{"id":18288,"date":"2026-09-03T16:44:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T15:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/open-seedings\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T16:44:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T15:44:37","slug":"open-seedings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/open-seedings\/","title":{"rendered":"Open seedings projection after a chaotic Toronto week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three top-ten withdrawals in four days have moved the projection further than any result did. The seedings are decided by ranking points, and the points are decided by who plays \u2014 which is why a week with no upsets has still reshuffled the top half of the draw.<\/p>\n\n<h2 id=\"who-moves-up\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Who moves up<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Halvorsen\u2019s wrist has opened a place in the top four for the first time since the spring, and the two players who benefit most both lost early in Toronto. That is how projections work: the field decides more than the winner does.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/courtTennis-1024x683.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/courtTennis-1024x683.webp 1024w, https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/courtTennis-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/courtTennis-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/courtTennis-1536x1024.webp 1536w, https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/courtTennis.webp 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Hard-court points expire fastest in the fortnight before the draw.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<h2 id=\"the-cut-off\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">The cut-off<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The entry list closes on Monday and the seedings follow the ranking of that morning. Any withdrawal after it promotes the next seed rather than reshuffling the draw, so the next 72 hours are the whole story.<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Two players are within 90 points of the eighth seed.<\/li><li>The defending champion drops to fifth if she skips the final warm-up event.<\/li><li>A qualifier has never been seeded; this year one is 140 points away.<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three top-ten withdrawals in four days have moved the projection further than any result did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_spx_person_id":0,"_spx_fixture_id":0,"_spx_pick_id":0,"_spx_eg_facts_label":"","_spx_eg_facts":"","_spx_figure_caption":"","_spx_news_feat":"","_spx_video_url":"","_spx_duration":"","_spx_views":"","_spx_presenter":"","_spx_media_state":"","_spx_start_at":"","_spx_media_status":"","_spx_episode":"","_spx_subject":"","_spx_subject_role":"","_spx_story_year":"","_spx_duration_seconds":0,"_spx_view_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[153,161,222],"spx_comp":[],"spx_fixture_ref":[],"spx_series":[],"spx_format":[],"spx_video_kind":[],"spx_show":[],"spx_sport":[],"spx_flag":[],"class_list":["post-18288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-hard-courts","tag-injuries","tag-seedings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18288"},{"taxonomy":"spx_comp","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spx_comp?post=18288"},{"taxonomy":"spx_fixture_ref","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spx_fixture_ref?post=18288"},{"taxonomy":"spx_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spx_series?post=18288"},{"taxonomy":"spx_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spx_format?post=18288"},{"taxonomy":"spx_video_kind","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spx_video_kind?post=18288"},{"taxonomy":"spx_show","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spx_show?post=18288"},{"taxonomy":"spx_sport","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spx_sport?post=18288"},{"taxonomy":"spx_flag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spx_flag?post=18288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}