The Australian Open will continue on Tuesday with the second day of play, featuring the other half of the bracket and players like Simona Halep, Andy Murray and Rafael Nadal. The opening day saw top seeds Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams advance without much issue.
2016 Australian Open: Schedule, TV coverage and live stream for Tuesday
Rafael Nadal vs. Fernando Verdasco is one of the most intriguing opening round matchups.
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Roger Federer drew in the same half as Djokovic, but the bottom half will have Nadal, Murray and plenty of other big names in competition.
Nadal will be playing in one of the most interesting matches of the first round, as he is scheduled to take on compatriot Fernando Verdasco on Rod Laver Arena on Tuesday. Nadal and Verdasco have a history of long, intense matches and Verdasco has inflicted more than his share of wins over Nadal.
On the women’s side, No. 3 seed Garbine Muguruza will be taking on Anett Kontaveit, and No. 2 seed Simona Halep will take on Shuai Zhang in Margaret Court Arena.
Another interesting one to watch will be the match between Lleyton Hewitt and fellow Australian James Duckworth. Hewitt has long been one of the best players for Australian tennis, though Nick Kyrgios represents the best chance of an Australian man to win big this year. Hewitt could be nearing the end of his career, and with an opener against a compatriot, there’s plenty of interest.
Play for Tuesday will actually get underway on Monday evening in the United States. Play begins at 11 a.m. local time on Tuesday, which means 7 p.m. ET on Monday. Television coverage will begin on the Tennis Channel and will run through 9 a.m. on Tuesday, while ESPN2 will carry simultaneous coverage for a portion of that block, beginning at 9 p.m. and running through 7 a.m.
You can live stream the day's coverage on Watch ESPN and Tennis Channel Live. Below are the pertinent seeded matches for Tuesday, with a full schedule available here.
Men’s Singles
No. 2 Andy Murray vs. Alexander Zverev
No. 4 Stan Wawrinka vs. Dmitry Tursunov
No. 5 Rafael Nadal vs. Fernando Verdasco
No. 8 David Ferrer vs. Peter Gojowczyk
No. 10 John Isner vs. Jerzy Janowicz
No. 11 Kevin Anderson vs. Rajeev Ram
No. 13 Milos Raonic vs. Lucas Pouille
No. 16 Bernard Tomic vs. Denis Istomin
No. 18 Feliciano Lopez vs. Daniel Evans
No. 20 Fabio Fognini vs. Gilles Muller
No. 21 Viktor Troicki vs. Daniel Munoz De La Nava
No. 23 Gael Monfils vs. Yuichi Sugita
No. 25 Jack Sock vs. Taylor Fritz
No. 30 Jeremy Chardy vs. Ernests Gulbis
No. 31 Steve Johnson vs. Aljaz Bedene
No. 32 Joao Sousa vs. Mikhail Kukushkin
Women’s Singles
No. 2 Simona Halep vs. Shuai Zhang
No. 3 Garbine Muguruza vs. Anett Kontaveit
No. 7 Angelique Kerber vs. Misaki Doi
No. 8 Venus Williams vs. Johanna Konta
No. 9 Karolina Pliskova vs. Kimberly Birrell
No. 11 Timea Bacsinszky vs. Katerina Siniakova
No. 14 Victoria Azarenka vs. Alison Van Uytvanck
No. 15 Maidson Keys vs. Zarina Diyas
No. 18 Elina Svitolina vs. Victoria Duval
No. 19 Jelena Jankovic vs. Polona Hercog
No. 20 Ana Ivanovic vs. Tammi Patterson
No. 21 Ekaterina Makarova vs. Maddison Inglis
No. 29 Irina-Camelia Begu vs. Johanna Larsson
No. 30 Sabine Lisicki vs. Petra Cetkovska
No. 31 Lesia Tsurenko vs. Varvara Lepchenko
No. 32 Caroline Garcia vs. Barbora Strycova
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