Wimbledon 2011 Seedings

[ruerooo]

Does this mean Murray will have to play Djokovic in the semis ?? and he can avoid the top 2 boys, nadal and Federer til then finals ?

Not as the fourth seed.

A friend of mine explained it thus:

The slots for 1 and 2 are fixed -- one at the top of the draw and the other at the bottom. Seeds 3 and 4 also have fixed slots that ONly they can occupy but EITHER of them can occupy these slots; one in the top half and the other in the bottom half. #3 doesn't automatically head to the bottom half to face #2 and #4 doesn't automatically head to the top to face #1 . They draw lots to figure out where #3 and 4 go. Similarly, the slots for a group #5-8 are fixed as a group, then they draw lots to figure out where they go within those 4 slots. So #5 will not meet a top-4 seed before the quarters but in the quarters he could meet any of seeds 1-4.

http://www.thebigtip.com.au/tennis/wimbledon-seeding-explained

 

[NLBwell]

Wimbledon uses a system of calculating the seedings similar to but a little simpler than Ray Bowers calculates for the slam tournaments on Tennisserver.com.
http://tennisserver.com/
You can look a the methodology on http://www.tennisserver.com/lines/lines_10_06_18.shtml on the "Footnote on Calculations."

Serena and Venus would have calculated pretty low from missing tournaments. Don't know if they arbitrarily raised Serena above the calculated numbers (8 looks a little suspicious - really just as good as 5th seed).