Defending champion Elena Rybakina will be ready to topple top seed Iga Swiatek at Wimbledon this year.
Swiatek will be the top seed when Wimbledon begins on 3 July but the Pole’s unease on grass means Rybakina will start as favourite.
Big-hitting Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka will also fancy her chances.
Swiatek inherited the world number one ranking when Ash Barty retired in April 2022 and while she has proved a worthy successor to the Australian the majority of her success has come on hardcourts and clay.
Seedings for the singles tournament at Wimbledon are based on world rankings, which are as follows:
1 – Iga Swiatek (Poland)
2 – Aryna Sabalenka (Belarus)
3 – Elena Rybakina (Kazakhstan)
4 – Jessica Pegula (U.S.)
5 – Caroline Garcia (France)
6 – Ons Jabeur (Tunisia)
7 – Coco Gauff (U.S.)
8 – Maria Sakkari (Greece)
9 – Petra Kvitova (Czech Republic)
10 – Barbora Krejcikova (Czech Republic)
11 – Daria Kasatkina (Russia)
12 – Veronika Kudermetova (Russia)
13 – Beatriz Haddad Maia (Brazil)
14 – Belinda Bencic (Switzerland)
15 – Liudmila Samsonova (Russia)
16 – Karolina Muchova (Czech Republic)
17 – Jelena Ostapenko (Latvia)
18 – Karolina Pliskova (Czech Republic)
19 – Victoria Azarenka (Belarus)
20 – Donna Vekic (Croatia)
21 – Ekaterina Alexandrova (Russia)
22 – Anastasia Potapova (Russia)
23 – Magda Linette (Poland)
24 – Zheng Qinwen (China)
Another contender is twice champion Petra Kvitova, who stunned Rybakina to win the Miami Open and warmed up for the grasscourt Slam by winning her second title of the season at the German Open.
Katie Boulter will carry home hopes in the absence of former U.S. Open champion Emma Raducanu, who is recovering from surgery.