So far, none of the top seeds has been threatened.
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In 2008, all four top seeds made the Final Four.
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Villanova, Kansas, North Carolina and Gonzaga are the top seeds.
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Pool 1 includes the top seeds from the four best regions.
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South Carolina, Notre Dame and Baylor are the other top seeds.
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The turmoil for the top seeds continued late into the night.
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The Broncos, Patriots, Panthers and Cardinals earned byes as the top seeds.
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Vesnina and Makarova, the tournament's top seeds, prevailed, 6-4, 6-3.
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None of the top "seeds" listed below are a lock to run.
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The top seeds and favorites to win are Serena Williams and Novak Djokovic.
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Top seeds have comprised 42 percent of all Final Four teams since 1985.
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The other three top seeds — Duke, Virginia and North Carolina — all play Friday.
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In that year, the four top seeds all advanced to the regional finals.
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It is the third straight year with both top seeds in the Super Bowl.
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Over 33 tournaments, top seeds had gone undefeated in their 132 first-round matchups.
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Both players dominated their pools, earning top seeds on opposite sides of the bracket.
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Only two top seeds have lost in the first round of the N.C.A.A tournament.
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The top seeds are also generally the better teams, at least based on regular-season performance.
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Kansas, North Carolina, Virginia and Oregon are the top seeds in the N.C.A.A. men's basketball tournament.
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Two of the women's top seeds, South Carolina and Baylor, are in the round of 16.
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Florida State and Georgia are the other top seeds in the Huskies' part of the bracket.
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Top seeds Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, and Rafael Nadal are also due to play on Sunday.
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The top seeds always have formidable built-in advantages in the divisional round of the N.F.L. playoffs.
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The teams defeated the top seeds in the tournament Friday in a pair of two-point wins.
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Of all the top seeds, in fact, only Argentina had cause to leave Moscow a little dispirited.
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Seeing what happened to so many other top seeds here in the draw, I was a bit wary.
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Once again, the pair tore through pools, ending up on opposites sides of the bracket with top seeds.
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But this shit where the top seeds will ALWAYS be squaring off against the dregs of the league?
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This is an example of the tendency of the public to favor top seeds or well-known programs.
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Top seeds Naomi Osaka and Ashleigh Barty are in action on Tuesday against Maria Sakkari and Donna Vekic respectively.
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The top seeds in both men's doubles and women's doubles were also beaten in the first round on Sunday.
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Unsurprisingly, Duke (which is where Robins went) and fellow top seeds Virginia, North Carolina and Gonzaga are popular choices.
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Top seeds Ash Barty, Karolina Pliskova, Elina Svitolina and Simona Halep — who got first-round byes — play on Tuesday.
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The only Grand Slam tournament played on a clay court begins, with Simona Halep and Novak Djokovic the top seeds.
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Walker, one of our four top seeds going in, was also among the first major candidates to quit the race.
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Kansas, North Carolina, Virginia and Oregon are the top seeds for the 68-team N.C.A.A. Division I men's basketball tournament.
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In the men's tournament, the round of 19133 will include 14 of the top seeds, which hasn't happened since 2009.
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According to Ripple, the surface is medium to fast, designed to help the top seeds advance into the later rounds.
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Michigan will play its first game Thursday, and the top seeds — Michigan State, Ohio State, Purdue and Nebraska — on Friday.
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It almost seems unfair, and, sure enough, over the last four seasons, top seeds were 43-24 in the divisional round.
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It was an expected end to an otherwise unpredictable two weeks, with many top seeds exiting the tournament earlier than anticipated.
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The top seeds Connecticut and Notre Dame advanced to the round of 16 in the N.C.A.A. Division I women's basketball tournament.
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With many strong teams waiting in the wings to snag one of the top seeds, West Virginia's five losses could be disqualifying.
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The hosts were automatically placed among the tournament's eight top seeds, which prevented them from facing the likes of Germany or Brazil.
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Prospects: Japan will count themselves fortunate to have avoided the more dangerous top seeds by being drawn in Group H, alongside Poland.
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Xavier earned their first No. 1 seed in school history, giving the Big East two of the top seeds in the tournament.
