Sharapova, Clijsters, Hingis ready for Aussie openers

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01/15/2007 - Melbourne, Australia (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - U.S. Open champion Maria Sharapova and her fellow former world No. 1s Kim Clijsters and Martina Hingis will be among the women seeing opening-round action Tuesday at the 2007 Australian Open.

The top-seeded Sharapova, a two-time Grand Slam champion, will open her stay here in Melbourne against France's Camille Pin. The Russian Sharapova reached the semifinals here in each of the last two years.

A fourth-seeded Clijsters, appearing in her final Aussie Open, will battle Russian Vasilisa Bardina. Clijsters is fresh off her title in Sydney, while the upstart Bardina was a runner-up in Hobart last week.

The 2005 U.S. Open champion Clijsters has reached at least the semifinals in her last four trips to Melbourne, where she was the 2004 runner-up to her fellow Belgian stalwart Justine Henin-Hardenne. Clijsters has already announced that 2007 will be her final season on the WTA Tour.

A sixth-seeded Hingis, a six-time Aussie Open finalist, will meet France's Nathalie Dechy on Day 2. The five-time major champion Hingis captured this Grand Slam event back-to-back-to-back from 1997-99 and was the runner-up here from 2000-02.

Other top seeds slated for Tuesday play are No. 8 Swiss Patty Schnyder and No. 9 Russian Dinara Safina, while 11 other seeds will open their stays in Melbourne, including No. 12 Serbian Ana Ivanovic, No. 15 Slovak Daniela Hantuchova and No. 24 Aussie crowd favorite Samantha Stosur.

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Texas joins Texas A&M and Kansas as locks after getting league win No. 11. Texas Tech greatly helped its own hopes and crippled OK State's with the two-point win Saturday. Is K-State the last reasonable hopeful? Could be an elimination match in Stillwater on Tuesday, at least for the Cowboys.

Work left to do:

Texas Tech [18-11 (7-7), RPI: 44, SOS: 12] A critical two-point win over OK State leaves the Red Raiders with Baylor and at Iowa State left. Get both and the Red Raiders likely are good to go. Get one and there could be some interesting comparisons with a K-State team that could finish two or three games "ahead" of them in the standings but doesn't have any of the quality wins Texas Tech has. Not a lot in nonconference play (against Arkansas in Little Rock being the best win, by far) to lean on.

Oklahoma State [18-9 (5-8), RPI: 50, SOS: 35] Still without a road win, the Cowboys now need to win two on the road just to get to .500 in conference play. It's hard to recall a team (OK, other than Clemson) falling so precipitously from lock status to almost certainly out of the NCAAs at this point. There are wins to be had in the last three, including a very big home game against K-State on Tuesday, but this team is reeling. Can you tell the pressure to win is getting to them with the way the final possession played out at Texas Tech? There are some good nonconference performances to lean on, specifically beating Missouri State and Syracuse on neutral floors and Pitt in OK City, but if the Pokes don't right this very, very soon, that won't be enough.

Kansas State [20-9 (9-5), RPI: 56, SOS: 96] It pays to be in the Big 12 North. The nine league wins are Colorado (twice), Missouri (twice), Iowa State (twice), Baylor, Nebraska and (a good one against) Texas. That helps explain the middling computer profile. The win over USC is nice, but the nonconference leaves a lot to be desired. The game at OK State in Stillwater on Tuesday is huge, as it could KO the Cowboys and leave K-State with a home date against Oklahoma with which to work.


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