Wimbledon Gentlemen's and Ladies Draws

by Savannah

I'm sure many of you have seen these already and have formed opinions. I'm usually ranting about the inherent bias of the draws but I'm not this time.

Novak Djokovic SRB (1) vs Juan Carlos Ferrero ESP

Ryan Harrison USA vs Yen-Hsun Lu TPE

Benjamin Becker GER vs James Blake USA

Sergiy Stakhovsky UKR vs Radek Stepanek CZE (28)

Marcel Granollers ESP (24) vs Viktor Troicki SRB

Martin Klizan SVK vs Juan Ignacio Chela ARG

Jeremy Chardy FRA vs Filippo Volandri ITA

Leonardo Mayer ARG vs Juan Monaco ARG (15)

Nicolas Almagro ESP (12) vs Olivier Rochus BEL

Q Guillaume Rufin FRA vs Steve Darcis BEL

Carlos Berlocq ARG vs Q Ruben Bemelmans BEL

Tobias Kamke GER vs Richard Gasquet FRA (18)

Florian Mayer GER (31) vs Dmitry Tursunov RUS

Philipp Petzschner GER vs Blaz Kavcic SLO

Q Simone Bolelli ITA vs Q Jerzy Janowicz POL

Ernests Gulbis LAT vs Tomas Berdych CZE (6 )

Roger Federer SUI (3) vs Albert Ramos ESP

Fabio Fognini ITA vs Michael Llodra FRA

Q Adrian Menendez-MacEiras ESP vs Q Michael Russell USA

Gilles Muller LUX vs Julien Benneteau FRA (29)

Fernando Verdasco ESP (17)vs Q Jimmy Wang TPE

WC Grega Zemlja SLO vs WC Josh Goodall GBR

Xavier Malisse BEL vs Marinko Matosevic AUS

Paul-Henri Mathieu FRA vs Gilles Simon FRA (13)

John Isner USA (11) vs Alejandro Falla COL

Paolo Lorenzi ITA vs Nicolas Mahut FRA

Igor Andreev RUS vs WC Oliver Golding GBR

Denis Istomin UZB vs Andreas Seppi ITA (23)

Mikhail Youzhny RUS (26) vs Donald Young USA

Q Inigo Cervantes ESP vs Flavio Cipolla ITA

Q Ryan Sweeting USA vs Potito Starace ITA

David Nalbandian ARG vs Janko Tipsarevic SRB (8)

David Ferrer ESP (7) vs Q Dustin Brown GER

Q Kenny De Schepper FRA vs Matthias Bachinger GER

LL Wayne Odesnik USA vs Bjorn Phau GER

WC Jamie Baker GBR vs Andy Roddick USA (30)

Kei Nishikori JPN (19) vs Mikhail Kukushkin KAZ

Q Andrey Kuznetsov RUS vs Q Florent Serra FRA

Go Soeda JPN vs Igor Kunitsyn RUS

Robin Haase NED vs Juan Martin Del Potro ARG (9)

Marin Cilic CRO (16) vs Cedrik-Marcel Stebe GER

Tatsuma Ito JPN vs Lukasz Kubot POL

Vasek Pospisil CAN vs Sam Querrey USA

Santiago Giraldo COL vs Milos Raonic CAN (21)

Kevin Anderson RSA (32) vs Grigor Dimitrov BUL

Albert Montanes ESP vs Marcos Baghdatis CYP

Ivo Karlovic CRO vs Dudi Sela ISR

Nikolay Davydenko RUS vs Andy Murray GBR (4)

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga FRA (5) vs WC Lleyton Hewitt AUS

Edouard Roger-Vasselin FRA vs Guillermo Garcia-Lopez ESP

Lukas Lacko SVK vs Adrian Ungur ROU

Jurgen Melzer AUT vs Stanislas Wawrinka SUI (25)

Bernard Tomic AUS (20) vs WC David Goffin BEL

Q Jesse Levine USA vs Karol Beck SVK

WC James Ward GBR vs Pablo Andujar ESP

Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo ESP vs Mardy Fish USA (10)

Feliciano Lopez ESP (14) vs Jarkko Nieminen FIN

Q Brian Baker USA vs Rui Machado POR

Matthew Ebden AUS vs Benoit Paire FRA

Alex Bogomolov Jr. RUS vs Alexandr Dolgopolov UKR (22)

Philipp Kohlschreiber GER (27) vs WC Tommy Haas GER

Q Jurgen Zopp EST vs Malek Jaziri TUN

Lukas Rosol CZE vs Ivan Dodig CRO

Thomaz Bellucci BRA vs Rafael Nadal ESP (2)

The Powers That Be seem to have decided that it's good theatre, and policy, to create a draw that sets some interesting matches, matches that will appeal not only physically but mentally.

