Australian Open women's draw 2016: Serena Williams to face Camila Giorgi, Johanna Konta drawn against Venus Williams

Defending champion Serena Williams will face Italy's Giorgi in the first round

Friday 15 January 2016 08:24 GMT

Defending Australian Open champion Serena Williams will face Camila Giorgi of Italy (Getty Images)

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Women's Singles Draw (seedings in brackets):

Serena Williams (USA) (1) v Camila Giorgi (Ita)

Su-Wei Hsieh (Tpe) v Jelena Ostapenko (Lat)

Urszula Radwanska (Pol) v Ana Konjuh (Cro)

Daria Kasatkina (Rus) v Kristina Schmiedlova (Svk) (27)

Sara Errani (Ita) (17) v Margarita Gasparyan (Rus)

Kurumi Nara (Jpn) v Oceane Dodin (Fra)

Mariana Duque Marino (Col) v Xinyun Han (Chn)

Yulia Putintseva (Kaz) v Caroline Wozniacki (Den) (16)

Belinda Bencic (Swi) (12) v Alison Riske (USA)

Heather Watson (Gbr) v Timea Babos (Hun)

Ajla Tomljanovic (Cro) v Kateryna Bondarenko (Ukr)

Daniela Hantuchova (Svk) v Svetlana Kuznetsova (Rus) (23)

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (Rus) (26) v Lauren Davis (USA)

Magdalena Rybarikova (Svk) v Lauren Davis (USA)

Aliaksandra Sasnovich (Blr) v Evgeniya Rodina (Rus)

Nao Hibino (Jpn) v Maria Sharapova (Rus) (5)

Australian open 2016 preview

Agnieszka Radwanska (Pol) (4) v Christina McHale (USA)

Eugenie Bouchard (Can) v Aleksandra Krunic (Ser)

Magda Linette (Pol) v Monica Puig (Pur)

QUALIFIER v Samantha Stosur (Aus) (25)

Sloane Stephens (USA) (24) v QUALIFIER

Lourdes Dominguez Lino (Spa) v Anna-Lena Friedsam (Ger)

Anna Tatishvili (USA) v Irina Falconi (USA)

QUALIFIER v Roberta Vinci (Ita) (13)

Carla Suarez Navarro (Spa) (10) v QUALIFIER

QUALIFIER v QUALIFIER

Monica Niculescu (Rom) v Teliana Pereira (Bra)

Elizaveta Kulichkova (Rus) v Andrea Petkovic (Ger) (22)

Kristina Mladenovic (Fra) (28) v Dominika Cibulkova (Svk)

QUALIFIER v Klara Koukalova (Cze)

Daria Gavrilova (Aus) v Lucie Hradecka (Cze)

QUALIFIER v Petra Kvitova (Cze) (6)

Angelique Kerber (Ger) (7) v Misaki Doi (Jpn)

Storm Sanders (Aus) v Alexandra Dulgheru (Rom)

Madison Brengle (USA) v Coco Vandeweghe (USA)

Johanna Larsson (Swe) v Irina-Camelia Begu (Rom) (29)

Jelena Jankovic (Ser) (19) v Polona Hercog (Slo)

Laura Siegemund (Ger) v Kiki Bertens (Ned)

Priscilla Hon (Aus) v Annika Beck (Ger)

Katerina Siniakova (Cze) v Timea Bacsinszky (Swi) (11)

Victoria Azarenka (Blr) (14) v Alison Van Uytvanck (Bel)

Samantha Crawford (USA) v Danka Kovinic (Mne)

QUALIFIER v Donna Vekic (Cro)

Victoria Duval (USA) v Elina Svitolina (Ukr) (18)

Caroline Garcia (Fra) (32) v Barbora Zahlavova Strycova (Cze)

Mona Barthel (Ger) v Vania King (USA)

Kirsten Flipkens (Bel) v Mirjana Lucic-Baroni (Cro)

Anett Kontaveit (Est) v Garbine Muguruza (Spa) (3)

Venus Williams (USA) (8) v Johanna Konta (Gbr)

Carina Witthoeft (Ger) v Saisai Zheng (Chn)

Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA) v Denisa Allertova (Cze)

Petra Cetkovska (Cze) v Sabine Lisicki (Ger) (30)

Christina Makarova (USA) (21) v Maddison Inglis (Aus)

Tatjana Maria (Ger) v Olga Govortsova (Blr)

Andreea Mitu (Rom) v Julia Goerges (Ger)

Kimberly Birrell (Aus) v Karolina Pliskova (Cze) (9)

Madison Keys (USA) (15) v Zarina Diyas (Kaz)

Tsvetana Pironkova (Bul) v Yaroslava Shvedova (Kaz)

QUALIFIER v Jarmila Wolfe (Aus)

Tammi Patterson (Aus) v Ana Ivanovic (Ser)

Lesia Tsurenko (Ukr) (31) v Varvara Lepchenko (USA)

Lara Arruabarrena (Spa) v QUALIFIER

Bojana Jovanovski (Ser) v Alize Cornet (Fra)

QUALIFIER v Simona Halep (Rom) (2)

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