The first round of the 2016 Australian Open is in the books, and Wednesday will see the first half of the bracket, which escaped the opening day relatively unscathed, move on to the second round. The biggest upsets thus far of the tournament all occurred in first-round play on the second day of the tournament, with players like Rafael Nadal, Simona Halep and Venus Williams all falling in their openers.
Australian Open 2016: Schedule, TV coverage and live stream for Wednesday
Rafael Nadal and Simona Halep are both out, but Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams remain and will get second round play underway on Day 3.
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That will make life easier for Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams, the top seeds in either bracket who are heavily favored to take home another Australian Open title this season. Both made it through to the second round without issue, and both will be in action for the third day of the tournament.
Djokovic is set to play host to France’s Quentin Halys, while Williams will take on Su-Wei Hsieh. Other top players in action include Roger Federer, the No. 3 seed for the men, who will be taking on Alexandr Dolgopolov and No. 5 seed Maria Sharapova, who will face Aliaksandra Sasnovich as the first match in Rod Laver Arena.
Play for Wednesday will get underway on Tuesday evening in the United States. While things get started in Melbourne at 11 a.m. local time, folks will be able to tune in to the Tennis Channel at 7 p.m. ET to get watching. That coverage will run through 9 p.m., at which point it will shift to ESPN 2, where it will remain until 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 Wednesday, with a full schedule available here.
Men’s Singles
No. 1 Novak Djokovic vs. Quentin Halys
No. 3 Roger Federer vs. Alexandr Dolgopolov
No. 7 Kei Nishikori vs. Austin Krajicek
No. 9 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga vs. Omar Jasika
No. 6 Tomas Berdych vs. Mirza Basic
No. 12 Marin Cilic vs. Albet Ramos-Vinolas
No. 14 Gilles Simon vs. Evgeny Donskoy
No. 15 David Goffin vs. Damir Dzumhur
No. 19 Dominic Thiem vs. Nicolas Almagro
No. 24 Roberto Bautista Agut vs. Dusan Lajovic
No. 26 Guillermo Garcia-Lopez vs. Daniel Brands
No. 27 Grigor Dimitrov vs. Marco Trungelliti
No. 28 Andreas Seppi vs. Denis Kudla
No. 29 Nick Kyrgios vs. Pablo Cuevas
Women’s Singles
No. 1 Serena Williams vs. Su-Wei Hsieh
No. 4 Agnieszka Radwanska vs. Eugenie Bouchard
No. 5 Maria Sharapova vs. Aliaksandra Sasnovich
No. 6 Petra Kvitova vs. Daria Gavrilova
No. 10 Carla Suarez Navarro vs. Maria Sakkari
No. 12 Belinda Bencic vs. Timea Babos
No. 13 Roberta Vinci vs. Irina Falconi
No. 23 Svetlana Kuznetsova vs. Kateryna Bondarenko
No. 28 Kristina Mladenovic vs. Nicole Gibbs
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