The 2013 Australian Open is the first Major tennis tournament of the year and is played at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia. The 2013 Australian Open Men's Draw is listed below for the opening round. It is also broken up into pairs of eight players. The players that are seeded in the tournament have a number after their names and before the country they are representing. All wildcards are listed with a (W) in front of their names.
Novak Djokovic is the odds-one favorite to win the tournament at 1.25/1 odds (Risk $100 to win back $125). He is on the opposite side of the bracket from Andy Murray, who many consider to be playing the best tennis of anyone in the world. The only time they could play is in the finals.
The Australian Open begins on Monday, Jan. 14 in Melbourne, which is Sunday night in EST. First round coverage begins at 6:30 p.m. Sunday night on ESPN2.
2013 Australian Open Men's Draw
Novak Djokovic (1), Serbia, vs. Paul-Henri Mathieu, France
Ryan Harrison, United States, vs. Santiago Giraldo, Colombia
Qualifier vs. Feliciano Lopez, Spain
Viktor Troicki, Serbia, vs. Radek Stepanek (31), Czech Republic
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Sam Querrey (20), United States, vs. Qualifier
Qualifier vs. Brian Baker, United States
Tobias Kamke, Germany, vs. Flavio Cipolla, Italy
Qualifier vs. Stanislas Wawrinka (15), Switzerland
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Juan Monaco (11), Argentina, vs. Andrey Kuznetsov, Russia
Kevin Anderson, South Africa, vs. Paolo Lorenzi, Italy
Xavier Malisse, Belgium, vs. Pablo Andujar, Spain
David Goffin, Belgium, vs. Fernando Verdasco (22), Spain
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Jurgen Melzer (26), Austria, vs. Mikhail Kukushkin, Kazakhstan
Fabio Fognini, Italy, vs. Roberto Bautista Agut, Spain
Qualifier vs. Guillaume Rufin, France
Michael Russell, United States, vs. Tomas Berdych (5), Czech Republic
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David Ferrer (4), Spain, vs. Olivier Rochus, Belgium
Ivo Karlovic, Croatia, vs. Qualifier
(W) John Millman, Australia, vs. Tatsuma Ito, Japan
Albert Ramos, Spain, vs. Marcos Baghdatis (28), Cyprus
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Mikhail Youzhny (23), Russia, vs. Matthew Ebden, Australia
Evgeny Donskoy, Russia, vs. Adrian Ungur, Romania
Qualifier vs. Carlos Berlocq, Argentina
Victor Hanescu, Romania, vs. Kei Nishikori (16), Japan
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Nicolas Almagro (10), Spain, vs. Qualifier
Daniel Gimeno-Traver, Spain, vs. Lukasz Kubot, Poland
Bjorn Phau, Germany, vs. Somdev Devvarman, Indiai
Simone Bolelli, Italy, vs. Jerzy Janowicz (24), Poland
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Julien Benneteau (32), France, vs. Grigor Dimitrov, Bulgaria
Edouard Roger-Vasselin, France, vs. Qualifier
Lukas Lacko, Slovakia, vs. Gilles Muller, Luxembourg
Lleyton Hewitt, Australia, vs. Janko Tipsarevic (8), Serbia
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Juan Martin del Potro (6), Argentina, vs. Qualifier
Aljaz Bedene, Slovenia, vs. Benjamin Becker, Germany
Jeremy Chardy, France, vs. Qualifier
Grega Zemlja, Slovenia, vs. Marcel Granollers (30), Spain
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Andreas Seppi (21), Italy, vs. Horacio Zeballos, Argentina
Igor Sijsling, Netherlands, vs. Denis Istomin, Uzbekistan
Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, Spain, vs. Qualifier
Marinko Matosevic, Australia, vs. Marin Cilic (12), Croatia
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Gilles Simon (14), France, vs. Filippo Volandri, Italy
Tommy Robredo, Spain, vs. Jesse Levine, Canada
Yen-hsun Lu, Taiwan, vs. Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo, Spain
Gael Monfils, France, vs. Alexandr Dolgopolov (18), Ukraine
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Florian Mayer (25), Germany, vs. (W) Rhyne Williams, United States
Qualifier vs. Sergiy Stakhovsky, Ukraine
Joao Sousa, Portugal, vs. (W) John-Patrick Smith, Australia
Robin Haase, Netherlands, vs. Andy Murray (3), Britain
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Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (7), France, vs. Michael Llodra, France
Go Soeda, Japan, vs. (W) Luke Saville, Australia
(W) James Duckworth, Australia, vs. (W) Benjamin Mitchell, Australia
Blaz Kavcic, Slovenia, vs. Thomaz Bellucci (29), Brazil
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Tommy Haas (19), Germany, vs. Jarkko Nieminen, Finland
Ivan Dodig, Croatia, vs. (W) Wu Di, China
(W) Josselin Ouanna, France, vs. Alejandro Falla, Colombia
Albert Montanes, Spain, vs. Richard Gasquet (9), France
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Milos Raonic (13), Canada, vs. Jan Hajek, Czech Republic
Qualifier vs. Lukas Rosol, Czech Republic
Qualifier vs. Guido Pella, Argentina
Steve Darcis, Belgium, vs. Philipp Kohlschreiber (17), Germany
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Martin Klizan (27), Slovakia, vs. Qualifier
Bernard Tomic, Australia, vs. Leonardo Mayer, Argentina
Qualifier vs. Nikolay Davydenko, Russia
Benoit Paire, France, vs. Roger Federer (2), Switzerland
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