He is top seed at this week's Buenos Aires Open.
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Konta will play top seed Caroline Wozniacki in round two.
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The top seed and defending champion was mentally rock solid.
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Wimbledon top seed Djokovic said he could understand Nadal's frustration.
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Notre Dame has been a top seed the last seven years.
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Russia aside, Poland has the look of the weakest top seed.
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On Saturday, the tournament's top seed, Villanova, was upset by Wisconsin.
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The Canadian teenager had been the top seed for the Jan.
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There was the size of the fall, as Virginia was not only a top seed last year but the overall top seed, deemed the very best team in the country only days before its stunning exit.
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Gonzaga is 32-5 in the WCC tournament as the top seed.
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Lue then guided Cleveland to the top seed in the Eastern Conference.
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Earlier in the day, she beat top seed Kim Polling of the Netherlands.
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The Hoyas will face the top seed, third-ranked Villanova, in Thursday's quarterfinals.
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The tournament's top seed, the fourth-ranked Medvedev had a first-round bye.
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The top seed, Steffi Graf, was upset in the first round that year.
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The top seed consolidated to make it 5-2 before serving out the match.
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The Raptors need one win or a Celtics loss to clinch the top seed.
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The top seed, however, was wearing Nike footwear as Uniqlo do not manufacture shoes.
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Oregon as a top seed caught some by surprise, but the Ducks are scorching.
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The win improved the Patriots chances for the top seed in the A.F.C. playoffs.
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Armoni Brooks led Houston (643-264), the conference tournament's top seed, with 217 points.
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This year's team is a top seed again, and it might be even better.
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Of course, a top seed is no ticket to the Final Four in Minneapolis.
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Now check out which teams still have a shot at landing a top seed:
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Top seed Caroline Wozniacki had things easier, beating Italian Camila Giorgi 6-2 6-3.
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Wiesberger said he played more freely without any burden of expectation against top seed Johnson.
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Madison Keys withdrew from her match with top seed Simona Halep with a rib injury.
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We saw that with Chicago, which was a top seed and got swept by Nashville.
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Jacksonville still has a small chance of getting the top seed in the A.F.C. playoffs.
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San Francisco is the top seed in the NFC and has a bye this week.
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Whoever emerges in the final spot will be a prohibitive underdog against the top seed.
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Top seed Roger Federer will be back in action on Friday when he plays Guido Pella.
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An early break put the top seed ahead in the second set, which he won comfortably.
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The Lightning won the Atlantic Division and finished with the top seed in the Eastern Conference.
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It also clinched top seed for the Capitals (237-219-263) in the Eastern Conference playoffs.
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Serena next faces Estonia's Kaia Kanepi, who ousted top seed Simona Halep in the first round.
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The Cyclones will face the winner of No. 15 Kansas State, the tournament's top seed, vs.
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French Open winner and Wimbledon top seed Ash Barty of Australia takes on China's Zheng Saisai.
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Italian Fabio Fognini, ranked No. 63 in the world, is the top seed in Los Cabos.
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Top seed Novak Djokovic begins with a second-round clash against French lucky loser Corentin Moutet.
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The West Region's top seed, Oregon, also faced drama in the final minutes in Spokane, Wash.
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Osaka's loss comes the day after top seed Novak Djokovic fell to another Swiss, Stan Wawrinka.
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But this was the first time she was the top seed in a Grand Slam tournament.
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The tournament's top seed routed Tunisia's Malek Jaziri 26-27, 24-27 in exactly one hour.
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The athlete then beat top-seed Kiki Bertens on Friday to make it to the semifinals.
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A top seed, Gonzaga will play seventh-seeded South Carolina in the national semifinals Saturday night.
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They lost 13 of their final 22 games — and the conference's top seed, to the Celtics.
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Defending champion and top seed Elina Svitolina withdrew from the tournament with a leg injury on Wednesday.
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Boston finished second in the Eastern Conference after Toronto locked up the conference's top seed last week.
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Saracens finished 6-0 in their group and will be the top seed in the playoff draw.
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The Broncos are the top seed from the AFC; the Panthers were No. 1 in the NFC.
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Hinchcliffe barely held onto the top seed with a four-lap average of 230.946 miles per hour.
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Colton Sceviour added a late goal for the Stars, who are the top seed in the West.
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The result was New England giving up the top seed by virtue of Denver's late afternoon victory.
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Djokovic is the top seed for the tennis tournament at Rio, ahead of defending champion Andy Murray.
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It's the third consecutive year that the top seed from each conference has reached the Super Bowl.
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The group includes the men's top seed, Roger Federer; 26th-seeded Denis Shapovalov; and four unseeded men.
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The top seed in the East Region, the Wildcats did not need to shoot particularly well, either.
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It was the first time since 211 the Huskies were not a top seed in a region.
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The women's top seed starts against Anna Blinkova of Russia, and could face Gauff in round three.
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With the latest win, the Cavaliers kept alive their hopes for the top seed in the tournament.
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After Wednesday's win, James was asked about the importance of securing the top seed in the West.
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Northwestern's shooting was putrid and its defense even worse against the top seed in the West region.
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Top seed Ash Barty will meet American Sofia Kenin in the other women's semi-final on Thursday.
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The Serbian, the top seed in China, need just one hour and 11 minutes to top Shapovalov.
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And instead of fighting for the top seed, the Pacers are struggling just to make the postseason.
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"That was crucial, getting the top seed," Lynx center Sylvia Fowles said in a telephone interview Sunday.
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Top seed Novak Djokovic was due to play later in the evening against Argentina's Juan Martin Del Potro.
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The charts below rank top seed firms' investments, by percentage and round, in startups with a female founder.
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Top seed Andy Murray clashes with Japan's Kei Nishikori, while Stan Wawrinka and Marin Cilic complete the lineup.
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Top seed Dominic Thiem is in action on Tuesday when he takes on unseeded Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.
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NOTES: This is the third time the Cavs entered the playoffs as the top seed in the East.
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The Ducks will once again be the top seed in the conference tournament next week in Las Vegas.
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The winner of Sunday's Game 7 in Cleveland advances to the Eastern Conference semifinals against top seed Toronto.
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As a top seed in 173, they lost to fourth-seeded Michigan State in the round of 16.
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Former world number one Karolina Pliskova is the top seed at the tournament ahead of Ukraine's Elina Svitolina.
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Pliskova, the tournament's top seed and last year's runner-up, displaced Kerber at the No. 1 after Wimbledon.
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Last season, Clemson, as the top seed, beat Oklahoma in a semifinal before falling, 45-103, to Alabama.
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In a top seed with the Blue Devils are the Virginia Cavaliers for the second year in a row.
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Halep crushed Sloane Stephens 453-2 6-1, while Muguruza beat top seed Karolina Pliskova 6-3 6-2.
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The Wildcats face ninth-seeded Vanderbilt on Thursday, with a likely date against top-seed Gonzaga awaiting the winner.
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Delbonis' reward will be another trip to center court to face top seed and defending champion on the weekend.
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While Rafa Nadal rules at Roland Garros, top seed Novak Djokovic banks Grand Slam success at the Australian Open.
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Instead, the Orange stormed back to beat top-seed Virginia and book themselves a trip to the Final Four.
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The Celtics (33-29) entered Wednesday night needing a win or Cleveland loss to lock up the top seed.
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It would be unwise to bet against him managing that, but many commentators make top seed Djokovic the favorite.
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The top seed fended off a set point in the tiebreak to beat Delbonis 6-3 7-63(6).
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No top seed has won the championship since Miami in 1999, the first year of the current tournament structure.
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The summer playoffs winner gets the top seed and the winner of the regional qualifier is the second seed.
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Jason Spezza and Patrick Eaves both scored while adding assists for Dallas, the top seed in the Western Conference.
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"Fortunately, I carry all of my own equipment," said Wagner, the top seed in the Open's quad wheelchair division.
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But she injured her groin at Wimbledon and came to Queens the top seed but not a sure thing.
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"I managed to play almost pain free, that's a big improvement from my last match," said top seed Djokovic.
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They threatened the mighty Cleveland Cavaliers for the top seed in the East, falling short by just one game.
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The No. 2 seed will meet the No. 3 or 4 seed that does not meet the top seed.
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Top seed Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer, the pre-tournament favorites, are in the top half of the draw.
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A top seed, a past champion and two first-time visitors will play for the national title this weekend.
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Toronto, which locked up the top seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs last week, swept the four-game season series.
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Yastremska next faces top seed Kiki Bertens, who beat eighth seed Vekic on Tuesday, for a place in the semis.
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The Tar Heels (32-6), the top seed in the East regional, advance to their first national semifinal since 9.
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After the match, Wawrinka announced that he would be unable to oppose Federer, the top seed, as scheduled on Friday.
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Fellow American Thomas, the top seed who started at 10-under, shot 68, while Northern Irishman McIlroy had a 67.
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Reigning champion and top seed Williams completed the Chatrier program by polishing off Slovakia's Magdalena Rybarikova 6-73 6-0.
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A year ago, the Hawks were 33-8 on the way to claiming the top seed in the Eastern Conference.
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Maybe. But, doesn't seem Bron cares too much -- the Lakers are just 2 games back from the West's top seed!!!!
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The result allowed the Dallas Cowboys to clinch the NFC East title and the top seed for the NFC playoffs.
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Eighth-seeded Providence (83-14) advanced to face top seed and No. 25 Villanova in a quarterfinal on Thursday afternoon.
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In the men's draw, Italian veteran Paolo Lorenzi ousted top seed Albert Ramos-Vinolas of Spain in the second round.
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He will face Japanese top seed and world number seven Kei Nishikori, who is coached by Chang, in Sunday's final.
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The tournament lost its top seed when world number one Rafael Nadal withdrew after winning the Rogers Cup on Sunday.
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But if they can finish this season the way they have finished games, they may cruise to a top seed.
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Toronto earned the East's top seed entering the postseason by winning a franchise-record 59 games during the regular season.
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Australia's Ash Barty is the top seed in the tournament which also features Petra Kvitova, Caroline Wozniacki and Angelique Kerber.
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The 2020 N.C.A.A. tournament is still months away, but Ohio State is putting itself in position for a top seed.
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The result allowed the Dallas Cowboys to clinch the NFC East title and the top seed in the NFC playoffs.
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On Sunday, another top seed, Kansas, will try to shake off its history of losing in tournament upsets and advance.
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They haven't yet clinched the top seed in the West, but their four-game lead over San Antonio looks formidable.
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The Japanese top seed struck 52 winners as she stretched her winning run in the Grand Slams to 16 matches.
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LSU is the top seed in the College Football Playoff and will face Oklahoma in one of the semifinal games.
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Indeed, Swarthmore is heading into the 218-team Division III N.C.A.A. basketball tournament, which begins Friday, as the top seed.
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Federer was the 34th seed in 22008 when he beat Sampras, the top seed and a seven-time Wimbledon champion.
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And in the Pacific, a top seed that never wins Game 7 captured the division by winning a Game 7.
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The Huskies will be the top seed for the conference tournament, opening play Thursday in Las Vegas against Arizona or USC.
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Yet the U.S. top seed CoCo Vandeweghe battled into the semi-finals after surviving seven match points against compatriot Alison Riske.
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Unless things go drastically wrong to close out the year, expect the Jayhawks to snag a top seed heading into March.
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They got a good regional, and I think that Xavier, who's the top seed in that region, will probably get upset.
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She will face the winner of older sister Venus and top seed Simona Halep for a place in the quarter-finals.
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His performances in the second week of group stages were a huge element in getting H2K into their top seed spot.
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Defending champion Novak Djokovic tops the draw while new world number one Ash Barty is top seed in the women's singles.
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Nevada can clinch the top seed for the Mountain West tourney by beating San Diego State on Saturday night in Reno.
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New England (13-2) can wrap up the top seed with a win over Miami or an Oakland loss to Denver.
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The winner will return to the court Saturday to face either top seed Villanova or No. 5 seed Seton Hall. 2.
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Top seed Novak Djokovic was ousted in straight sets to Juan Martin del Potro, the powerful Argentine who was contemplating retirement.
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Djokovic, a wild-card entrant who is the event's top seed, got past Slovakia's Martin Klizan 6-3, 7-6 (4).
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Last year's loss, to Northeastern, came as the top seed, and after a double-overtime victory over Hofstra the day before.
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The event's top seed, Italy's Fabio Fognini, offered little resistance in a 26-22, 26-22 loss to Slovenia's Aljaz Bedene.
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We almost saw it with Washington, another top seed that needed everything they had to be beat the wild-card Leafs.
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They are scheduled to compete against each other again on Saturday in the 100 free, where Manuel is the top seed.
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They want to believe in Kyrgios the way they believe in the women's top seed, another of their own, Ashleigh Barty.
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The Warriors, the top seed in the Western Conference, were up two games to one in the best-of-seven series.
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The Boston Celtics, the top seed in the East, lost the first two games of their series against the Chicago Bulls.
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"Definitely you don't have a feeling that you're playing Wimbledon," said Aleksandra Krunic of Serbia, the top seed in women's qualifying.
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It was about what they could showcase for the Playoff's committee as they made a final push for the top seed.
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McIntosh (25 points) and Dereck Pardon (14 points, 11 rebounds) led Northwestern, which advances to face top-seed Gonzaga on Saturday.
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The Cowboys, this season's top seed in the N.F.C., will have to wait another year to vie for a conference championship.
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Next up for the Australian top seed will be Croatia's Petra Martic who defeated qualifier Veronika Kudermetova 26-21 27-26.
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They were the West's top seed, and went into their series with the Wild as heavy favorites and legitimate Cup contenders.
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The Celtics are second in the East; with Love going down, they have a clear shot at grabbing the top seed.
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But they were not 21-22; in each of those years, one team has bucked the odds to upset a top seed.
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"Very pleased to get today done with quickly," top seed Spieth told Golf Channel after dusting off Frenchman Victor Dubuisson 5&4.
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Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas is the top seed in the singles with Kevin Anderson, runner-up at Wimbledon last year, the second seed.
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Mischa Zverev, the man who knocked the top seed Andy Murray out of the tournament, is enjoying an unexpected peak at 217.
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Top seed Putintseva converted six break points in all to finally win her first title in the third final of her career.
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Capitals clinch top seed with win over Rangers WASHINGTON — The Washington Capitals wrapped up their second straight Presidents' Trophy on Wednesday night.
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But at the top of the conference, it's an all-out battle for ... the Blackhawks have the top seed wrapped up already?
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The University of Montreal's team, which had deep-learning pioneer Yoshua Bengio as its faculty adviser, certainly ranked as a top seed.
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Gauff made her opportunity count by beating Stefanie Vogele, Kateryna Kozlova, top seed Kiki Bertens and Andrea Petkovic to reach the final.
