Top-ranked Rafael Nadal will be the No. 1 seed at the Australian Open starting Monday, ending Roger Federer's four-year run atop the Melbourne Park draw.

Jelena Jankovic, one of six women to hold the No. 1 ranking last season, also received a top seed for the year's first major, with three-time Australian Open champion Serena Williams seeded second.

Federer is the No. 2 seed on the men's side.

Nadal beat Federer in the French Open and Wimbledon finals last season. After winning the Olympic gold medal at Beijing in August, the 22-year-old Spaniard snapped Federer's record 237 consecutive weeks at No. 1.

He withdrew from the Masters Series event in Paris with tendinitis in his right knee and didn't play in the season-ending Masters Cup or Spain's Davis Cup final win over Argentina.

Defending champion Novak Djokovic was given the No. 3 seed and Scottish player Andy Murray, who comes into the tournament off wins at an Abu Dhabi exhibition and at the Qatar Open, is fourth.

With Nikolay Davydenko withdrawing because of a heel injury, Frenchmen Jo-Wilfried Tsonga — who beat Nadal in the semifinals here last year and then lost the final — received the No. 5 seed, with Gilles Simon at No. 6.

American Andy Roddick, the 2003 U.S. Open champion and a three-time semifinalist at the Australian Open, was seeded seventh.

Russia's Dinara Safina and Elena Dementieva, the Olympic finalists, were seeded third and fourth, respectively, behind Jankovic and Williams.

Last year's Australian Open runner-up Ana Ivanovic was the fifth seed and Wimbledon champion Venus Williams was sixth.

Defending champion Maria Sharapova has been sidelined since just after Wimbledon with an injured right shoulder and is not defending her title in Australia.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

NO. 1 PITT GOES TO 16-0

Tyrell Biggs scored 16 points and Pittsburgh struggled early for the second time in as many games since reaching No. 1 before pulling away to beat South Florida, 75-62, last night in Pittsburgh.

Sam Young scored 14 points, DeJuan Blair had 13 points and 18 rebounds and Levance Fields had 11 points as the Panthers (16-0, 4-0 Big East) moved to the third-best start in school history.

Dominique Jones and Augustus Gilchrist scored 22 points each for South Florida (6-10, 1-3).

SOCCER

U.S. MEN STILL NO. 22

European champion Spain remained first in the FIFA rankings for the seventh straight month, and the United States stayed atop its region at No. 22.

With just 47 international matches played since the December rankings, the top remained unchanged in the January rankings released yesterday. Germany was second, followed by the Netherlands, world champion Italy, Brazil, Argentina, England, Russia and Turkey.