2015 Australian Open TV coverage and schedule for Thursday’s matches

Top seeds Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams get underway in second-round action on Thursday afternoon at the 2015 Australian Open in Melbourne.

Djokovic, who beat qualifier Aljaz Bedene in straight sets in the first round Tuesday, will take on Andrey Kuznetsov of Russia at Rod Laver Arena in the third of three matches beginning at 7 p.m. ET. The second of those three matches is Williams, taking on Vera Zvonareva of Russia in the second round. Williams has won the Australian Open five times, the last time in 2010. She beat Alison Van Uytvanck 6-0, 6-4 in Round 1.

Defending champion and No. 4 seed Stan Wawrinka takes on Marius Copil at Margaret Court Arena, following women’s No. 18 seed Venus Williams against fellow American Lauren Davis at 7 p.m. It will be a busy day for top seeds with five men ranked in the top 10 set to take the court while four top-eight seeds on the women’s side will be in action.

Here are the seeded players in action Thursday (the full schedule can be found here):

No. 1 Novak Djokovic vs. Andrey Kuznetsov
No. 4 Stan Wawrinka vs. Marius Copil
No. 5 Kei Nishikori vs. Ivan Dodig
No. 8 Milos Raonic vs. Donald Young
No. 9 David Ferrer vs. Sergiy Stakhovsky
No. 12 Feliciano Lopez vs. Adrian Mannarino
No. 17 Gael Monfils vs. Jerzy Janowicz
No. 18 Giles Simon vs. Marcel Granollers
No. 19 John Isner vs. Andreas Haider-Maurer
No. 31 Fernando Verdasco vs. Go Soeda

No. 1 Serena Williams vs. Vera Zvonareva
No. 4 Petra Kvitova vs. Mona Barthel
No. 6 Agnieszka Radwanska vs. Johanna Larsson
No. 8 Caroline Woznicki vs. Victoria Azarenka
No. 11 Dominika Cibulkova vs. Tsvetana Pironkova
No. 18 Venus Williams vs. Lauren Davis
No. 19 Alize Cornet vs. Denisa Allertova
No. 20 Samantha Stosur vs. Coco Vandeweghe
No. 24 Garbine Muguruza vs. Daniela Hantuchova
No. 25 Barbora Zahlavova Strycova vs. Kai-Chen Chang
No. 26 Elina Svitolina vs. Nicole Gibbs
No. 29 Casey Dellacqua vs. Madison Keys
No. 30 Varvara Lepchenko vs. Ajla Tomljanovic