Wimbledon Draw

The draw for the third Grand Slam of the year at Wimbledon has been released and Maria is seeded No.5 and will play Anna Chakvetadze of Russia in the first round on Tuesday.

Maria has played 50th ranked Chakvetadze six times before and leads the series 6-0 - the last meeting was in 2007 and they have never played on grass.

The first seed, Maria can meet is No.32 seed Lucie Safarova of the Czech Republic in the third round.  Maria is seeded to meet No.10 seed Samantha Stosur of Australia in the fourth round.  Top seed Caroline Wozniacki is a possible opponent in the quarters.

This will be Maria's ninth Wimbledon and the highlight of course was her magical run in 2004 when she won.  Last year Maria lost in the fourth round to the eventual champion Serena Williams.