Defending champion Roger Federer is the top seed for this year's Wimbledon championships with last year's beaten semi-finalist, American Andy Roddick, seeded second. Tim Henman was surprisingly only seeded fifth.
Henman, despite reaching four Wimbledon semi-finals in the last six years, is seeded behind clay-court specialist Guillermo Coria and fellow Argentinian David Nalbandian.
Nalbandian did reach the Wimbledon final in 2002 but French Open runner-up Coria has never won a match at Wimbledon in two attempts.
The All England Club use a special system based partly on previous results on grass to determine seedings instead of simply following the world rankings, but Henman has only moved from sixth in the world to fifth seed, climbing above former French Open Juan Carlos Ferrero.
Lleyton Hewitt, the 2002 champion who lost in the first round to Ivo Karlovic last year, is seeded seventh with beaten finalist Mark Philippoussis 11th.
In the women's singles, defending champion Serena Williams is the number one seed, with French Open champion Anastasi Nyskina seeded second.
Venus Williams has been seeded third with Amelie Mauresmo fourth, Lindsay Davenport fifth, Elena Dementieva sixth and Jennifer Capriati seventh.
Men's seeds for Wimbledon – Starts Monday: 1. Roger Federer (Switzerland) 2. Andy Roddick (U.S.) 3. Guillermo Coria (Argentina) 4. David Nalbandian (Argentina) 5. Tim Henman (Britain) 6. Juan Carlos Ferrero (Spain) 7. Lleyton Hewitt (Australia) 8. Rainer Schuettler (Germany) 9. Carlos Moya (Spain) 10. Sebastien Grosjean (France) 11. Mark Philippoussis (Australia) 12. Sjeng Schalken (Netherlands) 13. Paradorn Srichaphan (Thailand) 14. Mardy Fish (U.S.) 15. Nicolas Massu (Chile) 16. Jiri Novak (Czech Republic) 17. Jonas Bjorkman (Sweden) 18. Feliciano Lopez (Spain) 19. Marat Safin (Russia) 20. Tommy Rebredo (Spain) 21. Juan Ignacio Chela (Argentina) 22. Andrei Pavel (Romania) 23. Max Mirnyi (Belarus) 24. Fernando Gonzalez (Chile) 25. Dominik Hrbaty (Slovakia) 26. Taylor Dent (U.S.) 27. Robby Ginepri (U.S.) 28. Ivan Ljubicic (Croatia) 29. Nicolas Kiefer (Germany) 30. Vincent Spadea (U.S.) 31. Mikhail Youzhny (Russia) 32. Hicham Arazi (Morocco)
Women's seeds for Wimbledon – Starts Monday: 1. Serena Williams (U.S.) 2. Anastasia Myskina (Russia) 3. Venus Williams (U.S.) 4. Amelie Mauresmo (France) 5. Lindsay Davenport (U.S.) 6. Elena Dementieva (Russia) 7. Jennifer Capriati (U.S.) 8. Svetlana Kuznetsova (Russia) 9. Paola Suarez (Argentina) 10. Nadia Petrova (Russia) 11. Ai Sugiyama (Japan) 12. Vera Zvonareva (Russia) 13. Maria Sharapova (Russia) 14. Silvia Farina Elia (Italy) 15. Patty Schnyder (Switzerland) 16. Anna Smashnova-Pistolesi (Israel) 17. Chanda Rubin (U.S.) 18. Francesca Schiavone (Italy) 19. Fabiola Zuluaga (Colombia) 20. Elena Bovina (Russia) 21. Magdalena Maleeva (Bulgaria) 22. Conchita Martinez (Spain) 23. Jelena Dokic (Serbia & Montenegro) 24. Mary Pierce (France) 25. Nathalie Dechy (France) 26. Lisa Raymond (U.S.) 27. Alicia Molik (Australia) 28. Emilie Loit (France) 29. Dinara Safina (Russia) 30. Eleni Daniilidou (Greece) 31. Amy Frazier (U.S.) 32. Meghann Shaughnessy (U.S.)
Filed by Barry McEneaney
