Spain's Rafael Nadal [ Images ] and Jelena Jankovic [ Images ] of Serbia have been confirmed as the top seeds for this year's Australian Open [ Images ], which begins on Monday.

Roger Federer [ Images ] was listed as second seed in the men's draw ahead of defending champion Novak Djokovic [ Images ] and Briton Andy Murray [ Images ] for the year's first Grand Slam.

Former champion Serena Williams [ Images ] was seeded second for the women's tournament ahead of Russian pair Dinara Safina [ Images ] and Elena Dementieva [ Images ].

The full draw for the tournament will be made at Melbourne [ Images ] on Friday. Seeds for the Australian Open are based on the world rankings.

The only man missing from the world's top 32 is Russian Nikolay Davydenko [ Images ] while two women are absent, last year's champion Maria Sharapova [ Images ] and China's Li Na [ Images ].

Nadal has never won the Australian Open although he has won the French Open [ Images ] four times and Wimbledon [ Images ] once. His best performance in Melbourne was last year when he reached the semi-finals.

Jankovic was also a semi-finalist in Australia [ Images ] last year but is yet to win a grand slam.

List of seeded players 

MEN:
  1. Rafael Nadal (Spain)
  2. Roger Federer (Switzerland [ Images ])
  3. Novak Djokovic (Serbia)
  4. Andy Murray (Britain)
  5. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (France [ Images ])
  6. Gilles Simon (France)
  7. Andy Roddick [ Images ] (U.S.)
  8. Juan Martin Del Potro [ Images ] (Argentina)
  9. James Blake [ Images ] (U.S.)
10. David Nalbandian [ Images ] (Argentina)
11. David Ferrer (Spain)
12. Gael Monfils (France)
13. Fernando Gonzalez [ Images ] (Chile)
14. Fernando Verdasco [ Images ] (Spain)
15. Stanislas Wawrinka (Switzerland)
16. Robin Soderling [ Images ] (Germany [ Images ])
17. Nicolas Almagro (Spain)
18. Igor Andreev (Russia [ Images ])
19. Marin Cilic [ Images ] (Croatia [ Images ])
20. Tomas Berdych (Czech Republic)
21. Tommy Robredo [ Images ] (Spain)
22. Radek Stepanek (Czech Republic)
23. Mardy Fish [ Images ] (U.S.)
24. Richard Gasquet (France)
25. Ivo Karlovic [ Images ] (Croatia)
26. Marat Safin [ Images ] (Russia)
27. Feliciano Lopez [ Images ] (Spain)
28. Paul-Henri Mathieu (France)
29. Dmitry Tursunov [ Images ] (Russia)
30. Rainer Schuettler [ Images ] (Germany)
31. Jurgen Melzer [ Images ] (Austria)
32. Philipp Kohlschreiber (Germany)

WOMEN:
  1. Jelena Jankovic (Serbia)
  2. Serena Williams (U.S.)
  3. Dinara Safina (Russia)
  4. Elena Dementieva (Russia)
  5. Ana Ivanovic [ Images ] (Serbia)
  6. Venus Williams [ Images ] (U.S.)
  7. Vera Zvonareva [ Images ] (Russia)
  8. Svetlana Kuznetsova [ Images ] (Russia)
  9. Agnieszka Radwanska [ Images ] (Poland)
10. Nadia Petrova [ Images ] (Russia)
11. Caroline Wozniacki [ Images ] (Denmark)
12. Flavia Pennetta [ Images ] (Italy [ Images ])
13. Victoria Azarenka [ Images ] (Belarus)
14. Patty Schnyder [ Images ] (Switzerland)
15. Alize Cornet [ Images ] (France)
16. Marion Bartoli [ Images ] (France)
17. Anna Chakvetadze [ Images ] (Russia)
18. Dominika Cibulkova [ Images ] (Slovakia)
19. Daniela Hantuchova [ Images ] (Slovakia)
20. Amelie Mauresmo [ Images ] (France)
21. Anabel Medina Garrigues (Spain)
22. Zheng Jie [ Images ] (China)
23. Agnes Szavay [ Images ] (Hungary)
24. Sybille Bammer (Austria)
25. Kaia Kanepi (Estonia)
26. Ai Sugiyama [ Images ] (Japan [ Images ])
27. Maria Kirilenko (Russia)
28. Francesca Schiavone (Italy)
29. Alisa Kleybanova (Russia)
30. Aleksandra Wozniak (Canada [ Images ])
31. Alona Bondarenko (Ukraine)
32. Tamarine Tanasugarn [ Images ] (Thailand)