2017 Australian Open live stream: Time, TV schedule, and how to watch Thursday’s matches online

There were some seeded casualties in the first part of the Australian Open second round, but nothing huge. On Wednesday and Thursday, second seeds Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams will be in action trying to punch their respective tickets into the second round.

Williams will face the tough Lucie Safarova in her second-round matchup. Djokovic has to face Denis Istomin, another unseeded opponent. Neither are gimmie matches though. These matches will begin on Wednesday evening in the United States, and will continue through Thursday morning. For the players in Melbourne, all play will take place on Thursday.

Play in the United States gets underway at 9 p.m. ET on Wednesday. The day’s matches will be broadcast by ESPN2 and an online stream will be available live online at WatchESPN.

There are a bunch of top seeds in action on the day. Milos Raonic, the third seed for the men, will face Gilles Muller. Sixth seed Gael Monfils, eighth seed Dominic Thiem and ninth seed Rafael Nadal will all be in action against unseeded opponents in Alexandr Dolgopolov, Jordan Thompson and Marcos Baghdatis, respectively.

On the women’s side, third seed Agnieszka Radwanska will take on Mirjana Lucic-Baroni. Fifth seed Karolina Pliskova, sixth seed Dominika Cibulkova and ninth seed Johanna Konta will take on Anna Blinkova, Su-Wei Hsieh and Naomi Osaka, respectively.

Below is a full list of singles matches involving seeded players for Wednesday and Thursday, along with all the information you need to watch the action.

Men’s Singles

No. 2 Novak Djokovic vs. Denis Istomin
No. 3 Milos Raonic vs. Gilles Muller
No. 6 Gael Monfils vs. Alexandr Dolgopolov
No. 8 Dominic Thiem vs. Jordan Thompson
No. 9 Rafael Nadal vs. Marcos Baghdatis
No. 11 David Goffin vs. Radek Stepanek
No. 13 Roberto Bautista Agut vs. Yoshihito Nishioka
No. 15 Grigor Dimitrov vs. Hyeon Chung
No. 18 Richard Gasquet vs. Carlos Berlocq
No. 21 David Ferrer vs. Ernesto Escobedo
No. 24 Alexander Zverev vs. Frances Tiafoe
No. 25 Gilles Simon vs. Rogerio Dutra Silva
No. 30 Pablo Carreno Busta vs. Kyle Edmund
No. 32 Philipp Kohlschreiber vs. Donald Young

Women’s Singles

No. 2 Serena Williams vs. Lucie Safarova
No. 3 Agnieszka Radwanska vs. Mirjana Lucic-Baroni
No. 5 Karolina Pliskova vs. Anna Blinkova
No. 6 Dominika Cibulkova vs. Su-Wei Hsieh
No. 9 Johanna Konta vs. Naomi Osaka
No. 12 Timea Bacsinszky vs. Danka Kovinic
No. 14 Elena Vesnina vs. Mandy Minella
No. 16 Barbora Strycova vs. Andrea Petkovic
No. 17 Caroline Wozniacki vs. Donna Vekic
No. 21 Caroline Garcia vs. Oceane Dodin
No. 22 Daria Gavrilova vs. Ana Konjuh
No. 28 Alize Cornet vs. Maria Sakkari
No. 30 Ekaterina Makarova vs. Sara Errani
No. 31 Yulia Putintseva vs. Jelena Ostapenko

Time: 9 p.m. - 7 a.m.

Location: Melbourne Park, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

TV: ESPN2

Online Streaming: WatchESPN, Tennis Channel Everywhere