MELBOURNE, Australia – A look at the Australian Open on Tuesday:
Weather: mostly sunny and humid, high of 86 Fahrenheit.
Attendance: Day: 44,614. Night: 20,187; Total: 64,801.
Men’s Seeded Winners: No. 1 Novak Djokovic, No. 4 Stan Wawrinka, No. 5 Kei Nishikori, No. 8 Milos Raonic , No. 9 David Ferrer, No. 12 Feliciano Lopez, No. 13 Roberto Bautista Agut, No. 17 Gael Monfils, No. 18 Gilles Simon, No. 19 John Isner, No. 30 Santiago Giraldo, No. 31 Fernando Verdasco.
Men’s Seeded Losers: No. 16 Fabio Fognini, No. 21 Alexandr Dolgopolov, No. 25 Julien Benneteau, No. 27 Pablo Cuevas.
Women’s Seeded Winners: No. 1 Serena Williams, No. 4 Petra Kvitova, No. 6 Agnieszka Radwanska, No. 8 Caroline Wozniacki, No. 11 Dominika Cibulkova, No. 18 Venus Williams, No. 19 Alize Cornet, No. 20 Samantha Stosur, No. 24 Garbine Muguruza, No. 25 Barbora Zahlavova Strycova, No. 26 Elina Svitolina, No. 29 Casey Dellacqua, No. 30 Varvara Lepchenko.
Women’s Seeded Losers: No. 12 Flavia Pennetta, No. 13 Andrea Petkovic, No. 15 Jelena Jankovic.
Stat of the Day: 57: number of first-round wins by Serena Williams – in 58 career starts – at Grand Slam tournaments (her only loss was in the 2012 French Open to Virginie Razzano).
Quote of the Day: “Not just yet, maybe try to hold off a few more days” – Lleyton Hewitt, after winning his first-round match in his 19th consecutive Australian Open, when asked by on-court interviewer Jim Courier when Hewitt might join him in the booth.
Forecast Wednesday: chance of rain, high of 84 Fahrenheit.
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