The Championships Wimbledon 2013: Begins Monday!

One of my favorite grand slam events is back, starting tomorrow as The Championships begin play. Gotta love the grass courts.

Novak Djokovic is the top seed in the gentlemen's singles draw. Defending champ Roger Federer is the third seed. Andy Murray, who won gold at AELTC at London 2012, is the second seed.

Defending ladies singles champion Serena Williams, who came under fire recently for comments made in an interview in the latest Rolling Stone interview (if you have the issue, it starts on page 80) about the underage and dating (I think, haven't read the article yet), is the top seed in the ladies singles. She is trying to go for an umpteenth ladies singles title at AELTC.

With that in mind...the first round singles matches of interest.

Gentlemen's singles-first round matches of interest
(1) Novak Djokovic v Florian Mayer
(2) Andy Murray v Ben Becker
(3) Roger Federer v Victor Hanescu
(4) David Ferrer v Martin Alund
(5) Rafa Nadal v Steve Darcis
(6) Jo Wilfried Tsonga v David Goffin
(7) Tomas Berdych v Martin Klizan
(8) Juan Martin del Potro v Albert Ramos
(9) Richard Gasquet v Marcel Granollers
(10) Marin Cilic v Marcos Baghdatis
(11) Stan Wawrinka v Lleyton Hewitt
(12) Kei Nishikori v Matthew Ebden
(13) Tommy Haas v Dimtry Tursunov
(14) Janko Tipsarevic v Viktor Troicki
(15) Nicolas Almagro v Jurgen Zopp
(16) Philipp Kohlschreiber v Ivan Dodig
(17) Milos Raonic v Carlos Berlocq
(18) John Isner v Evgeny Donskoy
(19) Gilles Simon v Feliciano Lopez
(20) Mikhail Youzhny v Robin Haase
(21) Sam Querrey v Bernard Tomic
(22) Juan Monaco v Bastian Knittel
(24) Jerzy Janowicz v Kyle Edmund
(26) Alex Dolgopolov v Gastao Elias
(27) Kevin Anderson v Olivier Rochus
(28) Jeremy Chardy v Ryan Harrison
(29) Grigor Dimitrov v Simone Bolelli
(30) Fabio Fognini v Jurgen Melzer
(31) Julien Benneteau v Tobias Kamke
(32) Tommy Robredo v Alex Bogomolov Jr.
Fernando Verdasco v Xavier Malisse
James Blake v Thiemo de Bakker
Nicolas Mahut v Jan Hajek
Michael Llodra v Jarkko Nieminen
Radek Stepanek v Matt Reid
Paul Henri Mathiew v Ricardas Berankis
Philipp Petzschner v Michal Przysiezny
Go Soeda v Andreas Haider Maurer
Alex Kuznetsov v Igor Sijsling
Jesse Levine v Guido Pella
Lukas Rosol v Julian Reister
Sergiy Stakhovsky v Rogerio Dutra Silva
Ernests Gulbis v Edouard Roger Vasselin

Ladies singles draw-first round matches of interest
(1) Serena Williams v Mandy Minella
(2) Victoria Azarenka v Maria Joao Koehler
(3) Maria Sharapova v Kristina Mladenovic
(4) Agnieszka Radwanska v Yvonne Meusberger
(5) Sara Errani v Monica Puig
(6) Na Li v Michaella Krajicek
(7) Angelique Kerber v Bethanie Mattek Sands
(8) Petra Kvitova v Coco Vandeweghe
(9) Caroline Wozniacki v Estrella Cabeza Candela
(10) Maria Kirilenko v Laura Robson
(11) Roberta Vinci v Chanelle Scheepers
(12) Ana Ivanovic v Virginie Razzano
(13) Nadia Petrova v Karolina Pliskova
(14) Sam Stosur v Anna Schmiedlova
(15) Marion Bartoli v Elina Svitolina
(16) Jelena Jankovic v Johanna Konta
(17) Sloane Stephens v Jamie Hampton
(18) Dominika Cibulkova v Maria Elena Camerin
(19) Carla Suarez Navarro v Lourdes Dominguez Lino
(21) Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova v Tsvetana Pironkova
(22) Sorana Cirstea v Stefanie Voegele
(23) Sabine Lisicki v Francesca Schiavone
(24) Shuai Peng v Anna Medina Garrigues
(25) Ekaterina Makarova v Johanna Larsson
(26) Varvara Lepchenko v Eva Birnerova
(27) Lucie Safarova v Lauren Davis
(28) Tamira Paszek v Alexandra Cadantu
(29) Alize Cornet v Vania King
(31) Romina Oprandi v Alison Riske
Kimiko Date Krumm v Carina Witthoeft
Urszula Radwanska v Mallory Burdette
Andrea Petkovic v Paulie Parmentier
Julia Goerges v Mariana Duque Marino
Heather Watson v Madison Keys
Elena Baltacha v Flavia Pennetta
Yanina Wickmayer v Vesna Dolonc
Melanie Oudin v Michelle Larcher de Brito
Anne Keothavong v Garbine Muguruza
Christina McHale v Alexa Glatch
Mirjana Lucic Baroni v Sofia Arvidsson
Bojana Jovanovski v Ajla Tomljanovic
Anna Tatishvili v Petra Martic
Elena Vesnina v Andrea Hlavackova
Olga Govortsova v Simona Halep
Barbora Zahlavova Strycova v Magdalena Rybarikova

The Championships begin Monday. ESPN will have exclusive coverage here in the states. It doesn't help to also listen to Radio Wimbledon and for us in the states with DIRECTV, there's the Wimbledon mix channel, with even more action around the grounds.