Wimbledon men’s draw 2016: Andy Murray vs Liam Broady, Novak Djokovic vs James Ward

Reigning champion Novak Djokovic takes on Brit James Ward in opening round
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Chris Jones24 June 2016

Andy Murray launches his bid for a second Wimbledon title against compatriot Liam Broady while another Briton, James Ward, will face Novak Djokovic in the opening match of the Championships on Monday.

World No1 Djokovic holds all four Grand Slam titles and having beaten Murray in this year’s Australian and French Open finals is aiming to complete a clean sweep of the game’s major honours in the same year.

If Djokovic defeats Ward he will face Kyle Edmund in the second round providing the Briton overcomes Adrian Mannarino.

Ward has dropped down to No177 in the rankings having been inside the top 90 before he was hampered by injury and will be hoping to recapture the form that saw him reach a career-best Wimbledon third round last year. However, this year Ward failed to get through qualifying at the Australian and French Opens and needed a wild card to get into his home Championships.

Murray had waited ten years to face a British player when he took on Aljez Bedene at Queen’s last week before making history with a fifth triumph at the Aegon Championships and now he get 22-year-old Broady who is left handed and can produce good tennis on grass. Broady came back from two sets down to defeat Marinko Matosevic in the first round last year but will not be able to rely on total home support in a match against Murray.

Broady, 22, is ranked No234 and is not afraid to put is head above the parapet and expressed his strong views on Europe tweeting today:” Gutted about the result of the EU referendum. Everybody I know vote IN. For the first time in my life I am not proud to be British.”

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Gentlemen's Singles Draw in full (Seedings in brackets):

  • Novak Djokovic (Ser) (1) v James Ward (Gbr)
  • Kyle Edmund (Gbr) v Adrian Mannarino (Fra)
  • Thomaz Bellucci (Bra) v QUALIFIER
  • Lukas Rosol (Cze) v Sam Querrey (USA) (28)
  • Philipp Kohlschreiber (Ger) (21) v Pierre-Hugues Herbert (Fra)
  • Damir Dzumhur (Bih) v Denis Kudla (USA)
  • Brydan Klein (Gbr) v Nicolas Mahut (Fra)
  • Dudi Sela (Isr) v David Ferrer (Spa) (13)
  • David Goffin (Bel) (11) v Alexander Ward (Gbr)
  • QUALIFIER v Teymuraz Gabashvili (Rus)
  • Nicolas Almagro (Spa) v Rogerio Dutra Silva (Bra)
  • Denis Istomin (Uzb) v Kevin Anderson (Rsa) (20)
  • Jack Sock (USA) (27) v Ernests Gulbis (Lat)
  • Diego Sebastian Schwartzman (Arg) v Robin Haase (Ned)
  • Andreas Seppi (Ita) v Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (Spa)
  • Pablo Carreno-Busta (Spa) v Milos Raonic (Can) (6)
  • Roger Federer (Swi) (3) v Guido Pella (Arg)
  • Ricardas Berankis (Lit) v QUALIFIER
  • Daniel Evans (Gbr) v Jan-Lennard Struff (Ger)
  • Evgeny Donskoy (Rus) v Alexandr Dolgopolov (Ukr) (30)
  • Gael Monfils (Fra) (17) v Jeremy Chardy (Fra)
  • Malek Jaziri (Tun) v Steve Johnson (USA)
  • QUALIFIER v Grigor Dimitrov (Bul)
  • Janko Tipsarevic (Ser) v Gilles Simon (Fra) (16)
  • Marin Cilic (Cro) (9) v Brian Baker (USA)
  • Sergiy Stakhovsky (Ukr) v QUALIFIER
  • Paolo Lorenzi (Ita) v QUALIFIER
  • Borna Coric (Cro) v Ivo Karlovic (Cro) (23)
  • Pablo Cuevas (Uru) (29) v Andrey Kuznetsov (Rus)
  • Santiago Giraldo (Col) v Gilles Muller (Lux)
  • Julien Benneteau (Fra) v Illya Marchenko (Ukr)
  • Samuel Groth (Aus) v Kei Nishikori (Jpn) (5)
  • Dominic Thiem (Aut) (8) v Florian Mayer (Ger)
  • Jiri Vesely (Cze) v QUALIFIER
  • QUALIFIER v QUALIFIER
  • Dmitry Tursunov (Rus) v Joao Sousa (Por) (31)
  • Alexander Zverev (Ger) (24) v Paul-Henri Mathieu (Fra)
  • Horacio Zeballos (Arg) v Mikhail Youzhny (Rus)
  • Benjamin Becker (Ger) v Facundo Bagnis (Arg)
  • Ivan Dodig (Cro) v Tomas Berdych (Cze) (10)
  • Roberto Bautista Agut (Spa) (14) v Jordan Thompson (Aus)
  • Mikhail Kukushkin (Kaz) v Martin Klizan (Svk)
  • Gastao Elias (Por) v QUALIFIER
  • Fernando Verdasco (Spa) v Bernard Tomic (Aus) (19)
  • Lucas Pouille (Fra) (32) v QUALIFIER
  • Donald Young (USA) v Leonardo Mayer (Arg)
  • Stephane Robert (Fra) v Juan Martin Del Potro (Arg)
  • Taylor Harry Fritz (USA) v Stanislas Wawrinka (Swi) (4)
  • Richard Gasquet (Fra) (7) v Aljaz Bedene (Gbr)
  • Marcel Granollers (Spa) v Victor Estrella Burgos (Dom)
  • Vasek Pospisil (Can) v Albert Ramos-Vinolas (Spa)
  • QUALIFIER v Viktor Troicki (Ser) (25)
  • John Isner (USA) (18) v Marcos Baghdatis (Cyp)
  • QUALIFIER v QUALIFIER
  • Taro Daniel (Jpn) v Juan Monaco (Arg)
  • Inigo Cervantes (Spa) v Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (Fra) (12)
  • Nick Kyrgios (Aus) (15) v Radek Stepanek (Cze)
  • Dusan Lajovic (Ser) v Dustin Brown (Ger)
  • Federico Del Bonis (Arg) v Fabio Fognini (Ita)
  • Rajeev Ram (USA) v Feliciano Lopez (Spa) (22)
  • Benoit Paire (Fra) (26) v QUALIFIER
  • John Millman (Aus) v Albert Montanes (Spa)
  • Yen-Hsun Lu (Tpe) v QUALIFIER
  • Liam Broady (Gbr) v Andy Murray (Gbr) (2)

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