India’s Somdev Devvarman was drawn against Germany’s Bjorn Phau for his opening match in men’s singles of the Australian Open here.
It will be the first meeting between Devvarman, whose ranking has plummeted to 551, and Phau, who is ranked 78.
In the men’s doubles, defending champions Leander Paes and Czech Radek Stepanek are seeded second and they start their title defence against South Africa’s Kevin Anderson and Jonathan Erlich of Israel.
The pair of Mahesh Bhupathi and Canadian Daniel Nestor will take on Spaniards, Pablo Andujar and Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, in their first round.
Rohan Bopanna and Rajeev Ram are seeded 12th and will meet Thanasi Kokkinakis and Nick Kyrgios first up.
Keywords: Australian Open, Somdev Devvarman, Bjorn Phau
Very interesting for Indian tennis players - Sania is in great form
in women's doubles with a championship alresdy in the new year, Somdev just won his first round against higer seeded German. All in all could be a bonanza year for the Indians in the men's, women's and mixed doubles for Bhupathi,Bopanna,Sania and Paes. Also hope Somdev makes it at least to the third round. Who said (20)13 is an unlucky number?
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