Roger Federer Unfazed By Seeding at Wimbledon Championships 2019

With his victory over David Goffin in Halle yesterday, Roger Federer is now seven ATP titles away from Jimmy Connors’ record of 109 crowns. By collecting his title in the Wimbledon’s warm-up event on the German grass, mathematically empowers Federer as the second seed at the London major.

With this seeding, Roger Federer will not meet the top seed and defending champion, Novak Djokovic until the gentlemen’s finals of Wimbledon Championships 2019.“It might make no difference if Rafa is in my section (laughs),” Roger Federer said.“I guess you could say I avoid Novak in the semis. “But at the end of the day, that is so far away. What it helps me (to do) is plan earlier. That’s it.”

Despite, Rafael Nadal being ranked second in the world, Federer is seeded ahead of the French Open 2019 champion and the eminent rivalries of the sporting world will be placed in the same half for the British Grand Slam event this year.

Federer outnumbers Nadal by 180 points in the points-tally for Wimbledon seeding, which considers the performances of players in grass-court events over the past 24 months and the ATP Ranking points which all participants have earned until the week before the beginning of Wimbledon. 

Last year, it was a despondent loss for the Swiss World Number three, Roger Federer in the quarterfinals on the Court Number One of Wimbledon. He was trounced by the rangy South African, Kevin Anderson in five sets after Federer faced a match point in the third set.

The top seed at Wimbledon 2018, Roger Federer, last week, pulled through two battles in Halle against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Roberto Bautista Agut. This season, the Swiss ace has lost four matches against Stefanos Tsitsipas (in Melbourne), Dominic Thiem (in Indian Wells and Madrid) and Rafael Nadal (in Paris).

The Wimbledon Championships 2019 will be getting underway on July 1 and Roger Federer will play his opening round match on July 2.