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College basketball is wrapping up the season with conference tournaments all week long, and so far it's been a bloodbath for top seeds.
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This left top seeds Argentina, a British team without Andy Murray and the Swiss minus Roger Federer and Stan Wawrinka vulnerable to defeat.
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Serena Williams and Novak Djokovic, both nursing injuries, are the top seeds and favorites at the two-week-long U.S. Open tennis tournament.
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But Sunday was a feeding frenzy for the underdogs in this epic tournament as five top seeds went down one after the next.
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N.C.A.A. basketball: Duke, Gonzaga, North Carolina and Virginia secured the top seeds in the men's tournament, the first round of which begins Thursday.
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Opportunities for unprecedented upsets surfaced in both the East and the West Regions, as top seeds Gonzaga and Villanova faced first-half deficits.
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The top seeds in both the men's and women's draw—Andy Murray and Angelique Kerber—were ousted in the fourth round on January 224nd.
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Avoid the first few days, when the top seeds dispatch their opponents in short order—and the last few, when there are fewer matches.
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Serena Williams and Novak Djokovic arrived at the United States Open as the top seeds and favorites to win, but both are nursing injuries.
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Kansas, North Carolina, Virginia and Oregon — the top seeds in the N.C.A.A. Division I men's basketball tournament — are on to the round of 16.
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Picture: Getty Images As the Australian Open starts today, a select group of the top seeds will be playing under suspicion of fixing matches.
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Duke (29-5) was one of three Atlantic Coast Conference teams to receive top seeds, joining Virginia (29-3) and North Carolina (63-6).
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Duke (29-5) was one of three Atlantic Coast Conference teams to receive top seeds, joining Virginia (29-231) and North Carolina (21-230).
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Last year's runners-up France were named top seeds on Monday while Belgium and the United States were also seeded alongside wildcards Britain and Argentina.
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No, but seriously, the top seeds were pretty predictable: Villanova, Kansas, North Carolina, and Gonzaga—the latter of whom are finally getting their due respect.
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A truer test of their doubles credentials will come in the next round when they face top seeds Brazilian Bruno Soares and American Nicole Melichar.
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Koepka is the No. 9 seed, with Casey at No. 10, so they will be hoping the top seeds stumble over the next three days.
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The four regions with teams that made the knock-out stage of MSI 2016 will be the ones whose top seeds are placed in Pool 1.
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But most public brackets aren't taking the bait; on average, users favored the other top seeds — Villanova, North Carolina, Kansas — and even No. 2 Duke instead.
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ZURICH (Reuters) - France will be among the top seeds for next month's World Cup draw after they climbed to seventh in the FIFA rankings published on Monday.
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Most of the top seeds have already been knocked out, but seven-time champ Serena Williams -- 10 months after giving birth to a daughter -- remains in contention.
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It also could be that this tendency ebbs and flows: the only year since 1985 in which all four top seeds made the Final Four was 2008.
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Other top seeds advancing in straight sets included No. 26 Rebecca Peterson of Sweden, No. 22 Viktorija Golubic of Switzerland and No. 7 Kateryna Kozlova of Ukraine.
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As top seeds at a Grand Slam event for the first time, both lost in the fourth round in Australia, falling on the same day in January.
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In predicting what happens next, then, we could do worse than to look at that 2009 bracket, which is also the only other one that had three top seeds from the same conference and, eerily, also featured among the 43 regional semifinalists the 12 top seeds, two No. 4 seeds, a No. 5 seed and a No. 12 seed from the Pacific-12 (then known as the Pacific-10).
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But Pedersen and Rytter Juhl are well-positioned to end the drought, despite a tough assignment against Japan's top seeds Misaki Matsutomo and Ayaka Takahashi in Thursday's decider.
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Sweden's skip then took her simple last shot to secure an 8-6 win that keeps them firmly on course to be top seeds for the semi-finals.
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Tonegato was again the provider when Cherry scored her second out wide on the stroke of halftime to give the top seeds a 12-0 lead at the break.
