Jaggy1876 wrote:

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The women's game is different for many reasons I wonder if those matches were over 5 sets of these seeds would have fallen. Probably not. I can already see Novak winning at RG this year and Serena for the women.

I would prefer 16 seeds only to give a better chance of the big guys falling if they get the 17th ranked guy. The disparity in earnings is bad enough without giving the top 8 easy money for the first 3 rounds. That would be interesting.

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Maybe true but the original post didn't say he/she was talking about men only so I assume he/she meant women too

But I'm going for Vika today so we'll see about the sure-fire Serena thing

I'm happy with 32 seeds - a lot of the 17-32 seeds have lost before the round of 32 anyway - and I don't think that seedings should be used as a 'random distribution of funds' tool - it's a fair point that the top 8 get paid a disproportionate amount but there are other ways round that.