Australian Open Results

January 22, 2009

Results Wednesday from the $15,44 million Australian Open at Melbourne Park (seedings in parentheses).

Singles

Men

Second Round

David Ferrer (11), Spain, def. Dominik Hrbaty, Slovakia, 6-2, 6-2, 6-1.

Women

Second Round

Galina Voskoboeva, Kazakhstan, def. Karin Knapp, Italy, 6-4, 6-1.

Ana Ivanovic (5), Serbia, def. Alberta Brianti, Italy, 6-3, 6-2.

Nadia Petrova (10), Russia, def. Sania Mirza, India, 6-3, 6-2.

Kaia Kanepi (25), Estonia, def. Patricia Mayr, Austria, 6-3, 6-1.

Ai Sugiyama (26), Japan, def. Nathalie Dechy, France, 1-6, 6-1, 6-3.

Dinara Safina (3), Russia, def. Ekaterina Makarova, Russia, 6-7 (3), 6-3, 6-0.

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Doubles

Men

First Round

Jeff Coetzee and Wesley Moodie (5), South Africa, def. Robby Ginepri and Vince Spadea, United States, 6-4, 6-3.

Christopher Kas, Germany, and Rogier Wassen (13), Netherlands, def. Chris Haggard, South Africa, and Sam Querrey, United States, 6-4, 7-5.

Frantisek Cermak, Czech Republic, and Michal Mertinak (14), Slovakia, def. Nicolas Almagro and Ivan Navarro, Spain, 6-2, 6-4.

Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski (6), Poland, def. Colin Ebelthite and Sam Groth, Australia, 5-7, 7-6 (4), 6-4.

Women

First Round

Klaudia Jans and Alicja Rosolska, Poland, def. Tamira Paszek, Austria, and Ipek Senoglu, Turkey, 6-2, 2-1 retired.

Sofia Arvidsson, Sweden, and Natalie Grandin, South Africa, def. Alison Bai and Emelyn Starr, Australia, 7-5, 6-2.

Agnieszka and Urszula Radwanska, Poland, def. Jill Craybas, United States, and Tamarine Tanasugarn, Thailand, 6-3, 7-5.

Raquel Kops-Jones and Abigail Spears, United States, def. Mariya Koryttseva, Ukraine, and Yaroslava Shvedova, Kazakhstan, 7-6 (5), 6-2.

Casey Dellacqua, Australia, and Francesca Schiavone (12), Italy, def. Petra Cetkovska, Czech Republic, and Carla Suarez Navarro, Spain, 6-2, 6-1.

Mervana Jugic-Salkic, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Anne Keothavong, Britain, def. Sophie Ferguson and Jessica Moore, Australia, 6-3, 6-2.

Iveta Benesova and Barbora Zahlavova Strycova, Czech Republic, def. Chan Yung-jan, Taiwan, and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Russia, 6-4, 6-4.