The 2011 year of professional tennis has just started and things have kicked off in style with the very first Grand Slam of the year, the 2011 Australian Open, which happens in Melbourne Australia. The venue is Melbourne Park and one of the matches happening at the Hisense Arena is between women's singles Svetlana Kuznetsova who is from Russia and is seeded 23^rd, and Italian Francesca Shiavone who is the sixth seed. This match happens at around 1:00PM and Nicolas Almagro and Novak Djokovic will be facing off at the same time in the Hisense.

Svetlana Kuznetsova will be playing in her 10^th Australian Open having made it all the way to the quarter finals in 2005 and 2009 and winning the doubles competition in 2005. As for Francesca Shiavone, she has entered in the Open ten times in the past in both the singles and doubles. She has made it to the fourth round twice in 2006 and 2010 and was a semi-finalist in the doubles in 2009. Click on the links on this page to get access to high quality video right from your computer as well as access to other tennis events.