Get the details of the Australian Open Men’s and Women’s Draws, plus pics from the Draw event.

The Live Australian Open Draw Event

Open to the public on the riverside at Crown Casino, Melbourne, the draw for the 2013 Australian Open was made on Friday 11 January 2013. The event was hosted by Australian sports commentator Bruce McAvaney with special guests Victoria Azarenka, Novak Djokovic and Pat Cash.

It is fifteen years since both the women’s and men’s reigning champions were also the number one seeds. Martina Hingis and Pete Sampras were the most recent players to accomplish this.

View the 2013 Australian Open Men’s Singles Draw and Women’s Singles Draw.

Host Bruce McAvaney and Craig Tiley AO director chat while waiting for the champs to arrive

Azarenka and Djokovic with the AO trophies on their way to the draw

More from the boat

Meeting the fans

Azarenka positioning the trophy

Djokovic’s turn

Time for a few questions

Azarenka, Djokovic, AO trophies and draw host

Time for a Djoke

See ya later

Being shown the 2013 player media guide cover

What it’s all about

Pat Cash and host

IBM random draw of non-seeded players

Drawing women seeded players

Drawing the seeded Men

Possible Semi-Final Line-ups Based on Seeding

Seeds in brackets

Women

• Victoria Azarenka (1) v Serena Williams (3)
• Maria Sharapova (2) v Agnieszka Radwanska (4)

Our Picks for Interesting First Round Matches

Women

• Victoria Azarenka (1) v Monica Niculescu
• Caroline Wozniacki (10) v Sabine Lisicki
• Yanina Wickmeyer v Jarmila Gajdosova
• Melanie Oudin v Laura Robson
• Francesca Schiavone v Petra Kvitova (8)
• Anabel Medina Garrigues v Marion Bartoli (11)
• Dominika Cibulkova (15) v Ashleigh Barty
• Chanelle Scheepers v Klara Zakopalova (23)

Men

• Novak Djokovic (1) V Paul-Henri Mathieu
• Viktor Troicki v Radek Stepanek (31)
• David Goffin v Fernando Verdasco (22)
• Mikhail Youzhny (23) v Matthew Ebden
• Simone Bolelli v Jerzy Janowicz (24)
• Julien Benneteau (32) v Grigor Dimitrov
• Lleyton Hewitt v Janko Tipsarevic (8)
• Marin Cilic (12) v Marin Matosevic
• Gael Monfils v Alexandr Dolgopolov (18)
• Jo-Wilfred Tsonga (7) v Michael LLodra
• Tommy Haas (19) v Jarkko Nieminen
• Benoit Paire v Roger Federer (2)

Hopefully the Schedule of Play for Monday will be available in the next day or so so that we can find out who is playing when.

Until next time

Grand Slam Gal

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