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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Boston, MA (PRWEB) June 10, 2014

Every dad takes pride in a great looking lawn, so why not make dad happy this Fathers Day with the gift of premium grass seed from Pearls Premium that is sure to give pops the greenest and most drought resistant grass hes ever had? Something else that all dads love? Saving money with this grass homeowners save on their water bill and with Pearls Premiums special 10 percent Fathers Day discount code dad will be even more happy to know his green grass was on sale.

To take advantage of Pearls Premium Fathers Day discounts visit their website at http://www.PearlsPremium.com and enter promo code DAD2014.

Across the country customers are raving about the greatness of Pearls Premium. Homeowner David, of Weston, MA, is 90 years young and still mows his lawn. He says, "It was easy to install, softer and easier to mow than my old grass! I love the low maintenance of it all, because I now cut the grass only once a month to look like this. I have better things to do with my time than cutting the grass. I also want to save our precious and limited drinking water."

Like many others, David has found the secret to maintaining the perfect lawn all summer long, Pearls Premium grass seed. Maintaining Pearls Premium takes only a small amount of time and requires far less water, which eases the burden on homeowners wallets.

Pearls Premium can be planted right over an existing lawn to create a new lawn that will look amazing in spite of heat and water bans this summer.

According to Dr. Alex Lu of the Harvard School of Public Health, many chemicals used on lawns have been linked to an increased risk of learning and behavioral problems for children, as well as increased risk for Asthma, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease, Sexual Dysfunction, Cancer and Leukemia.

What to do? The secret to great grass is when and what to plant along with a few other best management tips like mowing 3.5 inches tall, leave the clippings, always use a sharp blade, deeply and infrequently water and use a better deep root seed. Some say, starting with the right seed is one of the most important parts of a good lawn. The right seed can help address global health by saving water and preventing chemical run off, and lessen climate change with extreme deep roots to sequester carbon out of the air.

Timing: Plant in the next two weeks for warm climates and for the next month in cooler climates. Plant later in the summer using the Hydro-seeding method. There is a new game changing, breakthrough grass that recently won a National Award for innovation by the Boston Museum of Science for being one of the three most important patented inventions from New England. It turns out that you can easily and dramatically improve your lawn after the most intense two years of weather droughts and floods in recorded history for 60% of US by over-seeding with this ultra low maintenance grass seed.

Pearls Premium is a wonderful gift to promote a money and water saving, safe and healthy lawn. Find Pearls Premium grass at some Whole Foods Markets, at many quality garden centers, and online at http://www.PearlsPremium.com. Use promo code DAD2014 when ordering for a 10 percent discount until June 22, 2014.

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Ana Ivanovic, a grand slam winner and seven times a season-end top 20 player reached the first grass court final of her career on Saturday at the Birmingham Open.

The 26-year-old former world number one from Serbia did that with a thumping 6-2 6-2 win over Zhang Shuai, a steadily improving Chinese player contesting her first Premier level event in only her second grass court tournament.

By contrast Ivanovic has been trying to overcome the uncertainties of this surface for most of her career, and claimed she is finally achieving that at the Wimbledon buildup event.

She certainly hit the ball with unstoppable force off the ground, especially from the forehand, and grew conspicuously in confidence as the match went on.

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However that happened only after an indifferent start in which she went 0-2 down

"It was important to stay calm, because it's grass and it can slip away from you fast," she said. "I was happy to stay calm and get back into the match."

She also did so by improving her ratio of first serves, creating a better platform for her ground-stroking power, which in turn made Zhang feel that she had to do more with the ball, bringing more errors.

The 25-year-old from Tianjin sometimes generated the rhythm and the angles which had helped her to three good wins during the week, but found it difficult to reverse the tide of the match once it had turned against her.

After going 0-3 down in the second set Zhang showed brief signs of getting back into it at 2-4, but at that stage Ivanovic found some of her most flowing tennis which almost made her look like a grass court natural.

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Sabine Lisicki

The German, 24, is the closest thing to a grass-court baby you could get. Of her five Wimbledon main-draw appearances, Lisicki has reached the last eight on four occasions, including a semi-final appearance in 2011 and a runners-up finish behind Marion Bartoli last year. She might encapsulate tennis fans worldwide with her beaming smile, but it is her doggedness on the court that has seen her shine on the grass. She beat three major winners on her way to the SW19 final in 2013, what's the bet she becomes one herself in '14?

