The 2013 Wimbledon seedings were published Wednesday and there are some surprises as the tournament is set to begin in a few days. In the Ladies' Singles, things appear to be normal. However, the Men's Singles seedings don't seem quite right.
Here's what the Top Four looks like at Wimbledon:
1) Novak Djokovic
2) Andy Murray
3) Roger Federer?
4) David Ferrer
Wait, who's missing? Oh, that's right, the No. 5 ranked, Rafael Nadal. Fresh off his eighth title at the French Open, Nadal will not be in the Top 4 of the Singles Seedings for the first time since, as The Guardian's James Riach pointed out, 2003 when he was 17 years old and unseeded. Many might say Nadal deserves to be No. 2, but he wasn't in the tournament last year when Murray was the runner-up to, the now No. 3 seeded, Federer.
Murray missed the 2013 French Open and hasn't played since suffering a back injury during the Rome Masters. Ferrer gets awarded for advancing to at least the quarterfinals in six straight quarterfinals grand slams. Ferrer hasn't been a dominant player at Wimbledon throughout his career, so it will be interesting to see if he can handle being ranked fourth.
Here are the rest of the Men's Singles seedings:
6) Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
7) Tomas Berdych
8) Juan Martin del Potro
9) Richard Gasquet
10) Marin Cilic
11) Stanislas Wawrinka
12) Kei Nishikori
13) Tommy Haas
14) Janko Tipseravic
15) Nicolas Almagro
16) Philipp Kohlschrieber
17) Milos Raonic
18) John Isner
19) Giles Simon
20) Mikhail Youzhny
21) Sam Querrey
22) Juan Monaco
23) Andreas Seppi
24) Jerzy Janowicz
25) Benoit Paire
26) Alexandr Dolgopolov
27) Kevin Anderson
28) Jeremy Chardy
29) Grigor Dimitrov
30) Fabio Fognini
31) Julien Benneteau
32) Tommy Robredo
As far as the Ladies' Singles, everything looks in place. Serena Williams looks ready to repeat as Wimbledon champion, coming fresh off a dominant performance at the 2013 French Open. With no further ado, here are the 2013 Wimbledon Ladies' seedings.
2) Victoria Azarenka
3) Maria Sharapova
4) Agnieszka Radwanska
5) Sara Errani
6) Na Li
7) Angelique Kerber
8) Petra Kvitova
9) Caroline Wozniacki
10) Maria Kirilenko
11) Roberta Vinci
12) Ana Ivanovic
13) Nadia Petrova
14) Samantha Stosur
15) Marion Bartoli
16) Jelena Jankovic
17) Sloane Stephens
18) Dominika Cibulkova
19) Carla Suarez Navarro
20) Kriste Flipkens
21) Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
22) Sorana Cirstea
23) Sabine Lisicki
24) Shuai Peng
25) Ekaterina Makarova
26) Varvara Lepchenko
27) Lucie Safarova
28) Tamira Paszek
29) Alize Cornet
30) Mano Barthel
31)Romina Oprandi
32) Kiara Zakopalova
The following players will be installed into the 2013 Wimbledon bracket on Friday morning. You can watch the draw live at Wimbledon.com or return to Sports World Report, where we will provide a link to the live stream.
