Draw in Melbourne – Wawrinka and Golubic start against seeds – Sports

• Stan Wawrinka will face Adrian Mannarino (FRA/ATP 20) in the first round of the Australian Open.
• Viktorija Golubic vs. Veronika Kudermetwa (Russia/WTA 16) starts.
• Novak Djokovic starts against the qualifier.

Stan Wawrinka's first opponent at the Australian Open is Adrian Mannarino. Wawrinka (56 players) lost the previous two matches against the Frenchman, ranked No. 20 (2015 in Miami and 2022 in Astana).

Romand appears to have recovered well from a minor ankle injury in December. He has been training hard in Melbourne over the past few days, but has decided not to participate in the 'Kooyong Classic' invitational tournament. If Wawrinka beats the left-hander, who is just three years his junior at 35, he could face No. 16 seed Ben Shelton, a US Open semi-finalist, in the third round and heavy favorite Novak Djokovic in the round of 16.

The Serbian starts against a qualifier. On his way to his 25th Grand Slam title – Australia's 11th – Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE) in the quarter-finals and Jannik Sinner (ITA) in the semi-finals could stand in his way. However, Tsitsipas was given a difficult task initially with Matteo Berrettini (Italy). Holger Rohn (Denmark), newly trained by Severin Luthi and Boris Becker, finds himself in the bottom half of the table with Carlos Alcaraz (Spain) and Daniil Medvedev (Russia).