Sunday, June 28, 2015

The Championships, Wimbledon 2015: Grass Court Grand Slam


My second favorite grand slam (after the US Open, of course) is back!

The Championships 2015 at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in the bustly London suburb of Wimbledon is home to the only grass court grand slam in tennis. Where the players get dirty from the grass! Like at all grand slam events, anything can happen, especially in the ladies' singles draw as depicted on the draw itself. Anything can happen. Defending singles champions Novak Djokovic and Petra Kvitova once again get top seeding, sort of.

With that in mind, the first round draws in singles.

GENTLEMEN SINGLES
First round matches of interest
(1) Novak Djokovic v Philip Kohlschreiber
(2) Roger Federer v Damir Dzumhur
(3) Andy Murray v Miguel Kukushkin
(4) Stan Wawrinka v Joao Sousa
(5) Kei Nishikori v Simone Bolelli
(6) Tomas Berdych v Jeremy Chardy
(7) Milos Raonic v Daniel Gimeno Traver
(9) Marin Cilic v Hiroki Moriya
(10) Rafa Nadal v Tomaz Bellucci
(11) Grigor Dimitrov v Federico Delbonis
(12) Gilles Simon v Nicolas Almagro
(13) Jo Wilfried Tsonga v Gilles Muller
(14) Kevin Anderson v Lucas Pouille
(15) Feliciano Lopez v Steve Darcis
(16) David Goffin v Horacio Zeballos
(17) John Isner v Go Soeda
(18) Gael Monfils v Pablo Carreno Busta
(19) Tommy Robredo v John Millman
(20) Roberto Bautista Agut v Robin Bemelmans
(21) Richard Gasquet v Lucas Saville
(22) Viktor Troicki v Aleksandr Nedovyseov
(23) Ivo Karlovic v Elias Ymer
(24) Leonardo Mayer v Thanasi Kokkinakis
(25) Andreas Seppi v Brydan Klein
(26) Nick Kyrgios v Diego Schwartzman
(27) Bernard Tomic v Jan Lennard Struff
(29) Guillermo Garcia Lopez v Pablo Andujar
(30) Fabio Fognini v Tim Smyczek
(31) Jack Sock v Sam Groth
(32) Dominic Thiem v Dudi Sela
Lleyton Hewitt v Jarko Nieminen
Radek Stepanek v Aljaz Bedene
Fernando Verdasco v Martin Klizan
Sam Querrey v Igor Sijsling
Marcos Baghdatis v Donald Young
Jerzy Janowicz v Marcel Ilhan
Juan Monaco v Fernando Mayer
Tommy Haas v Dusan Lajovic
Nicolas Mahut v Filip Krajinovic
Jarko Tipsarevic v Marcel Granollers
Tomaz Gabashvili v Alexander Zverev
Joao Souza v Santiago Giraldo
Adrian Mannarino v Michael Berrer
Matos Matosevic v Liam Broady
Ben Becker v Victor Estrella Burgos
Steve Johnson v Lucas Lacko
Alex Dolgopolov v Kenneth Edmund
Vasek Pospisil v Vincent Millot
Ernests Gulbis v Lukas Rosol
Denis Istomin v Albert Ramos Vinolas
Sergey Stakhovsky v Borna Coric
Kenny de Schepper v John Patrick Smith
Jiri Vesely v Paolo Lorenzi
Dustin Brown v Yun Hsieh Lu
Robin Haase v Alejandro Falla
Mikhail Youzhny v Benoit Paire
James Duckworth v Malek Jaziri

LADIES SINGLES
First round matches of interest
(1) Serena Williams v Margarita Gasparyan
(2) Petra Kvitova v Kiki Bertens
(3) Simona Halep v Jana Cepelova
(4) Maria Sharapova v Johanna Konta
(5) Caroline Wozniacki v Shuai Zheng
(6) Lucie Safarova v Allison Riske
(7) Ana Ivanovic v Yi Fan Xu
(8) Ekaterina Makarova v Sachia Vickery
(9) Venus Williams v Madison Brengle
(10) Angelique Kerber v Christine Witthoeft
(11) Karolina Pliskova v Irina Falconi
(12) Eugenie Bouchard v Ying Ying Duan
(13) Aga Radwanska v Lucie Hradecka
(14) Andrea Petkovic v Shelby Rogers
(15) Timea Bacsinsky v Julia Goerges
(16) Carla Suarez Navarro v Jelena Ostapenko
(17) Elina Svitolina v Misaki Doi
(18) Sabine Lisicki v Jarmila Gadjosova
(19) Sara Errani v Francesca Schiavone
(20) Garbine Muguruza v Varvara Lepchenko
(21) Madison Keys v Stefanie Voegele
(22) Sam Stosur v Davina Kovinic
(23) Victoria Azarenka v Anett Kontaveit
(24) Flavia Pennetta v Zarina Diyas
(25) Alize Cornet v Ana Konjuh
(26) Svetlana Kuznetsova v Laura Siegemund
(27) Barbora Zahlavova Strycova v Sloane Stephens
(28) Jelena Jankovic v Elena Vesnina  
(29) Irina Camelia Begu v Daniela Gavrilova
(30) Belinda Bencic v Tsvetana Pironkova
(31) Camilia Giorgi v Teliana Pereira
(32) Caroline Garcia v Heather Watson
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova v Mona Barthel
Tamira Paszek v Casey Dellacqua
Dominika Cibulkova v Daniela Hantuchova
Roberta Vinci v Aleksandra Krunic
Kirsten Flipkens v Annika Beck
Bojana Jovanovski v Tatjana Maria
Bethanie Mattek Sands v Alison van Uytvanck
Urszula Radwanska v Edina Gallovits Hall
Karin Knapp v  Magdalena Rybarikova
Kristina Mladenovic v Aleksandra Dulgheru
Christina McHale v Johanna Larsson
Kaia Kanepi v Su Wei Hsieh
Yanina Wickmayer v Elizaveta Kulichkova
Mirjana Lucic Baroni v Yaroslava Shvedova
Timea Babos v Petra Cetkovska
Marina Erakovic v Yulia Putintseva
Laura Robson v Elena Rodina
Silvia Soler Espinosa v Sesil Karatantcheva
Kristyna Pliskova v Tereza Smitkova
Monica Puig v Monica Niculescu
Anna Karolina Schmiedlova v Coco Vandeweghe
Nicole Gibbs v Lucia Tsurenko
Laura Davis v Polona Hercog
Lara Arruabarrena v Pauline Parmentier
Olga Govortsova v Anna Mitu
Ajla Tomljanovic v Klara Koukalova

In the US, every match from Monday to next Sunday's gentlemen's singles finals will be exclusive to ESPN. Also try Radio Wimbledon with good commentary as well.

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