LONDON, June 18: Marcos Baghdatis and Tomas Berdych have both benefited from Wimbledon’s unique seedings policy this year after strong showings in 2007.

The seedings for next week’s grasscourt Grand Slam, released by the All England Club on Wednesday, have Cypriot Baghdatis seeded 10th compared to a world ranking of 25.

Czech Berdych is seeded 11th despite an ATP ranking of 19.

Baghdatis reached the quarter-finals at Wimbledon last year where he lost to Novak Djokovic in a five-set marathon. Berdych also reached the last eight, losing to Rafael Nadal.

Wimbledon is the only Grand Slam tournament which does not stick strictly to the ATP ranking list in deciding seedings. In allocating the 32 slots the seedings’ committee takes into account performances on grass over a two-year period.Five-time champion Roger Federer, who extended his winning run on grass to 59 matches when he defended his Halle title last week, is seeded one, while French Open champion Ana Ivanovic, is top seed in the women’s singles after taking over first place in the rankings.

Lleyton Hewitt, the 2002 champion, is seeded at 20, seven higher than his world ranking, but there is no seeding for Croatia’s Mario Ancic, a former semi-finalist and the last man to beat Federer at Wimbledon.

The women’s seedings have stuck rigidly to the top 32 in the world rankings as the seeding committee found no special cases for grass court performances.

The Wimbledon fortnight begins on Monday with the draw being made on Friday.

Seedings:

Men’s singles: 1. Roger Federer (Switzerland), 2. Rafael Nadal (Spain), 3. Novak Djokovic (Serbia), 4. Nikolay Davydenko (Russia), 5. David Ferrer (Spain), 6. Andy Roddick (US), 7. David Nalbandian (Argentina), 8. Richard Gasquet (France), 9. James Blake (US), 10. Marcos Baghdatis (Cyprus), 11. Tomas Berdych (Czech Republic), 12. Andy Murray (Britain), 13. Stanislas Wawrinka

(Switzerland), 14. Paul-Henri Mathieu (France), 15. Fernando Gonzalez (Chile), 16. Radek Stepanek (Czech Republic), 17. Mikhail Youzhny (Russia), 18. Ivo Karlovic (Croatia), 19. Nicolas Almagro (Spain), 20. Lleyton Hewitt (Australia), 21. Juan Carlos Ferrero (Spain), 22. Fernando Verdasco (Spain), 23. Tommy Robredo (Spain), 24. Jarkko Nieminen (Finland), 25. Dmitry Tursunov (Russia), 26. Ivan Ljubicic (Croatia), 27. Nicolas Kiefer (Germany), 28. Gilles Simon (France), 29. Andreas Seppi (Italy), 30. Gael Monfils (France), 31. Feliciano Lopez (Spain), 32. Michael Llodra (France).

Women’s singles: 1. Ana Ivanovic (Serbia), 2. Jelena Jankovic (Serbia), 3. Maria Sharapova (Russia), 4. Svetlana Kuznetsova (Russia), 5. Elena Dementieva (Russia), 6. Serena Williams (US), 7. Venus Williams (US), 8. Anna Chakvetadze (Russia), 9. Dinara Safina (Russia), 10. Daniela Hantuchova (Slovakia), 11. Marion Bartoli (France), 12. Patty Schnyder (Switzerland), 13. Vera Zvonareva (Russia), 14. Agnieszka Radwanska (Poland), 15. Agnes Szavay (Hungary), 16. Victoria Azarenka (Belarus), 17. Alize Cornet (France), 18. Nicole Vaidisova (Czech Republic), 19. Maria Kirilenko (Russia), 20. Francesca Schiavone (Italy), 21. Nadia Petrova (Russia), 22. Flavia Pennetta (Italy), 23. Katarina Srebotnik (Slovenia), 24. Shahar Peer (Israel), 25. Lindsay Davenport (US), 26. Sybille Bammer (Austria), 27. Virginie Razzano (France), 28. Alona Bondarenko (Ukraine), 29. Amelie Mauresmo (France), 30. Dominika Cibulkova (Slovakia), 31. Caroline Wozniacki (Denmark), 32. Sania Mirza (India).—Reuters