Once in awhile, something funky happens in the Futures.
Canadian Philip Bester was the top seed in the qualifying at a $15,000 Futures event in Harlingen, Texas over the weekend – ranked nearly 300 spots higher than the No. 2 seed.
He wasn’t on the official entry list; as a late entry he could only play if he signed in for the qualifying. After a first-round bye, Bester easily won two matches to move into the main draw.
And so, abracadabra, Bester finds himself as … the No. 2 seed in the main draw.
It’s not rare, but it is unusual, a little twist that couldn’t happen at the ATP Tour level where the main draw comes out well before the qualifying is done.
But in Futures tournaments, that’s often not the case. And once a player qualifies, the tournament uses rankings from the previous week to seed the draw. Most often, there isn’t a player out of the qualies who is ranked high enough to be seeded in the main draw – obviously, or they’d have been straight in.
This is one of those unusual cases.
No bonus for being seeded in two draws in the same week, though.
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