Djokovic, Nadal top 2 seeds at Wimbledon; Williams unseeded

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — This time, Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal will likely be on reverse sides of the draw.

The seedings for Wimbledon have been introduced on Tuesday, with Djokovic and Nadal being Nos. 1 and a couple of, respectively, within the males’s draw due to the absence of Daniil Medvedev and Alexander Zverev.

The highest-ranked Medvedev can not participate because of the All England Membership’s determination to not permit gamers from Russia or Belarus to enter the occasion in 2022 over the invasion of Ukraine. Medvedev is Russian. The No. 2-ranked Zverev is out due to an ankle damage.

Meaning Djokovic and Nadal have been bumped as much as being the highest two seeded gamers and can’t now meet till the ultimate. That wasn’t the case on the French Open final month, when Nadal beat Djokovic within the quarterfinals en path to profitable a males’s-record twenty second Grand Slam title.

There will likely be a 23-time Grand Slam winner within the ladies’s attract Serena Williams, however she is not going to be seeded.

The draw is Friday and the event begins Monday.

Since 2021, the seedings for each the boys’s and ladies’s singles have been primarily based on the world rankings.

Williams hasn’t performed competitively since retiring from her first-round match finally 12 months’s Wimbledon. She has been awarded a wild-card entry for the singles event on the All England Membership beginning subsequent week and will subsequently be drawn to play anybody within the first spherical.

Prime-ranked Iga Swiatek of Poland would be the top-seeded participant at Wimbledon.

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