Wickmayer not seeded
Belgian world number 16 Yanina Wickmayer on Thursday missed out on a seeding for next week's Australian Open and must go through qualifying to play in the year's Grand Slam opener, officials said.
Wickmayer, who won last week's Auckland Classic final, would normally have been awarded a seeding but was unable to register in time before the closing date for main-draw entry because of a doping ban.
Wickmayer was suspended last November by the Flemish Doping Tribunal for failing to give her whereabouts for compulsory drug tests on three occasions, and a Belgian court banned her.
But the ban was suspended by an injunction on December 16.
Wickmayer, 20, successfully appealed the ban, but by the time it was overturned, she had missed the closing date for regular entry into the Australian Open.
She made an unsuccessful bid for a wildcard into the Open, and her only path into the tournament's main draw will now be through qualifying, officials said.
"I don't deserve to start off in 'qualifiers' and have to play three matches to qualify for the main draw," Wickmayer said.
"Everyone who knows my story, and how everything went, thinks I deserve to be on court."
Otherwise, tournament organisers kept the Australian Open seedings according to world rankings.
World number ones Roger Federer and Serena Williams will be top seeds for the Open.
Belgian seven-time Grand Slam winner Justine Henin, making a comeback after 19 months in retirement, has been granted a wildcard and will be unseeded when the tournament begins at Melbourne Park next Monday.
The men's and women's singles draws will be held on Friday.
SEEDINGS
MEN: 1. Roger Federer (SUI), 2. Rafael Nadal (ESP), 3. Novak Djokovic (SRB), 4. Juan Martin del Potro (ARG), 5. Andy Murray (GBR), 6. Nikolay Davydenko (RUS), 7. Andy Roddick (USA), 8. Robin Soderling (SWE), 9. Fernando Verdasco (ESP), 10. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA), 11. Fernando Gonzalez (CHI), 12. Gael Monfils (FRA), 13. Radek Stepanek (CZE), 14. Marin Cilic (CRO), 15. Gilles Simon (FRA), 16. Tommy Robredo (ESP), 17. David Ferrer (ESP), 18. Tommy Haas (GER), 19. Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI), 20. Mikhail Youzhny (RUS), 21. Tomas Berdych (CZE), 22. Lleyton Hewitt (AUS), 23. Juan Carlos Ferrero (ESP), 24. Ivan Ljubicic (CRO), 25. Sam Querrey (USA), 26. Nicolas Almagro (ESP), 27. Philipp Kohlschreiber (GER), 28. Jurgen Melzer (AUT), 29. Viktor Troicki (SRB), 30. Juan Monaco (ARG), 31. Albert Montanes (ESP), 32. Jeremy Chardy (FRA).
WOMEN: 1. Serena Williams (USA), 2. Dinara Safina (RUS), 3. Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS), 4. Caroline Wozniacki (DEN), 5. Elena Dementieva (RUS), 6. Venus Williams (USA), 7. Victoria Azarenka (BLR), 8. Jelena Jankovic (SRB), 9. Vera Zvonareva (RUS), 10. Agnieszka Radwanska (POL), 11. Marion Bartoli (FRA), 12. Flavia Pennetta (ITA), 13. Samantha Stosur (AUS), 14. Maria Sharapova (RUS), 15. Kim Clijsters (BEL), 16. Li Na (CHN), 17. Francesca Schiavone (ITA), 18. Virginie Razzano (FRA), 19. Nadia Petrova (RUS), 20. Ana Ivanovic (SRB), 21. Sabine Lisicki (GER), 22. Daniela Hantuchova (SVK), 23. Dominika Cibulkova (SVK), 24. Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez (ESP), 25. Anabel Medina Garrigues (ESP), 26. Aravane Rezai (FRA), 27. Alisa Kleybanova (RUS), 28. Elena Vesnina (RUS), 29. Shahar Peer (ISR), 30. Kateryna Bondarenko (UKR), 31. Alona Bondarenko (UKR), 32. Carla Suarez Navarro (ESP).
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