There are provision There for 16 qualifiers to play in the main tournament and there will probably a few Luck Losers as well. Here are the qualifiers that will be included in the main draw tomorrow
Harold Majot Tomas Barrios Vera
Shintaro Mochizuki Tomas Machac
Gijs Brewer Maximilian Marterer
Kimmer Coppejans Oscar Otte
Enzo Couacaud Dennis Novak
Hamad Medjedovic Laurent Lokoli
Sho Shimabukuro Dominic Stricker
Radu Albot Matteo Arnaldi
ROUND 2
Top Half of the Draw
1 Carlos Alcaraz vs Alexandre Muller
25 Nicolas Jarry vs Jason Kubler
19 Alexander Zverev vs Yoshuke Watanuki
15 Alex de Minaur vs Matteo Berrettini
10 Frances Tiafoe vs Dominic Stricker
21 Grigor Dimitrov vs Ilya Ivashka
31 Alejandro Davidovich Fokina vs Botic van de Zandschulp
6 Holger Rune vs Roberto Carballes Baena
3 Danill Medvedev vs Adrian Mannarino
Marton Fucsovics vs Marcos Giron
18 Francisco Cerundolo vs Jiri Helecka
16 Tommy Paul vs Milos Raonic
12 Cameron Norrie vs Christopher Eubanks
22 Sebatian Korda vs Jirri Vesely
Christopher O" Connell vs Hamad Medjedovic
32 Ben Shelton vs Laslo Djere
5 Stefanos Tsitsipas vs Andy Murray
Bottom Half of the Draw
8 Jannik Sinner vs Diego Schwartzman
Quentin Halys vs Alexander Vukic
Daniel Elahi Galan vs Oscar Otte
9 Taylor Fritz vs Emil Ymer
Guido Pella vs Harold Majot
Roman Safiullin vs Corentin Moutet
26 Denis Shapovalov vs Gregoire Barrere
4 Casper Ruud vs Liam Broady
7 Andrey Rublev vs Aslan Karatsev
David Goffin vs Tomas Barrios Vera
23 Alexander Bublik vs Jeffrey Wolf
Michael Mmoh vs Maximilian Marterer
14 Lorenzo Musetti vs Jaume Munar
17 Hubert Hurkacz vs Jan Choinski
29 Tomas Martin Etcheverry vs Stan Wawrinka
2 Novak Djokovic vs Jeremy Thompson
All the Round 1 matches have been completed at 19:30 tonight and Dkokovic is playing his Round 2 match at the moment.
The start of day one of Wimbledon was caused by rain delay. Despite the rain 24 of the 32 Round 1 matches were completed. 7 matches were stopped due to it becoming too dark to play and 1 match did not even start, The 8 matches was rescheduled for completion today together with the 32 Round 1 Top of the daw matches,
So far there was 3 seeded players that lost their matches - Kyrgios (seeded 30) ne0ve0r turned up to play and two seeds (Auger-Aliassime seeded 11 and Nishioka seeded 24) lost their matches Two other seeded .players in the Bottom Half of the Draw can also lose their matches - they are in a desperate battle to reverse early tends in their matches. One of the two seeded players (Evans seeded 270 lost his match already.
If the Round 1 matches scheduled for today is completed all the Roud 1 matches will be completed and Round 2 participants will be identified.
So far today not a single match in the tournament was completed today and even those which was part of the carry-over matches from yesterday was in fact not completed. Global warming is destroying Wimbledon. The only match being played is between Alcaraz and Chardy being played under roof easily won by Alcaraz.
2 unseeded UK players (Mury and Peniston are now being played under closed roof. Part of the day 21 program was destroyed and also the whole of the Day 2 program suffered the same fate.
According to the original schedule of games the Round 2 matches iro the Bottom Half of he Draw would have been played tomorrow (ie Wednesday - that would not be possible since 8 Round 1 matches is sill outstanding and there will be 29 Top of the Draw Round 1 matches still to be played. The weather forecast for tomorrow seems to be better
The scheduled matches for today started of with -
* 6 Round 1 matches of the Bottom half of the draw scheduled to start at 12:00 Central African times - ie 11:00 UK time;
* after that between 11:00 and 16:00 a total of 29 Round 1 matches must be played.
