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is wimbledon fixed so that.......

  • 24-06-2010 6:22pm
    #1
    x in the city
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    The top seeds ALWAYS meet in the final

    Im not a hard core fan, but watching nadal now it got me thinking, if anyone can clarify.

    If so, its pretty f***ed up, the draw should be open, certainly from the quarters onwards, not set up so that the big hitters always reach the final

    williams vs williams

    yawnnnnnnnn

    fed vs nadal

    yawnnnnnnnnnnn


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  • #2
    Johnmb
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    Tennis tournaments at professional (and some amateur levels too!) level are seeded to keep the top players away from each other as long as possible.


  • #3
    I_Am_The_Walrus
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    Federer vs. Nadal = yawnnnnnnnn???

    Don't think so.


  • #4
    Plowman
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  • #5
    x in the city
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    Johnmb wrote: »
    Tennis tournaments at professional (and some amateur levels too!) level are seeded to keep the top players away from each other as long as possible.

    so its basically fixed then,right.


  • #6
    Rob2D
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    Its not fixed. The best guys meet in the final because they're the best. Use your head you idiot. This is basically a troll thread.


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  • #7
    Moist Bread
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    Rob2D wrote: »
    Its not fixed. The best guys meet in the final because they're the best. Use your head you idiot. This is basically a troll thread.

    It is fixed in the sense that the top seeds won't meet till the final, that's what the OP was asking about. I'm sure he wasn't implying it was some sort of conspiracy.

    The seeding system does protect the top players and I think an open draw wouldn't be a bad idea in some of the atp tour 1000 events. It would give them an individual feel and be quite exciting as a change of pace.


  • #8
    K4t
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    Moist Bread wrote: »
    It is fixed in the sense that the top seeds won't meet till the final, that's what the OP was asking about. I'm sure he wasn't implying it was some sort of conspiracy.

    The seeding system does protect the top players and I think an open draw wouldn't be a bad idea in some of the atp tour 1000 events. It would give them an individual feel and be quite exciting as a change of pace.
    But that would adversely effect the ranking system surely. e.g. If Nadal and Federer kept meeting early on in ATP events they would be getting knocked out early in these events while lesser players would be getting ranking points because they didn't have to play one of them and thus had easier draws.

    Also, seeding is there for a reason. The best players going on past record and form are seeded. This does not give them an advantge over someone who is not seeded. When a seeded players steps on court with an unseeded player there is always a 50/50 chance of who will win.


  • #9
    lilka
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    same as football, top seeded teams are put in separate groups for qualifying tournaments, then the next highest seeds into separate groups etc etc. It makes sense, otherwise all the best teams could knock each other out at the group stages depriving us of some of the better teams in the final stages. In tennis, its seed 1 and 3 (I think) go to the top half of the group, seeds 2 and 4 in the bottom etc etc (again this is fair and reasonable) - the best players earn the right to be positioned like this --- same in snooker and I'm sure most sports that have knock out rounds. Whoever wins ultimately has to beat the best players regardless and the best players have won the most tournaments throughout the year so they have earned their seeding


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