Sports Illustrated's Jon Wertheim breaks down the men's and women's seeds for the 2019 Australian Open. Read on for dark horses, top first-round matches, predicitons and more.
Think of them as tennis’ Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and Bernie Sanders— three ruling stalwarts, still armed with the damn gavel after all these years. The public may eagerly await the arrival of fresh blood, of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib, to shake things up and topple the established order. But we’re not there…yet. Let’s pause and acknowledge that here we are, in 2019, and Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer—combined age: 100—still rule this party.