Nadal, Wozniacki head Wimbledon seeds
Defending champion Rafael Nadal and women’s world number one Caroline
Wozniacki were named top seeds for next week’s Wimbledon Championships
here Wednesday. Tournament officials mirrored the current world rankings
for their top five seeds in the men’s and women’s singles, with Nadal
ahead of Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, Andy Murray and Sweden’s Robin
Soderling.
In the women’s draw Wozniacki heads the list from world number three
Vera Zvonareva, newly crowned French Open champion Li Na from China and
Victoria Azarenka from Belarus.
The seeding list was altered Wednesday following the withdrawal of
Belgian world number two Kim Clijsters, who had initially been seeded
two. Clijsters pulled out after suffering a recurrence of an old ankle
injury on Tuesday.
Defending women’s champion Serena Williams, who made her comeback at
Eastbourne this week after almost a year out of tennis, has been seeded
seventh.
Williams is bidding to clinch a hat-trick of Wimbledon crowns after a
hellish 12 months beset by serious health problems and a foot injury.
LONDON, AFP
Men’s seedings
1. Rafael Nadal, 2. Novak Djokovic, 3. Roger Federer, 4. Andy Murray,
5. Robin Soderling, 6. Tomas Berdych, 7. David Ferrer, 8. Andy Roddick,
9. Gael Monfils, 10. Mardy Fish, 11. Jurgen Melzer, 12. Jo-Wilfried
Tsonga, 13. Viktor Troicki, 14. Stanislas Wawrinka, 15. Gilles Simon,
16. Nicolas Almagro, 17. Richard Gasquet, 18. Mikhail Youzhny, 19.
Michael Llodra, 20. Florian Mayer, 21. Fernando Verdasco, 22. Alexandr
Dolgoplov, 23. Janko Tipsarevic, 24. Juan Martin Del Potro, 25. Juan
Ignacio Chela, 26. Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, 27. Marin Cilic, 28. David
Nalbandian, 29. Nikolay Davydenko, 30. Thomaz Bellucci, 31. Milos Raonic,
32. Marcos Baghdatis
Women’s seedings
1. Caroline Wozniacki, 2. Vera Zvonareva, 3. Li Na, 4. Victoria
Azarenka, 5. Maria Sharapova, 6. Francesca Schiavone, 7. Serena
Williams, 8. Petra Kvitova, 9. Marion Bartoli, 10. Samantha Stosur, 11.
Andrea Petkovic, 12. Svetlana Kuznetsova, 13. Agnieszka Radwanska, 14.
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, 15. Jelena Jankovic, 16. Julia Goerges, 17.
Kaia Kanepi, 18. Ana Ivanovic, 19. Yanina Wickmayer, 20. Peng Shuai, 21.
Flavia Pennetta, 22. Shahar Peer, 23. Venus Williams, 24. Dominika
Cibulkova, 25. Daniela Hantuchova, 26. Maria Kirilenko, 27. Jarmila
Gajdosova, 28. Ekaterina Makarova, 29. Roberta Vinci, 30. Bethanie
Mattek-Sands, 31. Lucie Safarova, 32. Tsvetana Pironkova
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