Dates: January 17 - 30, 2011
Venue: Melbourne, Australia
Tier: Grand Slam
Prize Money: A$25 million
Surface: Hard/Outdoors
Tournament Director: Craig Tiley

Official Website: www.australianopen.com

2010 Performance: 3rd Round. Lost to Li Na 7-5 3-6 6-2

Singles:
1R:Regina Kulikova (RUS) bt Daniela Hantuchova 7-6(3) 3-6 9-7

Official seeding announced. Daniela's 28th seed and the order is as projected.

The official draw for Australian Open 2011 will take place at Melbourne Park on Friday 14 January at 10.00am. Tennis legend and former world No.1 Ivan Lendl will be involved in the draw ceremony.

The official draw will also be streamed live on from 10.00am.

Dont know the players before the seed very much...

Azararenka is the seeded player Daniela will eventually meet

Providing she's fit it's actually a pretty darn good draw. If she can get to 3rd round then she could take vika out. Would be nice for dani vs li rematch and for dani to get revenge. But first she gotta get there. Don't know much about kulilova apart her awesome quarter final run in dubai last year where she beat kirilenko and kuzzy. She's definitely a fighter so if daniela's gotta really focus in round one.

think it's a good draw i'm so excited about the AO and want to see her playing!

It's a decent enough draw. A lot depends on Daniela's health and fitness because she's not really fully fit and she's not had a full warm-up so it's difficult to know what level her form is. The achilles injury, even if she's recovered from it, would have truncated her training and warm-up for this. Kulikova had a few good wins in Dubai last year, like eddy said, and she beat Kleybanova at Wimbledon in 2009 but she hasn't done too much else. If Daniela's anywhere near her best she should win.

Sprem did beat Daniela at Amelia Island just before Daniela went out injured with her stress fracture, so Sprem can beat an unfit Daniela, but a healthy Daniela should have too much for Sprem. Daniela thrashed Scheepers in Seoul in 2009 and Scheepers hasn't beaten any good players since, except perhaps Dulko.

The first couple of rounds are pretty reasonable but Azarenka will be very tough in the third round. Hopefully Daniela's fit because if she is, she should get through the first couple of rounds, but any opponent has to be respected and she has to beat Kulikova. I'll feel a lot better with Daniela through the first round.


Liptak, "Hantuchova has acceptable ticket"
Reuters, 01/14/2011 16:22, Tennis, Talk (0)

Daniela Hantuchova is acceptable rival in the 1st round of the Australian Open, thinks her coach Matt Liptak.
Coach Slovakian tennis player Daniela Hantuchova expressed satisfaction by lot Australian Open, which in its first round of awarding a rival Russia Regina Kulikovovú. Matej Liptak believes his zverenka until the early struggles in Melbourne fully recovers from injury and left Achilles tendon in the season opening Grand Slam will be able to give full power.

"I think Daniela is quite acceptable lot. Kulikovová a toy that he has made quite a decent scalps when Vychytil day, can be dangerous. I believe that Daniela will be able to make outright performance, the leg will be fine and that build on their experience. It is important to any as soon as got into the rhythm of wrestling due to the fact that the injury could not have played many matches," said Liptak. Hantuchova withdrew because of injury to participate in the WTA tournament in Brisbane, Sydney, losing in the first round with the Spaniard Martinez Sanchez.
@ google translation.

Daniela will play doubles at Australian Open ?