Marion Bartoli


MELBOURNE - Women's top seed Caroline Wozniacki and men's defending champion Roger Federer set the pace for seeds Monday as the tennis elite advanced into the second round of the Australian Open on a day where the status quo reigned on court.

MELBOURNE - Seeds were announced Thursday for the $25 million dollar Australian Open, which starts Monday: Women: Caroline Wozniacki, 1, Denmark Vera Zvonareva, 2, Russia Kim Clijsters, 3, Belgium Venus Williams, 4, US Samantha Stosur, 5, Australia Francesca Schiavone, 6, Italy Jelena Jankovic, 7, Serbia Victoria Azarenka, 8, Belarus Li Na, 9, China Shahar Peer, 10, Israel Justine Henin, 11, Belgium Agnieszka Radwanska, 12, Poland Nadia Petrova, 13, Russia Maria Sharapova, 14, Russia Marion Bartoli, 15, France Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, 16, Russia Aravane Rezai, 17, France Maria Kirilenko, 18, Russia Ana Ivanovic, 19, Serbia Kaia Kanepi, 20, Estonia Yanina Wickmayer, 21, Belgium Flavia Pennetta, 22, Italy Svetlana Kuznetsova, 23, Russia Alisa Kleybanova, 24, Russia Petra Kvitova, 25, Czech Republic Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez, 26, Spain Alexandra Dulgheru, 27, Romania Daniela Hantuchova, 28, Slovakia Dominika Cibulkova, 29, Slovakia Andrea Petkovic, 30, Germany Lucie Safarova,31, Czech Republic Tsvetana Pironkova, 32, Bulgaria Men: Rafael Nadal, 1, Spain Roger Federer, 2, Switzerland Novak Djokovic, 3, Serbia Robin Soderling, 4, Sweden Andy Murray, 5, Britain Tomas Berdych, 6, Czech Republic David Ferrer, 7, Spain Andy Roddick, 8, US Fernando Verdasco, 9, Spain Mikhail Youzhny, 10, Russia Jurgen Melzer, 11, Austria Gael Monfils, 12, France Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, 13, France Nicolas Almagro, 14, Spain Marin Cilic, 15, Croatia Mardy Fish, 16, US Ivan Ljubicic, 17, Croatia Sam Querrey, 18, US Stanislas Wawrinka, 19, Switzerland John Isner, 20, US Marcos Baghdatis, 21, Cyprus Michael Llodra, 22, France Nikolay Davydenko, 23, Russia Ernests Gulbis, 24, Latvia Albert Montanes, 25, Spain Juan Monaco, 26, Spain David Nalbandian, 27, Argentina Richard Gasquet, 28, France Viktor Troicki, 29, Serbia Thomaz Bellucci, 30, Brazil Feliciano Lopez, 31, Spain Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, 32, Spain

BRISBANE - Top seed Andy Roddick rained down 15 aces as the defending champion moved into the quarter-finals of the Brisbane International tennis over Ukrainian Alexandre Dolgopolov 6-4, 6-1 Wednesday.

BRISBANE - Holder Andy Roddick began with a no-drama 6-3, 6-2 victory against local Marinko Matosevic as the American second seed kicked off his title defence at the Brisbane International tennis Monday.

TOKYO - French Open champion Francesca Schiavone defeated Kimiko Date Krumm 6-3, 6-3 Wednesday to reach the Pan Pacific Open quarterfinals.
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