Only if the #1 seed from the other semi wins! I'm talking 5 different players. Has that ever happened?
Literally happened at last year's ATP Finals as @Backspin1183 was suggesting.
2014 yec, 2016 yec, 2020 yec of recent years comes to mind
Basically you can if you're ranked low yourself and draw one of the 9 or 10 seeds in the third round and all the rest is according to seeding. It feels really counterintuitive
Yes, but could beat the same player twice.
It happened so many time in recent years like 2020 yec ,where Med defeated five different players
This is it. Would have to beat 9/10 but then have it be in the 5-8 bracket also. Assuming other seeds play out.
I think it is? Beat 5-seed in the 4th Round, 4-seed Quarters, 1-seed semis, 2-seed final.
oh geeze I'm dumb. In my mind I was breaking the bracket in half and thinking the divide would mean that you could only face 3 top 5's at most on one side of the draw.
It wasn't doable, Nadal was healthy.
There are additional possibilities for more than 5 Top 10 wins. Because tournament seedings are not based on rankings as of the week where they are played, it's possible for the rankings to shift so that the seeds don't match the current rankings.
Not always. It's not that uncommon for a 2-0 player to face a 1-1 player where they are both fighting for a SF spot (remember that you can have a three way tie at 2-1).
@RaulRamirez #6gamesoffBorginRG1978
Ha. I just looked at that draw, and obviously Borg was crazy-dominant. Vilas only took 5 total games in the final. "I" did better than anyone, but ...surprisingly, big-serving Roscoe Tanner, who forced a breaker in the 3rd set.
4. I remember showing the graph during AO 2017. Borg, Vilas and Wilander have accomplished it as well.
Insane. At only 18 years of age. The guy had crazy stamina.
lmao
'Becker won exactly 12 points on Lendl's serve and never had a break point, even with the Madison Square Garden crowd of 16,842 pleading with him to make a match of it.'
'He was too good all week. He finished the tournament having lost his serve once in five matches -- and that was in his opener. He never dropped a set and only in that first match against Andres Gomez did he face so much as a break point.'
'He was broken only once in winning all five matches and 13 sets in the Masters. Lendl lost only 60 points on serve, an average of 12 per match.'
'Tonight, for the third straight match, he did not face a break point. He lost only eight points while serving, two of them on double faults.' - After beating Wilander in his SF
'They were soon joined by Lendl, who never faced a break point against Edberg and won the match when Edberg double faulted twice at 30-all in the final game.' - After beating Edberg in his 3rd RR match
Lendl's match against Gomez was actually his opener, so in his final 4 matches of that tournament against the other 4 players ranked in the top 5, he never faced a break point and never conceded more than 4 games in a set. The 2nd set against Gomez, which he came from 3-5 down to win 7-5, was the only time he was under any real pressure.
It's worth pointing out that carpet wasn't really considered to be a particularly 'fast' surface in the 80s as well, and was considered to be a fair one on which players with all styles could do well (both Becker and Lendl played noticeably different on carpet compared to grass).
Glorified exho .. no?
Yeah it's not possible in Slams because of the 32 seed system and 250 points aren't nearly enough to vault a player that many positions
