Tennis-Australian Open order of play on Wednesday

Reuters

MELBOURNE, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Order of play on the main showcourts on the third day of the Australian Open on Wednesday (play begins at 0000 GMT, prefix number denotes seeding):

ROD LAVER ARENA

5-Sloane Stephens (U.S.) v Timea Babos (Hungary)

15-Ashleigh Barty (Australia) v Wang Yafan (China)

Not before 0300 GMT

Daniel Evans (Britain) v 3-Roger Federer (Switzerland)

Not before 0800 GMT

Beatriz Haddad Maia (Brazil) v 2-Angelique Kerber (Germany)

Matthew Ebden (Australia) v 2-Rafa Nadal (Spain)

MARGARET COURT ARENA

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (Russia) v 9-Kiki Bertens (Netherlands)

5-Kevin Anderson (South Africa) v Frances Tiafoe (U.S.)

Johanna Larsson (Sweden) v 3-Caroline Wozniacki (Denmark)

Not before 0800 GMT

27-Alex de Minaur (Australia) v Henri Laaksonen (Switzerland)

30-Maria Sharapova (Russia) v Rebecca Peterson (Sweden)

MELBOURNE ARENA

20-Anett Kontaveit (Estonia) v Aliaksandra Sasnovich (Belarus)

6-Marin Cilic (Croatia) v Mackenzie McDonald (U.S.)

Katie Boulter (Britain) v 11-Aryna Sabalenka (Belarus)

Not before 0600 GMT

22-Roberto Bautista Agut (Spain) v John Millman (Australia) (Compiled by Rohith Nair in Bengaluru; editing by Greg Stutchbury)