The draw for Australian Open 2013 will be released on Friday, 11th January, 2013 at about 10 am AEST or 7am PHT or 4:30am IST or 00:00 CET or 23:00 GMT or 18:00 EST (Thursday). The draw ceremony is open to public and will be held at Crown Riverside, Melbourne. The ceremony will feature the 2012 defending champions Victoria Azarenka and Novak Djokovic. Azarenka will take out the men's draw while Djokovic will be taking out the ladies draw for Australian Open 2013.
Stay tuned to this topic as I will update the draw as soon as it gets released.
Mean while, here are the Mens seedings for Australian Open, 2013 :
1. Novak Djokovic, Serbia
2. Roger Federer, Switzerland
3. Andy Murray, Scotland/ Great Britain
4. David Ferrer, Spain
5. Tomas Berdych, Czech Republic
6. Juan Martin Del Potro, Argentina
7. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, France
8. Janko Tipsarevic, Serbia
9. Richard Gasquet, France
10. Nicolas Almagro, Spain
11. Juan Monaco, Argentina
12. Marin Cilic, Croatia
13. Milos Raonic, Canada
14. Gilles Simon, France
15. Stanislas Wawrinka, Switzerland
16. Kei Nishikori, Japan
17. Philipp Kohlschreiber, Germany
18. Alexandr Dolgopolov, Ukraine
19. Tommy Haas, Germany
20. Sam Querrey, United States
21. Andreas Seppi, Italy
22. Fernando Verdasco, Spain
23. Mikhail Youzhny, Russia
24. Jerzy Janowicz, Poland
25. Florian Mayer, Germany
26. Jurgen Melzer, Austria
27. Martin Klizan, Slovakia
28. Marcos Baghdatis, Cyprus
29. Thomaz Bellucci, Brazil
30. Radek Stepanek, Czech Republic
31. Marcel Granollers, Spain
32. Julien Benneteau, France
Among the other Top-32, Rafael Nadal, Mardy Fish had withdrawn from Australian Open, 2013, last month while John Isner withdrew from Australian Open, one day prior to the draw because of a knee injury.
Stay tuned to this topic as I will update the live draw of Australian Open, 2013 right here on a real time basis in a few hour's time from now. Please see the following posts for the draw.