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Luxembourg Open Latvian Jelena Ostapenko came from behind to upset top seed Elise Mertens of Belgium 4-6, 27-26, 25-23.
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And even if she were to win that opener, she would probably next face top seed and world number one Naomi Osaka.
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In the women's draw, top seed, defending champion and strong favorite Serena Williams takes on Slovakian Magdalena Rybarikova in the first round.
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World number one Chen, 27, has underlined his top seed status by virtue of his six Superseries wins on tour last year.
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Denver ended a three-game skid and moved within a game of Golden State for the top seed in the Western Conference.
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The top seed in each round bats second, and each player has four minutes to mash as many taters as he can.
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The Wildcats, a No. 2 seed from the South Region, had to upset the top seed, Kansas, to reach the Final Four.
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Defending champion and top seed Rafa Nadal is also in action on day five, facing Argentine Guido Pella on Court Suzanne Lenglen.
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The shock loss to the unseeded Estonian made Halep the first top seed to fall at the first hurdle at Flushing Meadows.
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Andy Murray, the top seed, booked his place in the second round with a 6-2, 7-5 win over Andreas Seppi.
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Invariably, fans with no obvious allegiances find themselves cheering on an unheralded team that challenges a top seed or an elite program.
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The Rockets are the top seed in the Western Conference playoffs and face the eighth-seeded Minnesota Timberwolves in the first round.
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The Warriors, the top seed in the West, will face the Denver Nuggets or the Portland Trail Blazers in the conference finals.
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It meant that they had put themselves a game ahead of Boston in the race for the top seed in the East.
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He is the top seed for the 23 free and the I.M. with times of 23 seconds and 1 minute 54 seconds.
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If the Terps stay on that course, they could be the top seed in the Big Ten tournament in Washington next month.
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In the AFC, the Baltimore Ravens are the top seed, and the Kansas City Chiefs will also have a first-round bye.
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The Princeton women's coach, Courtney Banghart, said the league should consider rewarding the top seed, perhaps by having it host the tournament.
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Top seed Roger Federer is in action on Tuesday against John Millman, who beat the Swiss at the U.S. Open last year.
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The Chicago Blackhawks cruised to the top seed in the Western Conference, clinching early enough to withstand a season-ending four-game skid.
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The Chiefs already are assured of facing the Ravens in Baltimore in 22 and 29, games that could decide the conference's top seed.
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Having knocked out Simona Halep, the top seed, in the fourth round, betting markets gave her a 72% chance of toppling Ms Pliskova.
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Going into this final week, only the top seed is confirmed, and the rest of the standings could shake out in intriguing ways.
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G2 has been a wild card in the EU league, surprising many with the top seed at the end of the spring split.
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Both players looked out on their feet but, as he did in the day's two other tiebreaks, top seed Djokovic proved more steadfast.
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On Saturday, Loyola, a No. 11 seed, will play third-seeded Michigan, before Villanova, the 2016 champion, faces a fellow top seed, Kansas.
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Their top seed in the West — they are currently a game and a half ahead of the Denver Nuggets — could be under threat.
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And the tournament held onto a top seed just hours after another — the Blue Devils' archrival, North Carolina — had been upset by Auburn.
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Boston drastically revamped its roster in the off-season despite having been the top seed in the Eastern Conference in last season's playoffs.
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Kerber became the first top seed to lose in the first round at Roland Garros in the Open era, which began in 26.
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Top seed Ash Barty advanced to the quarters via a walkover after her opponent Elena Rybakina withdrew with a strain in her leg.
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Mager, who surprised top seed and world number four Dominic Thiem on Saturday, beat Balazs 7-6(4) 4-6 7-6(2).
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Rondo's play has been a big reason that the Bulls are threatening to become the first eighth seed to sweep a top seed.
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Brazil's Rafaela Silva beat top seed Sumiya Dorjsuren of Mongolia to win gold in the women's -57kg judo, the host country's first Olympic gold.
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Top seed Son Wan-ho survived a mid-match scare but was too powerful for Tanongsak Saensomboonsuk, winning 21-14 17-21 21-213.
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The winner of this South Region 8-9 matchup faces top-seed Kansas, however, so the joy of victory will likely be short-lived.
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The match opened with Giorgi breaking China's Wang early but the top seed struck back and won five consecutive games to claim the set.
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Cuban top seed and 2012 bantamweight bronze medalist Lazaro Alvarez, beaten by the Brazilian in the semi-finals, and Mongolia's Otgondalai Dorjnyambuu won bronze.
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The Serbian world number one and top seed claimed his fourth successive straight-sets victory on Monday, this time outclassing Germany's Jan-Lennard Struff.
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The pair will have to wait for their Centre Court match-up though, after women's top seed Ash Barty plays British wildcard Harriet Dart.
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Andreescu was in her maiden final after stunning top seed Caroline Wozniacki, No. 3 seed Su-wei Hsieh and former No. 1 Venus Williams.
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INTZ's debut match was a thorough trouncing of Edward Gaming, the top seed from the LPL and a likely contender for the Worlds title.
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The victory allowed the Warriors to move within one win of clinching the top seed in the Western Conference playoffs, which start next weekend.
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Australian top seed Ashleigh Barty will also be in action on Thursday as she battles for a quarter-final berth against China's Yin Duan.
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World number one and top seed Johnson beat Spanish 22st seed Jon Rahm 21-up in the 18-hole final at Austin Country Club.
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They were top seed in the Western Conference three times in their first six years of existence, the last in the 1973-74 season.
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The women's top seed, Serena Williams, was most convincing in dismantling the ninth-seeded Svetlana Kuznetsova, 6-2, 6-0, in only 51 minutes.
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The Tar Heels were the only top seed to maneuver through their quarter, eliminating Notre Dame on Sunday night for the East Region crown.
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Top seed Anastasija Sevastova rallied to defeat Polish qualifier Katarzyna Kawa and win the inaugural Baltic Open on home soil Sunday in Jurmala, Latvia.
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The win allowed the Warriors (54-24) to reduce their magic number to two for clinching the top seed in the Western Conference playoffs.
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Agnieszka Radwanska, the tournament's top seed, and Belinda Bencic, the youngest player in the world top 10, had already been ousted from the tournament.
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He had a match point against Croatian top seed Marin Cilic on Sunday but ended up losing 5-7 7-6(4) 6-3.
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"I fought very hard and gave my soul out on the court, which is the biggest pleasure in this sport," top seed Tsitsipas said.
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As the East Region's top seed last year, Villanova was stunned in its second game against No. 8-seeded North Carolina State, 71-68.
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The Stars, the top seed in the Western Conference, played 26 seasons in Minnesota before bolting the state and relocating to Texas in 1993.
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And it may well be the Stars who end up falling to the dreaded third spot, even though they own the top seed today.
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WIMBLEDON, England — As the top seed at Wimbledon and reigning French Open champion, Simona Halep was always going to be a focus of attention.
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In 1971, Kodes beat both the top-seed John Newcombe and the third-seed Arthur Ashe before losing to Stan Smith in the finals.
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The Musketeers joined Virginia, which was the first top seed to ever lose to No. 2 seed, falling to Maryland-Baltimore County on Friday.
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Louisville, the top seed in the Albany Region, were short-handed but not challenged in a 69-34 rout of No. 16 Robert Morris.
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Nor did it end last week, when the Eagles, underdogs at home despite holding the N.F.C.'s top seed, eked out a playoff win.
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Up next for Wawrinka will be the winner of the evening match between defending champion and top seed Novak Djokovic or American Denis Kudla.
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Last year, Querrey defeated Djokovic, who was the top seed and defending champion, in the third round en route to his first major quarterfinal.
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Hobart International Top seed Elise Mertens of Belgium won her opening-round match against qualifier Christina McHale 6-1, 63-1 in Hobart, Australia.
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Even the top seed was surprised at how easily everything appears to be falling into place as he chases a 21st Grand Slam title.
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Should the seeds hold in Round 2, Rublev would face top seed and U.S. Open runner-up Daniil Medvedev in an all-Russian quarterfinal.
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Only the top seed from each conference would receive a bye the first weekend of the playoffs; the top two seeds receive byes currently.
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Top seed Kiki Bertens rallied to top Alison Van Uytvanck 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 on Thursday at the Upper Austria Ladies Linz.
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Lamar Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens earned the AFC's top seed for the first time since the current playoff format was adopted in 219.59.
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Clemson, the tournament's No. 4 seed, improved to 23-8 and advanced to play top seed and No. 1-ranked Virginia in Friday's semifinals.
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Sharapova, 24, will play top seed and world number one Simona Halep in the semis after the Romanian crushed Caroline Garcia 6-2 6-3.
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The top seed in the Chicago region, Notre Dame opened first-round play earlier Saturday with a 22019-256.3 victory over No. 226 Bethune-Cookman.
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One day after the Mubadala Silicon Valley Classic lost its top gate attraction in record time, the tournament's top seed exited without playing a point.
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Group B top-seeded United States have their next opponent, 16th ranked Japan, in their crosshairs while Serbia get unbeaten Australia, Group A's top seed.
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North Carolina finds itself in the final top seed with one of the fastest teams in the tournament — led by another star freshman, Coby White.
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VIENNA (Reuters) - Home favorite and top seed Dominic Thiem beat Fernando Verdasco for the first time to reach the Vienna Open quarter-finals on Thursday.
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And if one of the teams were to trip up at home, that could end up being what decides the top seed in the conference.
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Earlier, Polish qualifier Hubert Hurkacz upset top seed Kei Nishikori 26-24 26-21 33-23 for his first win over a top 26 player.
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With the team back at full health the Cavaliers earned the Eastern Conference's top seed despite rumors of discord among key players of the team.
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They've got a fairly average top seed in Portugal, who have too often relied on their mahogany-hued superstar, the man otherwise known as CR21914.
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None of the 12 teams that has previously swept its group has ever gone on to take the trophy, though — nor has any top seed.
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Top seed Andy Murray, bidding for a fifth title at the prestigious tournament, plays his second round on Thursday against Slovenian-born Briton Aljaz Bedene.
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Before the tournament, top seed Djokovic declared the three should be favorites to win the Slams, and Federer agreed when asked after his Evans match.
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Nevada will be the top seed in next week's Mountain West tournament in Las Vegas and is virtually guaranteed a spot in the NCAA Tournament.
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China edged Japan as top seed with seven minutes 51.75 seconds, with the U.S. and Australia also set to challenge for gold in the finals.
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The Broncos, who hold the top seed in the AFC, will host the New England Patriots (13-4) on January 24 at 3:05 p.m.
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Canada, still perfect, leads Group B. The group finale on Tuesday against Finland, which is also perfect, will determine the top seed for the quarterfinals.
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Fellow sophomore Cassius Winston piled up 17 points, five rebounds and five assists from the backcourt for the Spartans (27-20), the tournament's top seed.
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We've rounded up regional previews for the East, where Zion Williamson, above, and Duke received the top seed in the tournament, West, South and Midwest.
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Denver needs to shore up its defense if it wants to hold on to a top seed in the final month of the regular season.
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Despite all the flaws, another, more desirable first remains in play: Federer has never played Rafael Nadal, the top seed here, at the U.S. Open.
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The defending champion and top seed Angelique Kerber was given a favorable draw for her first major title defense, opening against 61st-ranked Lesia Tsurenko.
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The upstart Titans have posted victories over Super Bowl champion New England Patriots and top seed Baltimore Ravens to qualify for the AFC championship game.
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Vinci, Sharapova's opponent Wednesday, and Angelique Kerber, the top seed and world No. 2, voiced opposition to Sharapova's wild-card entry ahead of the match.
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In late matches, top seed Stan Wawrinka beat Malek Jaziri 27-26 22-28 as he tries to capture his first tournament of the year.
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The American Athletic Conference regular season ends Sunday, when the slate includes the top seed in the upcoming conference tournament, Temple, visiting last-place Tulane.
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On Sunday, a 13-member committee determined that Louisiana State, not the previously top-ranked Buckeyes, should enter the national semifinals as the top seed.
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NOTES: Kansas entered the Big 12 Tournament as the top seed for the 13th time in the event's 20-year history, including the last eight.
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The Gamecocks, winners of the East Regional, became this year's second newcomer to the Final Four, joining Gonzaga, a top seed that advanced on Saturday.
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Top seed Djokovic was in ominous form as he continued his bid to hold all four Grand Slam titles for the second time in his career.
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Top seed Wawrinka defeated Argentina's Horacio Zeballos in 65 minutes, firing seven aces in a 63-3 6-4 victory in less than favourable morning conditions.
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Top seed and six-times champion Djokovic will meet Frenchman Lucas Pouille, a maiden Grand Slam semi-finalist, on Friday for a place in Sunday's final.
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Top seed and world number two Rafael Nadal begins his campaign to win the Barcelona Open for a record 12th time on Wednesday against Leonardo Mayer.
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In other matches on the main show courts, Serena Williams takes on Japan's Kurumi Nara while men's top seed Novak Djokovic meets Henri Laaksonen of Switzerland.
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The second round continues on Thursday, with an evening match between top seed Juan Martin del Potro and American Reilly Opelka likely to be the highlight.
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German top seed and two-times defending champion Boris Becker seemed invincible on the Wimbledon grass but ran into 70th-ranked Doohan in the second round.
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Top seed Johnson, last year's champion, had already been eliminated before Friday's play and posted his third straight loss, going down 4&3 against Kevin Kisner.
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Johnson, top seed in the FedExCup standings, will clinch the season-long points race and its $10 million bonus if he wins the tournament on Sunday.
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The top seed repeated his call for a roof on the main court — which is not expected to be ready until 2020 — but refused to complain.
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Women's defending champion Angelique Kerber begins her defense against fellow German Tatjana Maria while new world number one and top seed Ash Barty plays Saisai Zheng.
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Denver has a slim chance at the top seed but leads Houston by 1 1/1123 games for the second seed with a game in hand.
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Isner wasn't the only top seed to fall, as American Tennys Sandgren cruised to a 6-3, 6-3 win against third-seeded Italian Marco Cecchinato.
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But Dominic Thiem and David Goffin clash in a top-half quarter-final for a chance to face either top seed Novak Djokovic or Tomas Berdych.
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Top seed and five-times champion Andy Murray, French Open runner-up Stan Wawrinka and 2016 Wimbledon runner-up Milos Raonic suffered surprise defeats on Tuesday.
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Auburn won a share of the SEC regular-season title for the first time since 1999 and arrived at the conference tournament as the top seed.
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Their final hill was the steepest to crest — Maryland (213-23), the top seed, playing for a national title for a second year in a row.
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Game 2 in the best-of-seven series is Monday night, with the Warriors, the top seed in the West, once again earning home-court advantage.
