2015 Australian Open Jan 19 - Feb 01,2015

 

The Australian Open has increased its prize money for this month's tournament to a record £24.1million.

Tournament organisers announced a prize pot of £19.5m in October, an increase of £1.8m on 2014, but have ramped it up again because of the weakness of the Australian dollar

The men's and women's singles champions will each earn £1.7m while first-round losers at the tournament, which begins on January 19, will take home £18,500

The announcement means the Australian Open's prize money has doubled since 2007 and increased by 14million over the past four years.

Defending Champions

Men's Singles

Stanislas Wawrinka(Swiss)

Women's Singles

Li Na(China)

AUSTRALIAN OPEN 2015 MEN'S SINGLES DRAW 

Novak Djokovic (Ser) (1) v QUALIFIER

Andrey Kuznetsov (Rus) v Albert Ramos-Vinolas (Spa)

Go Soeda (Jpn) v QUALIFIER

James Ward (Gbr) v Fernando Verdasco (Spa) (31)

John Isner (USA) (19) v QUALIFIER

QUALIFIER v Andreas Haider-Maurer (Aut)

Pablo Carreno-Busta (Spa) v Gilles Muller (Lux)

Dominic Thiem (Aut) v Roberto Bautista-Agut (Spa) (13)

Feliciano Lopez (Spa) (12) v Denis Kudla (USA)

Blaz Rola (Slo) v Adrian Mannarino (Fra)

Juan Martin Del Potro (Arg) v Jerzy Janowicz (Pol)

Lucas Pouille (Fra) v Gael Monfils (Fra) (17)

Julien Benneteau (Fra) (25) v Benjamin Becker (Ger)

Lleyton Hewitt (Aus) v Ze Zhang (Chn)

Donald Young (USA) v QUALIFIER

QUALIFIER v Milos Raonic (Can) (8)

Stanislas Wawrinka (Swi) (4) v Marsel Ilhan (Tur)

QUALIFIER v Pablo Andujar (Spa)

Jarkko Nieminen (Fin) v Andrey Golubev (Kaz)

QUALIFIER v Pablo Cuevas (Uru) (27)

Alexandr Dolgopolov (Ukr) (21) v Paolo Lorenzi (Ita)

Sam Querrey (USA) v Vasek Pospisil (Can)

Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (Spa) v Peter Gojowczyk (Ger)

Alejandro Gonzalez (Col) v Fabio Fognini (Ita) (16)

David Ferrer (Spa) (9) v Thomaz Bellucci (Bra)

Sergiy Stakhovsky (Ukr) v Dusan Lajovic (Ser)

Marcel Granollers (Spa) v Stephane Robert (Fra)

Robin Haase (Ned) v Gilles Simon (Fra) (18)

Santiago Giraldo (Col) (30) v QUALIFIER

QUALIFIER v Steve Johnson (USA)

Ivan Dodig (Cro) v Joao Souza (Bra)

Nicolas Almagro (Spa) v Kei Nishikori (Jpn) (5)

Tomas Berdych (Cze) (7) v Alejandro Falla (Col)

QUALIFIER v Victor Estrella Burgos (Dom)

Jiri Vesely (Cze) v Viktor Troicki (Ser)

John Millman (Aus) v Leonardo Mayer (Arg) (26)

Philipp Kohlschreiber (Ger) (22) v Paul-Henri Mathieu (Fra)

Tobias Kamke (Ger) v Bernard Tomic (Aus)

Samuel Groth (Aus) v Filip Krajinovic (Ser)

Thanasi Kokkinakis (Aus) v Ernests Gulbis (Lat) (11)

Kevin Anderson (Rsa) (14) v Diego Sebastian Schwartzman (Arg)

Ricardas Berankis (Lit) v Igor Sijsling (Ned)

Blaz Kavcic (Slo) v James Duckworth (Aus)

Carlos Berlocq (Arg) v Richard Gasquet (Fra) (24)

Lukas Rosol (Cze) (28) v Kenny De Schepper (Fra)

Jan-Lennard Struff (Ger) v Dudi Sela (Isr)

Luke Saville (Aus) v QUALIFIER

Mikhail Youzhny (Rus) v Rafael Nadal (Spa) (3)

Andy Murray (Gbr) (6) v QUALIFIER

QUALIFIER v Marinko Matosevic (Aus)

Jordan Thompson (Aus) v Joao Sousa (Por)

Tatsuma Ito (Jpn) v Martin Klizan (Svk) (32)

David Goffin (Bel) (20) v QUALIFIER

Marcos Baghdatis (Cyp) v Teymuraz Gabashvili (Rus)

Maximo Gonzalez (Arg) v Lukas Lacko (Svk)

Dustin Brown (Ger) v Grigor Dimitrov (Bul) (10)

Tommy Robredo (Spa) (15) v Edouard Roger-Vasselin (Fra)

Malek Jaziri (Tun) v Mikhail Kukushkin (Kaz)

Federico Del Bonis (Arg) v Nick Kyrgios (Aus)

QUALIFIER v Ivo Karlovic (Cro) (23)

Jeremy Chardy (Fra) (29) v Borna Coric (Cro)

Andreas Seppi (Ita) v Denis Istomin (Uzb)

Juan Monaco (Arg) v Simone Bolelli (Ita)

Yen-Hsun Lu (Tpe) v Roger Federer (Swi) (2)

