AUSTRALIAN OPEN DAY 2 PICKS

Day 2 of the Australian Open starts in about 6 hours.  Day 1 was good with all of the seeds making it through the first round.  Here's hoping that Day 2 holds true to form.

Below is Spin's picks for Day 2

PLAYER A	PLAYER B	SPIN’S PICKS	RESULTS
Victoria Azarenka	Monica Niculescu	Azarenka – the returning defending champion will let her game and voice be heard against her tricky opponent
Eleni Daniilidou	Karolina Pliskova	Pliskova – the youngster over the veteran, although this one will be tough
Luksika Kumkhum	Sofia Arvidsson	Arvidsson – has been playing great tennis over the past year. Should continue here
Jamie Hampton	Urszula Radwanska	Hampton – made it to the 1/4s of Auckland where she pushed Radwanska to 2 tight tiebreak sets
Varvara Lepchenko	Polona Hercog	Lepchenko – the lefty needs a big win here and her opponent is not very good on hard courts
Caroline Garcia	Elena Vesnina	Vesnina – the joy of winning her first career title should still be with Vesnina.
Mathilde Johansson	Akgul Amanmuradova	Johansson – has been playing very good tennis of late.  Pushed Venus to 3 sets in Hopman Cup earlier this season
Silvia Soler-Espinosa	Roberta Vinci	Vinci – veteran with lots of great shots should pull this one out
Caroline Wozniacki	Sabinie Lisicki	Wozniacki – this is a pick em.  It is all dependent on which Sabine comes to play.  Usually brings her best stuff against top players and despite the rankings, Wozniacki is still a top player
Daria Gavrilova	Lauren Davis	Davis – young American should make it through to the second round
Lesia Tsurenko	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	Pavlyuchenkova – these 2 met in the semis of Brisbane where Tsurenko fell in 3 tough sets. Look for a long hard battle here
Su-Wei Hsieh	Lara Arruabarrena-Vecino	Hsieh – the wily veteran with the game that puts opponent on an UFE tear to pick the youngster apart and to frustration
Svetlana Kuznetsova	Lourdes Dominguez Lino	Kuznetsova – this is a match that Svetlana should win easily, but Lino can frustrate even the good Lord himself.
Yulia Putintseva	Christina McHale	McHale – this will be a fiery match with the ever vocal Putintseva.  Look out for lots of twitter posts about this one. If she gets a tv court, enjoy the commentary from the booth
Carla Suarez Navarro	Sara Errani	Errani – the battle of the dimunitive ones.  Carla usually plays well Down Under, but Errani will be too steady
Serena Williams	Edina Gallovits-Hall	Williams – is Serena still playing great ball or has she had a let down since Brisbane.  No, she will be announcing herself to the rest of the field.  Look for some errors early, but the 15 time GS champ should get through easily
Magdalena Rybarikova	Garbine Muguruza	Muguruza – this match will be a tough one for Rybarikova.  The young Garbine has awesome firepower. Should be a good one
Ayumi Morita	Anna Tatishvili	Tatishvili – the young Russian (is she a US citizen now) should  win this one in straights
Annika Beck	Yaroslava Shvedova	Shvedova (?) – since taking Serena to a third set at Wimbledon and making her own mark in tennis history with her Golden Set, Slava has not done much.  Look for her to find her form here.
Yanina Wickmayer	Jarmila Gajdosova	Wickmayer – this is a pick em, but I have not seen Wickmayer so determined and focused as she is now.
Greta Arn	Jana Cepelova	Arn – the veteran over the youngster
Rebecca Marino	Shuai Peng	Peng – the patient player against the error prone Canadian
Vania King	Maria Kirilenko	Kirilenko – Vania, if she plays up to her level could make this interesting, but Kirilenko plays well here and should pull through
Nadia Petrova	Kimiko Date-Krumm	Petrova – 2 veterans.  Nadia looked injured in her last match so remains to be seen if she can pull this out
Shahar Peer	Alexandra Panova	Peer – I picked Peer because of the support she usually receives Down Under.
Maria-Teresa Torro-Flor	Bojana Jovanovski	Jovanovski – the youngster in straights
Mirjana Lucic-Baroni	Lucie Safarova	Safarova (?) – everyone thought that Fed Cup would do for Lucie what it did for Djokovic.  No such luck but should come through over the veteran
Sloane Stephens	Simona Halep	Stephens – these 2 played in Hobart last week, with Stephens winning in straight sets. Look for the same thing to happen again.
Kristina Mladenovic	Timea Babos	Babos – 2 youngsters going at it. Pick em
Melanie Oudin	Laura Robson	Oudin – I think Oudin is due for a win, why not here
Francesca Schiavone	Petra Kvitova	Kvitova – this is the most complicated pick of Day 2 action. Will Kvitova bounce back or will the wily veteran frustrate her into errors.

MATCHES TO WATCH:-

Francesca Schiavone v. Petra Kvitova; Sloane Stephens v. Simona Halep; Caroline Wozniacki v. Sabine Lisicki; Melanie Oudin v. Laura Robson; Carla Suarez-Navarro v. Sara Errani