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Hungarian world champion and three-time Olympic silver medallist Laszlo Cseh (front) and Zsuzsanna Jakabos swim as they test their new Arena swimming suits in Budapest May 27, 2009. REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh

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    Men's first round draw at Australian Open

    MELBOURNE
    Thu Jan 10, 2008 9:29pm EST

    MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Draw for the men's first round of the Australian Open (prefix denotes seeding): 1-Roger Federer (Switzerland) v Diego Hartfield (Argentina)

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    Fabrice Santoro (France) v John Isner (United States)

    Janko Tipsarevic (Serbia) v Joseph Siranni (Australia)

    Thierry Ascione (France) v 25-Fernando Verdasco (Spain) 21-Juan Monaco (Argentina) v Carlos Berlocq (Argentina)

    Robert Kendrick (U.S.) v Qualifier

    Oscar Hernandez (Spain) v Ivo Minar (Czech Republic)

    Werner Eschauer (Austria) v 13-Tomas Berdych (Czech Republic) 12-James Blake (U.S.) v Nicolas Massu (Chile)

    Michael Russell (U.S.) v Fabio Fognini (Italy)

    Sebastien Grosjean (France) v Filippo Volandri (Italy)

    Qualifier v 17-Ivan Ljubicic (Croatia) 27-Nicolas Almagro (Spain) v Marin Cilic (Croatia)

    Jiri Vanek (Czech Republic) v Juergen Melzer (Austria)

    Lee Hyung-taik (South Korea) v Chris Guccione (Australia)

    Qualifier v 7-Fernando Gonzalez (Chile) 3-Novak Djokovic (Serbia) v Benjamin Becker (Germany)

    Qualifier v Simone Bolelli (Italy)

    Sam Querrey (U.S.) v Olivier Rochus (Belgium)

    Xavier Malisse (Belgium) v 32-Dmitry Tursunov (Russia) 19-Lleyton Hewitt (Australia) v Steve Darcis (Belgium)

    Denis Istomin (Uzbekistan) v Qualifier

    Ernests Gulbis (Latvia) v Marat Safin (Russia)

    Thomas Johansson (Sweden) v 15-Marcos Baghdatis (Cyprus) 10-David Nalbandian (Argentina) v Robert Smeets (Australia)

    Mariano Zabaleta (Argentina) v Peter Luczak (Australia)

    Alun Jones (Australia) v Albert Montanes (Spain)

    Nicolas Kiefer (Germany) v 22-Juan Carlos Ferrero (Spain) 30-Radek Stepanek (Czech Republic) v Vince Spadea (U.S.)

    Qualifier v Sergio Roitman (Argentina)

    Santiago Ventura (Spain) v Juan Martin Del Porto (Argentina)

    Edouard Roger-Vasselin (France) v 5-David Ferrer (Spain) 8-Richard Gasquet (France) v Nick Lindahl (Australia)

    Feliciano Lopez (Spain) v Qualifier

    Kristof Vliegen (Belgium) v Olivier Patience (France)

    Andrei Pavel (Romania) v 31-Igor Andreev (Russia) 18-Juan Ignacio Chela (Argentina) v Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (Spain)

    Alejandro Falla (Colombia) v Qualifier

    Qualifier v Juan Pablo Brzezicki (Argentina)

    Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (France) v 9-Andy Murray (Britain) 14-Mikhail Youzhny (Russia) v Mathieu Montcourt (France)

    Qualifier v Andreas Seppi (Italy)

    Dudi Sela (Israel) v Qualifier

    Qualifier v 20-Ivo Karlovic (Croatia) 26-Stanislas Wawrinka (Switzerland) v Julien Benneteau (France)

    Lu Yen-hsun (Taiwan) v Marc Gicquel (France)

    Nicolas Mahut (France) v Jose Acasuso (Argentina)

    Michael Llodra (France) v 4-Nikolay Davydenko (Russia) 6-Andy Roddick (U.S.) v Qualifier

    Donald Young (U.S.) v Michael Berrer (Germany)

    Evgeny Korolev (Russia) v Qualifier

    Qualifier v 29-Philipp Kohlschreiber (Germany) 24-Jarkko Nieminen (Finland) v Frank Dancevic (Canada)

    Jesse Levine (U.S.) v Martin Vassallo Arguello (Argentina)

    Mardy Fish (U.S.) v Boris Pashanski (Serbia)

    Mischa Zverev (Germany) v 11-Tommy Robredo (Spain) 16-Carlos Moya (Spain) v Stefan Koubek (Austria)

    Luis Horna (Peru) v Agustin Calleri (Argentina)

    Paul Capdeville (Chile) v Brydan Klein (Australia)

    Victor Hanescu (Romania) v 23-Paul-Henri Mathieu (France) 28-Gilles Simon (France) v Bobby Reynolds (U.S.)

    Arnaud Clement (France) v Rainer Schuettler (Germany)

    Florent Serra (France) v Florian Mayer (Germany)

    Qualifier v 2-Rafael Nadal (Spain) (Compiled by Greg Stutchbury; Editing by John O'Brien)



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