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indiana · Tennis legend

Weeks 22 & 23 - French Open (Roland-Garros) - Paris, France (clay) - men's main draw

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
Edited my previous post to.comment on more open seeding brackets.

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JonH comes home · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
Being seeded 5, 9 or 17 are the ones that could always provide big pitfalls compared to just one place higher. I guess its ways been that way although if it was me Id leave 9-16 and 17-32 as completely open seeding brackets, in this day and age I think that is reasonable. Ie no sub groupings of 9-13, 13-16, etc

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Sunday 25th of May 2025 11:56:20 AM
Neither seeds 4 or 5 are bracketed to possibly meet seed 17 in the L32. Seeds 1 to 8 are bracketed against seeds 25 to 32 with seeds 9 to 16 bracketed against seeds 17 to 24.
It's just from the L16 that being seed 5 rather than seed 4 is a bracketing issue.
Seed 5 could of course meet seed 17 in your less structured scenario. Personally I prefer it as it is.

-- Edited by indiana on Sunday 25th of May 2025 01:21:17 PM

Indeed we all have preferences. and most draws are 8 seeds only anyway. Many of the 17/32 seeds fall by the third round, personally Im quite happy for it to open up and not protect the top players more by that stage, but its just preference . Im not going to die in a ditch over it!

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Sunday 25th of May 2025 01:28:18 PM

9vicman · Futures qualifying

It's the way the sport has developed. The initial increase from 16 to 32 seeds to be 'fairer' for top players, with increased prize money etc. And I suspect events would rather have top players meeting at a later stage.

It used to be much stricter, 1v8, 2v7, 3v6, 4v5. And when you had the Wimbledon committee doing their own seedings, it could be quite contentious.

Neil Gee · County player

Jacob Fearnley comes through the first set tie break 8-6 against that 40yo warhorse Stan Wawrinka. It's been a good battle so far with the audience totally behind Wawrinka. Good start, Jake.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Jake starting to look like he has a bit of control - if he can see through this break in set 2, its going to be hard for Stan to win in 5

Jan · Hall of fame

So good seeing Jake go toe-to-toe with Stan the Man
Jake takes the second set

-- Edited by Jan on Monday 26th of May 2025 02:42:53 PM

Priesty · Challenger level

Would love to be able to watch, but not really in a financial position to be able to pay an extra £31 a month for TNT sports furious

Var · Satellite level

Priesty wrote:
Would love to be able to watch, but not really in a financial position to be able to pay an extra £31 a month for TNT sports

Try this https://en.sportplus.live/tennis. Select your match and usually stream 2 works best. Sometimes needs to be reloaded but free to view!

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

First big shock of the tournament: Daniel Altmaier, the German ranked 66th in the world, dumps out Taylor Fritz, the fourth seed & WR 4, by 7-5 3-6 6-3 6-1 biggrin

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Jan wrote:
So good seeing Jake go toe-to-toe with Stan the Mam
Jake takes the second set

Stan the Mam conjured up images !

Jan · Hall of fame

JonH comes home wrote:
Jan wrote:
So good seeing Jake go toe-to-toe with Stan the Mam
Jake takes the second set
Stan the Mam conjured up images !

Oops - sorry

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L128: Jacob Fearnley WR 55 defeated (WC) Stan Wawrinka (SUI) WR 138 by 7-6(6) 6-3 6-2

Annabel Croft on the Beeb's live match commentary:

Jacob Fearnley's rise is incredible. I believe he is the fastest riser up through the ranks for quite some time. To have come through the Challengers that quickly and to move up the world rankings that fast is quite exceptional.

It says something about him as a competitor because it isn't easy to break out of that Challenger circuit. There are so many great players in there so you need a bit of luck or you have to be outstanding as a competitor to keep grinding your way through it.

Bet the crowd wasn't happy! Chris O'Connell or Ugo Humbert (22) for Jake in the last 64.

Jan · Hall of fame

Fab!! Well done Jake

indiana · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
First big shock of the tournament: Daniel Altmaier, the German ranked 66th in the world, dumps out Taylor Fritz, the fourth seed & WR 4, by 7-5 3-6 6-3 6-1

Ha, Fritz didn't make great use of that overall draw he got as seed 4 compared to Jack as seed 5.

Live ranked 4: Draper 4610 points

Live ranked 5: Fritz 4485 - OUT

Live ranked 6: Djokovic 3840

-- Edited by indiana on Monday 26th of May 2025 03:08:24 PM