Zarina Diyas

This Kazakh could be one hell of a surprise packet come Wimbledon. Diyas was 10-2 in grass-court tournaments last year, all three of which she played on the ITF Tour on Japan. While she did not have a top-200 opponent coming up against her, she did beat rising Swiss teenager Belinda Bencic to win the $25,000 tournament in Makinohara. She has won 17 of 23 pro-tour matches on the surface. You can't buy that experience at age 20. One to watch.

Camila Giorgi

The pint-sized Italian has fourth- and third-round appearances at Wimbledon to her name, and she is only 22. While her name has been tarnished by reports she and her camp ripped off people who invested in her, the French resident has gone on her merry way, rising to 50th in the world, and enjoying success on the grass. It has taken an eventual finalist to bring her down at her past two visits to the All England Club, while in 2011, she was ousted by eventual quarter-finalist Tsvetana Pironkova on Wimbledon debut. A kinder draw in London, and Giorgi can do some damage.

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Hot, rainy weather is nirvana for weeds. Check out my garden if you don't believe me.

The weeds that drive me nuts the rest of the year are familiar, their points of origin clear. Such perennial weeds as Canadian thistle, oxalis, quack grass, plantain, bindweed, wild violet and dock survive no matter how vigorously I went after them the year before.

Annual weeds like dandelions are just as bad. Their seeds blow in from neighboring yards even if mine are all dug up -- not that they ever are. Equally annoying are the acorns that rain down on my garden in late summer and produce wire-stemmed seedlings so tenacious that I have to use pliers to pull them up the following spring.

Then there are the self-seeding annuals and perennials that I planted myself. These include a nonsterile catmint (never again!), cushion spurge, California poppies, creeping Jenny, wild petunias, an heirloom morning glory called Grandpa Ott ... the list goes on.

I like drumstick alliums. I used to love them. I'm not referring to Purple Sensation, a hybrid whose stems are strong enough to hold its flowers aloft. I mean the tall, skinny ones that reproduce so thickly they collapse before a single bud has appeared. Unless given something to lean on -- like an upright sedum or a stout boxwood hedge -- they flower in the prone position.

At first I thought the onions were some native grass I'd invited onto my boulevard strip. On closer inspection, I sniff the same monster that had tried to suffocate the Angelina sedum, English thyme and hardy geraniums on my brick terrace. I must have pulled up thousands -- no, tens of thousands -- of the pea-size bulbs. The best time to weed is after a hard rain, by the way.

I've left most of the Egyptian walking onions alone, even though they've also multiplied many times over since last summer. Their tall grayish-green and -- at this time of year -- erect stems make a bold vertical statement against spreading conifers and creeping sedums.

I know they soon will produce onions at the tips of their tubular stalks and that the onions will cause the stalks to bend under their weight and topple, whereupon another stalk -- this time in a prone position -- will shoot off from the first.

Thus, the plant will begin its stroll through the garden, here and there sprouting new bulbs, roots and plants. Around mid-July, the original stalks will begin to age, turning brown and unattractive. That's when I'll begin to question the wisdom of planting Egyptian walking onions in the first place.

On the other hand, every garden needs its eccentrics.

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A major section of the Waldron Street reconstruction, begun last July, should be completed by next Friday.

All that remains to be done, according to an update from the citys Engineering Department, is new asphalt paving of the outer lanes of 17th Avenue at Waldron, adding lane markings on Waldron, on the repaved portions of south hospital drive and on 17th and some final grading, erosion control maintenance and grass seeding.

The $1.1 million project involved reconfiguring Waldron between 17th and 23rd Avenues into three lanes with a center turn lane. About 2,000 vehicles a day make left turns off Waldron into various businesses, including Hutchinson Regional Medical Center, the Hutchinson Clinic and the Dialysis Center. A new road base was built, along with new curbs and gutters and an 8-foot-wide sidewalk on the east side of Waldron. A right turn lane from westbound 17th Avenue onto Waldron also was added.

The construction was done in several phases to maintain access to the medical facilities throughout the work.

This past week construction workers finished milling and paving Waldron from the south hospital drive to 17th as well as the center lanes of 17th between Waldron and K-61. They also installed a railing along the Waldron walkway over a drainage ditch just south of 23rd and completed electrical work at 17th.

On Friday, the only portion of Waldron still closed was between the south hospital drive and the entrance to the Dialysis Center.

According to the update by Senior Civil Engineer Michael Kramer, the outer lanes of 17th, which were milled this week, should be repaved on Monday. Pavement markings are scheduled to be added on Wednesday and all of Waldron is expected to be open to through traffic by the end of the week.

Design work for the final phase of the reconstruction of Waldron between 23rd and 30th Avenues has been completed, and work to relocate utility lines is underway. The city will solicit bids on the street construction in December, and that work is expected to begin during the 2015 construction season.

