Australian Open 2024 Order of Play – schedule & times as Emma Raducanu and Carlos Alcaraz feature on Day Three

The Australian Open has got off to a thrilling start – and there are more huge names in action on Day Three.

SunSport has all the details you need ahead of the third round of fixtures in Melbourne.

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Australian Open Order of Play – Tuesday, January 16th

All times GMT

Rod Laver Arena

From 1am: Iga Swiatek (Pol) (1) vs Sofia Kenin (USA)

From 3am: Holger Rune (Dk) (8) vs Yoshihito Nishioka (Jpn)

From 8am: Elena Rybakina (Kz) (3) vs Karolina Pliskova (Cz), Richard Gasquet (Fra) vs Carlos Alcaraz (Esp) (2)

Margaret Court Arena

From 1am: Albert Ramos-Vinolas (Esp) vs Casper Ruud (Nor) (11), Camila Giorgi (Ita) vs Victoria Azarenka (Blr) (18)

From 8am: Alexander Zverev (Ger) (6) vs Dominik Koepfer (Ger), Rebecca Marino (Can) vs Jessica Pegula (USA) (5)

John Cain Arena

From 12am: Sloane Stephens (USA) vs Olivia Gadecki (Aus), Grigor Dimitrov (Bul) vs Marton Fucsovics (Hun)

From 5am: Sebastian Ofner (At) vs Thanasi Kokkinakis (Aus)

From 8am: Petra Martic (Cro) vs Ajla Tomljanovic (Aus)

Kia Arena

From 12am: Peyton Stearns (USA) vs Daria Kasatkina (Rus) (14), Max Purcell (Aus) vs Mate Valkulz (Hu), Tommy Paul (USA) (14) vs Gregoire Barrere (Fra), Qinwen Zheng (Chn) vs Ashlyn Krueger (USA)

1573 Arena

From 12am: Cameron Norrie (Gbr) (19) vs Juan Pablo Varillas (Pe), Danielle Collins (USA) vs Anqelique Kerber (Ger), Mackenzie McDonald (USA) vs Juncheng Shang (Chn), Emma Raducanu (Gbr) vs Shelby Rogers (USA)

Court 3

From 12am: James McCabe (Aus) vs Alex Michelsen (USA), Emma Navarro (27) vs Xiyu Wang (Chn), Jelena Ostapenko (11) vs Kimberly Birrell (Aus), Dan Evans (Gbr) vs Lorenzo Sonego (Ita)

Court 5

From 12am: Dusan Lajovic (Ser) vs Giulio Zeppieri (Ita), Ana Bogan (Ro) & Rebeka Masarova (Spa) vs Ulrikke Eikeri (No) & Catherine Harrison (USA), Aleksandra Krunic (Ser) vs Clara Burel (Fra), Anastasia Potapova (Rus) & Yana Sizikova (Rus) vs Veronika Kudermetova (Rus) & Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (Rus)

Court 6

From 12am: Elisabetta Cocciaretto (Ita) vs Lulu Sun (Ch), Petros Tsitsipas (Gr) & Stefanos Tsitsipas (Gr) vs Daniel Atmaier (Ger) & Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela (Mx), Alexander Bublik (Kz) vs Sumit Nagal (Ind), Kayla McPhee (Aus) & Astra Sharma (Aus) vs Taylah Preston (Aus) & Arina Rodionova (Aus)

Court 7

From 12am: Roman Safiullin (Rus) vs Tallon Griekspoor (Nl), Lin Zhu (Chn) vs Oceane Dodin (Fra), Katie Boulter (Gbr) vs Yue Yuan (Chn), Miyu Kato (Jpn) (13) & Aldila Sutjiadi (Id) (13) vs Ekaterina Alexandrova (Rus) & Anna Kalinskaya (Rus)

Court 8

From 12am: Renata Zarazua (Mx) vs Martina Trevisan (Ita), Marcos Giron (USA) vs Jack Draper (Gbr), Camila Osorio (Co) & Yulia Putintseva (Kz) vs Storm Hunter (Aus) (3) & Katerina Siniakova (Cz) (3), Tereza Mihalikova (Sk) & Yifan Xu (Chn) vs Beatriz Haddad Maia (Br) (8) & Taylor Townsend (USA) (8)

Court 12

From 12am: Arthur Fils (Fra) vs Jiri Vesely (Cz), Francisco Cerundolo (Arg) & Tomas Martin Etcheverry (Arg) vs Nicolas Mahut (Fra) (13) & Edouard Roger-Vasselin (Fra) (13), Katarzyna Kawa (Pol) & Marta Kostyuk (Ukr) vs Tatjana Maria (Ger) & Arantxa Rus (Nl), Nicolas Barrientos (Co) & Rafal Matos (Br) vs Yuki Bhambri (Ind) & Robin Haase (Nl)

Court 13

From 12am: Bernabe Zapata Miralles (Spa) vs Jiri Lehecka (Cz) (32), Soonwoo Kwon (KR) vs Lukas Klein (Sk), Yafan Wang (Chn) vs Sorana Cirstea (Ro) (22), Romain Arneodo (Mc) & Sam Weissborn (At) vs Simone Bolelli (Ita) & Andrea Vavassori (Ita)

Court 14

From 12am: Quentin Halys (Fra) & Adrian Mannarino (Fra) vs Julian Cash (Gbr) & Robert Galloway (USA), Maximo Gonzalez (Ar) (6) & Andres Molteni (Ar) (6) vs Pedro Cachin (Ar) & Roberto Carballes Baena (Spa), Gonzalo Escobar (Ec) & Aleksandr Nedovyesov (Kz) vs Nuno Borges (Pt) & Aleksandr Vukic (Aus), Carolina Garcia (Fra) & Kristina Mladenovic (Fra) vs Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA) (14) & Xinyu Wang (Chn) (14)

Court 17

From 12am: Laslo Djere (RS) vs Arthur Cazaux (Fra), Greet Minnen (Be) vs Clara Tauson (Dk), Cristina Bucsa (Spa) vs Anna Blinkova (Rus), Sander Gille (Be) (15) & Joran Vliegen (Be) (15) vs Tomas Machac (Cz) & Zhizhen Zhang (Chn)

Australian Open 2024 schedule

Here is the full schedule for the Australian Open 2024:

Monday, January 8 – Thursday, January 11: Qualifying

Sunday, January 14: Men’s and women’s first round singles

Monday, January 15: Men’s and women’s first round singles

Tuesday, January 16: Men’s and women’s first round singles

Wednesday, January 17: Men’s and women’s second round singles

Thursday, January 18: Men’s and women’s second round singles

Friday, January 19: Men’s and women’s third round singles

Saturday, January 20: Men’s and women’s third round singles

Sunday, January 21: Men’s and women’s fourth round singles

Monday, January 22: Men’s and women’s fourth round singles

Tuesday, January 23: Men’s and women’s singles quarter-finals

Wednesday, January 24: Men’s and women’s singles quarter-finals

Thursday, January 25: Women’s singles semi-finals

Friday, January 26: Men’s singles semi-finals

Saturday, January 27: Women’s singles final, men’s doubles final

Sunday, January 28: Men’s singles final, women’s doubles final

How to watch Australian Open 2024

Australian Open 2024 will be broadcast LIVE on Eurosport in the UK while fans in the US can catch all the action on ESPN.

For online access, tennis lovers can head to discovery+, which will have of all the matches on show via their website.

Alternatively, SunSport will have set-by-set coverage of several games throughout the iconic competition