Novak Djokovic won Wimbledon in 2011, made the semis in 12 and lost the final in 13. (Clive Brunskill/Getty Images)

Rafael Nadal may be the No. 1 player in the world, but that doesnt mean hell be the No. 1 seed at Wimbledon.

The All England Club doesnt merely adhere to the ATP Tour rankings to determine the 32 seeds. Instead, Wimbledon uses a formula which is applied only for the men that rewards players for their grass-court achievements. Simon Cambers of The Tennis Space has crunched the numbers to conclude the following for this years tournament: Novak Djokovic, who is ranked No. 2, will be the top seed.

Here is how the top five seeds shape up, according to Chambers:

1. Novak Djokovic (ATP ranking: 2) 2. Rafael Nadal (1) 3. Andy Murray (5) 4. Roger Federer (4) 5. Stan Wawrinka (3)

The All England Clubs seeding formula takes a players ATP ranking as of June 16 (the week before Wimbledon), adds all points earned on grass in the previous 12 months and includes 75 percent of points earned from his best grass-court event in the 12 months before that. (The Tennis Space uses ATP rankings as of June 9 and notes that this weeks results at grass-court tune-ups wont alter the projected seedings.)

This system explains Murrays anticipated bump from No. 5 in the ATP rankings to No. 3 seed at the third major of the year: He won Wimbledon and Queens Club last season and made the Wimbledon final in 2012. A No. 3 seed is significant for Murray, who wont have to face a top four player in the quarterfinals.

Wimbledon plans to announce the seeds next Wednesday. The tournament starts on June 23.

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Second-ranked Novak Djokovic was made top seed at next weeks Wimbledon tennis championships, while world No. 1 Rafael Nadal was relegated to second.

Spains Nadal, who won a record ninth French Open title earlier this month by beating Djokovic of Serbia in the final, wont be top seed at the All England Club because of his record on grass over the past two years.

Five-time champion Serena Williams is the womens top seed, ahead of Australian Open champion Li Na of China and Romanias Simona Halep. Polands Agnieszka Radwanska, a former Wimbledon finalist, was seeded fourth.

Wimbledon has its own formula for seeding players, unlike the other three majors, which follow the rankings of the mens ATP World Tour and womens WTA tour. The mens seeds are based on the ATP rankings plus performance on faster grass courts over the past two years. The womens seeding order usually follows the WTA rankings unless organizers need to make a change to balance the draw.

Two-time Wimbledon champion Nadal, 28, last won a match at the tournament in the first round in 2013, before he was upset by Lukas Rosol of the Czech Republic. Nadal, a 14-time major champion, lost in the first round last year to Belgiums Steve Darcis.

Rafael Nadal returns a shot during his men's singles final match against Novak Djokovic on day fifteen of the French Open at Roland Garros in Paris, on June 8. Nadal, who won a record ninth French Open title earlier this month by beating Djokovic of Serbia in the final, wont be top seed at the All England Club because of his record on grass over the past two years. Close

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Rafael Nadal returns a shot during his men's singles final match against Novak Djokovic on day fifteen of the French Open at Roland Garros in Paris, on June 8. Nadal, who won a record ninth French Open title earlier this month by beating Djokovic of Serbia in the final, wont be top seed at the All England Club because of his record on grass over the past two years.

After winning an unprecedented fifth straight Roland Garros championship on June 8, Nadal went to Halle, Germany, to start his grass-court campaign, only to lose his opening round in straight sets to 78th-ranked Dustin Brown of Germany.

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It might be 90-degrees right now, but some in Warrick County are still feeling the effects of the cold. The Tri-State experienced an exceptionally long and cold winter which is causing some problems now on athletic fields. In just six weeks football players will hit the fields again. And the Warrick County School Corporation's maintenance staff certainly has their work cut out for them. One thing they won't have to worry about is cutting the grass because, well, there's not much to cut. "All of our athletic fields that have Bermuda Grass sustained some damage due to the long cold winter" Warrick County Superintendent Brad Schneider says it will cost about $30,000 to resprig six athletic fields. While some maintenance is needed after each winter, this year will take a little extra work to get the fields ready in time. "We still feel very confident that when August rolls around and when football season starts we're going to have a nice stand of grass. Our athletic fields whether it be soccer or football are going to be in excellent shape," said Superintendent Schneider.

The corporation considered laying down sod instead of spriging, but grass experts told leaders that was no longer a viable option. "Just as the golf courses and athletic facilities that have Bermuda Grass were damaged this winter so were the sod fields," said Superintendent Schneider. Other neighboring counties have switched from grass to turf fields. Superintendent Schneider says they've considered that before, but is confident sticking with traditional grass is the right thing to do. "We feel confident that right now that Bermuda and the real grass is a little bit cheaper in the long run and I think our kids prefer playing on real grass." Bennett Field may be 80% brown at the moment, but Bermuda Grass grows very quickly. It could be green and lush within the next six weeks. All it needs is heat and humidity.