Bearing in mind the fact it could lead to matches comprising of 4 and 5 setters the time sc hedule to allow for Round 2 matches starting at 16:00 UK time is unlikely to be achieved.
This is indeed a disgrace - the tournament organization has been chaotic from the word go and there were chaotic late starts from Monday. Rain has resulted in delays in completion of matches with the result that 8 matches were not completed on Monday. Then came along Tuesday and only 4 matches played under cover completed.
I checked the weather forecast for the London area repeatedly on different channels and there was no forecast indicating rainy conditions in London today. Yet the Wimbledon tournament again showed a rain delay - but it is more likely court surface conditions that is causing the delay.
Play eventually restarted at 14:40 - 5 but one game was interrupted for safety reasons and since then played was stopped again at 15:20 again due to rain. It seems that the organization is chaotic and even though rainy weather contributed to the poor situation indications are that he organization is a total mess. So far day not a SINGLE match was completed thus far today.
ROUND 3
Top Half of the Draw
1 Carlos Alcaraz vs 25 Nicolas Jarry
19 Alexander Zverev vs Matteo Berrettini
10 Frances Tiafoe vs 21 Grigor Dimitrov
6 Holger Rune vs 31 Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
3 Danill Medvedev vs Marton Fucsovics
16 Tommy Paul vs Jiri Helecka
Christopher Eubanks vs Christopher O'Connell
5 Stefanos Tsitsipas vs Lalo Djerel
Bottom Half of the Draw
8 Jannik Sinner vs Quentin Halys
Mikhael Ymer vs Daniel Elahi Galano
Guido Pella vs Roman Safiullin
26 Denis Shapovalov vs Liam Broady
7 Andrey Rublev vs David Goffin
23 Alexander Bublik vs Maximilian Marterer
14 Lorenzo Musetti vs 17 Hubert Hurkacz
2 Novak Djokovic vs Stan Wawrinka
ROUND 4
Top Half of the Draw
1 Carlos Alcaraz vs Matteo Berrettini
6 Holger Rune vs 21 Grigor Dimitrov
3 Danill Medvedev vs Jiri Helecka
5 Stefanos Tsitsipas vs Christopher Eubanks
Bottom Half of the Draw
8 Jannik Sinner vs Daniel Elahi Galan
26 Denis Shapovalov vs Roman Safiullin
7 Andrey Rublev vs 23 Alexander Bublik
2 Novak Djokovic vs 17 Hubert Hurkacz
With less than half of the matshes of Round 2 played by the Top Half of the Draw completed where seeds like Tsitipas are in danger of losing against Murray - he is 2 sets to 1 down at the moment 15 of the 32 seeded players have thus far been beaten by unseeded players. With Round 3 starting more seeds are bound to lose matches when they have to play seeded players for the first time in the tournament.
In the bottom half of the draw thing s look very good for Djokovic with only 7 of the 16 seeds surviving after completion of Round 2 of the tournament surviving - only Djokovic, Rublev and Sinner of the top 10 players surviving at present. Sinner will not face any seeded players until the quarterfinals
Sinner will play the unseeded Halys in Round 3, Shapavalov (26) will phase Broady (who beat Ruud in Round 2) and Rublev the unseeded Goffin , while Djokovic will play Wrawinka. The remaining Round 3 matches in the Bottom Half of the Draw will involve Bublik (23) facing Marterer - while Musetti (14) and Hurkacz (17) will play each other. All three of Djokovic, Rublev (even him being unpredictable) and Sinner are likely to go through to Round 4.
Djokowicz 2-0 up and 2-2 third set.
Hope he wins Wimbledon again. Always enjoyed watching him play.
