Zen Joined: 22/11/2004 Posts: 2275 Favourite Category: News

As with most tournament competitions, players in Tennis tournaments are "seeded" to determine who plays whom in the first round of the tournament. The number 1 seed is considered the top player in a given bracket; the number 2 seed is second-best; number 3 seed is third best and so on. Seeding is based on that player's current world rank, though a "selection committee" might be used to make the actual determination of who gets what seed in a given bracket of a tournament. Once the players are all seeded, the top seed will play the last seed in the first round, the second-seed will play the second-lowest seed, and so on.

The reason for seeding is to keep the top players in each bracket from meeting each other as long as possible, so that a Number 1 Seed can never defeat a Number 2 seed in the early rounds of a tournament. Likewise the third and fourth seeds will have to go through several rounds against lesser opponents to meet the top-seeded players. This keeps the big names in a tournament as long as possible, as well as ensuring that matches near the end of the tournament will be as exciting and evenly matched as possle

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