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Evening Standard

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Australian Open 2019 schedule and order of play for Wednesday January 16

British duo Dan Evans and Katie Boulter are back in action on Wednesday as the second round begins at the Australian Open.

Evans faces one of the toughest tests on the tour as he takes on World No.3 and six-time Australian Open winner Roger Federer at the Rod Laver Arena, while Boulter faces Aryna Sabalenka on the newly named Melbourne Arena.

Following on from Boulter is Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut, who defeated Andy Murray on the opening day. He faces Australian John Millman.

Elsewhere, Australian Matthew Ebden faces World No.2 Rafael Nadal in a match to please the local fans, while Maria Sharapova – who dispatched of Brit Harriet Dart in the first round – takes on Sweden’s Rebecca Peterson.

Here’s the full schedule and order of play for Wednesday January 16

Rod Laver Arena | Play begins from 12am BST

(5) Sloane Stephens (USA) vs Timea Babos (Hun)
(15) Ashleigh Barty (Aus) vs Yafan Wang (Chn)
Dan Evans (Gbr) vs (3) Roger Federer (Swi)
Beatriz Haddad Maia (Bra) vs (2) Angelique Kerber (Ger)
Matthew Ebden (Aus) vs (2) Rafael Nadal (Spa)
Margaret Court Arena | Play begins from 12am BST
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (Rus) vs (9) Kiki Bertens (Ned)
(5) Kevin Anderson (Rsa) vs Frances Tiafoe (USA)
Johanna Larsson (Swe) vs (3) Caroline Wozniacki (Den)
(27) Alex De Minaur (Aus) vs Henri Laaksonen (Swi)
(30) Maria Sharapova (Rus) vs Rebecca Peterson (Swe)

Melbourne Arena | Play begins from 12am BST

(20) Anett Kontaveit (Est) vs Aliaksandra Sasnovich (Blr)
(6) Marin Cilic (Cro) vs MacKenzie McDonald (USA)
Katie Boulter (Gbr) vs (11) Aryna Sabalenka (Blr)
(22) Roberto Bautista Agut (Spa) vs John Millman (Aus)

Court 5 | Play begins from 12am BST

Aleksandra Krunic (Ser) & Saisai Zheng (Chn) vs Monique Adamczak (Aus) & Jessica Moore (Aus)
(15) Rohan Bopanna (Ind) & Divij Sharan (Ind) vs Pablo Carreno-Busta (Spa) & Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (Spa)
Marcelo Demoliner (Bra) & Frederik Nielsen (Den) vs Gerard Granollers-Pujol (Spa) & Marcel Granollers-Pujol (Spa)
Nadiia Kichenok (Ukr) & Yafan Wang (Chn) vs Oksana Kalashnikova (Geo) & Dayana Yastremska (Ukr)

Court 7 | Play begins from 12am BST

Max Purcell (Aus) & Luke Saville (Aus) vs Maximo Gonzalez (Arg) & Nicolas Jarry (Chi)
Destanee Aiava (Aus) & Naiktha Bains (Aus) vs (5) Andreja Klepac (Slo) & Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez (Spa)
Alex Bolt (Aus) & Marc Polmans (Aus) vs (4) Bob Bryan (USA) & Mike Bryan (USA)
Nick Kyrgios (Aus) & Matt Reid (Aus) vs (13) Ivan Dodig (Cro) & Edouard Roger-Vasselin (Fra)

Court 8 | Play begins from 12am BST

Marketa Vondrousova (Cze) vs (31) Petra Martic (Cro)
Tomas Berdych (Cze) vs Robin Haase (Ned)
(24) Lesia Tsurenko (Ukr) vs Amanda Anisimova (USA)
Yoshihito Nishioka (Jpn) vs (10) Karen Khachanov (Rus)

Court 10 | Play begins from 12am BST

(12) Henri Kontinen (Fin) & John Peers (Aus) vs Santiago Gonzalez (Mex) & Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (Pak)
Irina Bara (Rom) & Monica Niculescu (Rom) vs Lara Arruabarrena (Spa) & Arantxa Parra Santonja (Spa)
(7) Lukasz Kubot (Pol) & Horacio Zeballos (Arg) vs Aljaz Bedene (Slo) & Maximilian Marterer (Ger)
Denys Molchanov (Ukr) & Igor Zelenay (Svk) vs Matteo Berrettini (Ita) & Marco Cecchinato (Ita)

