Aussie Darcy
Bionic Poster
3rd slam of the year.
Exciting tournament coming up.
Quite a few topics of discussion at the moment:
Azarenka will play her first slam since her return from pregnancy, former 2x champ Kvitova will be in the draw in just her 3rd event back on tour. Former QFist Sloane Stephens also returning to tour for the first time this year after injuries. Drama with Sharapova not getting a main draw WC and then saying she'll play qualies but then withdrew due to injuries. No 2x defending champion Serena as she's off with her pregnancy.
Seeded players in order are:
Kerber, Halep, Pliskova, Svitolina, Wozniacki, Konta, Kuznetsova, Cibulkova, Radwanska, Venus, Kvitova, Mladenovic, Ostapenko, Muguruza, Vesnina, Pavlyuchenkova, Keys, Sevastova, Bacsinszky, Gavrilova, Garcia, Strycova, Bertens, Vandeweghe, Suarez Navarro, Lucic-Baroni, Konjuh, Davis, Kasatkina, Zhang, Vinci and Safarova.
Lots of dangerous unseeded players:
Barty, Kontaveit, Vondrousova, Peng, Cornet, Puig, Errani, Bouchard (not really but she is a former finalist..).
Withdrawals so far: Serena, Siegemund, Stosur, Shvedova, King and Tomjlanovic.
Number 1 ranking is on the line in singles between Kerber, Halep, Pliskova and Svitolina.
Pliskova is the hot fav to leave Wimbledon as #1. She's only defending 70 points from last year whilst Kerber is defending 1300 and Halep is defending 430 + 280 from her Bucharest title.
Svitolina also only has 70 points to defend but she needs to win the title and have all the others lose like 2R. She also needs Pliskova to not win Eastbourne. Not happening.
Defending doubles champs were Serena and Venus but they're not playing as Serena is pregnant. Seeds include: BMS/Safarova, Makarova/Vesnina, Hingis/Chan, Babos/Hlavackova.
Mattek-Sands/Safarova will try to win the non calendar year grand slam. They currently hold the 2016 USO title, 2017 AO and 2017 RG.
So, who will win? Also, i'm shaking up the poll and not doing the top 8 seeds as I believe players like Kvitova and Venus have a higher chance of winning the title than Cibulkova and Radwanska.
Exciting tournament coming up.
Quite a few topics of discussion at the moment:
Azarenka will play her first slam since her return from pregnancy, former 2x champ Kvitova will be in the draw in just her 3rd event back on tour. Former QFist Sloane Stephens also returning to tour for the first time this year after injuries. Drama with Sharapova not getting a main draw WC and then saying she'll play qualies but then withdrew due to injuries. No 2x defending champion Serena as she's off with her pregnancy.
Seeded players in order are:
Kerber, Halep, Pliskova, Svitolina, Wozniacki, Konta, Kuznetsova, Cibulkova, Radwanska, Venus, Kvitova, Mladenovic, Ostapenko, Muguruza, Vesnina, Pavlyuchenkova, Keys, Sevastova, Bacsinszky, Gavrilova, Garcia, Strycova, Bertens, Vandeweghe, Suarez Navarro, Lucic-Baroni, Konjuh, Davis, Kasatkina, Zhang, Vinci and Safarova.
Lots of dangerous unseeded players:
Barty, Kontaveit, Vondrousova, Peng, Cornet, Puig, Errani, Bouchard (not really but she is a former finalist..).
Withdrawals so far: Serena, Siegemund, Stosur, Shvedova, King and Tomjlanovic.
Number 1 ranking is on the line in singles between Kerber, Halep, Pliskova and Svitolina.
Pliskova is the hot fav to leave Wimbledon as #1. She's only defending 70 points from last year whilst Kerber is defending 1300 and Halep is defending 430 + 280 from her Bucharest title.
Svitolina also only has 70 points to defend but she needs to win the title and have all the others lose like 2R. She also needs Pliskova to not win Eastbourne. Not happening.
Defending doubles champs were Serena and Venus but they're not playing as Serena is pregnant. Seeds include: BMS/Safarova, Makarova/Vesnina, Hingis/Chan, Babos/Hlavackova.
Mattek-Sands/Safarova will try to win the non calendar year grand slam. They currently hold the 2016 USO title, 2017 AO and 2017 RG.
So, who will win? Also, i'm shaking up the poll and not doing the top 8 seeds as I believe players like Kvitova and Venus have a higher chance of winning the title than Cibulkova and Radwanska.