Calvy said:
The way the seedings work is no different then have been for years, so no need for complaint because ones favorite player is not benefitting from their new high ranking.
Simple fact is, every player has to deal with the seeding process.
It is true that every player has to deal with the same process and hence, the process is
fair to all. Having said that, it is not necessarily the right process. (For example, if we
let seeds 1 and 2, 3 and 4 etc play in the 1st round and make this known to everybody,
that would also be a fair process as we are not discriminating against any particular
player and everybody is told of how the system works; will that be a good process?)
When one tournament finishes on Sunday and the other one starts on Monday, there
is no way the results of the previous week can be taken into account. However, Indian
Wells and Miami fall under unique circumstances in that they can afford to start on
Wednesday (as this is a two week long tournament and at the same time unlike GS has
96 players only in MD). Doing so, would certainly make it possible to seed including IW
results.
Actually, if there is a will, they could do this even with a Tuesday start. It is not
that difficult to do both draw and schedule preparation on Monday itself.