The Wimbledon 2012 Men’s Draw has just been released. In depth Analysis will follow, but here is a quick run down:
First quarter:
Novak Djokovic opens with an interesting match with past French open champion Juan Carlos Ferrero, but is unlikely to be tested until the quarters where he could meet Tomas Berdych or possibly Richard Gasquet if he can rekindle his grass court form from a few year which saw him reach the semi finals.
Second Quarter:
Roger Federer perhaps has the easier draw (on paper) out of the top 4 seeds. Only Isner and Tipsarevic should pose much threat.
Third Quarter:
Andy Murray definitely has the hardest draw to navigate through with the following players in his quarter: Ivo karlovic (possible 2nd round), Baghdatis, Rionic, Cilic, Del Potro and Ferrer,
Fourth Quarter:
A possible 3rd round encounter for Nadal against the in form and rejuvenated Tommy Haas would be a challenge. Tomic and Tsonga (who defeated Federer at last years Championships) could be possible quarter final opponents.
More to follow..
THE FULL WIMBLEDON 2012 MENS DRAW:
Top Half:
Novak Djokovic SRB (1) v Juan Carlos Ferrero ESP
Ryan Harrison USA v Yen-Hsun Lu TPE
Benjamin Becker GER v James Blake USA
Sergiy Stakhovsky UKR v Radek Stepanek CZE (28)
Marcel Granollers ESP (24) v Viktor Troicki SRB
Martin Klizan SVK v Juan Ignacio Chela ARG
Jeremy Chardy FRA v Filippo Volandri ITA
Leonardo Mayer ARG v Juan Monaco ARG (15)
Nicolas Almagro ESP (12) v Olivier Rochus BEL
Guillaume Rufin FRA v Steve Darcis BEL
Carlos Berlocq ARG v Ruben Bemelmans BEL
Tobias Kamke GER v Richard Gasquet FRA (18)
Florian Mayer GER (31) v Dmitry Tursunov RUS
Philipp Petzschner GER v Blaz Kavcic SLO
Simone Bolelli ITA v Jerzy Janowicz POL
Ernests Gulbis LAT v Tomas Berdych CZE (6)
Roger Federer SUI (3) v Albert Ramos ESP
Fabio Fognini ITA v Michael Llodra FRA
Adrian Menendez-MacEiras ESP v Michael Russell USA
Gilles Muller LUX v Julien Benneteau FRA (29)
Fernando Verdasco ESP (17) v Jimmy Wang TPE
Grega Zemlja SLO v Josh Goodall GBR
Xavier Malisse BEL v Marinko Matosevic AUS
Paul-Henri Mathieu FRA v Gilles Simon FRA (13)
John Isner USA (11)v Alejandro Falla COL
Paolo Lorenzi ITA v Nicolas Mahut FRA
Igor Andreev RUS v Oliver Golding GBR
Denis Istomin UZB v Andreas Seppi ITA (23)
Mikhail Youzhny RUS (26) v Donald Young USA
Inigo Cervantes ESP v Flavio Cipolla ITA
Ryan Sweeting USA v Potito Starace ITA
David Nalbandian ARG v Janko Tipsarevic SRB (8)
Lower Half:
David Ferrer ESP (7) v Dustin Brown GER
Kenny De Schepper FRA v Matthias Bachinger GER
Wayne Odesnik USA v Bjorn Phau GER
Jamie Baker GBR v Andy Roddick USA (30)
Kei Nishikori JPN (19) v Mikhail Kukushkin KAZ
Andrey Kuznetsov RUS v Florent Serra FRA
Go Soeda JPN v Igor Kunitsyn RUS
Robin Haase NED v Juan Martin Del Potro ARG (9)
Marin Cilic CRO (16)v Cedrik-Marcel Stebe GER
Tatsuma Ito JPN v Lukasz Kubot POL
Vasek Pospisil CAN v Sam Querrey USA
Santiago Giraldo COL v Milos Raonic CAN (21)
Kevin Anderson RSA (32) v Grigor Dimitrov BUL
Albert Montanes ESP v Marcos Baghdatis CYP
Ivo Karlovic CRO v Dudi Sela ISR
Nikolay Davydenko RUS v Andy Murray GBR (4)
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga FRA (5) v Lleyton Hewitt AUS
Edouard Roger-Vasselin FRA v Guillermo Garcia-Lopez ESP
Lukas Lacko SVK v Adrian Ungur ROU
Jurgen Melzer AUT v Stanislas Wawrinka SUI (25)
Bernard Tomic AUS (20) v David Goffin BEL
Jesse Levine USA v Karol Beck SVK
James Ward GBR v Pablo Andujar ESP
Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo ESP v Mardy Fish USA (10)
Feliciano Lopez ESP (14) v Jarkko Nieminen FIN
Brian Baker USA v Rui Machado POR
Matthew Ebden AUS v Benoit Paire FRA
Alex Bogomolov Jr. RUS v Alexandr Dolgopolov UKR (22)
Philipp Kohlschreiber GER (27) v Tommy Haas GER
Jurgen Zopp EST v Malek Jaziri TUN
Lukas Rosol CZE v Ivan Dodig CRO
Thomaz Bellucci BRA v Rafael Nadal ESP (2)
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