Why do the "top", more polished tennis (male& female) players get such overwhelming protection in the draws?
Sampras, Federer, Hingis (for most of her career), Henin, Evert, and even Graf for most of her career. In my opinion, all of these players were consistently blessed with the easiest draws possible in both the slams and regular tier events. In most cases, none of them would even start breaking a sweat until the semis, and okay, in rare cases the finals. Some asked earlier if it was due to beauty contests on the women's side. But as a person who has followed tennis her whole life, I can say without any doubt this has happened alot for certain men players as well. My problem is players such as Agassi, the William sisters, Becker, Clijsters, Roddick, Blake, Nadal, and Seles get put through the ringer a couple times before even reaching the quarters. Is it any wonder that the so called special players barely get tested and go on such long winning streaks? Don't get me wrong, I am of fan of nearly all of the players named. But how can we measure their true greatness if we rarely see it?
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well, I think that the top players are allowed to break the rules a lot. However as for position in draw. If you are saying that they don't break a sweat until the finals, it would be because they are one of the few top players in the tournament. Top ranked players are protected from playing other top ranked players early in tournaments by seeding. Thus puts the No. 1 and 2 seeds on opposite sides of the draw, so that they can only meet in the final, and 3 and 4 seeds one on each side of the draw, so that they won't play the top 2 seeds until the semis. Moreover, I think that the 2nd list of players falls more under the battlers category, that have to fight for thier matches (except the Williamses). Whereas your first list of players are absolute dominators, best in the game. The Williamses often go into tournaments unfit and unprepared.Why arent there women in the Davis Cup for Tennis?
I agree with u & i just asked the same Q. just yesterday with Sharapova. Her side of the draw is always fixed with the weakest tennis players so she could go through & does not encounter any problems until she reaches the Quarter or Semis & that's when she usually loses & usually the chair umpires go easy on her & her bag of tricks & always side with her. Simply the answer is : TENNIS is also corupt like any other sport. She brings money to the Tour Organizers, so it is in their best fiancial inters to see her go through easy , as far as possible.The same goes with the above players that u just mentioned. WE LIVE IN A CORUPT & MATERIALISTIC SOCIETY FROM POLITICS TO SPORT !
Well, Graf most of the time would beat anyone unseeded in under an hour, though her one early loss at Wimbledon was a nasty draw - Lori McNeil, who would have been the #17 seed, in the first round.
Agassi has had it both ways. When he won the US Open for the first time in 1994 as an unseeded player, he had to beat five seeds, but there have been numerous majors in which his draw has parted like the Red Sea. A couple of times he's reached the semis at Wimbledon without meeting anyone in the top 80. And there was the year (probably close to 1996) when the US Open made the draw and then redid it, as a result of which Agassi got a much more favourable quarter of the draw and Kafelnikov got a much worse one. Oddly enough, though, I don't think I recall AA winning any of the majors in which he's had an easy early ride.
Seles through the wringer? She, like Graf, tended to breeze through her matches quickly - they were both members of the Under an Hour Club more often than not. In their best years, the Williams sisters were the same. When they became less dominant, they started having tougher matches, but the draws are not hand-picked, and beyond the first round it's not all that easy to ensure particular matchups even if the tournaments wanted to do so.
During Roddick's best runs, he would rip through early rounds as well. Blake often ought to do so, but goes walkabout, getting into tiebreakers and sometimes losing sets that should be 6-3 or 6-4 at worst. He could be the male equivalent (or nearly) of Evonne Goolagong, about whom there used to be a joke that the way to play her was to lose an easy first set and then she'd get bored and stop concentrating.
Some top players just have the sort of style that may make it look harder or easier. A lot of big servers may have closer-looking scores in matches with fewer games that could have gone either way.
If you like draws in which everyone gets pushed, the gold standard might have been the men's draw in the 1992 US Open. Of the four semifinalists, Courier was the only one not to have a five-setter, though he had a tense and extremely long four-set match against Agassi with Barbra Streisand watching. Sampras had gone five sets against both Guy Forget and Todd Martin. Chang had gone five against Wayne Ferreira and MaliVai Washington. Edberg had come back from a break down in the fifth set against both Krajicek and Lendl, and did so for the third match running against Chang (in the 11:00 semi in one of the longest matches in US Open history) before getting a break and winning the final in four after Sampras found it difficult to recover from the evening semi.
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