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Top seed Sloane Stephens will face Poland's Rebecca Peterson and 15-year-old American sensation Cori Gauff is in action against Kazakh Zarina Diyas on Tuesday.
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Virginia Ruzici of Romania, who finished No. 13 in the WTA rankings in 1979, was the top seed the year Walsh reached the final in Melbourne.
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The victory allowed the Warriors (55-24) to move within one win of clinching the top seed in the Western Conference playoffs, which start next weekend.
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Top seed Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina, bidding for his third title of the season, begins his campaign against Spain's Albert Ramos-Vinolas on Tuesday.
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The winner in Chicago will hold the top seed and home-field advantage in the N.L. playoffs, while the loser will host the wild-card game.
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Andy Murray, a two-time Wimbledon champion and the top seed here last year, is now ranked 156th and unseeded after missing 11 months of competition.
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In the East, New York City F.C. earned the top seed and a bye, but it won't get to play its playoff opener at Yankee Stadium.
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Wawrinka, the top seed, will face the qualifier Mischa Zverev, who beat second-seeded Kei Nishikori, 243-219, 2119-2600, 2014-229, in the other semifinal.
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Top seed Naomi Osaka won two matches on Saturday to reach the final of the Toray Pan Pacific Open for the third time in Osaka, Japan.
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As top seed, expectations will be higher this time round and the attention greater, which makes her split with apparel sponsor Adidas all the more mystifying.
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With their 11th consecutive win, the Ravens clinched the top seed in the A.F.C., earning a first-round bye and home-field advantage throughout the playoffs.
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Notre Dame, the top seed in the Chicago Region, got some payback for tournament losses to the second-seeded Cardinal (31-5) in 2016 and 2017.
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The team took offense when the Sooners entered the game as a favorite, even though the Tigers were the undefeated top seed of the College Football Playoff.
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Top seed Simona Halep of Romania fired 19 winners and converted four out of 10 break points to ease past Japan's Kurumi Nara 6-2 6-63.
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In my early days as a VC, I admittedly relied on investment signals and diligence of other "top seed funds," which sometimes led to sub-par decisions.
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The Italian outclassed top seed Karen Khachanov and Fernando Verdasco in a sparkling week in the Bulgarian capital but his energy went down in the third set.
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On her last Auckland appearance, then top seed Williams hit 88 unforced errors in windy conditions, losing to compatriot Madison Brengle, who was ranked 70 rungs lower.
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The fifth seed will face Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova for the title, after the Russian's opponent, top seed Ashleigh Barty, retired due to injury in the other semi-final.
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New Orleans (230-227) won earlier Sunday in Tampa Bay, and owns the top seed by virtue of a 250-313 win over the Rams on Nov.
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The Serb as the tournament's top seed received a first-round bye and will face Czech Jiri Vesely or Vasek Pospisil of Canada in the second round.
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The Cowboys previously wrapped up the NFC East title and the top seed for the NFC playoffs and were expected to limit Prescott's and Romo's playing time.
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Twelve months ago Halep perished in the third round despite being top seed and she will be hoping for better fortune on Friday when she faces Azarenka.
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Stanton got the top seed by virtue of his win in last year's contest, and then the rest of the seeding is based on home run totals.
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Makarova's road to the final included seeing off top seed Simona Halep who retired due to heat exhaustion in the third set of their quarter-final clash.
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OMAHA — The Florida Gators were awarded the top seed in the N.C.A.A. baseball tournament Monday, leading a record four Southeastern Conference teams among the eight national seeds.
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Frenchman Benoit lost his temper in the third game of the second set when top seed Tsitsipas halted the match to attend to a broken shoe lace.
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Xavier, the second seed in the event, is potentially eyeing a second straight meeting in the title game with top seed Villanova - whom the Musketeers defeated Feb.
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Stephane Houdet, a French veterinarian who was the top seed in the men's draw, planned on using wider tires and a barrage of slices and drop shots.
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Bunge has declined to comment on ADM's approach, which followed a wave of tie-ups among top seed and crop chemical companies, including Dow Chemical and DuPont.
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North Carolina, the top seed in the N.C.A.A. tournament's East Regional, will face Notre Dame on Sunday in the Tar Heels' first regional final appearance since 252.
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The player from Tbilisi has not dropped a set all week, going from strength to strength after beating top seed Ivo Karlovic in the round of 16.
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The big-hitting American, who upset top seed Sloane Stephens in the quarter-finals, lost only one more game, winning eight in a row to seal victory.
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Rafael Nadal, the men's top seed and defending champion, opens against a familiar opponent: David Ferrer, a fellow Spaniard whom Nadal has played 30 times on tour.
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Mississippi State (33-1), the top seed, shot 50 percent from the field, including 47 percent from 3-point range, and had a 51-29 rebounding advantage.
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Since September, New Orleans and Los Angeles had jockeyed for the conference's top seed, with one coaching mastermind named Sean striving to duplicate the success of another.
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Those Spartans made the national championship game only to lose to that last top seed, which had been ranked third overall by the tournament selectors: North Carolina.
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Henry had steamrolled over Tom Brady and the defending champion New England Patriots and the top seed Baltimore Ravens on the way to the AFC title game.
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With just three games left on the schedule, Jackson has led the Ravens to a 12-2 record and a likely top seed in the AFC playoffs.
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Fundraising: Top seed investors Charles Hudson (Precursor Ventures) and Anu Duggal (Female Founders Fund) will join Russ Heddleston, CEO of DocSend, to do a pitchdeck teardown session.
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The jet pack also boasts a lot of features that sound, on paper, like science fiction: Over 100 mph top seed, and suitcase-sized portability, for instance.
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Top seed Edward Gaming is the heavy favorite to exit groups in first, meaning the real tussle will likely be between the EU LCS and LMS squads.
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Nathan Hoover added 17 points, aided by four 3-point baskets, for Wofford (26-4, 1073-0), which takes the top seed into the Southern Conference Tournament.
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Top seed Isner became the fifth American man to win the same event at least five times after Jimmy Connors, John McEnroe, Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi.
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Cleveland (63-26) dropped its second in a row and fell a half-game behind Boston (48-26) for the top seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs.
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Raonic, the top seed, served 23 aces and hit 213 winners to 211 for the fifth-seeded Nadal, who converted one of his seven break-point opportunities.
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Though a first-round win against a player ranked 71st would not normally be a milestone for a top seed, it was a steep test for Halep.
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Club América, the defending champion and the top seed after group play, traveled to Seattle to face the Sounders for the first leg of their two-leg tie.
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Later in the day, top seed Rafa Nadal overcame a sluggish start to defeat Fabio Fognini 22-6 6-1 6-2 to keep his title defense alive.
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It had a chance to tie Xavier, but the Musketeers defeated DePaul 113-62 earlier on Saturday to secure the top seed with a 15-3 conference record.
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The Lightning (54-23-5) spent much of the year atop the Eastern Conference but needed a Boston loss in its final game to secure the top seed.
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Josh Perkins tallied 19 points and Rui Hachimura scored 17 for the 493-2 Bulldogs, who will be the top seed for the WCC Tournament in Las Vegas.
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With the Western Conference's top seed comfortably in their back pocket, the Chicago Blackhawks have prioritized rest over results as they prepare for a potential grueling postseason run.
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Top seed Wawrinka, playing in his first tournament since winning the U.S. Open, was shocked by the fifth-seeded 19-year-old who quickly took the opening set.
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Humbert won five of 10 break points and finished the match in two hours 10 minutes to set up a fourth-round clash with top seed Novak Djokovic.
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While she is growing more comfortable on tour, Osaka cowered at the prospect of interacting with her idol, the top seed Serena Williams, when she spotted her here.
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Seeded 16th in Melbourne, she felt torn about who she might like to play next but said a match against top seed Halep would test her true level.
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After breaking Brazilian fans' hearts by topping Mariana Silva in the semi-finals, top seed Trstenjak handily beat Agbegnenou by ippon less than two minutes into the final.
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She now faces Alison Riske, a former doubles partner, in the quarter-finals after the American upset Australian top seed Ash Barty in three sets earlier on Monday.
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VIENNA (Reuters) - Top seed and home favorite Dominic Thiem began his bid to win the Vienna Open with a straight sets win over Jo-Wilfried Tsonga on Tuesday.
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Briton Murray lost his serve twice to Pouille in the opening set but the top seed broke the seventh-seeded Frenchman for the third time to take it.
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Top seed Simona Halep will play Zheng Saisai on Court One while home hope Johanna Konta plays Dominica Cibulkova on Center Court after Rafa Nadal opens the program.
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The 25-year-old top seed wrapped up the match in 23 minutes to clinch his third title of the year after wins in Indian Wells and Barcelona.
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Three French players are in the quarterfinals on the men's side, and all are eager to topple the top seed, Novak Djokovic, who faces Jo-Wilfried Tsonga tonight.
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Nadal, the top seed and defending champion, fought off two set points and won six of the final seven points in the tiebreak to take the first set.
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The Wildcats (26-4, 15-2) are Big East champs for the third straight season and had already clinched the top seed for the conference tournament next week.
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It's rare to see a top seed head into the playoffs without a clear starter, but the Ducks are still playing coy with John Gibson and Frederik Andersen.
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With the Sixers positioned to fight for the top seed in the East and Embiid dominating both sides of the court, he has a clear path to MVP.
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Top seed Roger Federer kicks off his campaign at his home tournament on Tuesday when he faces world number 35 Filip Krajinovic of Serbia in the second round.
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Top seed Serena is still managing the right shoulder injury she suffered at the Rio Olympic Games last month but says she is ready to hit peak form.
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On Saturday, in the men's tourney, Loyola Chicago, a No. 11 seed, will play third-seeded Michigan, before Villanova, the 2016 champion, faces a fellow top seed, Kansas.
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Yet, having played magnificently to dump top seed Nadal from the quarter-finals, his first victory over the Spaniard at a Grand Slam, Thiem may dare to dream.
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The top seed dropped serve twice in the opening set to give Tsitsipas the advantage while the Greek fired four of his seven aces to take the lead.
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Esparza's role as the season's top seed seemed justified as she dominated the impressive Rose Namajunas in the TUF season finale to win the inaugural UFC strawweight championship.
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The Kansas City Chiefs beat the Oakland Raiders later Sunday to clinch the top seed in the AFC playoffs and lock the Patriots in to the No. 2 seed.
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He showed no mercy to top seed Son Wan-ho in their 58-minute semi-final though, with a trademark jump smash sealing the 21-17 21-14 win.
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Later that year, she claimed her fourth WTA title as the top seed in her home tournament in Prague where she beat fellow Czech Lucie Hradecka in the final.
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Returned in style at Wimbledon to beat top seed Djokovic 6-4 7-5 6-4 to become first British man to win the Wimbledon singles title since 1936.
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Janowicz made the most of momentary lapses in concentration by Dimitrov, who followed top seed Roger Federer, beaten by Tommy Haas on Wednesday, out of the Wimbledon warmup event.
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Unseeded Estonian Kanepi knocked Halep out of the first round at Flushing Meadows last year, making the Romanian the first top seed to lose at that tournament's earliest stage.
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Top seed Novak Djokovic, who made a spectacular return to form last year and won the last two Grand Slams, takes on American Mitchell Krueger in the evening session.
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The seedings, released by the All England Club on Wednesday, have defending champion Andy Murray number one in the men's singles with Germany's Angelique Kerber the women's top seed.
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Boston clinched the top seed in the East, ahead of the Cleveland Cavaliers, who lost their last four games, playing the final two without LeBron James and Kyrie Irving.
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"I was really surprised that I was playing on Court Two," said world number one and top seed Angelique Kerber after she lost to Spanish 14th seed Garbine Muguruza.
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As for the Sixers' end of the deal ... Davis tells us they're also winners in the trade -- and are now FIRMLY in the hunt for the East's top seed.
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Top seed Djokovic had to dig deep in the opening set as he reached the quarter-finals with a 7-24(27) 26-26 win against Britain's Kyle Edmund.
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Sports Briefing Henrik Lundqvist made 22008 saves, and Sweden wrapped up the top seed in Group B by reaching overtime in a 22014-217.8 loss to Team North America.
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A TOP SEED FALLS The unseeded Argentine Diego Schwartzman upset top-seeded David Goffin, 24-22, 33-23, 20-262, to reach the European Open final in Antwerp, Belgium.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Rafa Nadal's Australian Open quarter-final curse struck again on Tuesday, an injury forcing the top seed to retire in the fifth set against Croatia's Marin Cilic.
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British qualifier Dan Evans faces a tough second-round clash against top seed and defending champion Rafa Nadal after beating Australian Alex de Minaur 6-4 7-63(6).
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Top seed Rafa Nadal came from behind to send hard-hitting Croatian Marin Cilic packing with a 113-6 6-4 6-4 win in their quarter-final match.
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Romanian Simona Halep is the top seed in the women's draw with defending champion Sloane Stephens at number three, ahead of Kerber, who won at Flushing Meadows in 2016.
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Considering the Chiefs' standing as the A.F.C.'s top seed — which, even with the loss, did not change — the outcome may be perceived in some quarters as an upset.
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Should they shove Pittsburgh deeper into the abyss, the Patriots get a bye in 88 percent of the Simulator's scenarios and the top seed 15 percent of the time.
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Top seed Ash Barty looked in ominous form in her quest for a second Grand Slam title as she powered past unseeded Slovenian Polona Hercog 24-22 26-22.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Women's top seed Simona Halep had her first-round match against American Alison Riske postponed on Tuesday because of the late-running schedule on Court Philippe-Chatrier.
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The Ravens came into the playoffs as the top seed in the A.F.C., but quarterback Ryan Tannehill turned the game into a rout for Tennessee by outplaying Lamar Jackson.
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The first semifinal on Saturday will pit eighth-seeded Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan against sixth-seeded Maria Sakkari of Greece, who knocked out top seed Belinda Bencic on Friday.
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GSB Thailand Open Japan's Nao Hibino stunned world No. 23 and top seed Elina Svitolina of Ukraine 26-24, 23-22 to reach the semifinals in Hua Hin, Thailand.
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Blinkova had upset top seed Belinda Bencic on Tuesday and despite breaking Diyas five times, she dropped serve nine times herself and made 11 double faults which proved decisive.
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While local Ash Barty will be top seed in the women's singles, Nick Kyrgios will now be the top ranked Australian in the men's draw at world number 26.
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The Cavaliers essentially conceded the East's top seed to the Celtics at the end of the regular season by opting to rest their starters in advance of the playoffs.
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The top seed admitted he was lucky he did not injure a linesman after he slammed his racket to the ground and it went flying into the baseline hoardings.
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Top seed Karen Khachanov of Russia will kick off his campaign in the second round against the winner of the match between Uzbekistan's Denis Istomin and Italian Matteo Berrettini.