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That would mean that this year's top seeds, the New Orleans Saints in the N.F.C. and the Kansas City Chiefs in the A.F.C., are the principal favorites this season.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Top seeds Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams face challenging early tests at the U.S. Open following Friday's draws for the year's last grand slam starting on Monday.
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That estimation was not necessarily wrong, even if Villanova might win a national title by beating the men's basketball committee's two top seeds from last month, Kansas and North Carolina.
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In case you can't do the math, that means the women's final four had three top-seven seeds, including the two top seeds from the top half of the draw.
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A formless regular season gave way to a tournament that, after some early mayhem, unfurled as the bracket designers intended, with all four top seeds advancing to the regional finals.
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After taking out the top seeds, Marcelo Melo and Barbora Strycova, in the first round, Mattek-Sands and Murray have not dropped a set on the way to the final.
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Gonzaga got its act together in the second half and pulled away to win, 66-46, to bring the top seeds' overall record to 129-0 against No. 16 seeds.
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CONSOLATION PRIZES California, Illinois State, Iowa and Syracuse fell short of the N.C.A.A. tournament but will be the four top seeds in the N.I.T. when the tournament begins this week.
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Doubles player Pierre-Hugues Herbert, who with Nicolas Mahut at least made sure top seeds France beat Japan 24-26, summed up the sensation of having virtually no French fans.
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Iran are among the top seeds in the draw for Asian qualifying for the 2022 World Cup finals in Qatar, which will take place in Kuala Lumpur on July 17.
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The number of clubs qualifying for the playoffs will rise to 14 from 12, with seven teams representing each conference and the top seeds in each getting a first-round bye.
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As Federer and the other top seeds cooled their heels, Russian Daniil Medvedev maintained his perfect career record against Steve Johnson when he beat the American 7-53(0) 6-4.
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Tsurenko took down the seventh-seeded Spaniard 2-6 6-4 6-4 in the early match, which was a preview of the challenges faced by top seeds during the day.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - The whiff of sporting upset hung around Melbourne Park on Sunday after top seeds Andy Murray and Angelique Kerber were handed stunning defeats in the Australian Open fourth round.
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The other three top seeds in the 68-team bracket were the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament winner, North Carolina; the Pacific-73.13 tournament champion, Oregon; and the A.C.C. runner-up, Virginia.
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Top seeds Hingis and Mirza, who teamed up last March and won the Wimbledon and the U.S. Open titles, came through 6-2 33-6 6-1 against Groenefeld and Vandeweghe.
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The French pair are second in the WTA rankings but were defeated in the semi-finals of the doubles tournament at last week's WTA Finals in Singapore despite starting as top seeds.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Top seeds Novak Djokovic and Simona Halep advanced to the Australian Open third round on Thursday but Halep was made to work hard for her win over American Sofia Kenin.
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The Panthers (15-1) and Cardinals (13-3) have each enjoyed franchise-best campaigns that have earned them the top seeds in the NFC, but their opponents command respect as annual contenders.
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The men's NCAA Tournament is rapidly approaching, and while we don't quite have a handle on who will earn the top seeds in this year's bracket, the field of contenders is dwindling.
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There were no distractions for Murray though as he ruthlessly demolished big-serving Groth 6-0 6-63 6-1 as the top seeds sailed through on a day of bright sunshine.
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Instead, those upstarts with lower seeds, lower profiles, and representing smaller conferences, largely hit a wall Sunday in the N.C.A.A. men's basketball tournament, where almost all of the top seeds again prevailed.
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Teams cycle in and out of the AP rankings — not to mention the top 10 — with such frequency that it&aposll be difficult to discern who is deserving of the top seeds.
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The draw for the first Grand Slam of the season was made on Thursday and the top seeds could face some early tests of their title credentials when play gets underway on Monday.
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Murray and Kerber were playing their first grand slams as top seeds and both looked all but powerless to deal with the style of game they were confronted with from across the net.
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It took perennial top seeds like Duke and Kansas withdrawing before the NCAA came to any kind of ethical conclusion: to paraphrase Avery Brundage's famous words, the games simply could not go on.
