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seeded player

NOUN
  1. one of the outstanding players in a tournament

How To Use seeded player In A Sentence

  • He crept up the singles draw, away from limelight focussed on the seeded players, till the final when he became an object of curiosity.
  • Wimbledon doubled the number of seeded players this year to 32 men and 32 women, a change adopted by all four Grand Slam tournaments to protect star players from tough early match-ups.
  • France's world number two Amelie Mauresmo and fourth seeded Wimbledon champion Maria Sharapova both survived scares to avoid joining a clutch of seeded players who were dumped out.
  • Boris Becker, 17, defeated Kevin Curren to become the first unseeded player to win Wimbledon.
  • In 1985 the unknown Becker, aged just 17 years and 227 days, powered his way to victory at Wimbledon - the first unseeded player and the first German to win the men's competition.
  • After all, he'd had a pretty light load at this year's Open: He hadn't played any five-set matches, nor had he faced a seeded player until the semi-finals.
  • All 16 seeded players received byes into the second round.
  • When they lost they lost to better players, seeded players, but not without a fight.
  • An unseeded player dethroned the reigning champion in the first round.
  • He then became the only unseeded player through to the semi-finals when he beat local wildcard player Bahi
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