Andy Murray became the first British winner at Wimbledon in 77 years last year. Photograph: Rex/Rex Features
Andy Murray will start the defence of his Wimbledon title by facing Belgian David Goffin on Monday in the tournament's first round. The 23-year-old Goffin will compete in his third Wimbledon championships and is currently ranked 104 in the world.
Murray, the third seed who became the first British winner at Wimbledon for 77 years last summer and will enter the tournament with Amelie Mauresmo as his new coach, is in the same half of the draw as the top seed Novak Djokovic.
Djokovic will face Andrey Golubev of Kazakhstan. The Serb could meet Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the fourth round and Tomas Berdych in the last eight.
Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal will begin their campaigns on Tuesday. The seven-time champion Federer faces Paolo Lorenzi of Italy and could then meet Julien Benneteau or Gilles Müller.
Nadal, who won his ninth French Open title at the beginning of June, has a potentially testing opening two rounds: he plays Slovakia's Martin Klizan before a possible second-round match with Lukas Rosol- who beat the Spaniard in the second round in 2012.
Britain's James Ward will face the 17th seed Mikhail Youzhny in a tough first-round pairing, the 31-year-old Russian ranked 16th in the world. Dan Evans will play 23-year-old Russian Andrey Kuznetsov, currently rated world No114, in a far more comfortable draw. Kyle Edmund will come up against the Austrian Andreas Haider-Maurer, the world No96.
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