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Defending champions Jannik Sinner<\/a> and Madison Keys<\/a> begin their Australian Open<\/a> campaigns on Tuesday as the remainder of the first-round matches are played in Melbourne. <\/p>\n

Sinner is bidding for a third men\u2019s title in a row at the Australian Open<\/a>, a feat only previously achieved by Novak Djokovic<\/a>, as the Italian also attempts to stop rival Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> from completing the career grand slam. The second seed<\/a> goes for a 15th consecutive win at the tournament against Frenchman Hugo Gaston. <\/p>\n

Keys stunned Aryna Sabalenka<\/a> in last year\u2019s final to claim a surprise first grand slam title. The American is up first on the Rod Laver Arena and will play Oleksandra Oliynykova, with Ben Shelton and Naomi Osaka, another former champion, also in action on the main show court. <\/p>\n

Elsewhere, former British No 1 Katie Boulter<\/a> required some injury withdrawals to make the main draw and faces a tough opening assignment against the in-form 10th seed Belinda Bencic <\/a>while Sonay Kartal faces 31st seed Anna Kalinskaya.<\/p>\n

Boulter and Kartal will be aiming to join Emma Raducanu<\/a>, Cameron Norrie and Arthur Fery in round two, following the exits of Fran Jones and Jacob Fearnley <\/a>on Monday, while the men\u2019s and women\u2019s doubles tournament also begins. <\/p>\n

Australian Open order of play <\/p>\n

Day Three – Tuesday 20 January – All times UK (GMT)<\/p>\n

Rod Laver Arena<\/p>\n

00:30<\/p>\n

Oleksandra Oliynykova (UKR) vs. [9] Madison Keys (USA) [8] Ben Shelton (USA) vs. Ugo Humbert (FRA)<\/p>\n

08:00<\/p>\n

Hugo Gaston (FRA) vs. [2] Jannik Sinner<\/a> (ITA) [16] Naomi Osaka (JPN) vs. Antonia Ru\u017ei\u0107 (CRO) <\/p>\n

Margaret Court Arena<\/p>\n

00:30<\/p>\n

[5] Lorenzo Musetti (ITA) vs. Raphael Collignon (BEL) [5] Elena Rybakina (KAZ) vs. Kaja Juvan (SLO) <\/p>\n

08:00<\/p>\n

John Cain Arena<\/p>\n

00:00<\/p>\n

Tereza Valentova (CZE) vs. [30] Maya Joint (AUS) [15] Karen Khachanov vs. Alex Michelsen (USA) <\/p>\n

06:00<\/p>\n

Valentin Royer (FRA) vs. [9] Taylor Fritz (USA) Maddison Inglis (AUS) vs. Kimberly Birrell (AUS) <\/p>\n

KIA Arena<\/p>\n

00:00<\/p>\n

Shuai Zhang (CHN) vs. Taylah Preston (AUS) Karolina Pl\u00ed\u0161kov\u00e1 (CZE) vs. Sloane Stephens (USA) Dane Sweeny (AUS) vs. Ga\u00ebl Monfils (FRA) Grigor Dimitrov (BUL) vs. Tom\u00e1\u0161 Mach\u00e1\u010d (CZE) <\/p>\n

1573 Arena<\/p>\n

00:00<\/p>\n

Cristian Garin (CHI) vs. [22] Luciano Darderi (ITA) [28] Jo\u00e3o Fonseca (BRA) vs. Eliot Spizzirri (USA) Rebecca \u0160ramkov\u00e1 (SVK) vs. [24] Jelena Ostapenko (LAT) Laura Siegemund (GER) vs. [18] Liudmila Samsonova <\/p>\n

ANZ Arena<\/p>\n

00:00<\/p>\n

[22] Leylah Fernandez (CAN) vs. Janice Tjen (INA) Christopher O\u2019Connell (AUS) vs. Nishesh Basavareddy (USA) Hubert Hurkacz (POL) vs. Zizou Bergs (BEL) Daria Kasatkina (AUS) vs. Nikola Bartunkova (CZE) <\/p>\n

Court 5<\/p>\n

00:00<\/p>\n

Ashlyn Krueger (USA) vs. Sara Bejlek (CZE) 2. Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard (FRA) vs. Sebastian Baez (ARG) 3. Rei Sakamoto (JPN) vs. Rafael Jodar (ESP) 4. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova \/ Clara Tauson (DEN) vs. Lyudmyla Kichenok (UKR) \/ Katie Volynets (USA)<\/p>\n

