Future Tennis Stars

Roger Federer SUI (1) v Diego Hartfield ARG
Fabrice Santoro FRA v John Isner USA
Janko Tipsarevic SRB v Joseph Sirianni AUS
Thierry Ascione FRA v Fernando Verdasco ESP (25)
Juan Monaco ARG (21) v Carlos Berlocq ARG
Robert Kendrick USA v QUALIFIER
Oscar Hernandez ESP v Ivo Minar CZE
Werner Eschauer AUT v Tomas Berdych CZE (13)
James Blake USA (12) v Nicolas Massu CHI
Michael Russell USA v Fabio Fognini ITA
Sebastien Grosjean FRA v Filippo Volandri ITA
QUALIFIER v Ivan Ljubicic CRO (17)
Nicolas Almagro ESP (27) v Marin Cilic CRO
Jiri Vanek CZE v Jurgen Melzer AUT
Hyung-Taik Lee KOR v Chris Guccione AUS
QUALIFIER v Fernando Gonzalez CHI (7)

Novak Djokovic SRB (3) v Benjamin Becker GER
QUALIFIER v Simone Bolelli ITA
Sam Querrey USA v Olivier Rochus BEL
Xavier Malisse BEL v Dmitry Tursunov RUS (32)
Lleyton Hewitt AUS (19) v Steve Darcis BEL
Denis Istomin UZB v QUALIFIER
Ernests Gulbis LAT v Marat Safin RUS
Thomas Johansson SWE v Marcos Baghdatis CYP (15)
David Nalbandian ARG (10) v Robert Smeets AUS
Mariano Zabaleta ARG v Peter Luczak AUS
Alun Jones AUS v Albert Montanes ESP
Nicolas Kiefer GER v Juan Carlos Ferrero ESP (22)
Radek Stepanek CZE (30) v Vincent Spadea USA
QUALIFIER v Sergio Roitman ARG
Santiago Ventura ESP v Juan Martin Del Potro ARG
Edouard Roger-Vasselin FRA v David Ferrer ESP (5)

Richard Gasquet FRA (8) v Nick Lindahl AUS
Feliciano Lopez ESP v QUALIFIER
Kristof Vliegen BEL v Olivier Patience FRA
Andrei Pavel ROU v Igor Andreev RUS (31)
Juan Ignacio Chela ARG (18) v Guillermo Garcia-Lopez ESP
Alejandro Falla COL v QUALIFIER
QUALIFIER v Juan Pablo Brzezicki ARG
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga FRA v Andy Murray GBR (9)
Mikhail Youzhny RUS (14) v Mathieu Montcourt FRA
QUALIFIER v Andreas Seppi ITA
Dudi Sela ISR v QUALIFIER
QUALIFIER v Ivo Karlovic CRO (20)
Stanislas Wawrinka SUI (26) v Julien Benneteau FRA
Yen-Hsun Lu TPE v Marc Gicquel FRA
Nicolas Mahut FRA v Jose Acasuso ARG
Michael Llodra FRA v Nikolay Davydenko RUS (4)

Andy Roddick USA (6) v QUALIFIER
Donald Young USA v Michael Berrer GER
Evgeny Korolev RUS v QUALIFIER
QUALIFIER v Philipp Kohlschreiber GER (29)
Jarkko Nieminen FIN (24) v Frank Dancevic CAN
Jesse Levine USA v Martin Vassallo Arguello ARG
Mardy Fish USA v Boris Pashanski SRB
Mischa Zverev GER v Tommy Robredo ESP (11)
Carlos Moya ESP (16) v Stefan Koubek AUT
Luis Horna PER v Agustin Calleri ARG
Paul Capdeville CHI v Brydan Klein AUS
Victor Hanescu ROU v Paul-Henri Mathieu FRA (23)
Gilles Simon FRA (28) v Bobby Reynolds USA
Arnaud Clement FRA v Rainer Schuettler GER
Florent Serra FRA v Florian Mayer GER
QUALIFIER v Rafael Nadal ESP (2)

The mens and womens seeds lists were released today for the Australian Open. No surprises on either side of course as they follow the rankings however it will be interesting to see how far some of the younger women fare being seeded for the first time like Agnes Szavay and Victoria Azarenka. The draw will be announced in just a few hours so I will post that along with a preview.

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)

Here is the men’s qualifying draw for the Australian Open, notables include Robin Hasse, the top seed, Wayne Odesnik, seeded 11th, Brendan Evans and Scoville Jenkins.