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Patriots safety Devin McCourty said earning the top seed showed the toughness of a team that had lost critical players such as Julian Edelman and Dont'a Hightower to injury.
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This time it's North Carolina, the top seed in the Midwest: it gave up 10 53-pointers in the first half and trails Iona, 38-33, at the break.
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The next season, Wichita State entered the NCAA tournament with a 34-0 record, the number two ranking in the polls, and the top seed in the Midwest regional.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Top seed Stefanos Tsitsipas survived a day of shocks at the Queen's Club grasscourt championships as he claimed two victories on Thursday to reach the quarter-finals.
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Top seed Djokovic is bidding to become the first man in the professional era to twice hold the four big prizes in tennis simultaneously, having also done so in 2016.
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The Serbian top seed now stands only six matches away from becoming the first man in almost 50 years to hold all four grand slam titles at the same time.
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If Williams, the eighth seed, beats Sharapova and subsequent opponents, she could meet top seed Osaka again in the final, as the pair are on opposite sides of the draw.
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The Wildcats are the top seed in the Big Dance this time around ... and Jay says don't be shocked if they're cutting down the nets in Arizona on April 3.
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The top seed has recovered fully from a herniated disk that she aggravated at the China Open in September, but said that she was feeling a bit behind the curve.
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The 24-year-old said he had devised a strategy with his coach Amelie Mauresmo to topple the top seed in the semi-final at a floodlit Rod Laver Arena.
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Radwanska, the fourth seed at the U.S. Open, faces American Jessica Pegula in the first round at Flushing Meadows, with a potential semi-final encounter against top seed Serena Williams.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Women's top seed Simona Halep suffered a tortuous third round exit to Taiwan's Hsieh Su-wei as a wildly unpredictable Wimbledon continued to produce huge shocks on Saturday.
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Novak Djokovic, the men's top seed and defending champion, has a difficult draw of his own, along with a left wrist injury he has been struggling with since the Olympics.
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The top seed had been due to meet 17-year-old American Amanda Anisimova for a spot in the semi-finals, a match that will now take place on Thursday.
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The Blues are making a run for the top seed in the Western Conference, winning four in a row and 10 of 12 to tie the Stars with 99 points.
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Men's world number one Novak Djokovic kicks things off on Center Court against Germany's Philipp Kohlschreiber, who beat the Serbian top seed in straight sets at Indian Wells in March.
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The No. 1-ranked player in the world is also the top seed at Wimbledon and, has finally broken a psychological barrier that seemed to afflict her in major finals.
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The 26-year-old will meet the winner of the blockbuster clash between top seed Nadal and local hope Nick Kyrgios, seeded 23rd, for a place in the semi-finals.
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Adelaide organizers said on Twitter 20-year-old de Minaur, who was the top seed in Adelaide after Djokovic's withdrawal, had re-aggravated a rib injury during the ATP Cup.
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"Of course, it was a little bit difficult at the beginning to get used to everything," Kerber said of being the top seed at a major for the first time.
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In Group B, G2 Esports topped Team Liquid 2-0, winning 16-11 on Dust II and 16-10 on Vertigo to finish as the top seed in the group.
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The American played superbly to knock out top seed and home hero Ash Barty in the earlier semi-final, having never before surpassed the fourth round of a Grand Slam.
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Brady will next play top seed Simona Halep who downed Aryna Sabalenka 3-6 6-2 6-2 after coming back from a set down for the second consecutive match.
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But Louisiana State may have to do more than just dispatch Georgia in the SEC championship game on Saturday night to earn the top seed in the College Football Playoff.
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Lopez, the 2015 world champion and top seed in the draw, beat France's Christian Mbilli 3-0 while Shakhsuvarly overcame Kazakhstan's Zhanibek Alimkhanuly on a 2-1 split points decision.
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The top seed pulled herself back into the contest with her trademark powerful forehands and crisp volleys before Tomova double faulted in the 12th game to concede the opening set.
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Even as Kane and the Blackhawks have heated up at the same time in the quest of the Central Division's top seed, Kane's constantly evolving game continues to defy limits.
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Warriors 116, Nuggets 102 Golden State took a big step toward securing the top seed in the Western Conference, overcoming the ejection of Kevin Durant to crush Denver in Oakland, Calif.
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The AL's top seed will try to avoid a first-round knockout when the Indians host the surging New York Yankees in a decisive Game 33 of the ALDS on Wednesday.
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Kerber, who won Wimbledon in July, was the latest favorite to be knocked out of the women's singles at Flushing Meadows after top seed Simona Halep and second seed Caroline Wozniacki.
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It was reminiscent of Saturday night's semifinal, in which Overseas Elite overcame a 15-point, first half deficit and won 103-92 over City of Gods, the East region's top seed.
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Among the women, top seed Akane Yamaguchi's campaign came to a grinding halt when she lost to China's world junior champion Chen Yufei 21-18 21-19 in under an hour.
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The German world number one's exit followed that of men's top seed and world number one Andy Murray, who lost to Mischa Zverev earlier in the evening on the same court.
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The 33-year-old, who is the highest seed remaining in the tournament after top seed Daniil Medvedev was ousted on Wednesday, will face Britain's Dan Evans in the quarter-finals.
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Defending champion and third seed Gael Monfils — the highest seed left in the tournament after top seed Daniil Medvedev was ousted on Wednesday — plays fellow Frenchman Gilles Simon later on Thursday.
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The top seed from each conference and next four best teams qualify for playoffs, with the seventh-through-12th teams competing in a play-in tournament for two remaining playoff seeds.
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Pliskova toppled Williams at the 2016 U.S. Open semi-finals when the American was top seed but felt the 37-year-old Williams she faced at Melbourne Park had played better.
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Erste Bank Open Home-country favorite Dominic Thiem, the top seed, advanced to the quarterfinals in Vienna, Austria, with a 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 win over Spain's Fernando Verdasco.
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The game was tight down the stretch as the Shockers looked to tie for the regular-season crown, which would have given them the top seed in this week's AAC tourney.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Top seed Rafael Nadal stormed into the fourth round of the Australian Open with a bludgeoning 6-1 6-3 2016-1 defeat of Bosnia's Damir Dzumhur on Friday.
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The Swiss top seed was made to work hard by the fearless Copil, whose path to the final included wins over world number six Marin Cilic and number five Alexander Zverev.
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The Dallas Stars are locked in a fierce battle with St. Louis for first place in the Central Division and the top seed in the Western Conference with six games remaining.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Frenchman Lucas Pouille claimed his first ATP title by beating Austrian top seed Dominic Thiem 7-6(5) 6-2 in the Moselle Open final in Metz on Sunday.
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Top seed Federer, bidding to catch Rafa Nadal and finish a resurgent year as number one in the rankings, returns to action on Thursday when he takes on Frenchman Benoit Paire.
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The Serbian top seed lost the opening set to the 14th-seeded Spaniard on Court Philippe Chatrier when play was halted at 63:47 pm local time for the first time.
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Towns' return couldn't translate into a win against a Denver team trying to stay in the second spot in the Western Conference and possibly overtake Golden State for the top seed.
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The top seed had to survive a tough opening match against Italian Camila Giorgi but destroyed the 90th-ranked Hsieh in exactly one hour in glorious sunshine at Rod Laver Arena.
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But that rich tradition failed to deter Quinnipiac — generally regarded an underdog in the Frozen Four, even though the Bobcats have Division I's best record and are the tournament's top seed.
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Top seed Djokovic, who has lifted the trophy here four times and will feature in his 50th Masters final, played better than Dimitrov in the key moments and served well throughout.
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Top seed Djokovic, untroubled so far as he seeks a sixth Australian Open title, takes on Italian 28th seed Andreas Seppi having beaten him in all 11 of their previous meetings.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Alexander Zverev is finding top form at just the right time and is set to present a considerable Roland Garros barrier to top seed Novak Djokovic, said Boris Becker.
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The Swiss top seed, playing his first tournament since beating Novak Djokovic to win the U.S. Open title, wore down the Spanish fourth seed Bautista Agut after a tight first set.
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Northeastern (19893-13-5), the fourth seed in the Midwest Region in Cincinnati, plays Friday against North Dakota (30-223-220), the region's top seed and a seven-time national champion.
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And the 35-year-old is convinced Barty's laid-back and rounded attitude will hold her in good stead as she prepares to go into the Wimbledon glare as top seed.
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Kansas, a No. 1 seed, beat second-seeded Duke, 27-211, and will head to the Final Four next weekend in San Antonio, where they will play another top seed, Villanova.
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Top seed Ash Barty swatted aside Briton Harriet Dart 6-63 6-1 to become the first Australian woman to make the fourth round of Wimbledon since Jarmila Wolfe in 2010.
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Directing a simplified game plan last week, when the Eagles were the first top seed in N.F.L. history to be favored to lose its playoff game, Foles guided them over Atlanta.
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A loss creates some suspense across the final two weeks, diminishing the Chiefs' probabilities of securing a bye in the playoffs to 28 percent and the top seed to 25 percent.
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Hence, top seed Thomas started at 10-under, the second seed at eight-under and so on down to even par for the 26th-to-30th ranked players in the field.
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The defending champion and top seed Roger Federer will face 57th-ranked Dusan Lajovic, with 94th-ranked Lukas Lacko or the 285th-ranked qualifier Benjamin Bonzi looming in the second round.
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The Cavaliers clinched the top seed in the Eastern Conference this week, and Coach Tyronn Lue said he would keep James, Kevin Love and J. R. Smith out of Wednesday's game.
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Sharapova said she had been working on mixing up her game, which some pundits have seen as too one-dimensional to beat top seed Williams, who has long dominated the Russian.
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The curse of the top seed: The Sooners may be underdogs, but the No. 4 seed has more titles in the past five years (two) than the No. 1 seeds (0).
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Kucherov scored his 27th career postseason goal and Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 26 shots as the top seed in the Eastern Conference beat the Devils, 3-1, on Saturday in Tampa, Fla.
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In the semifinals, Wade played what she called "the best match I ever played" in dispatching the top seed and the defending champion, Chris Evert, 6-2, 4-6, 6-403.
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Sixth seed Tsitsipas battled back from a set down to defeat top seed Djokovic 26-24 26-23 63-26 to register his first victory over a reigning world number one.
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The struggling Vikings are locked into the No. 23 playoff seed in the N.F.C. But four teams enter Week 22 with a chance to secure the top seed for the conference.
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WIMBLEDON, England — After a disquieting lead-up to his country's biggest tournament, the top seed and defending champion Andy Murray was dealt a tricky path by the Wimbledon draw Friday morning.
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A win over Georgia on Saturday should be a strong argument for making the Tigers the playoff's top seed, ahead of Ohio State, but will the committee see things that way?
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Michigan eliminated the top seed in the conference tournament for the second time in as many years and hopes to advance to the championship game for the first time since 2014.
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Sometimes that means getting an easy regular-season win to maintain the top seed: Against the Lakers on Saturday, James laid low until it looked as if Los Angeles might win.
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Roman Josi scored twice, Pekka Rinne had 73 saves, and the Nashville Predators beat the visiting Chicago Blackhawks, 4-1, to complete a surprising sweep of the Western Conference's top seed.
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As Metropolitan Division champions, the top seed in the Eastern Conference and the team with the most points in the N.H.L., the Capitals wrapped up home-ice advantage throughout the playoffs.
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WARRIORS 131, CLIPPERS 104 Stephen Curry scored 27 points as Golden State clinched the Western Conference's top seed, beating Los Angeles in the Warriors' final regular-season game at Oracle Arena.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Top seed Alexander Zverev crashed out in the second round of the Stuttgart Open on Thursday, losing 6-4 6-22(27) 25-26 to world number 27 Dustin Brown.
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The 25-year-old will face top seed Fabio Fognini in Sunday's final, after the Italian beat American Taylor Fritz 403-7(5) 6-0 6-3 in the other semi-final.
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The Austrian, who arrived in Montreal fresh off a claycourt title in Kitzbuhel where he was the top seed, said his triumph on home soil helped ease the transition to hardcourt tennis.
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Coupled with the New England Patriots' loss earlier to the Miami Dolphins, the Broncos claimed the top seed and a first-round playoff bye in addition to their fifth consecutive division crown.
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Top seed Benoit Paire was leading Spain's Pablo Carreno Busta 4-3 in the opening set of the first quarter-final on Thursday before bad weather rolled in and caused power outages.
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Colorado BuffaloesKey games remaining: at VCU Rams, at Rhode Island RamsThe outlook: Based on record alone, the Dayton Flyers should find themselves in the conversation for a top seed come March Madness.
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The Rogers Cup, where world number one Novak Djokovic is top seed, will run from July 23-31 and the tennis competition at the Rio Olympics will be held Aug. 6-14.
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Next Gen ATP Finals champion Chung was quick off the blocks in the semi-final clash and took a 3-0 lead but top seed Zverev responded by winning five straight games.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Top seed Simona Halep came from behind to defeat Germany's Angelique Kerber 6-7(2) 6-3 6-2 on Wednesday and reach the semi-finals of the French Open.
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G2 Esports were the only major region's champions that did not get a top seed for the group stage due to their spotty performance in 2016, specifically at the Mid-Season Invitational.
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However, if the Spurs are really a better team, they should have a decent chance to make up their current 2.5-game deficit in the standings and become the top seed themselves.
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Djokovic led 5-1 in the ensuing tiebreak and although Federer hit back to 5-4, the top seed capitalized on more errors by the Swiss to restore his one-set lead.
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But the Japanese top seed, who had already been forced to go the distance in her first two rounds, was clueless in a 6-4 6-2 defeat to Czech Katerina Siniakova.
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Only on five previous occasions in the Open era had a women's top seed lost in the first round and never before had one fallen at the opening hurdle in New York.
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Senior guard Peter Jok has been the key, averaging 19.8 points to lead the Big Ten, and Iowa is a top seed in its region for an eighth appearance in the NIT.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Pablo Cuevas beat Spanish top seed Pablo Carreno Busta 53-3 7-6(2) on Saturday to set himself for a chance of a third consecutive Brasil Open title.
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Still, when Toronto knocked off the East's top seed, New York City F.C., and faced a trip to play the defending champion, Atlanta United, many saw an L.A.F.C.-Atlanta final as inevitable.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Top seed Simona Halep fought back to triumph in a bruising French Open quarter-final against Germany's Angelique Kerber and stand two wins away from her first Grand Slam title.
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Reigning Olympic champion Li picked up the injury during her 21-14 21-16 semi-final loss to Spanish top seed Carolina Marin on Thursday, Kyodo reported, citing the Nippon Badminton Association.