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The Master Wishmakers create luxury, bespoke playhouses and even private islands for clients Range in price from 25,000 to over 50,000 Some have slides, pubs, garages and fake helicopters

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Ever dreamed of creating a princess palace or a mini fantasy island for your child, but don't have the time or imagination to build it from scratch?

Now one company is available to come to your rescue, ready to create luxury turreted tree houses, fairy tale woodland castles, magical playhouses, English country garden gazebos and even private islands.

The British company, called The Master Wishmakers, promise that they can custom-design bespoke interpretations of clients aspirations for their loved ones, however farfetched or fantastical.

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Looking for a dog?

The Grand Strand Humane Society, one of many area shelters experiencing overcrowding, is holding two dog adoption events Wednesday and Thursday at the Market Common.

The adoption events will take place alongside Music On The Streets concerts in the retail area of the former Myrtle Beach Air Force base.

Wednesday nights concert is in the gazebos off Howard Avenue and Reed Street. Thursdays concert and adoption will be at Valor Park. Dogs will be available for adoption from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. both days.

We must get 70 to 75 animals adopted into loving homes very quickly, said Sandy Brown, executive director of the Grand Strand Humane Society. Our mission is always to save and find permanent homes for animals in need, but now it is a dire emergency. We will be downsizing our shelter population based on our budget.

We must find permanent homes for the animals already in our care to create space for other animals in the near future. We do not want future unwanted, abandoned and abused animals to go to a kill shelter.

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Premium television's answer to wedding season Games of Thrones is no doubt only popular because of its breathtaking cavalcade of aspirational lifestyle inspiration. Each wedding ceremony in the show seems to be more special and loving than the last, causing its audience to wonder: But how do I get myself one of those? Well! A wedding planner has evaluated each ceremony with ahelpfulline-item analysis.

Sarah Haywood, noted authority on multimillion-dollar weddings," worked with the Daily Dot to thoroughly analyze each ceremony.

Would you like some dancing bears? Only $11,300 each, including insurance and handling! Insurance to back aDothraki wedding, where at least three people are expected to die from having too much fun? $323,559. Flowers to decorate your never-ending gazebos? Half a million. A meal including a stuffed peacock? That's $1,800 per person. A necklace with rare poison? Unsettlingly cheap, at $20. Funds to murder 30,000 of your favorite enemies?$5.6 million.

The whole graph and analysis--from Max Fleishman andRob Price,with references including the British Royal Wedding of 2011 and the Kardashian-West ceremony--is worthpursuinghere. Just print out your favorite one, and you've got your budget all ready to go.

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Next it was back to Tylney, for an idyllic picnic lunch in the pair of restored Italianate gazebos, with Pimms in hand and views over the park and boating lakes. This was a leap backwards in time, from Edwardian garden glory days to the 18th century and a small country mansion, West Green House. Its garden has an equally fractured history, having been saved from ruin by garden magician Marylyn Abbott after an IRA bomb blast. I visited this garden three years ago to report on the garden opera season, and on returning I was amazed to see further development Abbott clearly isnt one to let the grass grow beneath her feet.

The Quinlan Terry follies, the light installations and the potager are now all surrounded with a new streamlined bosky walk, taking you off to pastures new with ribbons of blue Iris sibirica and ferny glades. It was Schultz who connected the various gardens within the grounds he was commissioned to make alterations to the faade of the house, and to redesign the grounds in the early 1900s and each of these gardens has its own story to tell, its own journey from glory to dereliction and back.

Such journeys, and how garden owners decide to travel along them, were examined by Dominic Cole, chairman of the National Trusts Advisory Panel and the Garden History Society, in the talk he gave us over a glass of champagne back at Tylney Hall. As a landscape architect he has developed the Eden Project and Heligan with Tim Smit; designed the grounds at Lowther Castle, the Horniman Museum and Magdalen College; worked on Trentham with Piet Oudolf and Tom Stuart-Smith, and had a hand in one of my favourite spots in London the Roof Garden on Queen Elizabeth Hall.

He has also created gardens from almost everything, including china clay craters, chicken sheds, Christmas tree plantations and local authority tenure.

Dominic believes that although these days we have labour-saving machinery, this cannot compensate entirely for the dramatic decrease in manpower (the Tylney workforce, for instance, has gone from 50 to five). So we need to be pragmatic in our restorations, aiming to capture the spirit of the past rather than recreate its every detail. The discussion carried on over dinner gardeners always make interesting table companions.

When I awoke the next morning, I looked out from my four-poster on the gallery of the Jekyll suite in a converted orangery over her Water Gardens, and wondered whether Jekyll would have agreed with Coles notion that modern gardeners should try to capture the spirit of former times.

Either way, in transforming gardens from the tortuous bedding patterns of the Victorian era to her own light, subtle and billowy style, she has influenced many of todays gardeners.

*Tylney Hall Hotel, near Hook in Hampshire, is planning further Garden Appreciation Weekends; for more information visit tylneyhall.com or call 01256 764881. The Manor House at Upton Grey is open on weekdays; see gertrudejekyllgarden.co.uk. For information about West Green Houses opera season and garden, see westgreenhouse.co.uk.

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