Robin Haase NED (1) v Go Soeda JPN
Scott Oudsema USA v Julian Reister GER
Pavel Snobel CZE v Simon Stadler GER
Alex Bogdanovic GBR v Robby Ginepri USA (18)
Bobby Reynolds USA (2) v Ti Chen TPE
Alex Kuznetsov USA v Adam Vejmelka CZE
Greg Jones AUS v Alberto Brizzi ITA
ALTERNATE v Lukas Dlouhy CZE (29)
Nicolas Devilder FRA (3) v Adrian Menendez ESP
Alexandre Kudryavtsev RUS v Christophe Rochus BEL
Miguel Angel Lopez Jaen ESP v Michal Mertinak SVK
Tobias Kamke GER v Roko Karanusic CRO (19)
Gilles Muller LUX (4) v Jan Mertl CZE
Dominik Meffert GER v Andrew Thomas AUS
Kevin Anderson RSA v Michael Quintero COL
Samuel Groth AUS v Wesley Moodie RSA (32)
Flavio Cipolla ITA (5) v Matthew Ebden AUS
Rameez Junaid AUS v Kevin Kim USA
Augustin Gensse FRA v Francesco Aldi ITA
Ryan Sweeting USA v Amer Delic USA (20)
Rik De Voest RSA (6) v Catalin Gard ROU
Oleksandr Dolgopolov Jr. UKR v Sebastian Decoud ARG
Rohan Bopanna IND v Gouichi Motomura JPN
Sam Warburg USA v Zack Fleishman USA (24)
Denis Gremelmayr GER (7) v Juan-Martin Aranguren ARG
Gustavo Marcaccio ARG v Martin Fischer AUT
Prakash Amritraj IND v Hugo Armando USA
Bernard Tomic AUS v Yeu-Tzuoo Wang TPE (25)
Maximo Gonzalez ARG (8) v Mikhail Ledovskikh RUS
Adam Feeney AUS v Benedikt Dorsch GER
Bjorn Phau GER v Ivo Klec SVK
Alexander Waske GER v Lukas Lacko SVK (27)
Yuri Schukin RUS (9) v Jamie Baker GBR
Marko Tkalec SLO v Alexander Peya AUT
Thomas Oger FRA v Fritz Wolmarans RSA
Adrian Ungur ROU v Daniel Koellerer AUT (31)
Ivan Navarro ESP (10) v Andrey Golubev RUS
Brian Wilson USA v Scoville Jenkins USA
Noam Okun ISR v Andis Juska LAT
Daniel Brands GER v Harel Levy ISR (30)
Wayne Odesnik USA (11) v Filip Prpic SWE
Jesse Huta Galung NED v Phillip King USA
Philipp Petzschner GER v KJ Hippensteel USA
Brendan Evans USA v Alberto Martin ESP (21)
Teimuraz Gabashvili RUS (12) v Lukas Rosol CZE
Dawid Olejniczak POL v Josselin Ouanna FRA
Nathan Healey AUS v Gabriel Trujillo-Soler ESP
Martin Slanar AUT v Oliver Marach AUT (26)
Viktor Troicki SRB (13) v Gary Lugassy FRA
Michael Lammer SUI v Miles Armstrong AUS
Paolo Lorenzi ITA v Matwe Middelkoop NED
Michael Ryderstedt SWE v Federico Luzzi ITA (23)
Igor Kunitsyn RUS (14) v Jan Minar CZE
David Guez FRA v Bjorn Rehnquist SWE
Stefano Galvani ITA v Adrian Cruciat ROU
Matthias Bachinger GER v Marcel Granollers-Pujol ESP (17)
Kristian Pless DEN (15) v Carsten Ball AUS
Rajeev Ram USA v Sergiy Stakhovsky UKR
Antony Dupuis FRA v Colin Ebelthite AUS
Takao Suzuki JPN v Danai Udomchoke THA (28)
Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi PAK (16) v Stephane Bohli SUI
Frederic Niemeyer CAN v Simone Vagnozzi ITA
Andrew Coelho AUS v Laurent Recouderc FRA
Farrukh Dustov UZB v Konstantinos Economidis GRE (22)

In the first week back on the ATP Tour, the men were in Chennai and Adelaide.

In Adelaide, Chris Guccione beat Wayne Odesnik in the first round while Lleyton Hewitt and Andy Murray cruised. Hewitt was upset in the quarterfinals by Jo-Wilfred Tsonga. Michael Llodra went on to beat Jarkko Nieminen for the title.

In Chennai, Marcos Baghdatis was upset by upstart Robin Hasse in the first round and Rafael Nadal cruised past Mathieu Montcourt.  Nadal went on to cruise to the semifinals where he clashed with Carlos Moya in what would be one of the longest matches in the last 20 years which Nadal would win 6-7 (3-7), 7-6 (10-8), 7-6 (7-1). An obviously tired Nadal would lose to Mikhail Youzhny in a rout 6-0, 6-1.

Let’s hope this is something that Jelena Jankovic and her fans don’t come to regret. After pulling her right hamstring muscle and retiring from her match against Tatiana Golovin, Jankovic came back to play doubles with Novak Djokovic to lead Serbia to a 2-1 win over France.

To her credit, Jankovic had an MRI to check out her hamstring before she played and found that there was no tear, just a strain. Still she risked further injury and her Australian Open could still be in doubt.

Throughout the final, Jelena was clearly limping and had to have tape replaced around her right thigh.

“I had such a motivation to win this match,” Jankovic said. “I have to thank Novak for running all over the court to help me.”

It’s unknown whether Jankovic will play in Serbia’s next tie against Argentina.

Jelena Jankovic lasted only 14 points in her Hopman Cup match against Tatiana Golovin on Wednesday. Jankovic pulled her right hamstring muscle early in the match and retired and put France up 1-0 against Serbia. Jankovic is almost certainly out of the doubles match and is in a race to get healthy for the Australian Open which begins on January 14th.