Predicted Winner in BOLD – Some of these matches are sheer guesses on my part

First Round
Venus Williams (25) vs. Galina Voskoboeva – Venus’ singles successes have slowed, but maybe she can have a deep run here.

Nicolas Almagro (10) vs. Steve Johnson – I always like Almagro’s shot making; I just hope he plays well under pressure.

Tamira Paszek (30) vs. Stefanie Voegele

Maria Sharapova (2) vs. Olga Puchkova – Sugarpova rolls

Klara Zakopalova (23) vs. Chanelle Scheepers

Edouard Roger-Vasselin vs. Ruben Bemelmans

Fernando Verdasco (22) vs. David Goffin – Mild upset

Marion Bartoli (11) vs. Anabel Medina Garrigues

Adrian Ungur vs. Evgeny Donskoy

Dominika Cibulkova (15) vs. Ashleigh Barty

Carlos Berlocq vs. Maxime Authom – Berlocq is always entertaining

Lukasz Kubot vs. Daniel Gimeno-Traver

Ivo Karlovic vs. Tim Smyczek – Ivo has lost some steam recently, but he is still a tough out.

Jie Zheng vs. Yuxuan Zhang

Bjorn Phau vs. Somdev Devvarman

Jurgen Melzer (26) vs. Mikhail Kukushkin – This is a 50-50 type match in my mind.

Camila Giorgi vs. Stephanie Foretz Gacon

Sorana Cirstea (27) vs. Coco Vandeweghe – Mild upset

Vesna Dolonts vs. Olivia Rogowska

Karin Knapp vs. Maria Joao Koehler

Nina Bratchikova vs. Kirsten Flipkens – Flipkens has some history of doing well in Oz.

Agnieszka Radwanska (4) vs. Bojana Bobusic – Radwanska is a contender.

Heather Watson vs. Alexandra Cadantu

Lucie Hradecka vs. Kiki Bertens

Guillaume Rufin vs. Julian Reister

Alize Cornet vs. Marina Erakovic

Ryan Harrison vs. Santiago Giraldo – This is not going to be a good event for men from the US.

Na Li (6) vs. Sesil Karatantcheva – Can she get back to her 2011 form?

Tobias Kamke vs. Flavio Cipolla – Another 50-50 match

Novak Djokovic (1) vs. Paul-Henri Mathieu – Nole roles

Ekaterina Makarova (19) vs. Michelle Larcher de Brito – De Brito shrieks through.

Tomas Berdych (5) vs. Michael Russell – I’d love to see Russell pull this off, but Berdych is in the mix to go deep.

Kei Nishikori (16) vs. Victor Hanescu

Stanislas Wawrinka (15) vs. Cedrik-Marcel Stebe – Stan the man advances.

Arantxa Rus vs. Irina-Camelia Begu ???

Brian Baker vs. Alex Bogomolov Jr.

Kristyna Pliskova vs. Sacha Jones

Jelena Jankovic (22) vs. Johanna Larsson – Possible upset

Petra Martic vs. Misaki Doi

Samantha Stosur (9) vs. Kai-Chen Chang – 2011 US Open form has gone AWOL for Sam – possible upset

Julia Goerges (18) vs. Vera Dushevina

Julien Benneteau (32) vs. Grigor Dimitrov – Both men are dark horses for the second week.  It is a shame they meet in the first round.

Angelique Kerber (5) vs. Elina Svitolina

Feliciano Lopez vs. Arnau Brugues-Davi – Possible upset as FLO has not played all that well as of late.

Tsvetana Pironkova vs. Romina Oprandi

Mikhail Youzhny (23) vs. Matthew Ebden – I love Youzhny, but I think Ebden pulls the upset.

Olga Govortsova vs. Pauline Parmentier

Xavier Malisse vs. Pablo Andujar – Another 50-50 match