Do non-seeded players have a chance?

Is it possible for a non-seeded team to win a P250 or P500 tournament? The question arises much less during the P1000, very raised, nor on P100, generally local and convivial. Let's quickly analyze the facts.

Depending on the tournaments, there is the organizer and the number of available pitches, several tournament patterns.

The least common, very effective, but requires multiple courses is a tournament on a day where all players achieve the same number of games. How is it possible ? Before the start of the tournament, a list is made from the best team to the weakest. In the first match, the first meets the last, the second meets the penultimate and so on. At the end of the first match, the winners are played, and the losers play. At the end of the second match, the winners are played, those who won the first match but lost the second are played, those who lost the first match but won the second are played and those who have won nothing are played, etc etc until the final.

The interest of this scheme is that the tournament starts at the same time for everyone and ends at the same time. In this case the seed is preferred but they will play as much as the others.

And that's where we wanted to come from; the number of games played and the frequency with which they are chained.

Most tournaments are played over one or two days. It is necessary to chained the matches to be able to reach the final in the weekend. For a team that would start the tournament down the ladder, it could be that it plays 3 pool games on Saturday plus 1 or 2 table games. Sunday, in the first hour, play a round of eight, chained by a quarter, and if we have not met the seeded (fresh players) in the quarter-finals, you find them in half finals. As much to tell you that your lucidity is strongly started and that your legs are tired. You have to have an extraordinary physique to win the tournament.

So certainly, the seed deserves to be favored over other players because, if they have a higher ranking than the others, it is because they deserved it. Is it interesting for them to play only two games to win a tournament?

I leave you to debate on the subject, but would not it be interesting also to give a little more chances to the others ...

Julien Bondia

Julien Bondia is a teacher of padel in Tenerife (Spain). Columnist and advisor, he helps you play better through his tutorials and tactical/technical articles padel.