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Hot off the heels of an amazing French Open, the men and women now turn to the grass courts of Wimbledon. Can Rafa continue with his momentum, or can Novak wrestle it back? Can Federer rise up and collect another slam? Can Murray get a breakthrough slam in front of his home crowd? Will there be a darkhorse shocker like Tomic :side: to come through and take the world by storm?

I'm thoroughly looking forward to this event, it's my favourite slam and I'm really hoping to see some great tennis on display. As far as the ladies go, you'd have to think Sharapova, Kvitova, Serena, Azarenka etc will all be in the mix, Stosur a slight chance provided she doesn't choke it up in monumental fashion, and well, who knows with the women, Wozniacki might even break through and break her duck.

June 25th, can't come soon enough.
 
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#5,013 ·
Tsonga is always a danger to go out early, but he's a 2nd week man on grass, so i'll be suprised. Del Potro's weakest surface is grass. Berdych went out early last year. One of the big 4 could get Rosol'd. A lot depends on the draw, but i just have a feeling.

Grass leaves more opportunities for upsets, especially in the first week because it's the shortest period on the calender, therefore players don't get as much practice on it.
 
#5,014 ·
All I want is the top four to get to the semi finals...and I mean Nadal top four wise, not Ferrer. Any mixture of Murray/Djokovic/Nadal/Federer is welcome to me. Personally would love to see a Fed/Murray and Djokovic/Nadal semi with a Murray/Djokovic final. Or even a Murray/Nadal final would be nice...they haven't played a slam final before right?

Watching Eastbourne right now and Robson really has played very well this match. Her serve has been on fire which isn't something we see all that often.
 
#5,017 ·
Yeah same here.

Fed/Nadal, Rafa/Murray would be good. We were deprived of Murray/Rafa last year but it'll be a lot closer this time after their three previous matches. In a way I'd prefer it to be the final with Murray/Fed & Rafa/Novak semi finals.

There's no doubt grass is Novak's worst surface but it's not a put down. It's just he's superb on hard courts, fantastic on clay and just not as strong as grass but still very very good.
 
#5,018 ·
I wouldn't mind Murray vs Nadal either tbh.

I think Nadal will win if he gets to the 2nd week. The grass slows down a lot by then, and thats where Rafa shines. I think only Federer & Djokovic have beaten Nadal in the 2nd week of Wimbledon.
 
#5,023 ·
Almost completely forgot that Nadal's going to be ranked fifth, therefore a Murray/Nadal/Djokovic/Fed semi final is...impossible? Or is it possible? If he's in Ferrer's quarter?
 
#5,025 ·
But otherwise we may end up getting a highly predictable Ferrer semi final where he'll lose to Murray/Djokovic/Federer...if Ferrer gets that far of course.
 
#5,030 ·
I'm waiting for the draw before making any concrete predictions.

However, i do have 2 feelings that i've already stated.

- I have a feeling Nadal will win
- One of the top 8 will fall early
 
#5,032 ·
Already got them...

Shvedova is injured.
Del Potro is injured
Tsonga will be robbed by a horrible line call
Nishikori is injured
Paire gonna Paire

But it won't matter when Brands wins the whole thing beating Llodra in the final :p

But seriously, Shvedova & Paire losing in the first round will not suprise me one bit. Paire is a nut case, so god knows what will happen when he plays. Shvedova is a mental midget who is coming off an injury layoff.

I think Paire will be fine because he's seeded, and will most likely draw some randomer in the first round nobody has seen play before.

Shvedova however i think will deffo lose in the first round unless she draws a seeded player outside the top 3 because she can only beat people ranked higher than herself.
 
