How to Use unseeded in a Sentence

unseeded

adjective
  • Williams is unseeded and is in the bottom half of the draw with her sister Venus.
    — Helene Elliott, latimes.com, 6 Mar. 2018
  • Swiatek, an unseeded 19-year-old from Poland, has not had to dig nearly so deep.
    — Christopher Clarey, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2020
  • The matchup worthy of a final came about because both players were unseeded.
    — Steven Wine, Sun-Sentinel.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Chung is one of two unseeded players to advance to this year’s semifinal.
    — Sandra Harwitt, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2018
  • For the third time in five years, an unseeded player has taken the crown at Roland Garros.
    — Tim O'Donnell, The Week, 12 June 2021
  • Tiafoe dropped the opening set in a tiebreaker, then spent the next two sets wrestling control away from the unseeded Italian.
    — Dan Zaksheske, FOXNews.com, 1 June 2026
  • But never in the history of any Grand Slam have two unseeded women met for the title.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Williams will take the court again, this time to play the unseeded Nina Stojanovic, on Tuesday.
    — Eliza Huber, refinery29.com, 9 Feb. 2021
  • Mertens, unseeded and ranked 37th in the world, is the true Cinderella story of the tourney so far.
    — Corey Seymour, Vogue, 24 Jan. 2018
  • Humbert having the highest ranking of the unseeded players.
    — Arkansas Online, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Teams finishing from ninth to 16th will be seeded in that play-off stage, while those in 17th to 24th places will go unseeded.
    — Eduardo Tansley, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Williams fell to the unseeded Harmony Tan in the first round at Wimbledon after not playing for a year.
    — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Keane, the head coach of Ferencvaros, will face Ludogorets, who were alongside Celtic in their unseeded pot.
    — Paul Taylor, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The unseeded pairings will be drawn first, with the process then repeated for the seeded pairings, starting from the teams ranked 15 and 16.
    — Eduardo Tansley, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Her opponent was the unseeded Czech Barbora Strycova, and Strycova didn’t even get a toe in the door.
    — Jason Gay, WSJ, 11 July 2019
  • Rune has been honest that getting fast results, like the Masters win over Djokovic as an unseeded 19-year-old, didn’t always lead him to the right path.
    — Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
  • On Thursday, the unseeded Stephens beat Venus Williams in the semifinals to advance to the final matches.
    — Krystin Arneson, Glamour, 9 Sep. 2017
  • Wozniacki had to save two match points and rally from 1-5 down in the third set in the second round to defeat Jana Fett, an unseeded Croat.
    — Christopher Clarey, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2018
  • Thanks to this quirk of the draw at Cincinnati, the unseeded Williams and 10th seed Raducanu will go toe-to-toe for the first—and likely the last—time.
    — Liam Hess, Vogue, 15 Aug. 2022
  • In New York, Osaka and Muchova were both floaters — the kind of unseeded player that one of the top 32 names in the draw prays to avoid.
    — Charlie Eccleshare, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
  • The Thundering Herd are vying to become the first unseeded team to win the title since Santa Clara in 2006.
    — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 17 May 2021
  • The unseeded teams at each regional will square off on Friday (May 1) with the winner then facing the regional host on Saturday (May 2).
    — Oc Register, 26 Apr. 2026
  • The bottom 16 unseeded teams were placed into the bracket by the NIT Committee as close to their area of natural interest as possible.
    — Oc Register, 16 Mar. 2026
  • The unseeded Chwalinska came through three qualifying rounds to become only the second Polish woman to reach the semifinals at Roland Garros, along with four-time champion Iga Swiatek.
    — ABC News, 3 June 2026
  • Last year, Jakub Mensik, the unseeded and 54th-ranked 19-year-old Czech, beat his childhood idol Novak Djokovic to win his first ATP 1000 crown.
    — Miami Herald, 13 Mar. 2026
  • From qualifier to contender The unseeded Chwalinska came through three qualifying rounds to become only the second Polish woman to reach the semifinals at Roland Garros, along with Swiatek.
    — Jerome Pugmire, Chicago Tribune, 3 June 2026
  • The unseeded Redbirds shocked billion-time champ North Dakota State in Fargo along the way to becoming the first FCS team to ever win four road playoff games, then repeatedly came inches from beating 10-point favorite Montana State.
    — Jason Kirk, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2026

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