[farmarrl]

Well, it looks like our seed of choice is 12. The AELTC will give us the actual answer today. I don't think they can really take anything from Serena's match against Pironkova.

[Hsmrcahr]

Let's see. Serena is #26 this week and I believe Kleybanova is the only one ahead of her not playing. That would make Serena #25, yet not one person voted for her to be seeded there. Interesting.

[quottrethew]

Serena is seeded #8, Venus #24
http://www.wimbledon.com/en_GB/news/...128657255.html

I think it is very fair

[Mediconlinee]

Serena is seeded #8

Wow. That's... outrageous.

[Bugamerka]

Full lists here:

http://www.talkabouttennis.com/forum...ad.php?t=19526

[Nosmas]

Guessed correctly! Now I get nothing more than a warm fuzzy feeling of momentary smugness, but I'll take it.

[quottrethew]

Wow. That's... outrageous.

Well, we told you so...

[Mediconlinee]

Well, we told you so...

You certainly did. In fact, TAT even managed to be more pessimistic than the AELTC, which, frankly, has me bewildered.

I'll have to make my women's SP choices especially early, so that y'all can pick someone else. Not that I'll last long, of course...

[Intockatt]

I'm going with 10. Venus, however, will be shafted, probably relegated to the low 20's.

Close, and I was right about the Venus getting shafted part.

[popillio]

I'm going with #8, until someone withdraws then she'll be #7.

[Nosmas]

Owen, your precision on these things is uncanny.

[addisonnicogel]

I'm going with #8, until someone withdraws then she'll be #7.

Was wondering when you were going to vote. You have a 100% record.

[jeraveike]

I'm going with #8, until someone withdraws then she'll be #7.

I do admire the consistency of your approach to making predictions. Your relentlessness is amusing.

[zlopikanikanzax]

Guessed correctly! Now I get nothing more than a warm fuzzy feeling of momentary smugness, but I'll take it.

Me too. And last week, no less

[popillio]

I do admire the consistency of your approach to making predictions. Your relentlessness is amusing.

The critics describe me as "Brilliant".

[farmarrl]

Since we've all been having such a lovely discussion about it in the Serena to defend Wimbledon Title thread, I thought it'd be a good idea to see what the general consensus will be.

[Intockatt]

I'm going with 10. Venus, however, will be shafted, probably relegated to the low 20's.

[Mediconlinee]

To iterate: she hasn't played in a year. Not only that, but she hasn't played due to injuries, including a pulmonary embolism. I don't think the AELTC will simply ignore this, especially since they'll have only one or two matches to judge her form by, before the seedings are determined.

I can see a courtesy bump to 21-24, as a nod to the best player of the last decade, but it seems incredibly biased to expect more.

[AnthonyKing]

I voted for 7 - I can see them putting her somewhere in the top 8. I think bumping any of the top 4 would be harder to defend.

[Nosmas]

Yeah. I can't see them bumping the top ranks either but I went with a guess of 8. A parallel could potentially be drawn with 2007 where Serena came in cold after having missed basically the entire previous year with injuries and won the AO anyway. She has an excellent record here and hasn't typically needed warm up tournaments the way some other players have.

They will seed her for sure, I think. It's just a question of where. I think it will end up being 8, 16, or 32... the bottom of one of the seed tiers and not 4.