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Nadal takes Wibmledon top seed from Federer

Defending champion Rafael Nadal was named Wimbledon top seed on Thursday ahead of five-times winner Roger Federer.

Wimbledon officials employ a unique seeding system where they take into account previous results at the grasscourt championships and there was a strong case for Federer to be named top seed because he has contested the last six finals.

Russia’s Marat Safin was the main beneficiary after being bumped up from his world ranking of 23rd to 15th seed following his unexpected run to the semi-finals 12 months ago.

In allocating the slots the seeding’s committee takes into account performances on grass over a two-year period.

Federer and Murray Top Wimbledon Odds

Murray, 3.50 to win the tournament at UK bookmaker William Hill, is aiming to become the first Brit to win the world’s most prestigious tennis tournament since Fred Perry way back in 1936. William Hill was also offering odds of 4.00 on him Murray completing the Queens-Wimbledon double prior to Murray’s Queens final Sunday against American James Blake.

Roger Federer, who won his first French Open last week to tie Pete Sampras’ record of 14 Grand Slam wins, has emerged as the clear favorite to reclaim the trophy he won every year from 2003 to 2007, with odds of 2.10. 

The women’s singles appears to be much more open, as usual. Serena Williams, 3.50, leads sister Venus, 3.50. They are followed by a host of eastern Europeans, led by Russian Maria Sharapova, 7.00, world number one Dinara Safina, also of Russia, 9.00, Belorussian Victoria Azarenka, 11.00, and Serb Ana Ivanovic, 13.00.

Wimbledon begins June 22 at London’s All England Club, ending with the men’s singles final on July 5.

Laura Robson waits for Wimbledon

Laura Robson will find out next Monday whether she will get a wild card into the Wimbledon main draw, though it seems virtually certain. As the junior Wimbledon champion she receives a wild card into qualifying anyway, but everybody will want to see how she gets on against more experienced opponents.

“From the sounds of it, there’s going to be quite a lot of pressure and quite a lot of people watching, whether I get a main draw wild card or not, so I am just going to have to deal with it,” Robson, below, said.

Today she was beaten 7-6, 1-6, 6-3 by Sandra Zaniewska in the second round of the French Open junior tournament, with the 17-year‑old Polish girl making particularly effective use of the drop shot. “I ran a lot so now I am pretty tired. At the end of the day I tried my best so there is not much more I can do,” said the 15-year‑old Robson.

“I hate losing, so it’s never easier than anywhere else. I know Andy [Murray] struggled on clay when he was younger, and now he’s here in the quarters. So I am just going to try and keep improving on it I think I’ll be focusing on my schoolwork again up until Wimbledon.

“She was definitely more physically developed, but I don’t think age really matters. But she was a lot stronger.I will start to play a lot more aggressive on the grass and work on my serve again. I remember from last year I hated grass for the first week. Then I had a change in attitude. It’s not easy the first couple of dayspractising because the ball bounces so completely different.”

Serena Williams itching for Wimbledon after Roland Garros blow

Serena Williams said she couldn’t wait for this year’s Wimbledon to begin after being dumped out of the French Open at the quarter-final stage.

The American world number two came off second best in a 2hr 46min marathon against Russian seventh seed Svetlana Kuznetsova, who won 7-6 (7/3), 5-7, 7-5 to set up a semi-final with Australian number 30 seed Samantha Stosur.

The defeat ended Williams’s hopes of a third-straight Grand Slam title, having triumphed at the 2008 US Open and this year’s Australian Open.

She has now set her sights on winning a third Wimbledon singles title, but admits that in previous years she has struggled to adapt to the transition between clay and grass.

“For me it’s frustrating, because the balls are flying and going so fast (on grass),” she said. “It’s totally different and I always start out really, really bad, so it’s just frustrating for me.

“I don’t wish there was more of a gap (between the tournaments) though. It’s like, I lost here, maybe I can do better at Wimbledon. I wish it were tomorrow.”

Williams has not tasted singles glory at Roland Garros or Wimbledon since the purple patch in 2002-2003 when she won five majors in just over a year, winning back-to-back Wimbledons and clinching her only French Open title to date in 2002.

She has since made two final appearances in London, losing to a 17-year-old Maria Sharapova of Russia in 2004 and then to her elder sister Venus in 2008.

Asked about her targets for the Wimbledon fortnight, Williams replied: “My goal is to do better than last year, hopefully.”

The former world number one struggled for form and fitness going into Roland Garros and conceded that she had exceeded her expectations in the tournament.

“I started out really bad,” she said. “Just physically, I wasn’t the best. I was trying to make it. I didn’t have great matches coming in here, and I started out on a losing streak.

“I guess I was just on a hope and a dream, and now it’s over.”

With Williams out of the way, Russia’s Dinara Safina will seek to confirm her status as women’s world number one by winning her first Grand Slam after two unsuccessful attempts.

A beaten finalist in Paris against Ana Ivanovic last year, Safina was out-classed by Williams in this year’s Australian Open final, but the American thinks the 23-year-old’s time may have finally come.

“I already think she’s definitely authenticated as the world number one,” Williams said.

“I definitely see her as a favourite.”

History of Wimbledon

The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, which is responsible for staging the world’s leading tennis tournament, is a private club founded in 1868, originally as ‘The All England Croquet Club’. Its first ground was situated off Worple Road, Wimbledon.

In 1875 lawn tennis, a game devised by Major Walter Clopton Wingfield a year or so earlier and originally called ‘Sphairistike’, was added to the activities of the Club. In the spring of 1877 the Club was re-titled ‘The All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club’ and signalled its change of name by instituting the first Lawn Tennis Championship. A new code of laws (replacing the code until then administered by the Marylebone Cricket Club) was drawn up for the event. These laws have stood the test of time and today’s rules are similar except for details such as the height of the net and posts and the distance of the service line from the net.

The only event held in 1877 was the Gentlemen’s Singles which was won by Spencer Gore, an old Harrovian rackets player, from a field of 22. About 200 spectators paid one shilling each to watch the final.

The lawns at the Ground were arranged in such a way that the principal court was situated in the middle with the others arranged around it; hence the title ‘Centre Court’, which was retained when the Club moved in 1922 to the present site in Church Road, although not a true description of its location. However, in 1980 four new courts were brought into commission on the north side of the ground, which meant the Centre Court was once more correctly defined. The opening of the new No. 1 Court in 1997 emphasised the description.

By 1882 activity at the Club was almost exclusively confined to lawn tennis and that year the word ‘croquet’ was dropped from the title. However, for sentimental reasons, it was restored in 1889 and since then the title has remained The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club.

In 1884, the All England Club added Ladies’ Singles and Gentlemen’s Doubles. Ladies’ Doubles and Mixed Doubles were added in 1913. Until 1922, the reigning champion had to play only in the final, against whoever had won through to challenge him. As with the other three Grand Slam events, Wimbledon was contested by top-ranked amateur players until the advent of the open era in tennis in 1968. Britons are very proud of the tournament, though it is a source of national anguish and humour – no British man has won the singles event at Wimbledon since Fred Perry in 1936, and no British woman since Virginia Wade in 1977, although Annabel Croft and Laura Robson have won the Girls’ championship in 1984 and 2008 respectively. The Championship was first televised in 1937.