Maria Sharapova RUS (1) vs Anastasia Rodionova AUS

Q Vesna Dolonc SRB vs Tsvetana Pironkova BUL

Su-Wei Hsieh TPE vs WC Virginie Razzano FRA

Stephanie Foretz Gacon FRA vs Monica Niculescu ROU (29)

Petra Cetkovska CZE (23) vs Vania King USA

Sloane Stephens USA vs Q Karolina Pliskova CZE

Bojana Jovanovski SRB vs Eleni Daniilidou GRE

Petra Martic CRO vs Sabine Lisicki GER (15)

Vera Zvonareva RUS (12) vs Mona Barthel GER

Edina Gallovits-Hall ROU vs Silvia Soler-Espinosa ESP

Kai-Chen Chang TPE vs Andrea Hlavackova CZE

Kim Clijsters BEL vs Jelena Jankovic SRB (18)

Christina McHale USA (28) vs WC Johanna Konta GBR

Lesia Tsurenko UKR vs Mathilde Johansson FRA

Ekaterina Makarova RUS vs Alberta Brianti ITA

Lucie Hradecka CZE vs Angelique Kerber GER (8)

Agnieszka Radwanska POL (3] vs Magdalena Rybarikova SVK

Venus Williams USA vs Elena Vesnina RUS

Iveta Benesova CZE vs Heather Watson GBR

Jamie Lee Hampton USA vs Daniela Hantuchova SVK (27)

Nadia Petrova RUS (20) vs Q Maria Elena Camerin ITA

Timea Babos HUN vs WC Melanie Oudin USA

Tamarine Tanasugarn THA vs Anna Tatishvili GEO

Q Camila Giorgi ITA vs Flavia Pennetta ITA (16)

Na Li CHN (11) vs Ksenia Pervak KAZ

Sorana Cirstea ROU vs Pauline Parmentier FRA

WC Naomi Broady GBR vs Lourdes Dominguez Lino ESP

Alexandra Cadantu ROU vs Maria Kirilenko RUS (17)

Shuai Peng CHN (30) vs Q Sandra Zaniewska POL

Jarmila Gajdosova AUS vsAyumi Morita JPN

Arantxa Rus NED vs LL Misaki Doi JPN

Carla Suarez Navarro ESP vs Samantha Stosur AUS (5)

Serena Williams USA (6) vs Barbora Zahlavova Strycova CZE

Johanna Larsson SWE vs Q Melinda Czink HUN

Vera Dushevina RUS vs Aleksandra Wozniak CAN

Stephanie Dubois CAN vs Jie Zheng CHN (25)

Lucie Safarova CZE (19) vs Kiki Bertens NED

Chanelle Scheepers RSA vs WC Yaroslava Shvedova KAZ

Laura Pous-Tio ESP vs Anne Keothavong GBR

Q Coco Vandeweghe USA vs Sara Errani ITA (10)

Dominika Cibulkova SVK (13) vs Klara Zakopalova CZE

Olga Govortsova BLR vs Q Annika Beck GER

Polona Hercog SLO vs Q Kristyna Pliskova CZE

WC Laura Robson GBR vs Francesca Schiavone ITA (24)

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova RUS (31) vs Sofia Arvidsson SWE

Patricia Mayr-Achleitner AUT vs Varvara Lepchenko USA

Elena Baltacha GBR vs Karin Knapp ITA

Akgul Amanmuradova UZB vs Petra Kvitova CZE (4)

Caroline Wozniacki DEN (7) vs Tamira Paszek AUT

Alize Cornet FRA vs Nina Bratchikova RUS

Greta Arn HUN vs Galina Voskoboeva KAZ

Yanina Wickmayer BEL vs Svetlana Kuznetsova RUS (32)

Roberta Vinci ITA (21) vs WC Ashleigh Barty AUS

Urszula Radwanska POL vs Marina Erakovic NZL

Q Mirjana Lucic CRO vs Alexandra Panova RUS

Casey Dellacqua AUS vs Marion Bartoli FRA (9)

Ana Ivanovic SRB (14) vs Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez ESP

Kimiko Date-Krumm JPN vs Kateryna Bondarenko UKR

Anastasiya Yakimova BLR vs Mandy Minella LUX

Shahar Peer ISR vs Julia Goerges GER (22)

Anabel Medina Garrigues ESP (26) vs Simona Halep ROU

Q Jana Cepelova SVK vs Q Kristina Mladenovic FRA

Irina-Camelia Begu ROU vs Romina Oprandi SUI

Irina Falconi USA vs Victoria Azarenka BLR (2)

I still think the Ladies tournament is wide open and that anyone can win it. Most of the top women players have had a lot of rest coming into this event so hopefully they'll be mentally and physically ready for the Fortnight.