Carlos Alcaraz’s high seeding ends 20-year-long streak of Big 4 at Wimbledon 2023

By India Today Sports Desk: World No. 1 Carlos Alcaraz was handed the highest seeding, as anticipated, in males’s singles for Wimbledon 2023 forward of 7-time Novak Djokovic. Alcaraz, who received the Queen’s Club, takes the highest seed because the All-England Club introduced the seeds forward of Friday’s draw ceremony in London.

Notably, that is the primary time since 2003 somebody not from the Big 4 – Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray, has acquired the highest seed in males’s singles.

Wimbledon was the one Grand Slam match that adopted its personal means of seeding because it didn’t depend on ATP and WTA rankings for it. Wimbledon used grass court docket seeding method from 2002 to 2019 which allowed them to separate the very best gamers on grass within the early rounds on the match. However, Wimbledon started utilizing ATP and WTA Rankings for seeding because the 2021 season. Wimbledon had taken under consideration outcomes of gamers on grass at Wimbledon and different grass court docket tournaments for its method.

Novak Djokovic was within the result in seal the highest seed however Carlos Alcaraz received his maiden grass-court title on the All England Club to leapfrog the Serb into the highest spot of the boys’s singles rankings.

Meanwhile, World No. 1 Iga Swiatek, who’s chasing her maiden Wimbledon title, has been handed the highest seed in ladies’s singles.

RYBAKINA NO. 2, KYRGIOS NO. 31

Elena Rybakina, the 2022 ladies’s champion on the All England Club, is No. 3 among the many ladies’s 32 seeds, adopted by Jessica Pegula, Caroline Garcia, Ons Jabeur, Coco Gauff, Maria Sakkari, two-time champion Petra Kvitova and Barbora Krejcikova.

Meanwhile, the Russian and Belarusian gamers who have been banned by Wimbledon final yr because of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have been allowed to compete this yr.

Daniil Medvedev of Russia is the third seed in males’s singles. Casper Ruud is No. 4 of the 32 males’s seeds, adopted by Stefanos Tsitsipas, Holger Rune, Jannik Sinner, Taylor Fritz and Frances Tiafoe.

Nick Kyrgios, the runner-up to Djokovic at Wimbledon a yr in the past, is seeded thirty first.

Winning the Wimbledon final yr didn’t present rating enhance to both Djokovic or Rybakina because the governing physique of males’s and ladies’s tennis withdrew rating factors from Wimbledon after the All England Club’s ban on Russia and Belarusian gamers.