An incredible start of the seasons when Rafa won a whopping 7 titles (and 2 finals) was not enough for him to get a higher ranking in Wimbledon.
The King of Clay is definitely playing at his best to comfortably lead the year to date ranking by 2000 pts over Novak Djokovic, but he is still ranked as world no.5 as he didn’t get any point last year from the second part of the season because he was injured.
The Wimbledon organisation confirmed that they are going to follow the official rankings with some little rearrangements related to the recent results obtained on grass.
The Controversy
Nadal’s ranking has been at the centre of controversy with some players being against it (ie. Murray) and some others accepting it as an almost necessary evil (Federer and Nadal).
Seeding Rafa no.5 means that the 2008 and 2010 champion will likely play against Djokovic, Murray or Federer in the quarters.
This also means that if Rafa wants to win this Wimbledon he will have to plausibilty beat all the other big 4!
The seeds
1 Novak Djokovic
2 Andy Murray
3 Roger Federer
4 David Ferrer
5 Rafael Nadal
6 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
7 Tomas Berdych
8 Juan Martin del Potro
9 Richard Gasquet
10 Marin Cilic
11 Stanislas Wawrinka
12 Kei Nishikori
13 Tommy Haas
14 Janko Tipsarevic
15 Nicolas Almagro
16 Philipp Kohlschreiber
17 Milos Raonic
18 John Isner
19 Gilles Simon
20 Mikhail Youzhny
21 Sam Querrey
22 Juan Monaco
23 Andreas Seppi
24 Jerzy Janowicz
25 Benoit Paire
26 Alexandr Dolgopolov
27 Kevin Anderson
28 Jeremy Chardy
29 Grigor Dimitrov
30 Fabio Fognini
31 Julien Benneteau
32 Tommy Robredo
