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MELBOURNE - German tennis star Andrea Petkovic has revealed that her famous "Petko Dance" had evolved after a bet with her coach Petar Popovic.

Melbourne, Jan 22(ANI): World No.3 Kim Clijsters powered into the fourth round of the Australian Open by beating Frenchwoman Alize Cornet on Saturday.

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

SYDNEY - Kim Clijsters returned to the Medibank International for the first time since her 2007 title, posting a runaway defeat of Romania's Alexandra Dulgheru 6-1, 6-2 to start her campaign for a trophy hat-trick Sunday.

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.