Lewis unseeded
NZPA-AFP London Wimbledon, for the first time, have based their seedings for the championships,, which start on Monday, on computer rankings. The old routine of finding seeding spots for recognised grass court experts who are not among the top 20 in the world has been discarded. It means Chris Lewis, the New Zealander who thrilled the world last year by reaching the men’s singles final unseeded, is not among this year’s 16 seeds. He is currently 22nd in the world and just misses out
Men’s seeds.— John McEnroe (USA.) 1, Ivan Lendl (Czechoslovakia) 2, Jimmy Connors (U.S.A.) 3, Mats Wilander (Sweden) 4, Jimmy Arias (U.S.A.) 5, Andres Gomez (Ecuador) 6, Yannick Noah (France) 7, Jose-Luis
Clerc (Argentina) 8, Henrik Sundstrom (Sweden) 9, Anders Jarryd (Sweden) 10, Kevin Curren (South Africa) 11, Johan Kriek (U.S.A.) 12, Tomas Smid (Czechoslovakia) 13, Bill Scanlon (U.S.A.) 14, Vitas Gerulaitis (U.S.A.) 15, Tim Mayotte (U.S.A.) 16. Women’s seeds.—
Martina Navratilova (U.S.A.) 1, Chris Evert-Lloyd (U.S.A.) 2, Hana Mandlikova (Czechoslovakia) 3, Pam Shriver (U.S.A.) 4, Zina Garrison (U.S.A.) 5, Kathy Jordan (U.S.A.) 6, Manuela Maleeva (Bulgaria) 7, Kathy Horvath (U.S.A.) 8, Wendy Turnbull (Australia) 9, Jo Durie (G. 8. 10, Lisa Bonder (U.S.A.) 11, Claudia Kohde (West Germany) 12, Barbara Potter (U.S.A.) 13, Helena Sukova (Czechoslovakia) 14, Andrea Temesvari (Hungary) 15, Carling Bassett (Canada) 16.
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