Wimbledon seeds announced

June 24, 2015 Ricky News 0

For the most part men remained with seeds similar if not identical to their rankings when Wimbledon announced the 2015 seeds on Wednesday. In the entire top 10, only one swap took place with world No. 8 Milos Raonic snagging the seventh seed and world No. 7 David Ferrer dropping to eighth. Of course, that has absolutely no impact on the draw because Raonic and Ferrer will still go into the proverbial pot as 5-8 seeds.

The first meaningful move sees Gilles Simon climb from 13th to 12th as fellow Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga falls from No. 12 to No. 13. That means Simon could face either Raonic, Ferrer, Kei Nishikori, or Tomas Berdych in the fourth round. Tsonga, on the other hand, may have to go up against Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, Andy Murray, or Stan Wawrinka in the last 16.

In a significant development that none of the top seeds will complain about, world No. 25 Ivo Karlovic has a top 24 seed instead of a 25-32 seed. That means he cannot meet any of the top eight seeds in the third round. He could, though, face Nadal at that point in the tournament.

All of the top 32 players in the world earned seeds, with No. 33 Philipp Kohlschreiber and and No. 34 Adrian Mannarino among those left on the outside looking in.

Here is the list, calculated by Wimbledon’s formula using a player’s current amount of ATP ranking points, plus all of his ranking points accumulated on grass in the past 12 months, plus 75 percent of the points accumulated at his best grass-court event during the 12 moths prior to that:

1 DJOKOVIC, Novak (SRB)
2 FEDERER, Roger (SUI)
3 MURRAY, Andy (GBR)
4 WAWRINKA, Stan (SUI)
5 NISHIKORI, Kei (JPN)
6 BERDYCH, Tomas (CZE)
7 RAONIC, Milos (CAN)
8 FERRER, David (ESP)
9 CILIC, Marin (CRO)
10 NADAL, Rafael (ESP)
11 DIMITROV, Grigor (BUL)
12 SIMON, Gilles (FRA)
13 TSONGA, Jo-Wilfried (FRA)
14 ANDERSON, Kevin (RSA)
15 LOPEZ, Feliciano (ESP)
16 GOFFIN, David (BEL)
17 ISNER, John (USA)
18 MONFILS, Gael (FRA)
19 ROBREDO, Tommy (ESP)
20 BAUTISTA AGUT, Roberto (ESP)
21 GASQUET, Richard (FRA)
22 TROICKI, Viktor (SRB)
23 KARLOVIC, Ivo (CRO)
24 MAYER, Leonardo (ARG)
25 SEPPI, Andreas (ITA)
26 KYRGIOS, Nick (AUS)
27 TOMIC, Bernard (AUS)
28 CUEVAS, Pablo (URU)
29 GARCIA-LOPEZ, Guillermo (ESP)
30 FOGNINI, Fabio (ITA)
31 SOCK, Jack (USA)
32 THIEM, Dominic (AUT)

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55 Comments on Wimbledon seeds announced

  6. Wimby time coming soon 🙂
    Apart from Rafa, who are your favourites?
    I’m wishing for Wawa and Sock to do well 🙂

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    • He would never have faced them before the qtr. He got the worst anyway..Murray toughest one on grass in QF..same like it was in RG..he got toughest one in QF

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  9. rafa could have to play dustin brown in the second….seem to remember dustin beating him at halle….the guy can really mainline it when he’s on…mostly he’s off but against rafa i expect he’ll play out of his skin…..

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    • That is true about Dustin Brown. His game is well suited for grass. However, this will be a best of five match and I don’t think he will be able to hang with Rafa.

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  10. is Tsonga actually going to be playing?…..there were a lot of doubts because of injury…that probably means he’s not much of a threat….

