Tennis Forever

Wawrinka retains his Aircel Trophy in Chennai; and Ferrer wins the Qatar ExxonMobil cup in Doha!

Australian Open 2015 - Seeded Players:

1 Novak Djokovic
2 Roger Federer
3 Rafael Nadal
4 Stan Wawrinka
5 Kei Nishikori
6 Andy Murray
7 Tomas Berdych
8 Milos Raonic
9 David Ferrer
10 Grigor Dimitrov
11 Ernests Gulbis
12 Feliciano Lopez
13 Roberto Bautista Agut
14 Kevin Anderson
15 Tommy Robredo
16 Fabio Fognini

http://www.ausopen.com/en_AU/players/index.html

...and the draw:

http://www.ausopen.com/en_AU/scores/draws/ms/index.html

AO Draw......

Djokovic:

1R - Qualifier
2R - Kuznetsov
3R - Verdasco
4R - Isner
QF - Raonic
SF - Wawrinka/Nishi
F - Nadal / Fed


Federer:

1R - Lu
2R - Monaco
3R - Chardy
4R - Karlovic/Robredo
QF - Murray / Dmitrov
SF - Nadal/Berdych
F - Novak/Wawrinka


Nadal:

1R - Youzhny
2R - Saville
3R - Rosol
4R - Anderson/Gasquet
QF - Berdych/Gulbis
SF - Fed/Murray
F - Nole/Waw

Nadal has a relatively easier draw than Fed and Djoko, though it's tricky for all three with potential upsets lurking.

^ Federer's got the toughest of the three though. Faces Jeremy Chardy (a guy who's beaten him once and has taken him to three sets in all his matches) in the 2nd and Karlovic/Robredo in the third. They've all beaten him alright. Robredo's done in it even in a grandslam 4R. So I am sure its not a path full of roses to traverse to get to the finals.

Federer and Sharapova already stretched. Nadal pushed to the brink.

^ I would rather put it like - Federer stretched. Nadal and Sharapova pushed to the brink. Federer found his footing after the first set and a half

I somehow had the hunch Sharapova was winning (she just lost the second as I was leaving for work). Because it's happened so many times that she fights back from a set down and clinches the decider, so unless it's one of the top 5 players, I'd bet on her seeing it through. While Nadal has lately been losing a lot to unheralded players.

Andreas Seppi beats Roger Federer 6-4, 7-6, 4-6, 7-6.