Unless i'm very much mistaken (and it has been known to happen.....sometimes......) the draw will be being made in about 20 minutes.

We should be able to listen to it on AO radio

Although I do remember listening to the US open one and it making no sense whatsoever..... :blink:

Any comments about the draw whilst it's happening make here, and we'll put the full draw up in in 'The Men's forum' once it's available online. :ok:

They're doing a weather forecast at the moment - it's 41 degrees in Melbourne at the moment :o They think it'll be fairly cool next week - 25 degrees for most of it, although possibly rising to 33 degrees on the second day.

It's just started - some guy's reading out which lines of the draw the seeds are going into. Fairly difficult to garner too much information from listening to it this way, unless you have an incredible memory. Men's will be read out soon.

yeah:

henin, sharapova, jankovic,serena - all in the top half of the draw he's just said.

Venus, Ivanovic, Kuznetsova in the bottom half....

Oh ffs - I thought Ana had got a nice draw for a minute but I think she may well have to play Venus early on yet again. :angry: Anyway, the men's...

Top: Federer, Djokovic, Gonzalez, Ferrer, Blake, Nalbandian, Berdych, Baghdatis


Bottom: Nadal, Davydenko, Gasquet, Roddick, Murray, Robredo, Youzhny, Moya

1 - Fed
16 - Berdych
17 - Blake
32 - Gonzo
33 - Djoko
41 - Hewitt
48 - Baghdatis
49 - Nalbandian
64 - Ferrer
65 - Gasquet
80 - Murray
81 - Youzhny
96 - No Weapons
97 - Roddick
112 - Robredo
113 - Moya
128 - Nadal

My live stream decided to bugger up halfway through but this is the general layout of the big boys.

mine cut out too :angry: i wasn't quite as organised as you though :P

You should have seen how organised I was before I put Ljubicic in the wrong place (had to be f*cking him didn't it), which ruined it all - still, those are the main guys right there.

Of those, first things that stand out is that Fat Dave has got his nemesis Ferrer in the fourth round if they get that far, and Murray should be relatively happy to have drawn Gasquet as his 5-8 seed.

It'll probably be released in text in about 5 minutes. :blush:

the only thing i heard there was that there could be a davenport vs. sharapova 2nd round :shrug:

Ana does have Venus in her section. :moody: They can't meet until the QF though, so it could be worse.

are you following any of this? they're completely skipping over who is playing who :angry:

Yeh, I wasn't sure if it was just me, they just trail off and descend into talking utter crap about how Federer's face is looking pale. Meanwhile, we're missing the draw. :kpow2:

Not sure how much we've missed but I just heard Santoro vs Isner first round match - that's a good one.

Gonzalez vs the Gooch - could be a spectacular loss of points for the choking Chilean if it is...

Hewitt vs Darcis too - hopefully Darcis can take care of Hewitt.

Did I hear Baggy vs T. Johansson, Gulbis vs Safin in the same quartet?

JCF vs Kiefer...

Del Potro vs Ferrer

Gasquet got an Australian WC!



Wawrinka vs Bennetteau - is Wawrinka in Murray's section?

Possible Young vs Roddick R2.

Rafa got a qualifier.

The men:

fed vs. diego hartfield
Isner vs. Santoro
Suriani (?) vs. Tipsarevic
Cilic vs. Almagro
Guccione vs. Lee

do they realise people are listening to this on the radio? it is impossible to work out who is playing who. Anyone catch who Safin has got???

i think Gonzo vs. the Gooch is a possible second round match :blink:

for f*cks sake, my live stream cut out - who was that andy is playing?

Rafa against a qualifier. Dont think Roddick's out yet.

I didn't catch the mumbling moron the first time, then the stream cut when the other guy was analysing it. :angry: But from their reaction, it sounded like a tricky tie - it's another young gun, maybe Korolev?

yeah, it was - they talked about Donald Young......

Murray vs Tsonga???? oh, that's not so good..... :unsure:

Roddick a qualifier too.

ah, then possibly Donald Young.

Btw, welcome back chet!!! did you have a good xmas?? :hug:

Yes I did. Thanks. Hope you had a good holiday.

Am expecting a "Murray faces tough test in Melbourne" article by the BBC any minute. In seriousness, unless Tsonga plays an absolute blinder, Murray will win quite easily.

oooh...davydenko vs. llodra :clap:


safin might have either johansson or baghdatis in the second round....not so good for him i don't think :unsure:

Wouldn't worry about it, Gulbis will take care of him.

Here's the complete draw minus a few players:

1 [1]Federer
2 Hartfield
3 Santoro
4 Isner
5 Tipsarevic
6 Sirianni
7 Ascione
8 [25] Verdasco
9 [21] Monaco
10 Berlocq
11 Kendrick
12 Q
13 Hernandez
14 Minar
15 Eschauer
16 [13] Berdych
17 [12] Blake
18 Massu
19 Russell
20 Fognini
21 Grosjean
22 Volandri
23 Q
24 [17] Ljubicic
25 [27] Almagro
26 Cilic
27 Vanek
28
29
30
31
32 [7] Gonzalez
33 [3] Djokovic
34 Becker
35 Q
36 Bolelli
37 Querrey
38 Rochus O
39 Malisse
40 [32] Tursunov
41 [19] Hewitt
42 Darcis
43 Istomin
44 Q
45 Gulbis
46 Safin
47 Johansson
48 [15] Baghdatis
49 [10] Nalbandian
50 Smeets
51 Zaba
52 Luczak
53 Jones
54 Montanes
55 Kiefer
56 [22] Ferrero
57 [30] Stepanek
58 Spadea
59 Q
60 Roitman
61 Ventura
62 Del Potro
63 Roger-Vasselin
64 [5] Ferrer
65 [8] Gasquet
66 Lindahl
67 Lopez
68 Q
69 Vliegen
70 Patience
71 Pavel
72 [31] Andreev
73 [18] Chela
74 GGL
75 Falla
76 Q
77 Q
78 Brzezicki
79 Tsonga
80 [9] Murray
81 [14] Youzhny
82 Montcourt
83 Q
84 Seppi
85 Sela
86 Q
87 Q
88 [20] Karlovic
89 [26] Wawrinka
90 Benneteau
91 Lu
92 Gicquel
93 Mahut
94 Acasuso
95 Llodra
96 [4] Davydenko
97 [6] Roddick
98 Q
99 Young
100 Berrer
101 Korolev
102 Q
103 Q
104 [29] Kohlschreiber
105 [24] Nieminen
106 Dancevic
107 Levine
108 Vassallo Arguello
109 Fish
110 Pashanski
111 Zverev
112 [11] Robredo
113 [16] Moya
114 Koubek
115 Horna
116 Calleri
117 Capdeville
118 Klein
119 Hanescu
120 [23] Mathieu
121 [28] Simon
122 Reynolds
123 Clement
124 Schuettler
125 Serra
126 Mayer
127 Q
128 [2] Nadal

Poor Fabrice :(

The draw has been placed on the AO site.
Roddick and Nadal have cakewalks to the SFs.

True, they shoudl have cake walks...However knowing them..they 'll struggle all the way even with their easy draw!

Cheers :)

Yeah Nadal has a piss easy one, as does Roddick :rolleyes:

As roddick and Nadal are in the same quarter i can't see as they have cakewalks to the SFs if they have to play each other in the quarters :whistle: