2009 U.S. Open Seeding

by NawlinsOriole on Aug 26, 2009 5:09 AM EDT Comment 2 comments

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2009 U.S. Open Seeds

Seed	Men	Women
1	Roger Federer	Dinara Safina
2	Andy Murray	Serena Williams
3	Rafael Nadal	Venus Williams
4	Novak Djokovic	Elena Dementieva
5	Andy Roddick	Jelena Jankovic
6	Juan Martin Del Potro	Svetlana Kuznetsova
7	Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	Vera Zvonareva
8	Nikolay Davydenko	Victoria Azarenka
9	Giles Simon	Caroline Wozniacki
10	Fernando Verdasco	Flavia Pennetta
11	Fernando Gonzalez	Ana Ivanovic
12	Robin Soderling	Agnieszka Radwanska
13	Gael Monfils	Nadia Petrova
14	Tommy Robredo	Marion Bartoli
15	Radek Stepanek	Samantha Stosur
16	Marin Cilic	Virginie Razzano
17	Tomas Berdych	Amelie Mauresmo
18	David Ferrer	Na Li
19	Stanislas Wawrinka	Patty Schynder
20	Tommy Haas	Anabel Medina Garrigues
21	James Blake	Jie Zheng
22	Sam Querrey	Daniela Hantuchova
23	Philipp Kohlschreiber	Sabine Lisicki
24	Juan Carlos Ferrero	Sorana Cirstea
25	Mardy Fish	Kaia Kanepi
26	Paul-Henri Mathieu	Francesca Schiavone
27	Ivo Karlovic	Alisa Kleybanova
28	Victor Hanescu	Sybille Bammer
29	Igor Andreev	Maria Sharapova
30	Viktor Troicki	Alona Bondarenko
31	Lleyton Hewit	Elena Vesnina
32	Nicolas Almagro	Agnes Szava

How is Safina still the number one overall seed on the Women's side?

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I wish the seedings were more newsworthy...

I’m in favor of subjecting seedings at every slam. Having Safina be at #1 just doesn’t make sense, nor does having Kanepi ahead of Sharapova and Clijsters.

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by Ben Rothenberg on Aug 26, 2009 10:20 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I think, though, that the US Open people learned their lesson about subjective seeding. Unless they publish some formula like Wimbledon does for messing with seeds, they should probably leave them alone, despite everyone knowing Dinara is NOT the favorite going in. Maria and Kimmie have about an equal chance of winning as Dinara, IMO.

by munchin on Aug 27, 2009 9:25 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs