Main draw is out at 3.30pm UK today (instead of the originally planned 5pm).

While I would never wish for a specific withdrawal, I've kind of been hoping since Sunday that one of the seeds who were a doubt, and there does seem to be a few, would withdraw before the draw was released so that Paula Badosa would be seeded, but if they are 50/50, then it clearly makes sense for them to delay their withdrawal as late as possible, maybe even to look at the draw to see if that influences their mindset.

It'll happen all the time, players getting bumped from 33 to 32 after the draw has been made, and the subsequent draw rejigging, but I've never really had a player massively on my radar who was just outside the cut off. It must be weird for those type of players to not fully know who they are playing right up until when the first OOP is released. It can work both ways (and she could benefit from a kinder draw), but it would be awful if she drew the likes of WC Babel in R1, an out of form 17-24 seed in R2, someone like Bencic in R3 (who she has beaten twice on clay in recent weeks), so favourite to make the L16, and then all of a sudden a seed like Azarenka, Bertens, Riske etc. withdraws between the draw and when the first OOP is released, she is subsequently bumped to a seed, ends up playing an Ostapenko in R1, and a projected 1-8 seed like Barty or Swiatek in R3.