS)
6. Anna Chakvetadze (RUS)
7. Serena Williams (USA)
8. Venus Williams (USA)
9. Daniela Hantuchova (SVK)
10. Marion Bartoli (FRA)
11. Elena Dementieva (RUS)
12. Nicole Vaidisova (CZE)
13. Tatiana Golovin (FRA)
14. Nadia Petrova (RUS)
15. Patty Schnyder (SUI)
16. Dinara Safina (RUS)
17. Shahar Peer (ISR)
18. Amelie Mauresmo (FRA)
19. Sybille Bammer (AUT)
20. Agnes Szavay (HUN)
21. Alona Bondarenko (UKR)
22. Lucie Safarova (CZE)
23. Vera Zvonareva (RUS)
24. Na Li (CHN)
25. Francesca Schiavone (ITA)
26. Victoria Azarenka (BLR)
27. Maria Kirilenko (RUS)
28. Katarina Srebotnik (SLO)
29. Agnieszka Radwanska (POL)
30. Virginie Razzano (FRA)
31. Sania Mirza (IND)
32. Julia Vakulenko (UKR)

 

[smit101]

Re: AO draw discussion thread - Listen to the draw live on AO Radio tonight at 2300 G

So close can't wait until it is released, i am interested to see where safin will be placed, he looked really impressive against murray at Kooyong

 

[krystlel]

Re: AO draw discussion thread - Listen to the draw live on AO Radio tonight at 2300 G

First time they have it on radio this year which is good.

 

[Tomek.]

Re: AO draw discussion thread - Listen to the draw live on AO Radio tonight at 2300 G

less then 11 h left

 

[Labamba]

Re: AO draw discussion thread - Listen to the draw live on AO Radio tonight at 2300 G

So close can't wait until it is released, i am interested to see where safin will be placed, he looked really impressive against murray at Kooyong

All the seeds will want to avoid Safin in the first round for sure. That brings up a question, who are the most dangerous floaters?

Here's the list of unseeded players:

Malisse, Xavier BEL @31
Lopez, Feliciano ESP 35
Santoro, Fabrice FRA 37
Fish, Mardy USA 39
Volandri, Filippo ITA 40
Calleri, Agustin ARG 42
Tsonga, Jo-Wilfried FRA 43
Del Potro, Juan Martin ARG 44
Mahut, Nicolas FRA 45
Montanes, Albert ESP 46
Koubek, Stefan AUT 47
Rochus, Olivier BEL 48
Kiefer, Nicolas GER 49
Seppi, Andreas ITA 50
Lee, Hyung-Taik KOR 51
Tipsarevic, Janko SRB 52
Grosjean, Sebastien FRA 53
Clement, Arnaud FRA 54
Mayer, Florian GER 55
Safin, Marat RUS 56
Berrer, Michael GER 57
Hernandez, Oscar ESP 58
Melzer, Jurgen AUT 60
Gulbis, Ernests LAT 61
Johansson, Thomas SWE 62
Querrey, Sam USA 63
Sela, Dudi ISR 64
Acasuso, Jose ARG 65
Eschauer, Werner AUT 66
Bolelli, Simone ITA 67
Benneteau, Julien FRA 68
Roitman, Sergio ARG 69
Gicquel, Marc FRA 70
Cilic, Marin CRO 71
Dancevic, Frank CAN 72
Horna, Luis PER 73
Vassallo Arguello, Martin ARG 74
Pavel, Andrei ROU 75
Hanescu, Victor ROU 76
Spadea, Vincent USA 77
Massu, Nicolas CHI 78
Luczak, Peter AUS 79
Korolev, Evgeny RUS 80
Falla, Alejandro COL 81
Russell, Michael USA 82
Becker, Benjamin GER 84
Berlocq, Carlos ARG 85
Darcis, Steve BEL 86
Ventura, Santiago ESP 87
Zverev, Mischa GER 88
Hartfield, Diego ARG 89
Garcia-Lopez, Guillermo ESP 90
Guccione, Chris AUS 91
Serra, Florent FRA 92
Llodra, Michael FRA 93
Ascione, Thierry FRA 94
Fognini, Fabio ITA 95
Pashanski, Boris SRB 96
Roger-Vasselin, Edouard FRA 97
Vliegen, Kristof BEL 98
Schuettler, Rainer GER 99
Young, Donald USA 100
Vanek, Jiri CZE 101
Capdeville, Paul CHI 102
Minar, Ivo CZE 103
Zabaleta, Mariano ARG 104
Kendrick, Robert USA 105
Isner, John USA 106
Brzezicki, Juan Pablo ARG 107
Patience, Olivier FRA 108
Lu, Yen-Hsun TPE 110
Reynolds, Bobby USA 111
(WC) Istomin, Denis UZB
(WC) Levine, Jesse USA
(WC) Montcourt, Mathieu FRA
(WC) Sirianni, Joseph AUS
(WC) Smeets, Robert AUS
(WC) Jones, Alun AUS
(WC) Lindahl, Nick AUS
(WC) Klein, Brydan AUS

