Draw ... Lleyton Hewitt will take on Stanislas Wawrinka in the first round. Source: Sang Tan / AP
Lleyton Hewitt and Bernard Tomic have both drawn tough opening-round clashes with seeded players at Wimbledon.
Both Australian players, who head into the grasscourt grand slam on Monday in encouraging form, have avoided the tournament's big guns early but they will need upsets to progress past round one.
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Hewitt, who reached the semi-finals at Queen's last week, faces Swiss 11th seed Stanislas Wawrinka first up.
The Australian veteran has also been lumped in the same quarter of the draw as Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer, who have been lined up as potential quarter-final opponents.
- Men
- TOMIC v Querrey (21)
- HEWITT v Wawrinka (11)
- MATOSEVIC v Rufin
- EBDEN v Nishikori (12)
- DUCKWORTH v Kudla
- REID v Stepanek
- Women
- STOSUR (14) v Schmiedlova
Hewitt would likely meet Nadal in the fourth round if he made it that far.
Tomic, a 2011 quarter-finalist, meets big-serving American Sam Querrey, the 21st seed, in the opening round.
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His section of the draw looks more open than Hewitt's, though he would likely need to beat ninth seed Richard Gasquet and seventh seed Tomas Berdych to reach the quarter-finals, where top seed Novak Djokovic would almost certainly await.
Samantha Stosur, the sole Australian woman in the tournament's singles draw, opens against Slovakian teenager Anna Schmiedlova.
Australian wildcard Matt Ebden will face Japanese 12th seed Kei Nishikori in the first round while the draw was kinder to the other three Australian men in the draw.
Marinko Matosevic gets a good chance to win a grand slam match at his 10th attempt after being pitted against Frenchman Guillaume Rufin.
Qualifier James Duckworth faces American Denis Kudla while Matt Reid takes on Czech veteran Radek Stepanek on his grand slam debut.
The men's draw was good news for Djokovic, the 2011 champion, after second-seeded Andy Murray was also placed in the same half of the draw as Federer and Nadal.
That leaves Djokovic free of facing any of his major rivals until the final.
Third seed Federer and Nadal, who have met 30 times in their careers, were placed in the same quarter of the draw after the Spaniard was only seeded fifth having lost in the second round in 2012.
With an open draw in the early stages, 14th seed Stosur is hoping to progress past the third round for the first time on her least-favoured surface.
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But her reward for doing so would be a likely fourth-round clash with top seed Serena Williams.
Williams, who captured her 16th major at the French Open earlier this month, starts on Tuesday against Luxembourg's Mandy Minella.
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Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska, beaten by Williams in the 2012 final, is also in the same half of the draw.
Second-seeded Victoria Azarenka and Maria Sharapova, the third seed and 2004 champion, are scheduled to meet in the semi-finals in the bottom half of the draw.
Djokovic starts his campaign against Germany's Florian Mayer while Murray, the runner-up to Federer in 2012, starts against another German, Benjamin Becker, who he beat in the quarter-finals at Queen's last week.
Federer opens against Romania's Victor Hanescu.
Nadal, the champion in 2008 and 2010 but whose second-round loss to Lukas Rosol last year put him on the sidelines for seven months, is fresh from his record eighth French Open win.
He begins against Belgium's Steve Darcis.
Hewitt, along with Murray, Federer and Nadal, will play on Monday while Tomic and Stosur begin their campaigns on Tuesday.
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