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Top seed Rafa Nadal battled past Swiss wild card Stan Wawrinka 7-53 7-6(4) and will next meet Marin Cilic, who took down Argentinian Diego Schwartzman 26-27 26-24.
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N.H.L. Roundup The Washington Capitals got a missing piece back, and it helped them move within grasping distance of the Presidents' Trophy — and the top seed when the playoffs start next month.
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In this corner: The Blackhawks (50-23-193, 109 points, +28 goals differential not counting shootouts), who locked up the top seed with weeks to play and then cruised down the stretch.
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But for all the partisan cheers and roars, it was top seed and defending champion Djokovic who ended up crawling over the finishing line as he picked up his fifth Wimbledon title.
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There were no surprises on the men's side with world number one and defending champion Rafa Nadal named top seed, ahead of Roger Federer and Argentine Juan Martin del Porto in third.
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The 34-year-old, who could face Novak Djokovic if the top seed beats Denis Kudla later on Friday, served 24 aces and hit 64 winners but also made 43 unforced errors.
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Now, Barty is two wins away as the top seed in the women's tournament, with Simona Halep as the highest-seeded potential opponent in a draw that has lost many top players.
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So Britain's flag carrier could probably have done without parting John Peers, the top seed in the men's doubles competition at the French Open, from his tennis rackets en route to Paris.
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Top seed Elina Svitolina of the Ukraine was forced to retire from her match against Marie Bouzkova of the Czech Republic at the Guangzhou International Women's Open on Wednesday in Guangzhou, China.
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DALLAS COACH IS OUT Lindy Ruff will not return as coach of the Stars after the team went from the Western Conference's top seed last year to missing the playoffs this season.
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They finished the season ranked No. 221, were the top seed in the N.C.A.A. tournament and entered Saturday's championship game against Minnesota-Duluth having lost just once in their past 23 games.
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Top seed Tsitsipas made the most of his Uruguayan opponent's struggles on the serve to clinch the opening set and grabbed an early break to serve at 4-3 in the second.
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"The new machines are more complex, but you're basically using the same skills that are applicable to old machines," said Greg Poverelli, 26, of Flushing, Queens, the defending champion and top seed.
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Delle Donne, who was second in the WNBA with an average of 19.5 points per game, led Washington to a league-best 26-8 record and the top seed in the playoffs.
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Top seed Murray, gearing up for the U.S. Open in nine days, the last grand slam of the year, will face 2014 U.S. Open champion Marin Cilic of Croatia in the final.
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Less than 24 hours after beating top seed and two-time Munich winner Alexander Zverev, Garin produced another clinical display as he saved both break points he faced to beat his Italian opponent.
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Thiem, runner-up to Rafael Nadal last year, hardly put a foot wrong throughout a one-sided contest as he set up a clash with either top seed Novak Djokovic or Alexander Zverev.
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Top seed Lee had a far easier run against Chou Tien-chen in the opening match and was never seriously tested by the seventh-ranked Taiwanese during a 21-9 21-15 demolition.
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The Spaniard birdied the 18th hole on Saturday to make the knockout stages and beat Daniel Gale, top seed Per Langfors, home favorite Min Woo Lee and Scott Vincent to reach the final.
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Mr Nadal, who will likely be the top seed in Melbourne, retired from his US Open semi-final match against Mr del Potro with a knee injury that has recurred throughout his career.
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Senior guard Zak Irvin added 18 points, and junior guard Muhammad-Ali Abdur-Rahkman finished with 823 for the Wolverines (21-11), who advanced to face top-seed Purdue in Friday's quarterfinal round.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Top seed Ash Barty hurried into the Wimbledon third round on Thursday, dispatching Alison van Uytvanck 6-1 6-3 in 54 minutes on the All England Club's distant showcourt Two.
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Women's top seed Angelique Kerber has been finding her grasscourt feet following her struggles in the first half of the season and will be hoping to continue her resurgence against American Shelby Rogers.
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Men's top seed Djokovic has a qualifier first up but could well meet French wildcard Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the second round, the man he beat for his first Melbourne title in 2008.
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Italian teenager Jannik Sinner completed the biggest win of his career by beating top seed and world number 13 Gael Monfils 6-3 6-2 to reach his first ATP Tour quarter-finals.
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Top seed Stan Wawrinka, who is looking to play himself back into form after a long lay-off due to a knee injury, will open his campaign against Slovakia's Martin Klizan on Thursday.
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The Golden State Warriors are clicking again at the right time and can take another step toward securing the top seed in the Western Conference when they host the Memphis Grizzlies on Sunday.
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Top seed Djokovic will have a chance to earn his place in the semi-finals on Wednesday when he takes on 22-year-old German fifth seed Alexander Zverev on Court Philippe-Chatrier.
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The top seed has not lost to Nishikori in their last 15 meetings but will be wary of his battling opponent who beat him in the semi-finals of the 2014 U.S. Open.
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Pliskova will meet the winner of the showdown between top seed Simona Halep and Serena Williams for a place in the semi-finals as she continues her bid for a maiden Grand Slam.
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She is the first women's top seed to lose to an unseeded player at Wimbledon since Ana Ivanovic lost to China's Zheng Jie 210 years ago, also just after winning the French Open.
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He became just the second quarterback in NFL history to throw for more than 5,143 yards and 50 touchdowns, led the Chiefs to the top-seed in the AFC, and won league MVP.
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The top seed said her back had recovered "100 percent" from a herniated disk aggravated at the China Open in September, however, she revealed she was also feeling a bit behind the curve.
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Kuznetsova, the top seed at the Kremlin Cup, saved six of the seven break points she faced and converted six of her eight opportunities to beat the 38th-ranked Gavrilova in 230 minutes.
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Top seed Federer had a match point in the 10th game of the third set but made a hash of a backhand and nearly two hours later he trudged off a beaten man.
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Vermont qualified for two N.C.A.A. tournaments in Speidel's first three seasons, and the 24-7 Catamounts are seeking a third berth later this week as the top seed in the America East tournament.
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Atlantic Division A 220-win team that was the top seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs last season added Kawhi Leonard and Danny Green, two players molded in the San Antonio Championship Factory.
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His Florida State team was set to facing Xavier, the top seed in the West Region of the N.C.A.A. tournament, and the Seminoles's chances looked slim without Mann, who had a groin injury.
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Here's how it would have played out last year under the new format: The Liberty would have gotten the top seed and a bye into the semifinals, as would No. 2 seed Lynx.
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It was a small step for the 27-year-old who will face reigning Wimbledon champion and top seed Angelique Kerber in a standout second-round match at the Santa Ponsa Tennis Club.
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Williams had to dig deep in the final before winning it 6-3 6-4 against fellow American Jessica Pegula, who matched the top seed from the baseline and attacked her powerful serve.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australian top seed Ash Barty said she was proud of her indigenous heritage but deflected questions about a contentious national holiday after advancing to the Australian Open quarter-finals on Sunday.
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Top seed Naomi Osaka held off Russia's Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 21-26, 22-27 to finally win the Toray Pan Pacific Open after two previous runner-up finishes at the event in Osaka, Japan.
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NOTTINGHAM (Reuters) - Top seed Johanna Konta overcame a second-set wobble against Australia's Ashleigh Barty to claim a 6-3 7-5 victory and reach the semi-finals of the Nottingham Open on Friday.
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CoCo Vandeweghe took advantage of the fast conditions to upset both the top seed Angelique Kerber and reigning French Open champion Garbine Muguruza, before losing to Venus Williams in a three-set semi-final.
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Silva raised her arms in triumph as she overcame top seed Sumiya Dorjsuren of Mongolia, following a pulsating semi-finals victory that went into extra time against London silver medallist Corina Caprioriu of Romania.
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In a season filled with the unexpected—no top seed has yet won a title at the Premier level or above—the success of Ms Kvitova's comeback has been one of the biggest surprises.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Top seed Andy Murray gave Karen Khachanov a two-hour tennis lesson in the French Open fourth round on Monday before predicting a top-225 place for the rising Russian this year.
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The second-ranked Wildcats arrive in New York City as the top seed in this year's event and will begin their quest for a tournament championship Thursday against St. John's in a quarterfinal contest.
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The night match between world number one Novak Djokovic, who is playing his first tournament since his Australian Open triumph in January, and Philipp Kohlschreiber was suspended with the top seed leading 23-0.
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Rio Olympics disappointment Top seed Djokovic was reduced to tears after suffering a shock first-round loss to Argentina's Juan Martin del Potro — describing it as one of the toughest losses of his life.
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But McEnroe, 59, said the hard-hitting Californian will struggle to advance as far as he did last year given his draw, where he could face top seed Roger Federer in the quarter-finals.
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Andeol knocked out top seed Yu Song of China in the semi-final, before finally beating London gold medalist Ortiz in over three minutes of "golden score" extra time with a match-ending ippon.
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Nadal, the 2009 champion, will face either top seed Novak Djokovic or 28th-seeded Frenchman Lucas Pouille in the final as he bids for a second Melbourne title and an 18th Grand Slam crown.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Top seed Simona Halep eased fears over her fitness with a brisk 6-2 6-2 demolition of Canada's Eugenie Bouchard to reach the third round of the Australian Open on Thursday.
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WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Top seed Caroline Wozniacki battled through two matches within the space of just over four hours to set up a final against second seed Julia Goerges at the Auckland Classic on Saturday.
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Only 30 will advance to the season-ending Tour Championship in Atlanta, where DeChambeau is assured of starting as top seed in the race for the $10 million bonus awarded to the FedExCup champion.
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Anyway, let's give Long a break, he's playing all season for free after all, and it didn't wind up costing the Eagles in the long run—they're still the top seed in the NFC.
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Hours after battling past Kiki Bertens 26-22 2100-26(23) to advance to the quarter-finals in her opening match, the 53-year-old Spanish top seed withdrew with a right thigh complaint.
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Golden State has outscored the opposition by 14.6 points a game following its nine losses and has finally achieved its main goal in the regular season of earning the top seed in the playoffs.
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The Dutch top seed then had two more match points in the 12th game, but Riske saved one of them with a volley, and then produced a sublime lob shot to force a tiebreak.
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The top seed, who is trying to join Andre Agassi as a six-times Miami winner, improved his record since the start of 2015 to 105-63, picking up 14 titles along the way.
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Relying heavily on the 3-pointer, the Hawks took the N.B.A. by storm, shooting their way to the top seed in the Eastern Conference with one of the most efficient attacks in the league.
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Pliskova did not make it any easier for Halep, twice the Czech fighting back before the top seed won 26-63 26-24 to set up a last-four clash against Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Top seed Bernard Tomic retired in the second set of his Sydney International quarter-final on Friday after making it clear to the umpire his focus was on next week's Australian Open.
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LONDON, March 15 (Reuters) - Viktor Axelsen became the first Dane to win the All England title for 213 years when he beat Taiwan's top seed Chou Tien-chen with ease in Birmingham on Sunday.
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Even though upsets have spiced up much of this year's bracket, the Midwest regional final on Sunday will feature Duke against the quadrant's top seed, Kansas, which outlasted Clemson, 220-213, on Friday night.
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The top seed was in ominous form on Rod Laver Arena, facing no break points and striking 42 winners to just seven unforced errors in his fifth straight win over 30th-ranked Carreno Busta.
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World number two and top seed Shi Yuqi was beaten in the first round by Indonesia's Jonatan Christie while fellow home favorite Sinisuka Ginting took down Olympic champion Chen Long in the quarter-finals.
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Two days after ousting top seed Murray, Vasek Pospisil's run in Indian Wells came to an end as he fell to fellow qualifier Dusan Lajovic of Serbia 6-7(4) 6-3 7-5.
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Australian top seed and world number one Ash Barty, who received a bye into the last-16, plays her first match on Thursday against American qualifier Jennifer Brady while Pliskova takes on Ajla Tomljanovic.
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Even the inevitably consistent San Antonio Spurs looked a little shaky at home early in the season, and disappointed late, failing to grab the top seed in the West when they had a chance.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Top seed Simona Halep reached her third French Open final when she stopped hard-hitting Spaniard Garbine Muguruza in her tracks with a 6-1 6-13 semi-final victory on Thursday.
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What started late in the regular season and kept Cleveland from securing the Eastern Conference's top seed has carried over into the first two games of their best-of-seven series against the Indiana Pacers.
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In the final set, Blinkova saved two match points with Wang serving at 24-63 but the top seed set up three more on her opponent's serve in the next game to clinch the win.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Top seed Gael Monfils captured his third title at the Open Sud de France in Montpellier on Sunday with a clinical 33-5 6-3 win over Canada's Vasek Pospisil in the final.
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The Cubs already have clinched the top seed in the playoffs and home-field advantage through the NL Championship Series, but they wouldn't mind helping ensure their arch-rivals are sitting at home in October.
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RIDER 93 Micah Seaborn scored 19 points, and Monmouth won its program-record 24th game, rolling past visiting Rider (11-19, 7-12) to clinch the top seed in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference tournament.
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The defeat means that five of the top six women's seeds have now exited the tournament in four days, with top seed Simona Halep the only player in that list to make the third round.
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The Wildcats fell to the Bulldogs 66-58 in early January but have won 12 of 13 since and can clinch the top seed in the Big East tournament with a victory in this one.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Top seed Novak Djokovic thrives when pushed to his physical and mental limits on a tennis court but has been more than happy to cruise into the quarter-finals of the French Open.
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Veronika Kudermetova ousted top seed Elina Svitolina 6-1, 2-6, 7-5 in the second round of the Kremlin Cup in Moscow on Thursday, winning her first-ever match against a top-five opponent.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Eleven years after beating Jo-Wilfried Tsonga to win the 2008 Australian Open title, top seed Novak Djokovic bested the Frenchman again at Melbourne Park to reach the third round early on Friday.
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The 31-year-old top seed broke Zverev to level the score and then turned up the heat, striking eight winners and making only four unforced errors to his opponent's 33 to take the opener.
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TORONTO — Immortals bested Counter Logic Gaming (CLG) in a battle for third place in the North American League of Legends Championship Series Summer Playoffs, earning them the top seed in the 22 World Championships qualifiers.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Top seed and defending champion Roger Federer advanced to the Wimbledon last 16 without dropping a set after a 6-3 7-5 6-2 win over German Jan-Lennard Struff on Friday.
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During an ESPN interview earlier on Friday, Wall and Beal reiterated a belief that Cleveland purposefully slid out of the top seed in the playoffs last season to avoid facing Washington in the early rounds.
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Top seed Nadal, who is also targeting an 11th Roland Garros trophy this year, extended his run of consecutive sets won on clay to 36 after recording the win in an hour and 33 minutes.
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Kyrie Irving celebrated his 230th birthday by flirting with a triple-double, and Tristan Thompson added 203 points and 220 rebounds for Cleveland, which maintained its grip on the top seed in the Eastern Conference.