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CNS Canada Seeding in Alberta is nearing completion, with about 90 per cent of the crop reported in the ground as of Friday, despite the southern part of the province starting about two weeks later than normal.

Although it was a late start to the year, we had really good conditions for people to get the crop in, said Harry Brook, a crop specialist with Albertas provincial Ag-Info Centre in Stettler. There were very few interruptions.

The crops that havent been seeded yet are mostly for swath grazing and greenfeed, he said, adding there werent too many crops seeded outside of their optimal windows.

Overall, crop conditions are good so far, as most regions received at least half an inch of rain to start the season and help with emergence. But more rain will be needed soon across the province, said Brook.

That (rain) has all gone into germination, but theres not much subsoil moisture down there, he added.

Forecasts call for variable rain showers in some parts of the province next week, but nothing really widespread across the province, according to Brook.

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Forage crops look good so far, but grass may see some productivity problems this summer because there were a lot of cattle sent to pasture too early this spring.

I think guys just ran out of hay; we had such a long severe winter and people went through their feed supplies faster than they expected, Brook added.

There arent too many concerns about disease or insect damage yet, though there has been some canola sprayed for flea beetles. Cutworms werent a big problem as of early June, as the insect seems to be at its low cycle in Alberta.

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Boston, MA (PRWEB) June 05, 2014

Every dad takes pride in a great looking lawn, so why not make dad happy this Fathers Day with the gift of premium grass seed from Pearls Premium that is sure to give pops the greenest and most drought resistant grass hes ever had. Something else that all dads love? Saving money with this grass, you save 34 on your water bill and with Pearls Premiums special 10 percent Fathers Day discount code dad will be even more happy to know his green grass was on sale! Across the country customers are raving about the greatness of Pearls Premium. Homeowner David, of Weston MA, is 90 years young and still mows his lawn. He says, "It was easy to install, softer and easier to mow than my old grass! I love the low maintenance of it all, because I now cut the grass only once a month to look like this. I have better things to do with my time than cutting the grass. I also want to save our precious and limited drinking water."

Like many others, David has found the secret to maintaining the perfect lawn all summer long, Pearls Premium grass seed. Maintaining Pearls Premium takes only a small amount of time and requires far less water, which eases the burden on homeowners wallet. Pearls Premium can be planted right over an existing lawn to create a new lawn that stays green in spite of heat, cold, and water bans this summer.

According to Dr. Alex Lu of the Harvard School of Public Health, many chemicals used on lawns have been linked to an increased risk of learning and behavioral problems for children, as well as increased risk for Asthma, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease, Sexual Dysfunction, Cancer and Leukemia. Having a green lawn is safer and healthier.

What to do? The secret to great grass is when and what to plant. So a slower growing, deep root grass that is organic and doesnt need chemicals, is the healthier safer solution along with a few other best management tips like mowing 3.5 inches tall, leave the clippings, always use a sharp blade, deeply and infrequently water and use a better deep root seed. Some say, starting with the right seed is one of the most important parts of a good lawn. The right seed can help address global health, by saving water and preventing chemical run off, and lessen climate change with extreme deep roots to sequester carbon out of the air.

Timing: Plant in the next two weeks for warm climates and for the next month in cooler climates. Plant later in the summer using the Hydro-seeding method or in the fall There is a new game changing, breakthrough grass that recently won a National Award for innovation by the Boston Museum of Science for Being one of the 3 most important patented inventions from New England. It turns out that you can easily and dramatically improve your lawn after the most intense two years of weather droughts and floods in recorded history for 60% of US; by over-seeding with this ultra low maintenance grass seed.

Pearls Premium is a wonderful gift to promote a money and water saving, safe and healthy lawn. This is the improved 4th generation Pearl's Premium Ultra Low Maintenance Lawn Seed, that is more drought, weed, bug and disease tolerant than most grass. It is the result of 10 years of intense research by Jackson Madnick with assistance by a number of PhD grass experts. Two White Houses, the UN and Al Gore have commended Madnicks past work.

Find Pearls Premium grass at some Whole Foods Markets, at many quality garden centers, and online at http://www.PearlsPremium.com. Put in coupon code DAD2014 online for a 10% discount until June 22, 2014.

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Substantial vandalism to the old Central School site in Ottawa destroyed week-old grading and grass seeding.

"Everything was looking good, despite the rain," said Commissioner of Public Property Dan Aussem. "However, some vandals decided to drive through the area and tore it up pretty bad."

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