2015 Aussie Open: Early Rounds

This is a little late in getting out there since the 3rd round is underway, but I wanted to post some of the stats on seeded players as well as recap the Americans play, which has been very good.

An unbelievable number of seeded players (30 in all) have already crashed out of the '15 Aussie Open after 2 rounds, which is an historic number.  I've been tracking this data since '09.  The average of seeds out in the first 2 rounds (over those 6 years) is 10 men and 12 women.  This year 16 men and 14 women have been eliminated.  The 14 women isn't unprecedented as in the last 6 years at least 14 seeds have been sent packing early 5 times, with the most being '13 Wimbledon, the tournament won by Bartoli over Lisicki.  But 16 men losing this early is ridiculous.  The most previously (in the last 6 years) was 14, at that same Wimbledon.  The 10 seeded men who lost in round 2 also shatters (my) record, with 7 happening on a few occasions.  And the 11 seeded women who lost in round 1 (they recovered nicely with only 3 seeds losing in round 2), that's the most on my charts, although Todd Spiker has data back farther and said it happened at '02 French Open and '04 Wimbledon.  So anyway, it could be an interesting remainder of the tournament, although save Ivanovic and Wozniacki, the big names have survived and we are yet to be guaranteed an unseeded quarterfinalist in either draw.

Here is the lengthy list of eliminated seeds:

Men
11-Gulbis, R1 l. to w-Kokkinakis
13-Bautista Agut, R2 l. to Muller
15-Robredo, R1 ret. vs Roger-Vasselin
16-Fognini, R1 l. to Gonzalez
17-Monfils, R2 l. to Janowicz
20-Goffin, R2 l. to Baghdatis
21-Dolgopolov, R1 l. to Lorenzi
22-Kohlschreiber, R2 l. to Tomic
23-Karlovic, R2 l. to Kyrgios
25-Benneteau, R1 l. to Becker
26-L.Mayer, R2 l. to Troicki
27-Cuevas, R1 l. to q-Bachinger
28-Rosol, R2 l. to Sela
29-Chardy, R2 l. to Seppi
30-Giraldo, R2 l. to Johnson
32-Klizan, R2 ret. vs Sousa

Women
5-Ivanovic, R1 l. to q-Hradecka
8-Wozniacki, R2 l. to Azarenka
9-Kerber, R1 l. to Begu
12-Pennetta, R1 l. to Giorgi
13-Petkovic, R1 l. to Brengle
15-Jankovic, R1 l. to Bacsinszky
16-Safarova, R1 l. to Shvedova
17-Suarez Navarro, R1 l. to Witthoeft
20-Stosur, R2 l. to Vandeweghe
23-Pavlyuchenkova, R1 l. to Wickmayer
27-Kuznetsova, R1 l. to Garcia
28-Lisicki, R1 l. to Mladenovic
29-Dellacqua, R2 l. to Keys
32-Bencic, R1 l. to Goerges

It's also been a fine tournament for the Americans, who have turned their fine draws into a number of 3rd round appearances also with a few upsets

Men (6-5)
19-Isner, def. q-Wang & Haider-Maurer
Johnson, def. q-Edmund & 30-Giraldo

Young, def. q-Puetz, l. to 8-Raonic
q-Smyczek, def. w-Saville, l. to 3-Nadal

w-Kudla, l. to 12-Lopez
Querrey, l. to Pospisil
q-Russell, l. to 20-Goffin

Women (19-10)
1-Serena, def. van Uytvanck & Zvonareva
Keys, def. Tsurenko & 29-Dellacqua
Vandeweghe, def. Schiavone & 20-Stosur
Brengle, def. 13-Petkovic & Falconi
18-Venus, def. Torro-Flor & Davis
30-Lepchenko, def. Diatchenko & Tomljanovic
Mattek-Sands, def. w-Duan & Mladenovic

Gibbs, def. w-Rogowska, l. to 26-Svitolina
q-Tatishvili, def. Date-Krumm, l. to Bacsinszky
w-Falconi, def. Kanepi, l. to Brengle
Davis, def. Krunic, l. to 18-Venus
McHale, def. q-Foretz, l. to Witthoeft

Stephens, l. to Azarenka
Townsend, l. to 8-Wozniacki
Rogers, l. to Tomljanovic
Riske, l. to w-Dodin
Min, l. to 14-Errani

'14 quarterfinalists still in the draw: Wawrinka, Nadal, Federer, Berdych, Djokovic, Murray, Ferrer, Dimitrov, Cibulkova, Radwanska, Bouchard, Halep, Azarenka
'14 quarterfinalists eliminated: Ivanovic, Pennetta, (Li)

Former champions still in the draw: All 7 of them (Federer, Djokovic, Nadal, Wawrinka, Serena, Sharapova, Azarenka)

Former junior champions still in the draw: Baghdatis, Tomic, Kyrgios, Zahlavova Strycova, Azarenka, Ka.Pliskova
Former junior champions eliminated: Monfils (R2 l. to Janowicz), Young, Bhambri (R1 l. to Murray), Vesely (R1 l. to Troicki), Saville (R1 l. to Smyczek), Lucic-Baroni (R1 l. to Smitkova), Jankovic, Pavlyuchenkova, Mestach (R1 l. to Makarova), Townsend, Konjuh (R1 l. to Rybarikova)

And I think that does it for now.