Australian Open 2016: Bracket, schedule and scores for men's draw

Keep up to date with the men's singles bracket at the 2016 Australian Open with our bracket and schedule.

The 2016 Australian Open is here, as top seed Novak Djokovic is looking to defend his singles title after opening the year with a title in Qatar. Djokovic has won five Australian Open titles and smart money is on him making it six this year.

The so-called "big four" of Djokovic, Andy Murray, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal still exists, but Djokovic has been a step above those three and he could be in line for his most dominant season yet. He dominated Nadal in the final in Qatar, 6-1, 6-2, though Nadal has started to find his stride as well after stringing together a couple inconsistent seasons due to various injuries.

Djokovic, Murray and Federer are the top three seeds, with Nadal coming in as the fifth seed. Federer and Djokovic are likely to meet in the semifinals this year, as they were drawn in the same half of the bracket. Murray, Nadal and Stan Wawrinka, the tournament's fourth seed, are all in the other half of the bracket.

Last year, Djokovic won the Australian Open, Wimbledon and the US Open, only falling short in the finals of the French Open, the one Grand Slam he has still yet to win.

Bracket

Below, you can find the full schedule of play. Note that play often begins late in the evening in the Eastern time zone, though in local time, it's the morning of the following day. So technically play will spill into the next day for most rounds, but this is an approximation of what you can expect for each round, going by which evening play starts in.

Full schedule (Eastern)

Day 1, Sunday, Jan. 17

No. 1 Novak Djokovic vs. Hyeon Chung
No. 3 Roger Federer vs. Nikoloz Basilashvili
No. 6 Tomas Berdych def. Yuki Bhambri, 7-5 6-1, 6-2
No. 7 Kei Nishikori def. Philipp Kohlschreiber, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3
No. 9 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga vs. Marcos Baghdatis
No. 12 Marin Cilic vs. Thiemo de Bakker
No. 14 Gilles Simon vs. Vasek Pospisil
No. 15 David Goffin def. Sergiy Stakhovsky, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4
No. 17 Benoit Paire vs. Noah Rubin
No. 19 Dominic Thiem def. Leonardo Mayer, 6-2, 7-6(8-6), 4-6, 7-6(7-0)
No. 22 Federico Delbonis def. Ivo Karlovic, 7-6(7-4), 6-4, 2-1, retired
No. 24 Roberto Bautista Agut vs. Martin Klizan
No. 26. Guillermo Garcia-Lopez vs. Paul-Henri Mathieu
No. 27 Grigor Dimitrov vs. Paolo Lorenzi
No. 28 Andreas Seppi vs. Teymuraz Gabashvili
No. 29 Nick Kyrgios vs. Pablo Carreno Busta

Day 2, Monday, Jan. 18

No. 2 Andy Murray vs. Alexander Zverev
No. 4 Stan Wawrinka vs. Dmitry Tursunov
No. 5 Rafael Nadal vs. Fernando Verdasco
No. 8 David Ferrer vs. Peter Gojowczyk
No. 10 John Isner vs. Jerzy Janowicz
No. 11 Kevin Anderson vs. Rajeev Ram
No. 13 Milos Raonic vs. Lucas Pouille
No. 16 Bernard Tomin vs. Denis Istomin
No. 18 Feliciano Lopez vs. Daniel Evans
No. 20 Fabio Fognini vs. Giles Muller
No. 21 Viktor Troicki vs. Daniel Munoz De La Nava
No. 23 Gael Monfils vs. Yuchi Sugita
No. 25 Jack Sock vs. Taylor Fritz
No. 30 Jeremy Chardy vs. Ernests Gulbis
No. 31 Steve Johnson vs. Aljas Bedene
No. 32 Joao Sousa vs. Mikhail Kukushkin

Day 3, Tuesday, Jan. 19

Second Round

Day 4, Wednesday, Jan. 20

Second Round

Day 5, Thursday, Jan. 21

Third Round

Day 6, Friday, Jan. 22

Third Round

Day 7, Saturday, Jan. 23

Round of 16

Day 8, Sunday, Jan. 24

Round of 16

Day 9, Monday, Jan. 25

Quarterfinals

Day 10, Tuesday, Jan. 26

Quarterfinals

Day 11, Wednesday, Jan. 27

Quarterfinals/Semifinals

Day 12, Thursday, Jan. 28

Semifinals

Day 13, Friday, Jan. 29

Semifinals

Day 14, Saturday, Jan. 30

Rest Day/Women's Finals

Day 15, Sunday, Jan. 31

Men's Finals