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It's the luck of the draw

By Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com

Thursday, May 22, 2008

They don't make draws like they used to, and that's a real shame as we sit here asking ourselves the same question: Who's going to get Novak Djokovic in the semifinals, Roger Federer or Rafael Nadal? Back in the day -- actually, officials couldn't provide a definite answer to when the system changed, but it was probably over the course of a few years in the late 1970s and '80s -- the 16 seeds at Grand Slam events were given specific places in the draw based on the sole reason for seeding: to en ...

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