#5,035 ·
Novak Djokovic - Florian Mayer
Bobby Reynolds - Steve Johnson
Blaz Kavcic - Jan Lennard Struff
Ryan Harrison - Jeremy Chardy
Gilles Simon - Feliciano Lopez
Ricardas Berankis - Pual Henri Mathieu
Wayne Odesnik - Jimmy Wang
Dmitry Tursunov - Tommy Haas

Richard Gasquet - Marcel Granollers
Andreas Haider Maurer - Go Soeda
James Blake - Thiemo de Bakker
Bernard Tomic - Sam Querrey
Kevin Anderson - Olivier Rochus
Phillip Petzschner - Michal Przysiężny
Daniel Brands - Daniel Gimeno Traver
Martin Klizan - Tomas Berdych

David Ferrer - Martin Alund
Roberto Bautista Agut - Teymuraz Gabashvili
Horacio Zeballos - Santiago Giraldo
Gastao Elias - Alexander Dolgopolov
Milos Raonic - Carlos Berlocq
Alex Kuznetsov - Igor Sijsling
James Duckworth - Denis Kudla
Ivan Dodig - Phillip Kohlschreiber
Kei Nishikori - Matthew Ebden
Leonardo Mayer - Aljaz Bedene
Michael Llodra - Jarkko Nieminen
Denis Istomin - Andreas Seppi
Grigor Dimitrov - Simone Bolelli
Grega Zemlja - Michael Russell
Guido Pella - Jesse Levine
Albert Ramos - Juan Martin Del Potro

Rafael Nadal - Steve Darcis
Lukasz Kubot - Igor Andreev
Stephane Robert - Alejandro Falla
Adrian Ungur - Benoit Paire
John Isner - Evgeny Donskoy
Pablo Andujar - Adrian Mannarino
Dustin Brown - Guillermo Garcia Lopez
Lleyton Hewitt - Stanislas Wawrinka
Nicolas Almagro - Jurgen Zopp
Marinko Matosevic - Guillaume Rufin
Radek Stepanek - Matt Reid
Kyle Edmund - Jerzy Janowicz
Fabio Fognini - Jurgen Melzer
Julian Reister - Lukas Rosol
Rogerio Dutra da Silva - Sergiy Stakhovsky
Victor Hanescu - Roger Federer

Jo Wilfried Tsonga - David Goffin
Edouard Roger-Vasselin - Ernests Gulbis
Fernando Verdasco - Xavier Malisse
Tobias Kamke - Julien Benneteau
Juan Monaco - Bastian Knittel
Lukas Lacko - Rajeev Ram
Kenny de Schepper - Paolo Lorenzi
Marcos Baghdatis - Marin Cilic

Janko Tipsarevic -Victor Troicki
Andrey Kuznetsov - Albert Montanes
Marc Gicquel - Vasek Pospisil
Robin Haase - Mikhail Youzhny
Tommy Robredo - Alex Bogomolov Jr.
Nicolas Mahut - Jan Hajek
James Ward - Yen Hsun Lu
Benjamin Becker - Andy Murray

Full draw....

Very bottom heavy draw here. 4 of the 5 best grasscourters in the world are drawn in the same half.
 
#5,038 ·
Rafa might have to go through Fed,Murray, and Djokovic to win the title

Fed might have to go through Rafa,Murray and Djokovic to win the title.

Thats pretty insane tbh.

Also, the 2 worst grass courters in the top 8 are in the same Quarter...
 
#5,039 ·
fpalm @ David Ferrer possibly making a Wimbledon semi final. At least the quarters should offer up a mouth watering Fed/Rafa showdown :mark:

I'm 95% pleased with the draw, the possibility of a Fed/Novak final is in play, and we should get another Fed/Rafa match in the quarters. Fuck Ferrer though, boring flat track bully.
 
#5,040 ·
Djokovic must be laughing his ass off at that draw. At least Murray avoided Rafa until the Semi. Potential QF with Tsonga shouldn't be too worrying for him. Nadal/Federer QF is :mark: with the winner probably facing Murray and then Novak. Del Potro will beat Ferrer on grass if they beat. Hewitt/Wawrinka is a great 1st round tie.

Robson got Kirilenko 1st round. Bad luck for her.
 
#5,047 ·
Well it's true. I don't see how anyone can say that the grass courts aren't too slow. Grass is meant to be a fast surface, but in the 2nd week of Wimbledon it's really slow.
 
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