Nadal’s early exit at Queens was a blessing in disguise? Or was it pain without disguise?

Round	Nadal	Federer	Djokovic	Murray
1st	Nishikori	Falla	Rochus	Hajek
2nd	Blake	Massu	Dent	M&M
3rd	Gulbis	Robredo/Tipsy	Montanes	Simon
4th	Isner/Youzhny	Lopez	Monfils/Hewitt	Querrey
Quarter	Soderling	Berdych/Davydenko	Roddick/Cilic	Tsonga/Verdasco
Semi	Murray	Djokovic/Roddick	Federer	Nadal
Final	Federer	Nadal	Nadal	Federer

Unless seeds fail to keep their date, Nadal is in for some serious fight starting with just the third round. Given that it will be a five set format all the way, Nadal will have to call upon each drop of energy he DID NOT expend at Queens. But the flip side of the coin is that the energy was saved at the expense of time on grass courts. If loss to Lopez at Queens was more due to fatigue from a devastating clay season, energy bar will come ahead of practice.

But history may not side with Nadal. Nadal’s only win at Wimbledon in ’08 came after he won the Queens title right after winning at Roland Garros, Hamburg, Barcelona and Monte Carlo. He bombed out in the opening round at Rome against Ferrero to provide the only break.

Does that mean fatigue trumps time on grass courts and that Lopez’s win was indicative of potential poor showing on grass courts? Can there be any other conclusion?

2009 Points to defend. 1-10 Wimbledon Seeds. From Jenny. Thanks.

JENNY

2009 Points to defend. 1-10 Wimbledon Seeds.
1. Roger Federer 2,000 F
2. Rafael Nadal 0
3. Novak Djokovi 360 Q
4. Andy Murray 720 S
5. Andy Roddick 1,200 F
6. Robin Soderling 180 R16
7. Nikolay Davydenko 90 R32
8. Fernando Verdasco 180 R16
9. David Ferrer 90 R32
10. Jo Wilfried Tsonga 90 R32

One minute interview with Wimbledon’s Poet, Matt Harvey.

Matt Harvey will be the Official Poet in Residence for the 2010 Championships. His poems will be appearing on the Wimbledon Website throughout The Championships.

How would you describe yourself?
“I’m a performance poet.”

What do you think about Wimbledon?
“This is a big gig: it’s 11 on a scale of 1-10. Wimbledon lends itself to poetry because of the place. Everyone thinks of Cliff Richard and Centre Court. Even ball boys: everyone can picture them and their kit, scampering and scuttling around.”

Have you done anything like this before?
“I’m one of the poets on the topical show Saturday Live on BBC Radio 4. We have to come up stuff at short notice for that show. This is the first sporting event for me.”

What are you going to write about?
“I plan to publish a poem a day. I’m going to write more about Wimbledon the event, than the matches. I’m going to write about the grass, umpires, people having their first Wimbledon strawberries, line judges, day dreams, pressure, Fred Perry’s statue, the roof, the falcon and the queue.”

WTA Wimbledon draw possibilities 2010.

Round	Serena	Venus	Clijsters	Justine
1st	Brito	Rios	Camerin	Sevastova
2nd	Chakvetadze	Szavay	Mattek	Barrois
3rd	Safarova	Kleybanova	Kirilenko	Petrova
4th	Sharapova	Safina	Justine/Petrova	Clijsters
Quarter	Kuznetsova	Bartoli/Schiavone	Jankovic	Jankovic
Semi	Stosur	Jankovic/Clijsters	Venus	Venus
Final	Venus	Serena	Serena	Serena

32 seeded players at Wimbledon and their first round opponent. Will the seed tumbling start early? Who is going first? Ferrero against Malaise?

Gentlemen’s Singles Seed Player Opponent Round 1 Roger Federer vs. Alejandro Falla RND 1 2 Rafael Nadal vs. Kei Nishikori RND 1 3 Novak Djokovic vs. Olivier Rochus RND 1 4 Andy Murray vs. Jan Hajek RND 1 5 Andy Roddick vs. Rajeev Ram RND 1 6 Robin Soderling vs. Robby Ginepri RND 1 7 Nikolay Davydenko vs. Kevin Anderson RND 1 8 Fernando Verdasco vs. Fabio Fognini RND 1 9 David Ferrer vs. Nicolas Kiefer RND 1 10 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga vs. Robert Kendrick RND 1 11 Marin Cilic vs. Florian Mayer RND 1 12 Tomas Berdych vs. Andrey Golubev RND 1 13 Mikhail Youzhny vs. Dudi Sela RND 1 14 Juan Carlos Ferrero vs. Xavier Malisse RND 1 15 Lleyton Hewitt vs. Maximo Gonzalez RND 1 16 Jurgen Melzer vs. Dustin Brown RND 1 17 Ivan Ljubicic vs. Michal Przysiezny RND 1 18 Sam Querrey vs. Sergiy Stakhovsky RND 1 19 Nicolas Almagro vs. Andreas Seppi RND 1 20 Stanislas Wawrinka vs. Denis Istomin RND 1 21 Gael Monfils vs. Leonardo Mayer RND 1 22 Feliciano Lopez vs. Jesse Levine RND 1 23 John Isner vs. Nicolas Mahut RND 1 24 Marcos Baghdatis vs. Lukas Lacko RND 1 25 Thomaz Bellucci vs. Ricardo Mello RND 1 26 Gilles Simon vs. Guillermo Alcaide RND 1 27 Ernests Gulbis vs. Stephane Robert RND 1 28 Albert Montanes vs. Paolo Lorenzi RND 1 29 Philipp Kohlschreiber vs. Potito Starace RND 1 30 Tommy Robredo vs. Peter Luczak RND 1 31 Victor Hanescu vs. Andrey Kuznetsov RND 1 32 Julien Benneteau vs. Kristof Vliegen RND 1

Who is most likely to knock Nadal / Federer out of Wimbledon before the finals?

Round	Nadal	Federer	Djokovic	Murray
1st	Nishikori	Falla	Rochus	Hajek
2nd	Blake	Massu	Dent	M&M
3rd	Gulbis	Robredo/Tipsy	Montanes	Simon
4th	Isner/Youzhny	Lopez	Monfils/Hewitt	Querrey
Quarter	Soderling	Berdych/Davydenko	Roddick/Cilic	Tsonga/Verdasco
Semi	Murray	Djokovic/Roddick	Federer	Nadal
Final	Federer	Nadal	Nadal	Federer

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Draw possibilities: Wimbledon 2010.

Round	Nadal	Federer	Djokovic	Murray
1st	Nishikori	Falla	Rochus	Hajek
2nd	Blake	Massu	Dent	M&M
3rd	Gulbis	Robredo/Tipsy	Montanes	Simon
4th	Isner/Youzhny	Lopez	Monfils/Hewitt	Querrey
Quarter	Soderling	Berdych/Davydenko	Roddick/Cilic	Tsonga/Verdasco
Semi	Murray	Djokovic/Roddick	Federer	Nadal
Final	Federer	Nadal	Nadal	Federer

Wimbledon draw 2010.

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