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MELBOURNE, Australia - Top-seeded Serena Williams will play Alison Van Uytvanck of Belgium in her first-round match at the Australian Open as she begins her attempt to win a 19th Grand Slam singles title. Nike Vapormax Plus Wholesale .Williams could meet former No. 1-ranked Caroline Wozniacki in the quarter-finals and Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova in the semifinals following Fridays draw. The season-opening major begins Monday at Melbourne Park.In the other half, second-seeded Maria Sharapova, who plays a qualifier in the first round, could meet Eugenie Bouchard of Westmount, Que., in the quarter-finals and Ana Ivanovic, whom she beat in the Brisbane International final last weekend, in the semis.Bouchard is the tournaments seventh seed and will face Germanys Anna-Lena Friedsam in the first round.Two-time champion Victoria Azarenka, unseeded after an injury-hit 2014, will take on American Sloane Stephens in the first round in a rematch of their acrimonious semifinal two years ago when Azarenka left the court for a medical time out and Stephens questioned her reasons for doing so.Stephens had beaten Williams in the quarter-finals the same year.In the mens draw, No. 2 Roger Federer and No. 3 Rafael Nadal were drawn into the same half. Top-seeded Novak Djokovic and defending champion Stan Wawrinka are in the other half of the draw. Djokovic drew a qualifier in the first round and Federer, who recently won his 1,000th career match when he beat Milos Raonic of Thornhill, Ont., in the Brisbane International final, will play Lu Yen-hsun of Taiwan. Djokovic and Raonic, who also will open against a qualifier, are in the same quarter of the draw.Raonic is the No. 8 seed.Federer could meet sixth-seeded Andy Murray of Britain, who plays a qualifier in the first round, in the quarter-finals. The 17-time Grand Slam winner also has Baby Fed, No. 10-seeded Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria, in his quarter.Nadal, still recovering from appendix surgery he underwent in November, has a tough first-round match against former top 10-player Mikhail Youzhny of Russia, while Wawrinka will begin his title defence against Marsel Ilhan of Turkey.Starting the year with a Grand Slam and finishing with the Davis Cup, it was an incredible 2014, Wawrinka said as he and Li Na, the 2014 Australian Open womens champion who retired in September, delivered the trophies to the draw location outside the newly refurbished Margaret Court Arena.Wawrinka and Federer were part of the Swiss team which beat France in the Davis Cup final in November, the countrys first in the competition.U.S. Open finalist Kei Nishikori of Japan also will play a former top 10 player, Nicolas Almagro of Spain, in the opening round. 2009 U.S. Open champion Juan Martin del Potro, on the comeback from a left wrist injury, will open against Jerzy Janowic, who helped Poland win the Hopman Cup last week.Former No,. 1-ranked Lleyton Hewitt, contesting his 19th consecutive Australian Open, will meet Chinese wild-card entry Zhang Ze.Li, who called it quits after four knee operations, said her plans are to open a tennis academy in China and to start a family. Off White Vapormax Fake . -- Billy Donovans bench came up big, bailing out top-seeded Florida in a tight game against what was supposed to be an overmatched opponent. Discount Vapormax .J. -- Omar Cummings helped the Houston Dynamo advance to the MLS Eastern Conference finals. http://www.cheapvapormaxtrainers.com/ . - Carter Verhaeghe scored the winner with 41 seconds to go as the Niagara IceDogs edged the North Bay Battalion 3-2 to even their first-round series at a game apiece in Ontario Hockey League playoff action on Sunday.MINNEAPOLIS - The fast track Byron Buxton has been on to the majors with the Minnesota Twins hit a huge speed bump last season.Ranked by Baseball America magazine as the top prospect in the game when the year began, Buxton sprained his left wrist diving for a ball in March during spring training. He aggravated the injury in May sliding into a base with Class A Fort Myers affter five games. Fake Vapormax For Sale. Promoted in August, Buxton was hurt again in his first game with Double-A New Britain in a scary outfield collision with a teammate. Then he broke a finger on his left hand in the Arizona Fall League in October. Buxton said Friday at TwinsFest his goal this season is to join the Twins in the majors. And to stay healthy, of course. ' ' '