Wimbledon announced its seeds for the 2016 Championships on Wednesday. Dating back to 2002, tournament organizers have used a formula to make the seedings, as opposed to the other three Grand Slams that go strictly by the rankings. Wimbledon takes the current ATP rankings (as of Monday, June 20), adds 100 percent of points earned from all grass-court events in the last 12 months, and adds 75 percent of points earned from each player’s best grass-court result from the previous 12 months before that.
Men’s singles seeds:
1. Novak Djokovic (SRB)
2. Andy Murray (GBR)
3. Roger Federer (SUI)
4. Stan Wawrinka (SUI)
5. Kei Nishikori (JPN)
6. Milos Raonic (CAN)
7. Richard Gasquet (FRA)
8. Dominic Thiem (AUT)
9. Marin Cilic (CRO)
10. Tomas Berdych (CZE)
11. David Goffin (BEL)
12. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA)
13. David Ferrer (ESP)
14. Roberto Bautista Agut (ESP)
15. Nick Kyrgios (AUS)
16. Gilles Simon (FRA)
17. Gael Monfils (FRA)
18. John Isner (USA)
19. Bernard Tomic (AUS)
20. Kevin Anderson (RSA)
21. Philipp Kohlschreiber (GER)
22. Feliciano Lopez (ESP)
23. Ivo Karlovic (CRO)
24 Alexander Zverev (GER)
25. Viktor Troicki (SRB)
26. Benoit Paire (FRA)
27. Jack Sock (USA)
28. Sam Querrey (USA)
29. Pablo Cuevas (URU)
30. Alexandr Dolgopolov (UKR)
31. Joao Sousa (POR)
32. Lucas Pouille (FRA)
Not taking Rafael Nadal’s withdrawal into account, the first change from the actual rankings came at No. 7–where Richard Gasquet moved up from what would have been No. 9 billing. He bumped Dominic Thiem and Tomas Berdych down one spot. Marin Cilic climbed three places from 12th to ninth, knocking off Berdych (down another spot to 10th), David Goffin, and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.
Interestingly, all 32 seeds would be the same at any of the four majors; Wimbledon simply changed the order at various positions. World No. 29 Lucas Pouille, who has never won an ATP-level grass-court match, would have plummeted out of seeded position but he snuck back it at No. 32 thanks to Nadal’s absence.
Ivo Karlovic, who would be the No. 30 seed at the Australian Open, French Open, and U.S. Open if those tournaments began today, soared all the way to 23rd.
Interesting Ricky, never knew that was the formula they used, always knew it was different, just wasnt sure what it was. Hope the weather is better at wimbledon compared to the grass events going on at the moment.
Draw Predictions:
1. Andy in Fed’s half
2. Gasquet in Fed’s quarter.
3. Berdych, Ferrer, RBA or Simon in Fed’s 4th rnd.
Probability of all first three occurring (assuming a “random” draw) is 3%.
BONUS Prediction: Fed avoids Isner, Anderson, Kohlschreiber, Karlovic and Zverev in his 3rd round.
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Ricky, you (or someone) should have done the formula calculations for each player to see how close they were.
There’s not many things one can’t find on the internet but that’s one of them.
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Djokovic was slated to play Kyrgious at Boodles this afternoon. But has chickened out 🙂 🙂
Monaco has taken his place. Simply do not understand what this mickey mouse tournament is all about – other than as an opportunity for the home counties set to get slaughtered on bubbly and Pimms.
ed,
It’s a summer social gathering (according to its homepage). 🙂
Hey, it’s good to know the real reason for Boodles! Inquiring minds want to know! 🙂
It’s also an excuse for the women to buy a new outfit and dress up a la Ladies Day at Ascot.
The commenting is painful to listen to but even worse is the false ‘aren’t we all having fun’ compere. Reminds me of the warm up sessions for TV studio audiences.
Nole was unable to play a delayed match because he had other commitments announcing Wimbledon’s Official new emojis…
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well it sure gives Novak wimbledon titles as he uses one or two of these games for a feel of the grass and then he is good to go. not like others that play two or three of the warm up tournaments only to be almost exhausted when Wimby comes along or get past the 1st round and losing to a qualifier, seen this happen one too many times
Yep, just testament to how good he is.
Even Rafa tries to get onto the grass a day or two after winning the French by comparison. And Fed who played two lead up tournaments.
Doesnt matter (the warm up events I mean), when Rafa only won one or two of those matches, he still won Wimbledon in 2010, or at least reached the finals in 2006/07/11. When they (Fed/Rafa/Djoko) are playing well, the warm up events dont matter.
I agree with lucky’s point. Well taken!
Does matter. 2010 was an exception. You have to look at what they do as a matter of practice over their career but then again that wouldn’t be…
#CherryPicking
Wimbledon plays too slow for the grass warm-ups to realistically matter. Especially in Week 2. Some players play the warm-ups because they enjoy playing on grass as a whole. In Roger’s case, Halle preceded his first Wimbledon title.
I do agree that Wimbledon does play slower than the warm up events at Queens and Halle, and that’s why it doesnt matter to them (Fed/Rafa/Djoko) whether they win or go far in those warm up events. Fed didnt play any warm up event in 2007 and 2009 yet still won at Wimbledon.
Rafa lost early at Queens during 2006/2007 and 2010/2011 yet he reached the final of Wimbledon and won one of them, not forgetting he was only losing to the king of grass and to the almost all conquering Djoko v2.
Lucky get it. Does matter.
Nole doesn’t even bother to try other than an exho match or two.
Fedal ideally want a tourney or two before.
Therein lies the difference.
Fed is no.3 and Andy’s no.2 so I guess it’s Andy’s half.
It’s always Fed’s half at Wimbledon regardless of His seed.
Novak is getting another grand slam and no one can stop him as usual. Put your house on -140 now