17 January,2012 10:17 AM IST | | AFP
Results from the first round of Australian Open in Melbourne on Tuesday.
Men's singles: 1st round
Philipp Petzschner (GER) bt Lukas Rosol (CZE) 6-0, 6-0, 6-2
David Ferrer (ESP x5) bt Rui Machado (POR) 6-1, 6-4, 6-2
Santiago Giraldo (COL) bt Matteo Viola (ITA) 6-4, 6-2, 6-1
Kei Nishikori (JPN x24) bt Stephane Robert (FRA) 6-1, 7-6 (9/7), 6-0
Alex Bogomolov Jr. (RUS x32) bt Daniel Gimeno-Traver (ESP) 6-3, 6-2, 6-4
Richard Gasquet (FRA x17) bt Andreas Seppi (ITA) 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 6-1
Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) bt Xavier Malisse (BEL) 7-6 (8/6) - retired
Novak Djokovic (SRB x1) bt Paolo Lorenzi (ITA) 6-2, 6-0, 6-0
Women's singles: 1st round
Petra Kvitova (CZE x2) bt Vera Dushevina (RUS) 6-2, 6-0
Shahar Peer (ISR) bt Isabella Holland (AUS) 6-2, 6-0
Lucie Hradecka (CZE) bt Evgeniya Rodina (RUS) 6-3, 6-1
Aleksandra Wozniak (CAN) bt Zhang Shuai (CHN) 6-3, 6-3
Vania King (USA) bt Kateryna Bondarenko (UKR) 7-6 (7/3), 6-3
Maria Kirilenko (RUS x27) bt Jarmila Gajdosova (AUS) 6-4, 6-2
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS x15) bt Klara Zakopalova (CZE) 7-6 (7/5), 6-1
Carla Suarez Navarro (ESP) bt Irina-Camelia Begu (ROM) 6-1, 7-5
Sabine Lisicki (GER x14) bt Stefanie Voegele (SUI) 6-2, 4-6, 6-4
Greta Arn (HUN) bt Rebecca Marino (CAN) 6-4, 6-2
Dominika Cibulkova (SVK x17) bt Magdalena Rybarikova (SVK) 6-3, 6-1
Jelena Dokic (AUS) bt Anna Chakvetadze (RUS) 6-2, 6-1
Maria Sharapova (RUS x4) bt Gisela Dulko (ARG) 6-0, 6-1