Court 6<\/p>\n

00:00<\/p>\n

Varvara Gracheva (FRA) vs. Viktorija Golubic (SUI) 2. [16] Jakub Men\u0161\u00edk (CZE) vs. Pablo Carre\u00f1o Busta (ESP) 3. James Duckworth (AUS) vs. Dino Prizmi\u0107 (CRO) 4. Rinky Hijikata \/ Tristan Schoolkate (AUS) vs. Luke Johnson (GBR) \/ Jan Zieli\u0144ski (POL)<\/p>\n

Court 7<\/p>\n

00:00<\/p>\n

Maia Lumsden (GBR) \/ Qianhui Tang (CHN) vs. [2] Sara Errani \/ Jasmine Paolini (ITA) Xinyu Wang (CHN) vs. Anhelina Kalinina (UKR) Luca Nardi (ITA) vs. Yibing Wu (CHN) V\u00edt Kop\u0159iva (CZE) vs. Jan-Lennard Struff (GER) <\/p>\n

Court 8<\/p>\n

00:00<\/p>\n

Jesika Male\u010dkov\u00e1 \/ Miriam Skoch (CZE) vs. Marta Kostyuk (UKR) \/ Elena-Gabriela Ruse (ROU) Marcelo Demoliner (BRA) \/ Jean-Julien Rojer (NED) vs. Alexander Bublik \/ Alexander Shevchenko (KAZ) Ekaterina Alexandrova \/ Venus Williams (USA) vs. Emiliana Arango (COL) \/ Elsa Jacquemot (FRA) Iryna Shymanovich \/ Solana Sierra (ARG) vs. Olga Danilovic (SRB) \/ Anastasia Potapova (AUT) <\/p>\n

Court 12<\/p>\n

00:00<\/p>\n

Francisco Cer\u00fandolo \/ Juan Manuel Cer\u00fandolo (ARG) vs. [8] Hugo Nys (MON) \/ \u00c9douard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) [12] Tereza Mihal\u00edkov\u00e1 (SVK) \/ Olivia Nicholls (GBR) vs. Anna Bond\u00e1r (HUN) \/ Jaqueline Cristian (ROU) [9] Francisco Cabral (POR) \/ Lucas Miedler (AUT) vs. Mattia Bellucci (ITA) \/ F\u00e1bi\u00e1n Marozs\u00e1n (HUN) Alexandra Eala (PHI) \/ Ingrid Martins (BRA) vs. Shuko Aoyama (JPN) \/ Magda Linette (POL) <\/p>\n

Court 13<\/p>\n

00:00<\/p>\n

Lorenzo Sonego (ITA) vs. Carlos Taberner (ESP) Lulu Sun (NZL) vs. Linda Fruhvirtov\u00e1 (CZE) [31] Anna Kalinskaya vs. Sonay Kartal (GBR) Sorana C\u00eerstea (ROU) vs. Eva Lys (GER) <\/p>\n

Court 14<\/p>\n

00:00<\/p>\n

Panna Udvardy (HUN) vs. Kate\u0159ina Siniakov\u00e1 (CZE) Ethan Quinn (USA) vs. [23] Tallon Griekspoor (NED) Ulrikke Eikeri (NOR) \/ Ingrid Neel (EST) vs. Iva Jovic (USA) \/ Victoria Mboko (CAN) Pruchya Isaro (THA) \/ Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha (IND) vs. Pedro Mart\u00ednez \/ Jaume Munar (ESP) <\/p>\n

Court 15<\/p>\n

00:00<\/p>\n

Andrey Golubev \/ Aleksandr Nedovyesov (KAZ) vs. Tomas Martin Etcheverry \/ Camilo Ugo Carabelli (ARG) Julia Grabher (AUT) vs. Elisabetta Cocciaretto (ITA) Petr Nouza \/ Patrik Rikl (CZE) vs. Terence Atmane \/ Alexandre M\u00fcller (FRA) [5] Kevin Krawietz \/ Tim P\u00fctz (GER) vs. Arthur Rinderknech (FRA) \/ Valentin Vacherot (MON) <\/p>\n

