2017 Wimbledon Women’s Seedings: Kvitova, Venus Only Former Champions In Field
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2017 finalist Angelique Kerber will be the top seed at Wimbledon for a first time. The German, who lost to Serena Williams last year in the final, has struggled this season reaching just one final in 12 events, and losing first round at the French and fourth round at the Australian.
Simona Halep is second followed by US Open finalist Karolina Pliskova and Elina Svitolina.
Of the Top 8 seeds, only Kerber and Halep have even reached the Wimbledon semifinals.
The lone two former champions are the 37-year-old Venus Williams and the returning Petra Kvitova. That leaves one observant, ESPN’s Brad Gilbert, to comment that as many as 40 different players could win the title!
“I said that at least 30 women could win the French, and I wouldn’t even have put Ostapenko’s name on the 30 because she hadn’t won a WTA tournament,” Gilbert said during a conference call yesterday. “I will double down and say that 40 women — 40 women — could win Wimbledon. ‘The field’, without a doubt, is the clear favorite on the women’s side.”
Kerber is set to assume the absent Serena Williams’s opening role on Tuesday at 1pm on Centre Court.
WIMBLEDON WOMEN’S SEEDINGS
1 KERBER, Angelique (GER)
2 HALEP, Simona (ROU)
3 PLISKOVA, Karolina (CZE)
4 SVITOLINA, Elina (UKR)
5 WOZNIACKI, Caroline (DEN)
6 KONTA, Johanna (GBR)
7 KUZNETSOVA, Svetlana (RUS)
8 CIBULKOVA, Dominika (SVK)
9 RADWANSKA, Agnieszka (POL)
10 WILLIAMS, Venus (USA)
11 KVITOVA, Petra (CZE)
12 MLADENOVIC, Kristina (FRA)
13 OSTAPENKO, Jelena (LAT)
14 MUGURUZA, Garbine (ESP)
15 VESNINA, Elena (RUS)
16 PAVLYUCHENKOVA, Anastasia (RUS)
17 KEYS, Madison (USA)
18 SEVASTOVA, Anastasija (LAT)
19 BACSINSZKY, Timea (SUI)
20 GAVRILOVA, Daria (AUS)
21 GARCIA, Caroline (FRA)
22 STRYCOVA, Barbora (CZE)
23 BERTENS, Kiki (NED)
24 VANDEWEGHE, Coco (USA)
25 SUAREZ NAVARRO, Carla (ESP)
26 LUCIC-BARONI, Mirjana (CRO)
27 KONJUH, Ana (CRO)
28 DAVIS, Lauren (USA)
29 KASATKINA, Daria (RUS)
30 ZHANG, Shuai (CHN)
31 VINCI, Roberta (ITA)
32 SAFAROVA, Lucie (CZE
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