HIGHLIGHTS-Tennis-Day one at the Australian Open

MELBOURNE, Jan 16 ( Reuters) - Latest news from the opening day of the Australian Open tennis championships on Monday (all times GMT):

0010 - PLAY UNDERWAY AT YEAR'S FIRST GRAND SLAM

Play got underway as scheduled under sunny skies with a cooling breeze blowing across Melbourne Park.

The temperature was 21 degrees Celsius but is forecast to hit 30 degrees in mid-afternoon.

ORDER OF PLAY

ROD LAVER ARENA

4-Simona Halep ( Romania) v Shelby Rogers (U.S.)

Kateryna Kozlova ( Ukraine) v 13-Venus Williams (U.S.)

1-Andy Murray ( Britain) v Illya Marchenko (Ukraine)

Not before 0800 GMT:

1-Angelique Kerber ( Germany) v Lesia Tsurenko (Ukraine)

Jurgen Melzer ( Austria) v 17-Roger Federer ( Switzerland)

MARGARET COURT ARENA

Marina Erakovic ( New Zealand) v 7-Garbine Muguruza ( Spain)

27-Bernard Tomic ( Australia) v Thomaz Bellucci ( Brazil)

Coco Vandeweghe (U.S.) v 15-Roberta Vinci ( Italy)

Not before 0800 GMT:

4-Stan Wawrinka (Switzerland) v Martin Klizan ( Slovakia)

Louisa Chirico (U.S.) v Eugenie Bouchard ( Canada)

HISENSE ARENA

Andrey Kuznetsov ( Russia) v 5-Kei Nishikori ( Japan)

Ashleigh Barty (Australia) v Annika Beck (Germany)

Mariana Duque-Marino ( Colombia) v 8-Svetlana Kuznetsova (Russia)

Not before 0730 GMT:

Gastao Elias ( Portugal) v 14-Nick Kyrgios (Australia)

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