 

[Tomek.]

Re: AO draw discussion thread - Listen to the draw live on AO Radio tonight at 2300 G

Chela vs Lu would be nice :devil:

 

[Labamba]

Re: AO draw discussion thread - Listen to the draw live on AO Radio tonight at 2300 G

Chela vs Lu would be nice :devil:

why those two? :lol:

 

[Labamba]

Re: AO draw discussion thread - Listen to the draw live on AO Radio tonight at 2300 G

I'd say the five most dangerous 1st round opponents for the seeds would be...

Malisse
Tsonga
Kiefer (if he's fit)
Safin
Llodra

If Federer draws one of them, it might get interesting

 

[Andi-M]

Re: AO draw discussion thread - Listen to the draw live on AO Radio tonight at 2300 G

Im soo excited!!

Just really hope it goes well for Muzza

 

[Xristos]

Re: AO draw discussion thread - Listen to the draw live on AO Radio tonight at 2300 G

I hope Safin gets a good draw, I really do.

 

[AnnaK_4ever]

Re: AO draw discussion thread - Listen to the draw live on AO Radio tonight at 2300 G

I hope Safin gets a good draw, I really do.

My prediction: Marat will draw Santoro

 

[W!MBLEDON]

Re: AO draw discussion thread - Listen to the draw live on AO Radio tonight at 2300 G

Only seven and a half hours left!

 

[muniu]

Re: AO draw discussion thread - Listen to the draw live on AO Radio tonight at 2300 G

 

[Jaap]

Re: AO draw discussion thread - Listen to the draw live on AO Radio tonight at 2300 G

I hope Safin gets a good draw, I really do.

He could play the seven dwarfs, one round after another and he still wouldn't win it.

Heck, he could even be drawn to play 7 Xristos clones and he wouldn't win it.

 

[RickDaStick]

Re: AO draw discussion thread - Listen to the draw live on AO Radio tonight at 2300 G

ESPN360.com will show the draw live.

 

[Iván]

Re: AO draw discussion thread - Listen to the draw live on AO Radio tonight at 2300 G

I hope x-man gets a decent draw.

 

[Winnipeg]

Re: AO draw discussion thread - Listen to the draw live on AO Radio tonight at 2300 G

i hope istomin gets a good draw

 

[Fee]

Re: AO draw discussion thread - Listen to the draw live on AO Radio tonight at 2300 G

How do you broadcast a computer draw?



(I'm kidding, but at least it will be quick).

 

[Fumus]

Re: AO draw discussion thread - Listen to the draw live on AO Radio tonight at 2300 G

Please put Roddick on Nadal's half with Djoker on Fed's half along with Murray. Oh god answer my prayers!

 

[scarecrows]

Re: AO draw discussion thread - Listen to the draw live on AO Radio tonight at 2300 G

Please put Roddick on Nadal's half with Djoker on Fed's half along with Murray. Oh god answer my prayers!

you forgot Dancevic