QUARTERFINALS
Top Half of the Draw
1 Carlos Alcaraz vs 6 Holger Rune
3 Danill Medvedev vs Christopher Eubanks
Bottom Half of the Draw
8 Jannik Sinner vs Roman Safiullin
2 Novak Djokovic vs 7 Andrey Rublev
By the way Rublev had a terrible match yesterday. He was serving for the set in the second set at 5-4 - lost the game and ended up losing the set 7-6. He went down to 1-4 in the third set and ended up leading 5-4 in the set and that set ended up in a tie-breaker where Goffin was leading 5-2 - but Rublev was lucky to win the set after being down in the tiebreaker again.
A repeat of the above will lose him the Round 4 match. He lost against Bublik on grass in Halle on grass anyway. It was a slightly better display - he won the first two sets and then lost the 3rd and 4th and won the 5th set. Was on par with Rublev display yesterday. So Rublev is through to the quarterfinals - but his next opponent will likely be Djokovic.
Djoko being pushed in the last 16.
SEMIFINALS
1 Carlos Alcaraz vs 3 Danill Medvedev
2 Novak Djokovic vs 8 Jannik Sinner
FINAL
1 Carlos Alcaraz vs 2 Novak Djokovic
How for a winning forceast as to who would win Wimbledon this year by site members
My Champion for Wimbledon 2023 -
* Clevermike - Carlos Alcaraz
Well 2-1 up with Djoko battling.... Well done Mike
New kid on the block.. Let's see...
Congrats to Alcaraz in becoming the new Wimbledon Champion - he deserved the win, the first win by Alcaraz at Wimbledon. The fact is he will win many more major tournaments in future.
He must surely be around the fastest player ever. Total power too, pity about his cramps in France.
Since August last year when Alcaraz played in in the following Masters Tournaments:-
USA Maszters - won
The Roland Garros tournament - was runner up due to cramps
Wimbledon - won.
To an extent I think they are overplaying Alcaraz in too many tournaments. After winning in Barcelona and Madrid the third tournament he played in succeeding weeks was the Italian Open where he left because of an injury concern. There were concerns that he would not play at Roland Garros. I think that if Alcaraz did not play in the Italian Open - he would have been in better physical condition. Just before Alcaraz developed the cramp problem the commentators said that Djokovic looked a beaten player.
If he in fact plays I think Alcaraz will win in the US Open and in the Aussie Open in January next year. He is an exceptional player and players like Djokovic lost on Sunday beaten by him.
I think by the time Alcaraz will achieve what no other players since the 1970's achieved namely to win all four majors in one calendar year. So far in his career he won on hard courts, clay courts and grass courts - that makes it possible for him to achieve that distinction.
clevermike
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The draw for Wimbledon is to be done on Friday, but the qualifying Rounds are stating today with 128 players in the quarterfinals, 64 in the semi-finals and 32 in the finals. The winners in the finals will g through to the main draw.
The Seeded players are as follows:-
1 Carlos Alcaraz 7675
2 Novak Djokovic 7595
3 Danill Medvedev58904 Casper Ruud49605 Stefanos Tsitsipas46706 Holger Rune45107 Andre Rublev42558 Jannik Sinner33459 Taylor Fritz331010 Frances Tiafoe308511 Felix Auger-Aliassime2760 -12 Cameron Norrie261013 Borna Coric230514 Lorenzo Musetti221015 Alex de Minaur199516 Tommy Paul211017 Hubert Hurkacz206018 Franscisco Cerundolo165519 Alexander Zverev163020 Roberto Bautista-Agut148021 Grigor Dimitrov142622 Sebastian Korda135523 Alexander Bublik135424 Yoshihito Nishioka135125 Nicolas Jarry133626 Denis Shapovalov133527 Daniel Evans132128 Tallon Griekspoor125429 Tomas Martin Etcheverry120130 Nic Kyrgios117531 Alejandro Davidovich Fokina111532 Ben Shelton1014According to the latest reports Khachanov and Carreno-Busta will not play and there are injury clouds over Sinner and Kyrgios as well, I will wait until Friday to update the seedings