AUSTRALIAN OPEN 2015 WOMEN'S SINGLES DRAW 

Serena Williams (USA) (1) v Alison Van Uytvanck (Bel)

Vera Zvonareva (Rus) v QUALIFIER

Olivia Rogowska (Aus) v Nicole Gibbs (USA)

Jana Cepelova (Svk) v Elina Svitolina (Ukr) (26)

Garbine Muguruza (Spa) (24) v Marina Erakovic (Nzl)

Daniela Hantuchova (Svk) v Saisai Zheng (Chn)

Kimiko Date Krumm (Jpn) v QUALIFIER

Timea Bacsinszky (Swi) v Jelena Jankovic (Ser) (15)

Dominika Cibulkova (Svk) (11) v Kirsten Flipkens (Bel)

Tsvetana Pironkova (Bul) v Heather Watson (Gbr)

Romina Oprandi (Swi) v QUALIFIER

Shuai Zhang (Chn) v Alize Cornet (Fra) (19)

Barbora Zahlavova Strycova (Cze) (25) v Timea Babos (Hun)

Jie Zheng (Chn) v Kai-Chen Chang (Tpe)

Sloane Stephens (USA) v Victoria Azarenka (Blr)

Taylor Townsend (USA) v Caroline Wozniacki (Den) (8)

Petra Kvitova (Cze) (4) v QUALIFIER

Donna Vekic (Cro) v Mona Barthel (Ger)

Lesia Tsurenko (Ukr) v Madison Keys (USA)

Yvonne Meusburger (Aut) v Casey Dellacqua (Aus) (29)

Samantha Stosur (Aus) (20) v Monica Niculescu (Rom)

Francesca Schiavone (Ita) v Coco Vandeweghe (USA)

Irina Falconi (USA) v Kaia Kanepi (Est)

Madison Brengle (USA) v Andrea Petkovic (Ger) (13)

Flavia Pennetta (Ita) (12) v Camila Giorgi (Ita)

Tereza Smitkova (Cze) v Mirjana Lucic-Baroni (Cro)

Lauren Davis (USA) v Aleksandra Krunic (Ser)

Maria-Teresa Torro-Flor (Spa) v Venus Williams (USA) (18)

Varvara Lepchenko (USA) (30) v Vitalia Diatchenko (Rus)

Shelby Rogers (USA) v Ajla Tomljanovic (Cro)

Alla Kudryavtseva (Rus) v Johanna Larsson (Swe)

Kurumi Nara (Jpn) v Agnieszka Radwanska (Pol) (6)

Ana Ivanovic (Ser) (5) v QUALIFIER

Polona Hercog (Slo) v Qiang Wang (Chn)

Storm Sanders (Aus) v Klara Koukalova (Cze)

Julia Goerges (Ger) v Belinda Bencic (Swi) (32)

Karolina Pliskova (Cze) (22) v QUALIFIER

Alison Riske (USA) v Oceane Dodin (Fra)

Roberta Vinci (Ita) v Bojana Jovanovski (Ser)

An-Sophie Mestach (Bel) v Ekaterina Makarova (Rus) (10)

Sara Errani (Ita) (14) v Grace Min (USA)

Silvia Soler Espinosa (Spa) v Annika Beck (Ger)

QUALIFIER v Lara Arruabarrena (Spa)

Yanina Wickmayer (Bel) v Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (Rus) (23)

Sabine Lisicki (Ger) v Kristina Mladenovic (Fra)

Ying-Ying Duan (Chn) v Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA)

Jarmila Gajdosova (Aus) v Alexandra Dulgheru (Rom)

Karin Knapp (Ita) v Simona Halep (Rom) (3)

Eugenie Bouchard (Can) (7) v Anna-Lena Friedsam (Ger)

Kiki Bertens (Ned) v Daria Gavrilova (Rus)

Stefanie Voegele (Swi) v Pauline Parmentier (Fra)

Caroline Garcia (Fra) v Svetlana Kuznetsova (Rus) (27)

Carla Suarez Navarrow (Spa) (17) v Carina Witthoeft (Ger)

QUALIFIER v Christina McHale (USA)

Elena Vesnina (Rus) v Katerina Siniakova (Cze)

Irina-Camelia Begu (Rom) v Angelique Kerber (Ger) (9)

Lucie Safarova (Cze) (16) v Yaroslava Shvedova (Kaz)

Monica Puig (Pur) v Arina Rodionova (Aus)

Ana Konjuh (Cro) v Magdalena Rybarikova (Svk)

QUALIFIER v Shuai Peng (Chn) (21)

Zarina Diyas (Kaz) (31) v QUALIFIER

Anna Karolina Schmiedlova (Svk) v Chanelle Scheepers (Rsa)

QUALIFIER v Sorana Cirstea (Rom)

QUALIFIER v Maria Sharapova (Rus) (2)

Ana Ivanovic crashes out in 1st round of 2015 Australian Open to Lucie Hradecka

Fifth Seeded Ana Ivanovic, the former No. 1-ranked Ivanovic, a finalist at the 2008 Australian Open lost in three sets to Czech qualifier Lucie Hradecka in first big upset of the Australian Open on Monday Jan 19,2015,Ana  Ivanovic's worst result in a major since 2011.

Ana Ivanovic had a tour-leading 58 match wins in 2014 and started this season by reaching the final at the Brisbane International