The tennis majors drive me nuts when their brackets are unbalanced. If all seeds advance, your #1 seed should play the #4 seed in the semifinals, NOT the #3 seed, and yet here we are, with #1 seed Djokovic playing #3 seed Federer in a rematch of their 2011 semifinal. Worse, just last year Federer and Djokovic were the #2 and #3 seeds, respectively, so it's not like the French Open planners get this wrong every time. If you want the rematch, then make Nadal the #1 seed; after all, he was last year's champion and the greatest clay court player of all time. That could be unfair to Djokovic, because he has won the last 3 majors, but it's actually *more* unfair to Djokovic to force the Federer/Djokovic semifinals rematch because it gives Nadal an easier path to the finals. Well... maybe it's not so much that it gives Nadal an easier path to the finals, because he owns Federer on clay, but that it makes Djokovic's path to the finals harder because Federer does well against Djokovic.
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