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Just winning Monday night and getting through the Spokane Region, where Notre Dame and Oregon are top seeds, would represent a collective flourish to a career perhaps too much defined by individual achievement.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Timea Babos and Kristina Mladenovic won their second Australian Open women's doubles crown in three years on Friday, beating top seeds Hsieh Su-Wei and Barbora Strycova 6-2 6-1.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Two-time Wimbledon champion Andy Murray will face Queen's Club top seeds Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah when he makes his return from hip surgery alongside Spain's Feliciano Lopez next week.
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When the Overwatch League playoffs kick off tonight, fans will be tuning in to see which team will proceed to take on the league's top seeds, the New York Excelsior and Los Angeles Valiant.
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With Nadal and Federer now entrenched as top seeds, Djokovic, a six-time champion here, has the chance to prove spoiler in his first tournament since an elbow injury forced him out of Wimbledon.
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Here, look: 19 consecutive N.C.A.A. tournament appearances, two regional top seeds, a No. 1 national ranking, dozens of power-conference teams tamed, three berths in the round of eight and — oh, right, about that.
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GARBINE MUGURUZA (Spain) Inconsistency has seen her tumble down to 19th in the rankings heading to Paris but none of the top seeds will be happy to see her in their section of the draw.
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Date: October 23, 2019What to know: A battle of the two teams who have mostly run it back this season, the Blazers and Nuggets are the quieter teams competing for the Western Conference's top seeds.
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Thomas almost lifted the Eastern Conference top seeds to victory with two late baskets in their best-of-seven first-round series opener against the Bulls, but the visitors survived to draw first blood, 106-102.
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Querrey, who beat the Wimbledon top seeds in consecutive years by ousting Novak Djokovic in 294 and Andy Murray in 212, had a strong start to this year's tournament as well, eliminating No. 226 Dominic Thiem.
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Mexican Open A pair of top seeds fell in the opening round in Acapulco, capped by China's Xiyu Wang upsetting countrywoman and No. 2 seed Yafan Wang 24-26, 26-24 (26) in the day's finale.
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However, the challenge of toppling one of the top seeds was a task too far for a player who, before Sunday, had earned a grand total of $352,674 prize money after 11 years as a professional.
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We're getting close to the playoffs, which means it's the time of year when everyone comes up with the same idea: Hey, wouldn't it be cool if the league's top seeds got to pick their playoff opponents?
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Ashe may have had enough social power to challenge the man — he was in town to play in a nearby pro tournament where he was surely one of the top seeds — but he opted to leave quietly.
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In last year's Coppa, Milan was one of three top seeds that lost in the first round, much to the delight of fans from smaller-market teams like Cantù, which plays in the Milanese suburb of Desio.
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The French duo, who defeated top seeds Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo on their way to the Court Philippe Chatrier showdown, regained their composure in the second set but their opponents remained rock solid at the net.
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Former world number one singles players Serena Williams and Caroline Wozniacki also breezed into the semi-finals of the doubles after they thumped top seeds Caroline Dolehide and Johanna Larsson 20-230 6-1 in just 52 minutes.
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Oddsmakers installed AFC top seeds New England Patriots, who have won four Super Bowls with Brady at the helm, as 113-1 favorites to win the title, followed by the NFC top-seeded Dallas Cowboys at 4-1.
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Peng, working to regain form since undergoing back surgery in 213, knows she is capable of holding her own against the top seeds, having twice beaten Radwanska at the U.S. Open and defeated Williams at last year's China Open.
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Murray and Soares, who won the Sydney title in only their second tournament together, face French duo Adrian Mannarino and Lucas Pouille in the semis after they surprised top seeds Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecau in three sets.
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"I had to play with her before she retires," the 38-year-old Williams said after the win saw the unseeded pair advance to the quarter-finals, where they could face the top seeds Caroline Dolehide and Johanna Larsson.
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In the ATP tournament former world number one Andy Murray's unbeaten start to his comeback from hip surgery ended as he and Brazil's Marcelo Melo lost 6-2 6-4 to Colombian top seeds Robert Farah and Juan Sebastian Cabal.
