Wimbledon
gets under way today so I thought I would give my brief view of the draws.
Men’s draw
It’s a little
sad that Rafal Nadal, Roger Federer, Andy Murray and Jon Wilfred Tsonga are all
on in the same part of the draw. It means that potentially Roger and Rafa could
meet in the quarters final which I think is slightly too early and sometimes it
can make the semi finals and final are little boring to watch.
Women’s draw
I really
like the women’s draw as it has spread out the talent evenly and Serena
Williams is at the opposite end of the draw to Maria Sharapova and Victoria Azarenka.
Serena’s path to the final looks fairly straightforward although she may need
to play a tricky third round against the Chinese player Je Zheng .
Heather Watson
could possibly make the third round as her first round is against Madison Keys
which I think is very winnable match and in the second round she could face
either Monica Niculescu or Mona Barthel . If Heather gets this far then it is a
very winnable match. However Heather’s third round could be against Agnieszka Radwanska and this is probably when Heather
exits the tournament. On a positive note if she did make it to the third round
she would not lose any ranking points as that is the stage she exited the tournament
last year.
Laura Robson
as not been given a nice draw she has a very tough first round against Maria
Kirilenko. If she was able to get past
Maria then she would probably get Julia Georges in the second round and it
would get even tougher after that. I’m not saying Laura cannot do it but it
will be really tough get past Maria Kirilenko who has good record at Wimbledon.
One
interesting first round match to watch would between Jamie Hampton and Sloane
Stephens. Jamie did very well at Eastbourne eventually losing to Elena Vesnina.
Sloane Stephens has also been rising up the rankings and they are both very
different players so this all American first round could be very interesting.