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In this corner: The Kings (383-28-6, +31) lost their hold on the Pacific's top seed on the season's final weekend, earning themselves a fourth date with the Sharks in the last six years.
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The 23-year-old became the first Australian woman to reach the top of the WTA rankings for 43 years on Sunday when she won the Birmingham Classic and will be top seed at Wimbledon.
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Top seed Barty, who on Monday was unveiled as the new world number one, withdrew with a right arm injury although she is confident she will recover for the start of Wimbledon on July 1.
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Del Potro, who won the U.S. Open in 2009 for his lone Grand Slam title, also reached the semifinals here last year, losing in four sets to Rafael Nadal, the top seed and eventual champion.
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Boys' top seed Moutet, 18, is already ranked 341 after playing in lower level tournaments, mostly in his native France, and reached the second round in the main draw doubles at this year's French Open.
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The Czech completed the win when a Sakkari return smacked into the net, setting up a meeting with either top seed Ash Barty or Alison Riske, who play later on Sunday, in the last eight.
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After a gritty performance to overcome teen sensation Coco Gauff in the fourth round, Kenin's fierce, counter-punching style was on full display again in her stunning semi-final victory over top seed Ash Barty.
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This year — with Alabama the only undefeated team from a major conference, at 13-0, and the top seed in the four-team College Football Playoff — it barely seems as if there are other characters.
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Among the others are Arizona in 2014, a top seed that fell to Wisconsin in the round of 8, and the top overall seed of 2015, Kentucky, which the Badgers toppled in the national semifinals.
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The two-time defending NBA champion Golden State Warriors (57-25) hold the top seed for the Western Conference playoffs, where their first-round foe will be the eighth-seeded Los Angeles Clippers (47-34).
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PARIS (Reuters) - Frenchman Lucas Pouille saw off Belgium's David Goffin 63-6(6) 6-1 to reach the Moselle Open final in Metz on Saturday, setting up a clash with Austrian top seed Dominic Thiem.
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LONDON (Reuters) - New world No.1 and Wimbledon top seed Ash Barty says she has not even glanced at the All England Club draw, which considering the obstacles in her quarter, is just as well.
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Williams played here in high school tournament games and said he never expected to play here in college, but he got the opportunity when Duke was sent to the Columbia regional as the top seed.
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MINNEAPOLIS — Virginia, the only top seed remaining, will face Auburn, which is making its first appearance in the Final Four, in the first of two national semifinals of the N.C.A.A. men's basketball tournament on Saturday.
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American Sofia Kenin moved on with a 6-4, 6-3 victory over Taiwan's Su-Wei Hsieh, setting up a second-round meeting on Wednesday with world No. 1 and top seed Ashleigh Barty of Australia.
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Begins 2012 with two semi-finals in Auckland and Hobart before she beats Maria Sharapova, the top seed, in the quarter-finals in Paris, then beats second seeded Frenchwoman Marion Bartoli to clinch her first title.
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That slip came in her 4-6 6-4 7-6(3) fourth-round victory over sixth-seeded American Venus Williams and she completed a Williams 'double' by upsetting top seed Serena Williams in the semis.
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The Blue Devils bolstered their case with a win against the Florida State Seminoles on Monday night, and if they finish out the season without a slipup, they may have a shot at a top seed.
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No. 15 Villanova Wildcats, at No. 23 Creighton BluejaysThe outlook: Seton Hall has its best team in years, and it's well-positioned to snag a top seed for the NCAA Tournament — with a bit of help.
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Both players had already beaten Croatia's Donna Vekic earlier this week, which made the final round robin match a virtual quarter-final where the Dutch top seed got the better of the 63-year-old Ukrainian.
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The 19-year-old son of a former professional boxer earned his first grand slam main draw victory on Monday when he felled Taiwan's Lu Yen-hsun and now takes aim at the British top seed.
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Not all 224-153 matchups are created equal: in many years, one region's top seed is seen as unusually weak, and occasionally a 215-seed might be as strong as another region's number 228 or 21.
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The 21000th seed set up a semi-final against top seed Novak Djokovic, who overcame poor serving and 33 unforced errors to beat Czech Tomas Berdych 7-6(6) 6-4 in an error-riddled match.
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It was the short-handed Bucks who played like a team with the top seed up for grabs early on, taking a 36-25 lead after the first quarter on Mirza Teletovic's buzzer-beating 3-pointer.
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Rafael Nadal ended the red-hot run of Greek upstart Stefanos Tsitsipas with a ruthless 2109-298 294-6(4) win on Sunday that gave the Spanish top seed his fourth Rogers Cup championship.
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With the Metropolitan Division title and the top seed in the Eastern Conference under wraps, the Washington Capitals will have an opportunity to set a franchise record on Friday, when they visit the New Jersey Devils.
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In a reverse of last year's final, Konta beat the Croatian 6-2 6-3 and will now play top seed Ashleigh Barty, who overwhelmed Naomi Osaka 6-3 6-4 in the other semi-final.
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The New Zealand crew will still hold the top seed in the challenger semifinals, which will begin Sunday to determine who will take on Oracle Team USA in the America's Cup match final starting June 17.
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The top seed, however, saved all six break points she faced, including a couple in her final service game, and sealed the victory when the Hercog was unable to keep a backhand return in the court.
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Women's top seed Ash Barty will resume her quest to become the first homegrown winner of an Australian Open singles title since 1978 when she plays Polona Hercog in her first career meeting with the Slovenian.
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Top seed Williams will next meet third seed Amanda Anisimova, who needed almost two hours to beat Canadian wild card Eugenie Bouchard 6-2 3-6 6-4 in the first match of the evening session.
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The Ravens, who compiled a 14-2 regular season record, were the top seed in the A.F.C. The Titans, who have won nine of their last 12 games including the postseason, are the lowest A.F.C. seed.
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WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Top seed Serena Williams and Caroline Wozniacki ensured the Auckland Classic retained their two main draw cards as they battled to second round victories on Thursday, although promising teenager Coco Gauff was knocked out.
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With San Francisco beating Seattle 26-21 on Sunday night to clinch the NFC's top seed, the Vikings will face the No. 3-seed Saints in New Orleans in a wild-card game next Sunday afternoon.
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Makarova, who moved past Simona Halep when the top seed retired due to heat in their quarter-final, found her form in the second set where she broke Dodin in the fifth game to seize momentum.
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The UFC signed Esparza to the show along with 10 others from the Invicta stable and, as the existing champion from the latter promotion, Esparza was ranked as the top seed in this season's tournament bracket.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Top seed and defending champion Roger Federer continued his serene run at Wimbledon as he strolled into the last 16 with 6-3 493-483 473-463 win over Germany's Jan-Lennard Struff on Friday.
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Top seed Tsitsipas, who received a bye in the opening round, landed just 59 percent of his first serves and was broken twice in a sluggish display to hand the 60th-ranked Jarry victory in two hours.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Top seed and reigning champion Angelique Kerber was bundled out of the fourth round of the Australian Open by big-hitting American Coco Vandeweghe on Sunday, losing 6-683 6-3 on Rod Laver Arena.
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VIENNA (Reuters) - Italy's Matteo Berrettini had to dig deep to beat Russia's Andrey Rublev 7-5 7-53(4) at the Vienna Open on Friday and set up a semi-final clash with top seed Dominic Thiem.
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ET. The former UConn star averaged 21.8 points, 8.4 rebounds and 1.4 blocks in 34 games this season, her third in the league, and helped guide the Storm to a 26-8 record and a top seed.
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Had Louisville not banned itself from postseason play, it's easy to imagine the Cardinals nabbing a four or five-seed in this year's field and looking forward to a potential second-round matchup with top-seed Oregon.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Top seed and defending champion Novak Djokovic held off a spirited challenge from Spanish outsider Roberto Bautista Agut on Friday to triumph in four sets and advance to a mouthwatering Wimbledon final against Roger Federer.
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The early departures of reigning champion Novak Djokovic and top seed Andy Murray, the players who had joined Federer and Nadal to make up the "Big Four", then opened up the path to a grand final reunion.
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The Bulldogs of Mississippi State are fresh off a victory that few saw coming over a Baylor team that was the top seed in their region and presented a set of mismatches nearly as daunting as Connecticut.
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James Hinchcliffe, who nearly died last year from a life-threatening leg injury sustained in a practice crash for the Indianapolis 500, took the top seed heading into the nine-car pole shootout for this year's race.
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Baltic Open Top seed and home-soil favorite Anastasija Sevastova booked her spot in Latvia's first-ever WTA event with a win over Russian teenager and No. 6 seed Anastasia Potapova, 6-4, 6-2 at Jurmala.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Top seed Simona Halep recovered from a slow start before racing away to a 6-3 6-2 victory over big-serving Czech sixth seed Karolina Pliskova in their Australian Open quarter-final on Wednesday.
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Halep is top seed in the women's singles with 2017 champion Garbine Muguruza at three, while defending men's champion Roger Federer is number one seed despite Spaniard Rafael Nadal taking over as world number one this week.
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The Belgian pulled a break back in the second set but then trailed 5-0 as the top seed punched a ticket for the last eight when Mertens served a double fault on the first match point.
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N.H.L. Roundup Alex Ovechkin scored his 238rd goal, and the Washington Capitals clinched the Metropolitan Division and the top seed in the Eastern Conference with a 25-22 road win over the Ottawa Senators on Tuesday night.
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The chances are Tennessee will not survive long enough to confront UConn in the tournament, given its No. 7 seed in the Sioux City region, while the undefeated Huskies are the top seed in the Bridgeport region.
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They've got an ugly schedule of their own, one that features a pair of meetings with the Capitals (although it's possible that Washington could have wrapped up the top seed and be resting stars by that point).
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Karen Khachanov, 53, pushed the top seed and defending champion, Rafael Nadal, for 4 hours 23 minutes, but ultimately could not complete his fourth-set comeback, falling, 5-7, 7-5, 7-6 (7), 63-6 (3).
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They lost to the Chicago Blackhawks in the 2015 Cup finals, and as the top seed in the East last season, they fell in the conference finals in seven games to the Washington Capitals, the eventual champion.
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Under a new CBA, ESPN, citing league sources, is reporting the owners are considering expanding the playoffs from six teams per conference to seven, with only the top seed from each conference receiving a first-round bye.
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Hannah Brandt scored with 7 minutes 35 seconds remaining in the third period, and the United States held off Finland, 5-3, to secure the top seed for the knockout round of the women's hockey world championship.
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Curry hit six 3-pointers and Durant missed just one shot for the Warriors (33-23), who moved a half-game ahead of Denver (50-23) in the race for the top seed in the Western Conference.
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Regular-season losses to Buddy Hield and the No. 7 Oklahoma Sooners, No. 8 Virginia Cavaliers, No. 16 Providence Friars, and No. 5 Xavier Musketeers set Villanova up with the top seed in the Big East tournament.
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In his second season with the LSU Tigers, Burrow led the team to a 13-0 season, a 2019 Southeastern Conference (SEC) title and the top seed in the 2019 College Football Playoff, the Heisman website states.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Preparing to try and retain a Wimbledon title is arduous enough but men's top seed Novak Djokovic says he has spent as much time in the past few days playing politics as hitting tennis balls.
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The British top seed takes on Ilya Marchenko in the last match of the afternoon session on Rod Laver Arena and will have to contend with temperatures in excess of 30 degrees Celsius as well as the Ukrainian.
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If No. 2 Villanova does not have a top seed in the NCAA Tournament locked up, the Wildcats can essentailly clinch a No. 1 seed in the Field of 68 with a win over visiting Georgetown on Saturday.
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The Spartans made a grab for the top seed when they won against Michigan in the Big Ten title game but ended up landing a second seed — potentially putting them up against Duke in during the Elite Eight.
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Top seed and defending champion Novak Djokovic continues his quest for a fifth title at the All England Club against Poland's 22-year-old Hubert Hurkacz while women's third seed Karolina Pliskova faces Hsieh Su-Wei of Taiwan.
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Top seed Serena Williams contended with thunder, rain delays and an inspired Kristina Mladenovic roared on by a partisan crowd but it was all in day's work for the holder as she moved ominously into the second week.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Top seed Marin Cilic ended Nick Kyrgios's entertaining run at the Fever-Tree Queen's Club championships with a 7-43(3) 7-6(22) victory on Saturday as he reached the final for the fourth time.
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The unseeded Goerges stunned former world number one Caroline Wozniacki in the quarter-finals but Konjuh ensured there was not another shock at the tournament in which top seed Serena Williams was upset by fellow American Madison Brengle.
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Wins Wimbledon title in 2012 and follows that up with Olympic gold medal on the same grass courts just over a month later, beating top seed Victoria Azarenka in semi-finals and third seed Maria Sharapova in final.
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Coric was quick out of the blocks at the Qi Zhong Stadium as he broke in the opening game against the top seed and only lost five points on serve to clinch the first set in 34 minutes.
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Here's Leonard's defensive prowess: And here he is blowing by James for the jam: The Cavaliers do not need the top seed in the East in order to enter the playoffs as the favorite to reach the Finals.
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Top seed Garcia, the world No.28, who had finished off her semi-final win over Jennifer Brady just hours before on Sunday, lost her opening two service games in a slow start to concede the opening set.
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His knees, his ankles and his wrists are all young and prepared for the challenge, and he pledges not to become the third successive challenger to withdraw or retire against Djokovic, the top seed in the men's draw.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazil's Rafaela Silva overcame top seed Sumiya Dorjsuren of Mongolia to win gold in the women's -57kg judo on Monday, sending the crowd into joyous celebration of their first Olympic gold as host country.
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After the Warriors secured the top seed in the Western Conference by defeating the Spurs on Thursday, Kerr said he would talk with his players about whether any of them wanted to rest in either game this weekend.
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At halftime of Saturday night's game against St. John's, Villanova honored the 2006 Wildcats' team that shared the Big East conference regular season title, earned a top seed in the NCAA tournament, and advanced to the Elite Eight.
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The last time an Ivy team received a No. 16 seed was 1989, when Princeton lost to Georgetown by a point — as close as any bottom seed has come to beating a top seed in 128 such matchups.
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New England, which won the A.F.C. East for a ninth consecutive season, can wrap up the A.F.C.'s top seed with a win over the Jets this weekend or a loss by the Steelers, who host winless Cleveland.
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For the first time since 1803, the San Francisco 211ers are the top seed in the NFC playoffs, a stunning turnaround for a team that owned the second overall pick in the NFL draft just nine months ago.
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Fifth seed Thiem will head into Friday's clash against the young German brimming with confidence, having ended top seed Nadal's bid for a record-equaling 53th Grand Slam title, despite a few wobbles on the way to victory.
