Day Six of Wimbledon 2018 and the third round was completed.
The round of sixteen has, in my memory, never seen such a depletion of seeded players in both the men’s and women’s draws - not just the lower seeds either.
There will be a rest day tomorrow but the following players, seeded to be in the final 16, won’t be needing a rest because they won’t be seeing action in the second week of singles.
Men’s
Marin Cilic (3)
Sascha Zverev (4)
Lost his third round match today to Ernests Gulbis, ranked 138 from Latvia, but once a top ten player
Grigor Dimitrov (6)
Dominic Thiem (7)
David Goffin (10)
Sam Querrey (11)
Diego Schwartzman (14)
Nick Kyrgios (15)
Lost his third round match today to Kei Nishikori (24)
Borna Coric (16)
Women’s
Simona Halep (1)
Lost her third round match today to Su-Wei Hsieh
Caroline Wozniacki (2)
Garbiñe Muguruza (3)
Sloane Stephens (4)
Elina Svitolina (5)
Caroline Garcia (6)
Petra Kvitová (8)
Venus Williams (9)
Madison Keys (10)
Elise Mertens (15)
Lost her third round match today to Dominika Cibulková
CoCo Vandeweghe (16)
So only 12 of the 32 players drawn to be the crowd pleasers next week will do so.
The path has been made potentially a lot easier for Federer, Nadal, Djokovic, Serena Williams and Karolina Pliskova.
They should have been playing
Borna Coric
Diego Schwartzman
Dominic Thiem
Madison Keys
Venus Williams
respectively
The round of sixteen matches scheduled for week two are:
Su-Wei Hsieh v Dominika Cibulková
Jelena Ostapenko (12) v Aliaksandra Sasnovich
Alison Van Uytvanck v Daria Kasatkina (14)
Angie Kerber (11) v Belinda Bencic
Karolina Pliskova (7) v Kiki Bertens (20)
Julia Goerges (13) v Donna Vekic
Serena Williams (25) v Evgeniya Rodina
Camila Giorgi v Ekaterina Makarova
16 from 13 different countries
Roger Federer (1) v Adrian Mannarino (22)
Gaël Monfils v Kevin Anderson (8)
Mackenzie McDonald v Milos Raonic (13)
John Isner (9) v Stefanos Tsitsipas (31)
Karen Khachanov v Novak Djokovic (12)
Kei Nishikori (24) v Ernests Gulbis
Juan Martin del Potro (5) v Gilles Simon
Jiri Vesely v Rafa Nadal (2)
16 from 13 different countries
In total 32 from 21 different countries
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