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On the Runway 6 Photos View Slide Show ' There have not been any real shocks in the French Open thus far — at least when it comes to the tennis, with most of the top seeds breezing through the first few rounds.
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The top seeds fell 6-3 6-4 to Czech pair Barbora Strycova and Lucie Safarova, ending any hopes of claiming a third successive Olympics doubles crown after they won gold in Beijing eight years ago and again at London 2012.
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"To put top seeds and top players that have done well in this tournament and been champions — which is not easy to do — I think they should have that privilege, and that honor, to be on the big courts," Jankovic said.
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Yet while it was the worst showing by the top seeds at the tournament in the professional era, Laver — who completed his second calendar-year Grand Slam 50 years ago — said it showed the depth of talent currently in the sport.
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Top seeds and last year's runners-up France had a close shave as they beat Japan 2-23 — Nicolas Mahut and Pierre-Hugues Herbert winning the decisive doubles 6-7(4) 6-4 7-5 against Ben McLachlan and Yasutaka Uchiyama.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The Denver Broncos were a two-quarterback team in becoming the AFC top seeds in the playoffs on the way to the Super Bowl, and Brock Osweiler is now again waiting in the wings behind Peyton Manning.
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While the top seeds have been paying the price of a demanding season, Isner has looked fresh and despite allowing Del Potro to level for one-set all with a double fault on set point, the American was a cut above his opponent.
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Hradecka dropped serve in the first and fifth games of the second set, to give the top seeds a 4-1 lead, and while Mirza lost her next service game they never looked like relinquishing control with Hingis dominant at the net.
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Nate Ebner scored a 40-metre try in the final minute to get within five points of the top seeds but his skipper Madison Hughes was unable to convert and the Americans, champions at the last Olympic rugby tournament in 1924, were out.
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Analysis After a convulsive regular season — in which programs ranked in the top five were upset a record 37 times — and a conference tournament week that proved disastrous for top seeds, the N.C.A.A. tournament opened Thursday with many expecting chaos for the brackets.
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Swiss Hingis, 35, the former singles number one whose career has blossomed again as a doubles specialist, is also in the quarter-finals of the mixed doubles with another Indian partner, Leander Paes, and will face top seeds Mirza and Ivan Dodig.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Top seeds Fiji beat the United States 24-19 in the final first round match on Wednesday to save New Zealand the embarrassment of a pool stage exit at the inaugural Olympic tournament but the send the Americans home.
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But the last time top seeds made up 14 of the final 16 was 2009, arguably the last year before one-and-dones came to define college basketball (that year featured the last N.B.A. draft without a freshman in its top three, for instance).
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New York City F.C., one of the top seeds in Major League Soccer's playoffs, announced Wednesday afternoon that it would move its home playoff game next weekend to Citi Field, following through on contingency plans created when it became clear a collision of dates was likely.
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Top seeds are placed into weak groups and coast through them while racking up points with this generous multiplier, while lower-rated teams like Australia usually miss out on the chance as they are seeded into difficult groups such as Group B in Brazil (Netherlands, Chile and Spain).
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The 32-year-old, five-times a winner of the singles at the prestigious Wimbledon warm-up event, delighted a large evening center court crowd with some fluent shot-making as he and Spanish veteran Lopez beat top seeds Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah 7-6(5) 6-3.
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Top seeds North Carolina, a double-digit winner in each of their five games en route to the final, held a 53-34 halftime lead in pursuit of a sixth title but the Wildcats battled back, going on a 33-16 run to forge a 10-point lead with 5:29 left.
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Last year's game was watched by 114.4 million viewers, the most people who have ever watched a TV broadcast in the US. And that record will quite possibly be broken this year, with a game between the top seeds in the American Football Conference and the National Football Conference, the Denver Broncos and the Carolina Panthers, respectively.
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But both of the top seeds ultimately prevailed, with Duke defeating Yale, 71-64, and Miami beating Wichita State, 65-57, in Providence, R.I. In the evening, another Cinderella team, Arkansas-Little Rock, which upended Purdue on Thursday as a No. 12 seed, could not keep the magic going against No. 4-seeded Iowa State, falling, 78-61, in a Midwest Region game in Denver.
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