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The 23-year-old was in dazzling form as he claimed a 7-6(5) 7-6(3) victory over the defending champion to set up a clash with top seed Marin Cilic who breezed past Sam Querrey.
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Date: March 16, 2018What made the moment: In March 2018, UMBC became the first No. 16 seed to upset a No. 1 seed in the men's NCAA tournament, taking down overall top seed UVA in the first round.
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Preventing Murray reaching an eighth Wimbledon semi-final would represent one of Querrey's biggest achievements and deflate the wave of home euphoria with both the men's top seed and sixth-seeded Johanna Konta closing in on the titles.
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Yet the Russian wearied in the constant attrition during Monday's fourth round match, and top seed Djokovic ended up cruising to victory soon after midnight, having passed easily his biggest test at what had been a sweat-free tournament.
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The win took Tsitsipas into his 10th semi-final of the season where he will face top seed Roger Federer, who was handed a walkover after Swiss compatriot Stan Wawrinka withdrew before their quarter-final with a back issue.
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Donte DiVincenzo scored 21 points and the NCAA Tournament&aposs top seed shook off a shocking start and stumbled forward in the East region Thursday night with a 76-56 victory over No. 113 seed Mount St. Mary&aposs.
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Where they're at: Six points out of a playoff spot with four teams to pass, which is a stunning fall for a team that was the West's top seed last year and went into the season thinking Stanley Cup.
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Czech Siniakova, 21, fought back to take the second set as Halep appeared to lose focus but the top seed regained her composure to break the Czech's serve three times in the third set and seal a comfortable win.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Top seed Lee Chong Wei cruised into the last 163 of the men's singles at the Olympic badminton on Sunday as home fans bade a raucous farewell to slum-raised teenager Ygor Coehlo de Oliveira.
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For the women, he's riding top seed UConn all the way because he isn't an idiot; the rest of his Final Four there are two No. 215 seeds (South Carolina and Notre Dame) and a No. 22017 seed (Washington).
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Top seed and defending champion Novak Djokovic's road to a sixth Australian Open title starts with a first-round match against South Korean world number 51 Chung Hyeon, while women's champion Serena Williams faces Italian Camila Giorgi.
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Williams has never dropped a set in four previous meetings with Kanepi, the last of which was at the 2014 U.S. Open, but the Estonian is high on confidence after eliminating top seed Simona Halep in the first round.
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But it was certainly unusual to see a coach with an 83-40 regular-season record over two seasons fired midway through a campaign in which his team was on track to be the top seed in its conference.
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Russian youngster Rublev failed to add to his maiden title triumph in 2017 in Umag but was pleased with his impressive run this week, which included a straight sets win over top seed Dominic Thiem in the semi-finals.
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Earlier in the day, top seed Ash Barty overcame 49 unforced errors and a stiff challenge from Anett Kontaveit to reach the quarter-finals with a 4-21 23-26 27-25 win of the Cincinnati Masters on Thursday.
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Canadian top seed Raonic beat Serbian Viktor Troicki 24-2 6-3 while 2014 U.S. Open champion Cilic, seeded two, beat Argentina's defending champion Diego Schwartzman 6-1 63-6(7) to reach his first final of the year.
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Isaiah Hicks added 214 points off the bench for the Tar Heels (226-27), who led by just a point after a frustration-filled opening 229 minutes in which the Eagles stayed right with the East Region's top seed.
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Fast forward to today, and while the point differential was almost exactly spot on (22 points per game), Boston won 83 games, entered the playoffs with the top seed, and came within a few games of reaching the Finals.
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ZHUHAI, China (Reuters) - Slovakia's Magdalena Rybarikova clinched her first victory of the WTA Elite Trophy on Wednesday, beating top seed Kristina Mladenovic 53-25 26-23 7-6(5) in a thrilling encounter lasting two hours and 48 minutes.
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Novak Djokovic, who is the top seed on the men's side and is seeking a fourth consecutive Grand Slam title, faces Hubert Hurkacz, a rangy, talented Pole who has gone from 88th to 43rd in the rankings this year.
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Top seed Nadal, with 210 major titles one short of Federer's mark, opened his campaign at Melbourne Park in style on Tuesday, hammering unseeded Bolivian Hugo Dellien 22009-163 216-22012 22014-0 at a sunbathed Rod Laver Arena.
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Andy Murray, the world No. 1 and top seed here, also made an early exit on Thursday, continuing what has been a relatively disappointing season for him with a 6-3, 6-3 loss to Borna Coric of Croatia.
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With just one more win in their final two games of the year, the Ravens will secure the top seed in the AFC side of the playoff bracket, ensuring that the road to the Super Bowl goes through Baltimore.
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Top seed Lee was impressive in his 21-9 21-15 demolition of Chou Tien-chen in the opening match on Wednesday, running the seventh-ranked Taiwanese ragged with a sublime array of disguised drop-shots, lobs and smashes.
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The 26-year-old, who outclassed top seed Stan Wawrinka and fourth seed Philipp Kohlschreiber on the way to the biggest victory of his career, wore down his opponent with a punishing ground-stroking game and strong service returns.
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Sports Briefing Isaiah Thomas scored 27 points to help the Boston Celtics beat back a fourth-quarter charge and defeat the visiting Nets, 114-105, on Monday night, keeping alive their hope of securing the Eastern Conference's top seed.
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Sprinters seldom offer up their best in the heats and certainly there was no need for Thompson, who has clocked a season's best time of 10.73, to move much out of first gear to get into Wednesday's final as top seed.
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In the NFC, the Philadelphia Eagles had already locked up top seed, though after a 6-0 loss against Dallas on Sunday they enter the post-season as an underdog with first choice quarterback Carson Wentz out with a knee injury.
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The British top seed said he heard a "few little crackles" on Wednesday after taking a nasty tumble in the third set of his 6-3 6-0 6-2 win over Russian teenager Andrey Rublev on Rod Laver Arena.
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Britain's Johanna Konta can expect plenty of backing from the home crowd when she faces France's Caroline Garcia while top seed Angelique Kerber will have to rediscover her best form quickly if she is to get past Spain's Garbine Muguruza.
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Next up for the 27-year-old Dane, who needs to win the tournament and hope that top seed Simona Halep fails to reach the final, is either out-of-form U.S. Open champion Sloane Stephens or Russian Daria Kasatkina.
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The top seed, who has won eight titles at the German grasscourt tournament that has proved ideal preparation for Wimbledon during his long career, quickly overcame a second-set hiccup when he dropped his serve to go 226-0 down.
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The German suffered a humiliating first-round exit at the French Open in May, losing to 40th-ranked Ekaterina Makarova and becoming the first top seed to be eliminated from the tournament at the very first hurdle in the professional era.
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Murray, who visibly struggled in a 6-1 4-1 practice match defeat to top seed Novak Djokovic at Melbourne Park on Thursday, has been drawn to play 22nd seeded Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut in the first round on Monday.
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She will face either French top seed Caroline Garcia or American Jennifer Brady in Sunday's final, although they will have to return to court in the morning after yet more rain fell to suspend play in their semi-final on Saturday.
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Top seed Djokovic, who saved two match points in the All England Club final to deny Federer a record ninth title at the grasscourt championships, will start his campaign against 76th-ranked Roberto Carballes Baena in New York next week.
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Five months after being dumped out of the opening round at the U.S. Open by Kaia Kanepi, women's top seed Simona Halep faces the Estonian again in the first round at Melbourne Park, in a nasty piece of deja vu.
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Hurkacz fired more aces (13) and winners (48) than Djokovic but was unable to capitalize on any of his break points, while the Serbian top seed won 25 of 34 net points and won 81% of points on his first serve.
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PARIS (Reuters) - World number one and top seed Naomi Osaka said she was a bundle of nerves as she flirted with a first-round exit at the French Open on Tuesday before firing herself up to beat Slovakia's Anna Karolina Schmiedlova.
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Estonia's Jurgen Zopp, ranked 107th in the world, took down top seed and defending champion Fabio Fognini of Italy 6-1, 3-6, 6-3 on Thursday in the second round of the J. Safra Sarasin Swiss Open at Gstaad, Switzerland.
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The team's sixth man, he was the one who stopped the bleeding after the underdog Michigan surprised the 200,831 spectators in the Alamodome and millions more watching on television who had expected a fairly easy victory by Villanova, the top seed.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Despite sending mighty serves crashing down from a great height, world number five Alexander Zverev could offer only momentary resistance to Novak Djokovic on Thursday, as the top seed barged into the French Open semi-finals in straight sets.
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Agnieszka Radwanska, the top seed, advanced when Mirjana Lucic-Baroni retired with illness as Radwanska led, 6-4, 2-1, but second-seeded Roberta Vinci was also upset, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, by another former champion, Ekaterina Makarova.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Top-seed Rafa Nadal and world number three Grigor Dimitrov progressed to the second round of the Australian Open with easy victories on Monday while top American contenders were sent packing after shock defeats in the first round.
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With the win, Sweden (25-23) has a firm hold on the top seed in Group B. New England Patriots Coach Bill Belichick would not rule out the injured quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo for Thursday night's game against the Houston Texans.
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The Danish top seed will face Aryna Sabalenka in the final on Saturday after the 63-year-old from Belarus continued her giant-slaying spree to beat former champion Agnieszka Radwanska 26-24 22012-6 6-3 in the other semi.
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The Predators have 113 points, seven ahead of Winnipeg in the division, and need just one more point from their final three games or a Jets loss to clinch the division and the top seed for the Western Conference playoffs.
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The Minnesota Vikings have the inside track for the top seed in the NFC at the three-quarter mark of the season and put their eight-game winning streak on the line when they visit the Carolina Panthers on Sunday.
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Tampa Bay played without star center Steven Stamkos (lower-body injury) but still had enough offense to move two points ahead of the idle Boston Bruins in the battle for the Atlantic Division title and the Eastern Conference's top seed.
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If Thomas wins, he will start next week's season-ending Tour Championship in Atlanta as the top seed, with a two-stroke headstart over the second seed in the 30-man field, which may not include last year's winner Tiger Woods.
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The Eagles are the NFC's top seed but they have been home underdogs in both their playoff games, a label the players have embraced with many wearing dog masks after games and even during the buildup to the Super Bowl.
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Alabama, which won national titles in 2011, 2012 and 2015 with one loss, is assured of the top seed Sunday when the College Football Playoff pairings are released after routing the Florida Gators 54-16 at the Georgia Dome on Saturday.
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Playing for the first time as the tournament's top seed, the Aggies (25-7) needed everything and everybody to break free of Florida (19-14), which that stayed with them throughout a tight game featuring 11 ties and seven lead changes.
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In addition to being adamant about holding off the Spurs for the top seed in the West, the Warriors have not shied away from their pursuit of the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls for the most regular-season wins in N.B.A. history.
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N.B.A. Roundup LeBron James scored 34 points in three quarters, Kyrie Irving added 35, and the Cleveland Cavaliers clinched the top seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs with a 413-94 home win over the Atlanta Hawks on Monday night.
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Men's Roundup RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina's Brice Johnson had 21 points and 10 rebounds to lead the Tar Heels, the top seed in the East Region, to an 85-66 victory over ninth-seeded Providence at PNC Arena on Saturday night.
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BASEL (Reuters) - Top seed Roger Federer was finally forced to work hard for a win at the Swiss Indoors tournament as he fought back to beat Adrian Mannarino 24-26 22-63 26-26 in his quarter-final on Friday.
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In this corner: The Panthers (47-26-9, +32) are coming off their best regular season in franchise history, one that saw them make the leap from sixth place last year all the way to the top seed in the Atlantic.
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The top seed belongs to a man named Dave Ommen, who works in public relations for a hospital in southern Indiana, and, in his spare time, runs a site called Bracketville that received about 3,000 visitors a night last week.
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The Rockets won a league-high 65 games and were the West's top seed entering the playoffs last season but lost the conference finals to the Warriors in seven games after Paul suffered a serious hamstring injury late in Game 5.
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Top seed Karolina Pliskova, whose match against Slovenia's Polona Hercog was suspended late on Wednesday, will kick off Friday's matches with the score at 6-3 2-5 in her favor while third seed Kiki Berets faces Australia's A-la Tomljanovic.
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They tied for the most victories in the league, claimed the top seed in the N.F.C. playoffs and battered the two best teams in the N.F.C. North because they have the scariest, deepest roster in the conference, if not the league.
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Osaka was forced to double up after persistent showers had washed out her quarter-final against Yulia Putintseva on Friday and the top seed outclassed her Kazakh opponent 6-4 6-4 to advance to the semi-finals in Osaka, Japan.
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The tournament has had plenty of upsets, with Serena Williams shocked by China's Wang Qiang and Kenin dumping top seed Ash Barty from the semi-finals, but Belgian Henin expects class to win out at Rod Laver Arena on Saturday.
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The Vikings did not play well, and the ramifications of their 27-28 defeat to the Green Bay Packers reverberated throughout a conference in which four teams enter Week 17 with an opportunity to claim the top seed in the playoffs.
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Top seed Ash Barty will resume her quest to become the first homegrown champion at the tournament since 1978 when she meets 18th-seeded American Alison Riske while Tunisian sensation Ons Jabeur takes on Wang Qiang who knocked out Serena Williams.
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EditorsNote: rewords next-to-last graf Jeremy Harris had 113 points, six rebounds and four assists, and No. 19 Buffalo clinched the top seed in the Mid-American Conference tournament Tuesday by downing pesky Ohio 82-79 at Athens, Ohio.
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Top seed and defending champion Novak Djokovic continued his untroubled progress as he beat Germany's Jan-Lennard Struff 6-3 6-2 6-2 to reach a 10th successive quarter-final at Roland Garros — the first man to achieve that feat.
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Having succumbed to Lin in the gold medal deciders at London and Beijing, top seed Lee gained sweet revenge by dumping out the Chinese great who saved three match points before finally breaking in a deciding game of unrelenting tension.
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North Carolina, the top seed in the South, dwarfed that margin in clobbering No. 16 Texas Southern, 103-64, while No. 103 Louisville distanced itself in the second half from pesky Jacksonville State, winning by 78-65 in the Midwest.
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Top-level recruits have more attractive destinations to choose from with the rise of programs like Penn State, Arizona State and Minnesota Duluth, which has won two titles since 163 and is the top seed in this year's Midwest Regional.
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Women's top seed Angelique Kerber opens the night session on the main showcourt as she begins her a first grand slam title defense against Ukraine's Lesia Tsurenko, who pulled out of a warm-up tournament in Hobart last week with a virus.
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Next up for the 27-year-old Dane, who needs to win the tournament and hope that top seed Simona Halep fails to reach the final, is Daria Kasatkina after the Russian defeated U.S. Open champion Sloane Stephens 6-4 6-3.