Court 12 | Play begins from 12am BST

Kevin Krawietz (Ger) & Nikola Mektic (Cro) vs Nicholas Monroe (USA) & Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (Ind)
Austin Krajicek (USA) & Artem Sitak (Nzl) vs Leander Paes (Ind) & Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela (Mex)
Luke Bambridge (Gbr) & Jonny O'Mara (Gbr) vs Marius Copil (Rom) & Marton Fucsovics (Hun)
Ilya Ivashka (Blr) & Daniil Medvedev (Rus) vs Hugo Nys (Fra) & Benoit Paire (Fra)

Court 13 | Play begins from 12am BST

Denis Kudla (USA) vs (18) Diego Sebastian Schwartzman (Arg)
Danielle Collins (USA) vs Sachia Vickery (USA)
Thomas Fabbiano (Ita) vs Reilly Opelka (USA)

Court 14 | Play begins from 12am BST

Peter Gojowczyk (Ger) & Albert Ramos-Vinolas (Spa) vs Adrian Mannarino (Fra) & Andreas Mies (Ger)
Marcelo Arevalo (Esa) & James Cerretani (USA) vs (9) Jean-Julien Rojer (Ned) & Horia Tecau (Rom)
Alexandra Panova (Rus) & Laura Siegemund (Ger) vs Margarita Gasparyan (Rus) & Daria Gavrilova (Aus)
Alize Cornet (Fra) & Petra Martic (Cro) vs Magda Linette (Pol) & Ajla Tomljanovic (Aus)

Court 15 | Play begins from 12am BST

Kai-Chen Chang (Tpe) & Chieh-Yu Hsu (USA) vs Kaitlyn Christian (USA) & Asia Muhammed (USA)
Bradley Klahn (USA) & Mikhail Kukushkin (Kaz) vs (6) Raven Klaasen (Rsa) & Michael Venus (Nzl) Viktoria Kuzmova (Svk) & Magdalena Rybarikova (Svk) vs Samantha Stosur (Aus) & Shuai Zhang (Chn)
(16) Robin Haase (Ned) & Matwe Middelkoop (Ned) vs Ryan Harrison (USA) & Sam Querrey (USA)

Court 19 | Play begins from 12am BST

(12) Anna-Lena Groenefeld (Ger) & Vania King (USA) vs Shuko Aoyama (Jpn) & Lidziya Marozava (Blr)
Tatjana Maria (Ger) & Heather Watson (Gbr) vs (4) Nicole Melichar (USA) & Kveta Peschke (Cze)
(5) Pierre-Hugues Herbert (Fra) & Nicolas Mahut (Fra) vs David Marrero (Spa) & Mischa Zverev (Ger), (1) Barbora Krejcikova (Cze) & Katerina Siniakova (Cze) vs Ana Bogdan (Rom) & Anastasia Rodionova (Aus)

Court 20 | Play begins from 12am BST

Stefano Travaglia (Ita) vs (19) Nikoloz Basilashvili (Geo)
Radu Albot (Mol) vs (26) Fernando Verdasco (Spa)
Belinda Bencic (Swi) vs Yulia Putintseva (Kaz)

Court 22 | Play begins from 12am BST

Nao Hibino (Jpn) & Desirae Krawczyk (USA) vs (14) Miyu Kato (Jpn) & Makoto Ninomiya (Jpn) Leonardo Mayer (Arg) & Joao Sousa (Por) vs (14) Feliciano Lopez (Spa) & Marc Lopez (Spa)
Mao-Xin Gong (Chn) & Ze Zhang (Chn) vs Martin Klizan (Svk) & Marcin Matkowski (Pol)
Lucie Hradecka (Cze) & Ekaterina Makarova (Rus) vs Mona Barthel (Ger) & Sofia Kenin (USA)