Djokovic, Swiatek top seeds at Wimbledon

IMAGE: Novak Djokovic who has received the final three editions of the grasscourt main, will slip additional down the rankings after Wimbledon as he’ll lose one other 2,000 factors with the ATP and WTA stripping the match of factors. {Photograph}: AELTC/Bob Martin – Pool/Getty Photos

Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic will head into subsequent week’s match as the lads’s prime seed with Russian world primary Daniil Medvedev banned from participating whereas Germany’s second-ranked Alexander Zverev is out injured.

Organisers of the grasscourt Grand Slam have banned gamers from Russia and Belarus from taking part in at this yr’s Wimbledon following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, which Russia calls a ‘particular operation’.

Zverev had surgical procedure on torn ligaments in his proper ankle this month after he was compelled to retire from his French Open semi-final in opposition to Rafael Nadal.

Djokovic, who was unable to defend his 2021 Australian Open title and the two,000 rating factors he earned resulting from his non-vaccinated standing in opposition to COVID-19, just lately misplaced his world primary spot to Medvedev.

The Serbian, who has received the final three editions of the grasscourt main, will slip additional down the rankings after Wimbledon as he’ll lose one other 2,000 factors with the ATP and WTA stripping the match of factors.

The absence of Medvedev and Zverev means Nadal, who’s midway by means of a doable calendar yr Slam after profitable the Australian and French Open titles, to be seeded second.

It additionally ends in Djokovic and Nadal discovering themselves in numerous halves of the draw they usually can’t face one another till the lads’s ultimate on July 10. The duo met on this yr’s Roland Garros quarter-final the place the Spaniard triumphed.

Britain has two gamers within the prime 10 seeds at their dwelling main with Cameron Norrie ninth whereas US Open champion Emma Raducanu is tenth within the absence of Belarussian Aryna Sabalenka.

Poland’s world primary Iga Swiatek would be the girls’s prime seed with Estonian Annett Kontaveit the quantity two.

Wimbledon organisers had beforehand used a computer-based system favouring outcomes on grasscourts within the earlier two years to find out the seedings however from the 2021 version seedings mirror the world rankings.