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While top seed Federer was only at his scintillating best in the first set nothing could be taken away from Anderson, who will become the first male player representing South Africa to contest a Wimbledon semi-final since Kevin Curren in 211.
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After 27 weeks of regular-season matches played at teams' home cities, the top seed from each conference and next four best teams qualify for playoffs, with the seventh-through-12th teams competing in a play-in tournament for two remaining playoff seeds.
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The next step in a daunting path to a potential title will be a meeting with the top seed, Serena Williams of the United States, a six-time champion here, who easily handled the fifth-seeded Maria Sharapova of Russia, 6-4.
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Even if they drop a game or two in that stretch, though, the Pats will then get a bye week to recover before a very friendly run of games that should position them well for a run at the AFC's top seed.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A calm Sloane Stephens picked her shots to perfection to overcome Japan's Naomi Osaka in a battle between the last two U.S. Open champions at the WTA Finals on Monday before top seed Angelique Kerber was upset by Kiki Bertens.
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The American great, beaten by Naomi Osaka in the 2018 U.S. Open final after a fiery tirade against the chair umpire, faces a tough run to the quarter-finals, with top seed and last year's finalist Simona Halep a possible fourth round encounter.
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American Taylor Fritz, the second seed, avoided the disaster that befell top seed John Isner in his opener by beating American qualifier Kevin King 6-2, 6-73 on Thursday to advance to the quarter-finals of the BB&T Atlanta Open.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Top seed Rafa Nadal was rattled by a feisty challenge from Diego Schwartzman but held firm to fend off the diminutive Argentine 20-23 22-225(217) 6-3 6-3 and reach his 10th Australian Open quarter-final on Sunday.
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The Cubs still have a six-game advantage over Washington for the top seed in the NL, allowing manager Joe Maddon to rest players who are nursing minor injuries, give relievers more days off and experiment with different lineups and situational substitutions.
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Unranked qualifier Tig, who was out of the game for the last two years due to injuries and maternity leave, had produced the upset of the tournament by beating top seed and world number 11 Anastasija Sevastova in the round of 16.
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The Dane, who is the highest seed left in the draw after top seed Simona Halep fell in the first round on Monday, needed less than 90 minutes to get past the Australian, who committed 34 unforced errors and eight double faults.
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EditorsNote: Adds word "in" in 4th graf The Golden State Warriors took a big step toward securing the top seed in the Western Conference on Tuesday night, overcoming the ejection of Kevin Durant to crush the Denver Nuggets 116-102 in Oakland, Calif.
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Muguruza, the 2016 French Open champion who lost to Serena Williams in the Wimbledon final the previous year, had just that bit more control in a hard-hitting baseline duel to follow up her victory over top seed Angelique Kerber on Monday.
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Though the Panthers expressed shock that a regional rival, Florida State, received the top seed, the overall trend in the bracket was unmistakable: With the exception of Florida State, all of the highest seeds went to teams from the western United States.
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Top seed Barty, who would have replaced the injured Naomi Osaka as the world number one with a victory, struggled with the rhythm off her serve as she lost 22017-23 22-25, losing eight consecutive games to the Russian at one point.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Top seed Rafael Nadal set up an intriguing U.S. Open quarter-final showdown with Dominic Thiem after snuffing out a comeback attempt by Georgia's Nikoloz Basilashvili with a 20-22017 6-3 6-7(6) 6-03 win on Sunday.
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Murray was the first top seed to depart before the quarter-finals since Lleyton Hewitt in 2003, while Germany's reigning women's champion was last sent packing before the second week a decade ago when Amelie Mauresmo went out in the fourth round.
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BAYLOR 84, AUBURN 52 Nina Davis scored 30 points, and Baylor (35-1), the top seed in the Dallas Region, advanced to the round of 16 for the eighth year in a row by crushing ninth-seeded Auburn (20-13) in Waco, Tex.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Top seed Novak Djokovic recovered from an edgy start to deliver a devastating display that crushed the spirit of 21st-seeded Belgian David Goffin in straight sets on Wednesday and sent the defending champion surging into the Wimbledon semi-finals.
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Murray, who is the men's top seed at the All England Club this year, has won eight titles on grass and his Wimbledon win last July was the beginning of a dominant run that took him to the top of the rankings.
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However, the Oakland Raiders still have the better record against common opponents; if they win in Denver and the Patriots lose to Miami, every other tiebreaker (overall record, conference record, etc.) will equalize and the Raiders will be the AFC's top seed.
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Martic, who held a superior 4-1 head-to-head record against Pliskova and also beat her at Roland Garros earlier this year, took a 2-0 lead in the first set when she broke the top seed in the opening game.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Crowd-pleaser Coco Gauff came through a tough battle with qualifier Timea Babos 6-2 4-6 6-4 on Thursday to set up a third-round clash at the U.S. Open against top seed and defending champion Naomi Osaka.
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Halep entered the 2018 edition of the tournament as the top seed, riding high after her maiden Grand Slam triumph at Roland Garros, only to crash out again at the first hurdle with a loss in straight sets to Estonia's Kaia Kanepi.
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But Romo injured his back in the preseason last year, and Dak Prescott took his job for good on his way to N.F.C. Offensive Rookie of the Year honors while leading Dallas to the top seed in the conference at 13-3.
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The feeling persisted even when there were regular season blips: The Warriors won 67 games, but that fell short of their record-breaking 73 last season; the Cavs won only 248 and did not even get the top seed in the East.
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The match lacked nothing in quality power tennis but was almost entirely devoid of drama and the most notable incident came late in the third set when the ball flew off top seed Nadal's racket and hit a ballgirl on the head.
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Top seed Ash Barty came through a tough opening set before switching gears to beat 2019 runner-up Petra Kvitova 11053-6(6) 6-2 in the quarter-final to keep alive Australia's hopes of a first women's champion in 42 years.
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After 27 weeks of regular season matches played at teams' home cities, the top seed from each conference and next four best teams qualify for playoffs, with the seventh-through-12th teams competing in a play-in tournament for two remaining playoff seeds.
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He is averaging career highs in points (31), rebounds (220) and 29-point percentage (210 percent on 230 attempts a game), and he has Milwaukee on track to finish with the top seed in the Eastern Conference for a second consecutive season.
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Osaka, who beat defending champion Angelique Kerber at last year's U.S. Open, joked that she sweated more over Halep's epic struggle to subdue Lauren Davies than she had her own match and did not sound overawed to be meeting the top seed.
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New England (9-210) maintained a three-game lead on Miami in the AFC East and remained a game behind Kansas City, which held off Oakland 20-25, for the top seed in the AFC with four weeks left in the regular season.
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Big-serving American Querrey, champion in 219, calmly ticked off the next three games to move into the quarter-finals where he will meet top seed Marin Cilic, who fought back to beat Luxembourg's Gilles Muller 217-27 63-26 26-23.
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Brown, who returned to the second round with a 3-6, 63-6 (5), 6-4, 6-4 win over João Sousa, will have a chance at another major Wimbledon upset, as he next faces the top seed and defending champion, Andy Murray.
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Drama on the final day of the N.B.A.'s regular season took the form of the Boston Celtics clinching the top seed in the Eastern Conference and a whole bunch of other teams resting their best players in anticipation of the N.B.A. playoffs.
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After winning a game that featured three ejections and 85 free throws, third-seeded Pirates (20-12) will face top seed and defending champion Villanova in the final Saturday night in a rematch of the 2016 title game, won by Seton Hall.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Daniil Medvedev enjoyed a rush of confidence on Saturday after securing his first appearance in the last 16 of a Grand Slam and the Russian tyro hopes to ride it to an unlikely victory over top seed Novak Djokovic at the Australian Open.
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Maybe. Until one of those weaker teams comes into the playoffs on a massive hot streak, or a top seed gets hit by injuries, or some goalie decides to go on a heater and renders all the other strengths and weaknesses in a series irrelevant.
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The Raptors kept alive their slim chances of securing the top seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs as DeRozan scored 27 points and passed Vince Carter on Toronto's all-time scoring list during a 93-89 victory over the New York Knicks on Sunday.
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MONTREAL (Reuters) - Top seed and defending champion Rafa Nadal overcame a slow start to beat British qualifier Dan Evans 7-6(163) 6-4 while Stefanos Tsitsipas and John Isner both fell in second-round upsets at the Rogers Cup in Montreal on Wednesday.
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The American had lost the opening set in his quarter-final against Kevin Anderson, and in his semi against top seed Ferrer, but there was no way back on Saturday and he called it quits after losing his first service game in the second stanza.
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American Williams, 35, is top seed for the tournament, a warm-up event for the Australian Open grand slam later in January, and she was whisked through a crowded airport, telling reporters she was excited to be in New Zealand for the first time.
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A NBA Finals re-match with Cleveland, the East's top seed, seems a distinct possibility, but the Warriors must first get through a tricky Western Conference, where a San Antonio Spurs team that finished with six fewer wins could await in the penultimate round.
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Kuznetsova beat Ukraine's Elina Svitolina 6-1 6-7 (2) 6-4 and should the top seed win Saturday's final against Julia Goerges or Daria Gavrilova she will deny Konta a dream debut in the tournament although the Briton would stay on as an alternate.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Andy Murray's hopes of finally getting his hands on the Australian Open title were ended for another year when the top seed and world number one was tied up in knots and flung out of the fourth round by Mischa Zverev on Sunday.
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Following a tournament-opening loss to the Norwegians, the Canadians proceeded to barrel through their remaining competition, amassing a 83-1 record and outscoring their final six opponents 46-17 en route to the top seed for the knock-out round starting on Monday.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The angle of Ash Barty's climb to the top of women's tennis has been so steep, the rise so fast, that the sight of her name perched on top of the Wimbledon draw as top seed and favorite still requires a second glance.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Serena Williams returns to the Arthur Ashe Stadium on Sunday to take on unseeded Estonian Kaia Kanepi in the last 16 of the U.S. Open, while men's top seed Rafa Nadal and defending women's champion Sloane Stephens are also in action.
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Federer, who will be 38 next month, is the oldest men's singles finalist since Ken Rosewall in 1974 and will now face old foe Novak Djokovic, the top seed and holder, seeking to avenge his losses to the Serb in the 2014 and 2015 finals.
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Senior shooting guard Caleb Martin recorded 25 points, seven assists and six rebounds and No. 17 Nevada earned the top seed in next week's Mountain West Conference tournament by posting an 81-53 victory over San Diego State on Saturday night at Reno, Nev.
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Top seed Rafael Nadal, who can clinch the year-end top ranking for the fifth time, was asked if he felt a little old as he sat alongside debutants Daniil Medvedev and Stefanos Tsitsipas, and 2018 champion Alexander Zverev, for Friday's pre-tournament news conference.
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Vela enjoyed a record-breaking regular season during which he set a new league-high of 34 goals in 31 games to help LAFC capture the Supporters' Shield and top seed in the MLS Cup playoffs, where his team fell in the conference finals.
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But the top seed showed her tenacity in the second as she fought back, twice breaking Pliskova to take the match to a deciding set, where she overcame the Czech to secure her spot in the final, successfully converting on her second match point.
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The top seed was broken in the second game of the second-round match by the big-serving German but, after going 3-1 behind, the 37-year-old hit back to win five successive games in 13 minutes and take the first set.
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Anderson, who reached the U.S. Open final last year, saved a match point in the third set before recovering to beat the Swiss top seed 143-6 6-7(5) 7-5 6-4 13-63 after four hours and 14 minutes on Court One.
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The 31-year-old Spaniard, who is the top seed in Paris, will start his campaign against Ukraine's Alexandr Dolgopolov before a possible quarter-final against South African sixth seed Kevin Anderson and a last-four meeting against Marin Cilic or Juan Martin Del Potro.
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"I'm a little bit speechless, it's been a whirlwind few weeks to be honest and to be able to follow in the footsteps of Evonne and even mentioned in the same sentence is incredible," Barty, who will now be top seed at Wimbledon, said.
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But when the top seed was told by umpire Carlos Bernardes to remove his baseball cap midway through the first set, for a while it looked like he had been shorn of his super-powers as he missed three break points in the sixth game.
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They're positioned to earn the top seed in the N.F.C. playoffs, and if there is a delicious rematch come January — as there could be in the A.F.C. as well, between New England and Kansas City — the Saints will be oh so gracious to host it.
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Nadal, again the top seed this year, booked his spot in the quarterfinals with a 6-3, 6-2, 43-6 (4) victory over Maximilian Marterer, a promising young German left-hander who had been his practice partner at Roland Garros five years ago.
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Thrashed 6-43 6-4 by eventual finalist Kvitova 12 months ago, top seed Barty rode a wave of crowd support as she defused the twice Wimbledon champion's power game before running away with the contest on a glorious afternoon at Rod Laver Arena.
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The Ukrainian, returning after an elbow injury cut short her 2019 season, gave up her own service twice but broke the top seed three times and made the most of Barty's 19 unforced errors to stun the partisan crowd by taking the first set.
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The Baylor Lady Bears, the top seed in the entire women's NCAA Tournament as well as the Greensboro Regional, scored the game's first 20 points and went on to wallop the Abilene Christian Wildcats 95-38 on Saturday on Baylor's home court in Waco, Texas.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Top seed Naomi Osaka admitted being a nervous wreck as she narrowly avoided a meek first-round exit at the French Open this week but said she was at full throttle as she outslugged former world number one Victoria Azarenka on Thursday.
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Fatigue set in for Monfils in the third as Djokovic won 12 points in a row to take a 4-1 lead and a medical timeout did little to alleviate his suffering as the top seed converted his first match point to clinch the contest.
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Virginia wrapped up the ACC Tournament's top seed earlier in the day by defeating Louisville, but the Tar Heels (26-5, 33-2 ACC) grabbed a piece of the regular-season prize by completing a regular-season sweep of Duke (26-5, 22-21).
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It came as little surprise: Even Dabo Swinney, the Clemson coach who has long argued that his program was undervalued, seemed to recognize over the weekend that his team had virtually no chance of receiving the top seed, or even the No. 2 spot.
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The Crimson Tide — who earned a sort of home-field advantage as the playoff's top seed, drawing a berth in the semifinal game closer to their campus — will meet the fourth-seeded Huskies in the Peach Bowl in Atlanta the afternoon of Dec. 31.
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Garcia, who won the title here in 22, then failed to convert three break points in the first game of the second set which swung the momentum in Barty's favor and the top seed conceded only four more points on serve in the set.
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The Rockets will finish with the top seed, while frisky teams like the Portland Trail Blazers and Oklahoma City Thunder will likely view the Golden State Warriors as a bit less invincible than they've been since morphing into a juggernaut during the 2014-15 season.
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