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As it turns out, Carson Branstine’s spot at the very top of the Wimbledon qualifying draw was an omen of what was to come at the big show.

After getting a terribly tough draw (at least on paper) and winning three matches at Roehampton, the 24-year-old Can-American finds herself at the very top of the main draw again – once again, in the No. 2 spot in a 128-player drawsheet.

Which means this: Branstine will playworld No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka in the first round, in her Grand Slam main draw debut.

Well, at least that means she’ll have a full house on a stadium court!

For the complete ladies’ singles draw, click here.

For the complete gentlemen’s singles draw, click here.

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Tricky opener for Fernandez

The other Canadian in the women’s singles is No. 29 seed Leylah Fernandez.

And she, too, will get a decent court assignment.

Fernandez drew 16-year-old Hannah Klugman, who reached the girls’ final at Roland Garros and is a wild card into the Wimbledon singles for the first time.

Shapovalov in Sinner section

As for Denis Shapovalov, the No. 27 seed, he has a winnable first round in Mariono Navone of Argentina, mostly a clay-court aficionado.

It looks good for him until the third round – when he would be slotted to met No. 1 seed Jannik Sinner. But if there’s a surface the 2016 junior Wimbledon champion might want to meet him on, it’s probably grass.

Similar situation for Auger-Aliassime

As for No. 25 seed Félix Auger-Aliassime, he finds himself in an identical situation at the bottom of the draw.

He plays veteran Aussie journeyman James Duckworth in the first round, looks good for the second round – and then would face No. 2 seed and defending champion Carlos Alcaraz in the third round.

Gabriel Diallo will play the hard-hitting German Daniel Altmaier in the first round and if he wins that, would be looking at a second round against the winner of a match between No 5 seed Taylor Fritz, and huge-serving Frenchman Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard.

Djokovic in Sinner half

As the No. 6 seed, Novak Djokovic was either going to be drawn into the “Sinner half” or the “Alcaraz half” in terms of potential quarterfinal or semifinal – if they all get there.

Of the two, most likely would have preferred him to end up in the Sinner half, to keep open the possibility of the two best grass-court players in the draw meeting in a potential final.

And that’s what happened. But if Djokovic wasn’t drawn to play either of the top two in a potential quarterfinal, that indeed did turn out to be the worst-case scenario, at least for the Brits, if not others. Because Djokovic vs No. 4 seed Jack Draper is the potential final-eight clash.

(The other possibilities were Taylor Fritz, Lorenzo Musetti and Alexander Zverev).

Of course, Alexander Bublik is a potential third-rounder for Draper. So all to be determined.

Other first-rounders of note – the ladies

No byes, and no freebies, in a full 128-player draw.

So some of the first-round matches are going to be must-watches.

– Emma Raducanu vs. young British junior Mingge Xu, just 17

– 2023 champion Marketa Vondrousova vs. American McCartney Kessler, who won the WTA 250 at Nottingham the same day Vondrousova won in Berlin. There’ a certain symmetry to that.

– No. 9 Paula Badosa gets Brit Katie Boulter.

– Naomi Osaka will face Aussie qualifier Talia Gibson and if she wins, the winner between Zheng Qinwen and Katerina Siniakova.

– Defending champion Barbora Krejcikova, who withdrew from singles and doubles at Eastbourne Thursday with a thigh issue, will play rising young Alexandra Eala, who is in the Eastbourne semifinal Friday.

– Two-time champion Petra Kvitova, in her final Wimbledeon, will come up against No. 10 seed Emma Navarro.

– No. 2 seed Coco Gauff will clash with a very in-form Dayana Yastremska.

Other first-rounders of note – the gentlemen

On the men’s side, beyond the potentially tricky one for Fritz against Mpetshi Perricard, there are plenty of interesting openers. Although, with the switch to a best-of-five format for Wimbledon, the favorites have a tendency to prevail more often.

– No. 19 seed Grigor Dimitrov will face Japan’s Yoshihito Nishioka in a battle players who have retired or withdrawn from more tournaments this year than perhaps … any combo you can name. The betting line on that one might be if both will actually make it to the coin toss.

– No. 18 seed Ugo Humbert has the unfortunate luck of drawing his countryman, Gaêl Monfils

– No. 2 seed Alcaraz will send off Italian veteran Fabio Fognini in what should be an entertaining one.

– No. 8 Holger Rune meets huge-serving Nicolas Jarry, who had to (and did) get through qualifying this year.

– Joao Fonseca, the teenage pheom making his Wimbldeon debut, comes up against a quality customer (and the crowd) in Brit Jacob Fearnley.

– Matteo Berrettini, a former finalist who has been out with injury, squeezes into the No. 32 seeded spot and will play Kamil Majchrzak of Poland.

– Alexander Bublik, who opened so many eyes in winning Halle, ends up the No. 28 seed and will play Jaume Munar (who impressed at Queen’s Club) in the first round. He looks good to go until the third round, where No. 4 seed Jack Draper will not be happy to see him.

Other draws

Here’s the gentlemen’s doubles draw.

And here’s the ladies’ doubles draw.

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