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Originally Posted by Chirag
or it could be your favourate was the 11th seed most of the time  |
I've have certainly rooted for the 11 seed on some occasions, but I can't remember anyone who's actually held on to that position for a long time.
The most annoying "11 expecience" was with Yevgeny Kafelnikov. He entered WTF ranked 9 and I was happy he at least managed to finish the year top-10. But what happens? Two reserves do better than him in the tournament and he goes down to 11. That was 1998. Short time after, he won the AO - but not as 11 seed, he was seeded 10.
Let's see if I'm just prejudiced. These are AO results from 11 seeds. R4 is of course the expected result:
2012: QF (Del Potro)
2011: R4 (Melzer)
2010: R4 (Gonzalez)
2009: R3 (Ferrer)
2008: R2 (Robredo)
2007: R2 (Baghdatis)
2006: R4 (Ferrer again)
2005: R4 (J Johansson)
2004: R3 (Henman)
2003: R2 (Srichaphan)
2002: R4 (Federer)
2001: R2 (Squillari)
2000: R4 (Henman)
1999: withdraw
1998: R3 (Corretja)
1997: R4 (Courier)
1996: R3 (Krajicek)
1995: R2 (Ferreira)
1994: QF (Forget)
I forgot DelPo last year
Apart from that we have to go back to 1994 fo find an 11 seed doing better than expected. And there are a lot of R2 and R3 exits. No R1s, though, so Monaco is the worst 11 seed for a very long time.