Melbourne  - Women's draw made on Friday for the 15.5- million-dollar Australian Open.

<# Jelena Jankovic, 1, Serbia v Yvonne Meusburger, Australia

Kirsten Flipkens, Belgium v Rossana De Los Rios, Paraguay

Nathalie Dechy, France v qualifier

Qualifier v Ai Sugiyama, Japan

Sybille Bammer, Austria v Lucie Safarova, Czech Republic

Petra Cetkovska, Czech Republic v Marina Erakovic, New Zealand

Qualifier v Tsvetana Pironkova, Bulgaria

Melbourne  - Men's draw made Friday for the 15.5-million- dollar Australian Open.

<# Rafael Nadal, 1, Spain v Christophe Rochus, Belgium

Florent Serra, France v Roko Karanusic, Croatia

Eduardo Schwank, Argentina v Tommy Haas, Germany

Qualifier v Dmitry Tursunov, Russia

Richard Gasquet, France v Diego Junqueira, Argentina

Vince Spadea, US v Denis Istomin, Uzbekistan

Guillermo Canas, Argentina v Nicolas Kiefer, Germany

Sydney  - 2008 Australian Open finalist Jo-Wilfried Tsonga remained flat on his back in bed on Friday after withdrawing from an ATP quarter-final, his hopes of playing the Grand Slam starting Monday looking grim.

Doctors say the Frenchman, who lost the January 2008 title match to Novak Djokovic, said he is suffering form a bulging disc and will need to remain in bed for several days.

Sydney - Australian Open finalist Jo-Wilfried has hit an injury crisis with four days to go before the start of the tournament at Melbourne Park as a bad back forced him to withdraw ahead a match in Sydney on Thursday.

The pullout at the Medibank International sent Finn Jarkko Nieminen into the semi-finals, his first of the season and third in a year.

Tsonga had complained of back trouble during previous wins this week, but was unable to take to the court for his quarter-final against the 41st-ranked Finn.

Tsonga lost the Open final last January to Novak Djokovic, the Sydney top seed.

Wellington, Jan. 15 : New Zealand will take on Australia in a five-match Chappell-Hadlee Trophy ODI series in January and February.

The New Zealand Press Association quoted team coach Andy Moles as saying that his team would go all out for a win against their trans-Tasmanian rivals.

"To get a win under our belts is really key, we want to become a winning unit," Moles said of a side that has slipped from third to fifth on the ODI rankings since the 2007 World Cup.

Melbourne, Jan 15 : Desperate win the "Best Job in the World", thousands of jobseekers are seen bragging, begging, singing, and even getting tattooed to become Great Barrier Reef's new caretaker.

A Queensland woman has tattooed a permanent advertisement for Hamilton island on her arm, to win the 150,000 dollars dream job.

More than 2000 jobseekers have applied for the dream job by Tourism Queensland, reports News. com. au

People from Mongolia, Romania, Turkey, Brazil and the Vatican are being seen bragging, begging, and singing in their 60-second video clips uploaded on the website.