Nadal and Djokovic avoid each other until the final at Wimbledon with Kyrgios as the first big threat

This Friday is the Wimbledon drawwhich will mark the path of the favorites on their way to the title of champion.

The casualties of Daniil Medvedev, banned due to his Russian nationality, and the injured Alexander Zverev, they leave Novak Djokovic and Rafa Nadal as top seedswhich guarantees that they cannot be found until the end.

Casper Ruud (3) and Stefanos Tsitsipas (4) would be their theoretical rivals in the semifinalsalthough its poor adaptation to grass means that there are other more dangerous players to fear.

And it is that in the quarterfinals they could meet three of the fittest players in recent weeks, Berrettini (8), Hurkacz (7) and Auger-Aliassime (6), to which we must add Carlos Alcaraz (5)who will arrive at Wimbledon without having played an official match since his Roland Garros quarterfinal loss to Zverev on May 31.

The next group of seeds, from 9 to 16, includes players with conditions to make life difficult for anyone on grass, such as Norrie (9), Sinner (10), Shapovalov (13), Cilic (14) and Opelka (15)while among the possible rivals in the third round we find tennis players of the stature of Dimitrov (18), De Miñaur (20), Isner (21) or Evans (29).

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But the problems for the favorites can already appear in the first roundwhere they could face specialists who are in a great state of form and who are also not seeded.

‘Bomb’ Kyrgios

The most outstanding is, without a doubt, Nick Kyrgios who, had he made it to the final last week in Halle, would have been among the 32 seeded, but his loss to Hurkacz condemned him to being able to meet any starting seed.

The Australian, who is playing the Mallorca tournament this week, adds two consecutive semifinals (Stuttgart and Halle) at the start of the grass-court seasonand it seems to show a much more solid and stable version of what we are used to, which makes it a real time bomb that can blow up the painting.

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Also off the seeded list is homegrown idol Andy Murray.who has been recovering sensations in recent weeks but is still not one hundred percent ready for the London tournament due to the abdominal injury he suffered in Stuttgart.

The British tennis player, champion of the 2013 and 2016 editions, ended up playing the final that he lost against the Italian Matteo Berrettini, forcing him to ‘get off’ the Queen’s tournament.

As for the Spaniards, In addition to Nadal (2) and Alcaraz (5), Pablo Carreño (16) and Roberto Bautista (17) will start as seededwhile Alejandro Davidovich, Albert Ramos, Pedro Martínez, Jaume Munar, Roberto Carballés, Bernabé Zapata, Carlos Taberner, Pablo Andújar, Fernando Verdasco and Feliciano López will try to surprise in a tournament that this year will see how the ATP does not count its points as punishment for the veto of Russian and Belarusian tennis playersa measure that will cause a major earthquake in the ranking, with Novak Djokovic as a great loser.

Badosa, Muguruza and Sorribes, seeded

In the women’s box, Paula Badosa and Garbiñe Muguruza will start as fourth and ninth seed respectively, while Sara Sorribes will be the 32nd seed.

Iga Swiatek figures as number 1 of the tournament, followed by Kontaveit (2) and Jabeur (3).