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Nadal seeded fifth at Wimbledon

Even though he's the hottest player in men's tennis, reigning French Open champion and two-time Wimbledon titlist Rafael Nadal received only the No. 5 seed at Wimbledon 2013, which will commence Monday at the All England Club.Nadal's fifth seeding means he could meet top-seeded Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic, last year's Wimbledon runner-up and second seed Andy Murray or reigning champ and third seed Roger Federer as early as the quarterfinals at the world's only grass-court Grand Slam event.French Open runner-up David Ferrer is seeded fourth, followed by Nadal, who may have to beat all of the world's top-three players in order to capture a third Wimbledon championship.The draw will be held on Friday.Seeds six-through-10 are former Aussie Open runner-up Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, 2010 Wimbledon runner-up Tomas Berdych, former U.S. Open titlist Juan Martin del Potro, Richard Gasquet and Marin Cilic. The highest-seeded American is 6- foot-10 John Isner, at No. 18.Wimbledon's seeding or...

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