Australian Open 2011 Men's Draw

Rafael Nadal ESP (1) v Marcos Daniel BRA
Qualifier v Daniel Gimeno-Traver ESP
Bernard Tomic AUS v Jeremy Chardy FRA
Alejandro Falla COL v Feliciano Lopez ESP (31)

John Isner USA (20) v Florent Serra FRA
Radek Stepanek CZE v Qualifier
Rui Machado POR v Santiago Giraldo COL
Qualifier v Marin Cilic CRO (15)

Mikhail Youzhny RUS (10) v Marsel Ilhan TUR
Qualifier v Kevin Anderson RSA
Qualifier v Bjorn Phau GER
Juan Ignacio Chela ARG v Michael Llodra FRA (22)

David Nalbandian ARG (27) v Lleyton Hewitt AUS
Richard Berankis LTU v Marinko Matosevic AUS
Michael Russell USA v Matthew Ebden AUS
Jarkko Nieminen FIN v David Ferrer ESP (7)

I expect the world No. 1 to get through this quarter, but it won't be easy. Or maybe it will. There are lots of big players with big games in this quarter, but what have any of them done in Slams of late? The first round match between Nalbandian and Lleyton Hewitt probably doesn't please either. Could be a barnburner.

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Robin Soderling SWE (4) v Potito Starace ITA
Qualifier v Qualifier
Denis Istomin UZB v Qualifier
Ricardo Mello BRA v Thomaz Bellucci BRA (30)

Ernests Gulbis LAT (24) v Benjamin Becker GER
Alexandr Dolgopolov UKR v Mikhail Kukushkin KAZ
Andreas Seppi ITA v Arnaud Clement FRA
Philipp Petzschner GER v Jo-Wilfried Tsonga FRA (13)

Jurgen Melzer AUT (11) v Qualifier
Carsten Ball AUS v Pere Riba ESP
Dudi Sela ISR v Juan Martin Del Potro ARG
Qualifier v Marcos Baghdatis CYP (21)

Guillermo Garcia-Lopez ESP (32) v Michael Berrer GER
Eduardo Schwank ARG v Leonardo Mayer ARG
Illya Marchenko UKR v Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo ESP
Karol Beck SVK v Andy Murray GBR (5)

Del Potro is the wild card here. Soderling will make the quarterfinals unless Tsonga finds his best Melbourne form. Baghdatis also favors this Slam, and he surely has the weapons to beat anybody in his path. I'm looking forward to the first-round match between the talented if inconsistent Argentineans. Murray better get through, though. If he doesn't, pundits are going to have to begin to admit it's more likely he'll never win a Slam, as I've been saying for years now.

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Tomas Berdych CZE (6) v Qualifier
Philipp Kohlschreiber GER v Tobias Kamke GER
Ryan Harrison USA v Adrian Mannarino FRA
Qualifier v Richard Gasquet FRA (28)

Nikolay Davydenko RUS (23) v Florian Mayer GER
Fabio Fognini ITA v Kei Nishikori JPN
Mischa Zverev GER v Janko Tipsarevic SRB
Rainer Schuettler GER v Fernando Verdasco ESP (9)

Nicolas Almagro ESP (14) v Qualifier
Igor Andreev RUS v Filippo Volandri ITA
Qualifier v Benoit Paire FRA
Peter Luczak AUS v Ivan Ljubicic CRO (17)

Viktor Troicki SRB (29) v Dmitry Tursunov RUS
Brian Dabul ARG v Qualifier
Ivo Karlovic CRO v Ivan Dodig CRO
Marcel Granollers ESP v Novak Djokovic SRB (3)

Djoke comes through, with Berdych as his likely quarterfinal foe. Troicki could be tricky and a few wild cards in Igor Andreev, Janko Tipsarevic, Peter Luczak, Kei Nishikori and Philipp Kohlschreiber might surprise.

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Andy Roddick USA (8) v Jan Hajek CZE
Michal Przysiezny POL v Igor Kunitsyn RUS
Carlos Berlocq ARG v Robin Haase NED
Julien Benneteau FRA v Juan Monaco ARG (26)

Stanislas Wawrinka SUI (19) v Teymuraz Gabashvili RUS
Qualifier v Andrey Golubev KAZ
Frederico Gil POR v Pablo Cuevas URU
Thiemo de Bakker NED v Gael Monfils FRA (12)

Mardy Fish USA (16) v Victor Hanescu ROU
Tommy Robredo ESP v Somdev Devvarman IND
Sergiy Stakhovsky UKR v Daniel Brands GER
Lukasz Kubot POL v Sam Querrey USA (18)

Albert Montanes ESP (25) v Dustin Brown GER
Pablo Andujar ESP v Xavier Malisse BEL
Yen-Hsun Lu TPE v Gilles Simon FRA
Lukas Lacko SVK v Roger Federer SUI (2)

The defending champion will waltz into the semifinals because there's no way anyone else in this quarter will ever beat him in a Slam.

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