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      • yes vr, could have been worse until quarters…but i am nervous about brown and really hope he goes out first round. a good chance of that..but if he gets through and plays lights out and rafa is tight then it’s game over for rafa. Murray is very very tough….but as you say let’s wait and see when/if it happens. as you say, at least there is no rosol, kyrgios &tc.
        rosol vs gulbis first round could be hilarious!!

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  13. Well the draw is not too bad for Rafa! It is a reasonable draw till the QFs… his projected 4th rnd could have been berdych, kei or raonic! He got ferrer so that is good!

    What is more important is that he avoided the likes of Rosol, Kyrgios, Isner ! Remember, passing the early tests is critical for Rafa.

    As amy mentioned, he has dustin brown in his path.I hope Brown loses his first match so that rafa can have a smooth path.

    Brown beat rafa in 2 sets in Halle and he is a crazy guy. He was firing aces and and his groundstrokes are SO flat. He was swinging like crazy and going after second serves..very annoying…Rafa

    Murray is the toughest Qf opponent on grass.. we will talk about it when both reach that stage..

    Djokovic has an AWFULLY tough opening match! Djokovic is also vulnerable in the earlier rounds and if he comes up against an on-fire Kohls, he can be in big trouble. I bet he will be significantly nervous. Kohls is not an easy matchup for Novak and the German has baseline game to unsettle the Serb on a consistent basis. This should be a cracker!

    But i wish Murray was in Djokovic’s quarter :/

    nishikori is injured so he’ll likely not even reach the qtr final to face novak.

    Federer will have a very tough time handling Berdych if that match takes place in the qtr final…

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  15. another potentially hilarious match is berdy-rosol third round! could be an epic press conference beforehand if anyone dares to compare rosol to berdy…!

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    • Playing murray at wimby in quarters is a cupcake draw!! what kind of cake do you like? the kind that tastes of almonds because it has been poisoned with cyanide?!

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  18. It is what it is, no use stressing over the draw. If Rafa plays like Shiite, he will lose to whomever is across the net. If he plays like a healthy Rafa of old he will bite the trophy at the end of the fortnight.

    Vamos Rafa!

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    • fluke players like Brown don’t allow him to play at his desired level ! That is the problem and hence the worry. If he reaches the qtrs, then that is a different story because he gets more comfortable and is able to impose his game more easily , even on big hitters and servers. Remember the 2010 qtr final against soderling!

      Brown is a fluke player so his chanes of playing at a high level for 3 sets is low. But we know these random serve bots can catch fire against Rafa and it is only what has happened since 2012 that makes us worried.

      Rafa’s level is good, I hope he improves and gains confidence.

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      • Keeping fingers and toes crossed Rafa has exorcised his mental demons. I even see the comment, “Rafa is a beast” as a compliment when I remember the Rafa of old!

        C’mon Rafa, confound the sceptics……….bring @Twinge out of retirement when you man-handle Muzza in the quarters………….

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      • But the good thing is that it’s a best of five match. Rafa has more chances against Brown in that format than he would in a best two out of three set match. It’s always worrying to see Rafa go up against this type of player with zero pressure and nothing to lose.

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  19. Ricky, have you assigned ATP and/or the French Open web managers to run the Tenngrand website? It looks awful all of a sudden.

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  20. TBH, draw could not have been much better for Rafa.

    Certainly Federer got it pretty good as expected.

    The draw strategy here is obviously to get Djokovic (with by far the toughest draw) out before the final. Servebots in his quarter alone include the likes of Isner, Karlovic, Anderson, Janowicz, Tomic and Cilic.

    His path if it goes by rank would be Kohls->Nieminen->Tomic->Anderson->Nishikori->Federer

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    • Except, Djokovic doesn’t struggle against big servers. For that matter, neither does Federer.
      It’s a pretty balanced draw with the bottom half having tough QF match-ups with Nadal-Murray and Fed-Berdych. I don’t expect Wawrinka to make semis and Kohli may not necessarily play great in an opening day match. Djokovic has it marginally easy but given his seeding, it’s completely alright.

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