Australian Open tournament schedule <\/p>\n

Sunday 18 January <\/p>\n

16 x men\u2019s singles and 16 x women\u2019s singles | first round <\/p>\n

Monday 19 January <\/p>\n

28 x men\u2019s singles and 28 x women\u2019s singles | first round <\/p>\n

Tuesday 20 January <\/p>\n

20 x men\u2019s singles and 20 x women\u2019s singles | first round8 x men\u2019s doubles and 8 x women\u2019s doubles| first round<\/p>\n

Wednesday 21 January <\/p>\n

16 x men\u2019s singles and 16 x women\u2019s singles | second round12 x men\u2019s doubles and12 x women\u2019s doubles| first round<\/p>\n

Thursday 22 January <\/p>\n

16 x men\u2019s singles and 16 x women\u2019s singles | second round12 x men\u2019s doubles and12 x women\u2019s doubles| first round<\/p>\n

Friday 23 January <\/p>\n

8 x men\u2019s singles and 8 x women\u2019s singles | third round8 x men\u2019s doubles and 8 x women\u2019s doubles | second round6 x mixed doubles | first round <\/p>\n

Saturday 24 January <\/p>\n

8 x men\u2019s singles and 8 x women\u2019s singles | third round8 x men\u2019s doubles and 8 x women\u2019s doubles | second round6 x mixed doubles | first round 16 x boys\u2019 singles and 16 x girls\u2019 singles | first round <\/p>\n

Sunday 25 January <\/p>\n

4 x men\u2019s singles and 4 x women\u2019s singles | fourth round4 x men\u2019s doubles and 4 x women\u2019s doubles | third round4 x mixed doubles | second round 16 x boys\u2019 singles and 16 x girls\u2019 singles | first round <\/p>\n

Monday 26 January <\/p>\n

4 x men\u2019s singles and 4 x women\u2019s singles | fourth round4 x men\u2019s doubles and 4 x women\u2019s doubles | third round4 x mixed doubles | second round 8 x boys\u2019 singles and 8 x girls\u2019 singles | second round <\/p>\n

Tuesday 27 January <\/p>\n

2 x men\u2019s singles and 2 x women\u2019s singles | Quarter-finals2 x men\u2019s doubles and 2 x women\u2019s doubles | Quarter-finals 4 x mixed doubles | Quarter-finals8 x men\u2019s and 8 x women\u2019s wheelchair singles | first round 8 x boys\u2019 singles and 2 x girls\u2019 singles | second round<\/p>\n

Wednesday 28 January <\/p>\n

2 x men\u2019s singles and 2 x women\u2019s singles | Quarter-finals2 x men\u2019s doubles and 2 x women\u2019s doubles | Quarter-finals 2 x mixed doubles | Semi-finals 4 x men\u2019s and 4 x women\u2019s wheelchair singles | Quarter-finals 4 x boys\u2019 singles and 2 x girls\u2019 singles | third round<\/p>\n

Thursday 29 January <\/p>\n

2 x women\u2019s singles | Semi-finals2 x men\u2019s doubles and 2 x women\u2019s doubles | Semi-finals 2 x men\u2019s and 2 x women\u2019s wheelchair singles | Semi-finals 4 x boys\u2019 singles and 2 x girls\u2019 singles | third round<\/p>\n

Friday 30 January <\/p>\n

2 x men\u2019s singles | Semi-finalsMixed doubles final \ud83c\udfc6Men\u2019s wheelchair doubles final \ud83c\udfc6Women\u2019s wheelchair doubles final \ud83c\udfc64 x boys\u2019 singles and 2 x girls\u2019 singles | quarter-finals <\/p>\n

Saturday 31 January <\/p>\n

Women\u2019s singles final \ud83c\udfc6Men\u2019s doubles final \ud83c\udfc6Women\u2019s doubles final \ud83c\udfc6Men\u2019s wheelchair singles final \ud83c\udfc6Women\u2019s wheelchair singles final \ud83c\udfc62 x boys\u2019 singles and 2 x girls\u2019 singles | semi-finals <\/p>\n

Sunday 1 February <\/p>\n

Men\u2019s singles final \ud83c\udfc6Boys\u2019 singles final \ud83c\udfc6Girls\u2019 singles final \ud83c\udfc6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-378796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}