Murray, Kerber top seeds at French Open

Published by Paul Moore

Andy Murray will lead the seeds at French Open 2017. Photo: Getty Images

With the publication of this week’s ATP and WTA rankings, the Roland Garros seeds are now all-but confirmed. Unlike Wimbledon, which employs its own methodology for seeding based on a mix of current rankings and previous grass court performances, Roland Garros opts to award seeds based purely on current rankings.

As such, Angelique Kerber and Andy Murray go into the tournament as the top seeds, with Karolina Pliskova and defending champion Novak Djokovic seeded two.

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The absence of Roger Federer from the tournament means that men ranked five and below are all bumped up one place in the seedings.

The biggest ‘winners’ from changes in the rankings are undoubtedly Rome winners Elina Svitolina (No.6) and Alex Zverev (No.9). The latter, in particular, is now inside the Top 16, and so should be guaranteed an ‘easier’ draw in the opening rounds.

The only other notable move is Juan Martin del Potro, who jumped back into the seeds (No.30), having slipped outside the Top 32.

Women Seed Men
Angelique Kerber 1 Andy Murray
Karolina Pliskova 2 Novak Djokovic
Simona Halep 3 Stan Wawrinka
Garbine Muguruza 4 Rafael Nadal
Elina Svitolina 5 Milos Raonic
Dominika Cibulkova 6 Dominic Thiem
Johanna Konta 7 Marin Cilic
Svetlana Kuznetsova 8 Kei Nishikori
Agnieszka Radwanska 9 Alexander Zverev
Venus Williams 10 David Goffin
Caroline Wozniacki 11 Grigor Dimitrov
Madison Keys 12 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
Kristina Mladenovic 13 Tomas Berdych
Elena Vesnina 14 Jack Sock
Petra Kvitova 15 Gael Monfils
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 16 Lucas Pouillé
Anastasija Sevastova 17 Roberto Bautista Agut
Kiki Bertens 18 Nick Kyrgios
Coco Vandeweghe 19 Albert Ramos Vinolas
Barbora Strycova 20 Pablo Carreno Busta
Carla Suarez Navarro 21 John Isner
Mirjana Lucic-Baroni 22 Pablo Cuevas
Samantha Stosur 23 Ivo Karlovic
Daria Gavrilova 24 Steve Johnson
Lauren Davis 25 Richard Gasquet
Daria Kasatkina 26 Gilles Muller
Yulia Putintseva 27 Sam Querrey
Caroline Garcia 28 Fabio Fognini
Ana Konjuh 29 Juan Martin Del Potro
Timea Bacsinszky 30 David Ferrer
Laura Siegemund 31 Gilles Simon
Roberta Vinci 32 Mischa Zverev
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