“We’re moving on and it’s back on grass starting from scratch now”, Djokovic said. “I know there has been a lot of talk about a potential match-up between Andy and me with Ivan coming to his team but it’s still very early”.
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“In my opinion, it doesn’t get more stimulating than the ultimate prize of being able to play at Wimbledon”.
On his return to Team Murray last week, Lendl said he was on a mission to “ruin” Djokovic’s bid to complete a Golden Slam this year.
World number two Murray, the Wimbledon champion in 2013, remains Djokovic’s only serious rival but the British star has a 10-24 career record against the Serb. “I think it’s very possible he can pull it off”.
“I am angry because it was a close game and a tough loss, but there are positives I can take”, she said. However, you likely don’t want to go in blind and will require some knowledge beyond “it’s a big tennis tournament”, such as the Wimbledon seedings, structure, and expectations in regards to the players.
Through 13 years of his career, Djokovic has a record of 730-149, winning 83 per cent of his matches in grand slams, ATP tour main draws and in the Davis Cup. Djokovic had most problems getting the length right, overcooking on both wings, a minor fault he will no doubt iron out in his second exhibition match on Thursday.
‘One thing that we all learn in tennis is to re-set a day or a week later. “I’m feeling now we’ve got enough time before Wimbledon to get ready for that”.
“No, I don’t”, Djokovic added.
The Championships, Wimbledon, more commonly called just “Wimbledon”, began in July of 1877-that’s 139 years ago-in London, England. “He has already won the two major titles”.
The fact that Federer is a seven-time Wimbledon champion and has finished as a runner-up in each of the previous two seasons at SW19 might make his odds of 10/1 to win the title seem generous; however, bookmakers, as we all know, are not a generous bunch and the stop-start nature of the Swiss veteran’s season so far makes his chances of winning a first major title in nearly four years seem remote. Kei Nishikori of Japan is No. 5, while Milos Raonic, who has hired John McEnroe as coach, is sixth.
Konta, born in Sydney, Australia, is the first British female to be seeded at Wimbledon since Jo Durie in 1984. Konta is seeded 17th.
Falling at the final hurdle twice this year has left Williams still stuck on 21 Grand Slam titles – one short of Graf’s Open era record of 22 and three behind the all-time record of 24 set by Margaret Court – ahead of Wimbledon, which gets underway on Monday.
The world number one’s conqueror at Roland Garros, Spain’s Garbine Muguruza, is seeded second with Poland’s Agnieszka Radwanska, the 2012 Wimbledon runner-up, named as the third seed.
The 21-year-old Australian burst into the spotlight after defeating Nadal, then world No.1, in the fourth round of Wimbledon 2014.
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World number 10 Richard Gasquet has been moved up to the seventh seeding after reaching the Wimbledon semi-finals previous year, while 2014 US Open champion Marin Cilic is lifted from a world ranking of 13 to a seeding of ninth.
