How to Use unseeded in a Sentence

unseeded

adjective
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  • With Kontaveit now out of the way, Williams will face unseeded Ajla Tomljanovic in the third round.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Swiatek, an unseeded 19-year-old from Poland, has not had to dig nearly so deep.
    — Christopher Clarey, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Williams will take the court again, this time to play the unseeded Nina Stojanovic, on Tuesday.
    — Eliza Huber, refinery29.com, 9 Feb. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • Djokovic pushed back when the 20-year-old unseeded American produced a late stand that got the home crowd into the match.
    — Howard Fendrich, Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Kei Nishikori lost to unseeded 20-year-old Alex de Minaur earlier in the day.
    — Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Anyone who has been watching the unseeded American’s run at the U.S. Open can tell you that.
    — Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • The Thundering Herd are vying to become the first unseeded team to win the title since Santa Clara in 2006.
    — Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 17 May 2021
  • But never in the history of any Grand Slam have two unseeded women met for the title.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2021
  • The third-seeded Nadal seeks a record 21st major to move one clear of Federer, and next faces unseeded Cameron Norrie.
    — Samuel Petrequin and Jerome Pugmire, Star Tribune, 3 June 2021
  • 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
  • Ruud won the first round but was upset in the second round by unseeded French player Ugo Humbert.
    — Ellie Beeck, Peoplemag, 13 Jan. 2023
  • When Jelena Ostapenko won the 2017 French Open as an unseeded player, the tennis salon was split.
    — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 10 July 2018
  • Kyrgios, 27, was unseeded and playing in his first Grand Slam final.
    — Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 10 July 2022
  • Thomas finished with a game-high 25 points for the unseeded Pride, who scored five points in the final 24 seconds of regulation to force overtime.
    — oregonlive, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Williams only returned to the circuit at Wimbledon after a year away from the court due to injury and promptly fell in the first round to an unseeded 24-year-old.
    — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2022
  • In the other quarterfinal from the top half of the draw, the unseeded Tomljanovic will face the top-seeded Ashleigh Barty in an all-Australian matchup.
    — New York Times, 5 July 2021
  • The unseeded Orioles got within 17-15 in the first set on a kill by Raegan Alexander, but Eagan scored eight of the final nine points. including the last six.
    — Mike Cook, Twin Cities, 7 Nov. 2019
  • No unseeded player had ever made the Wimbledon final in the Open Era.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 15 July 2023
  • Stan Wawrinka, seeded fifth here last year, is also unseeded, with a ranking of 225th.
    — Ben Rothenberg, New York Times, 29 June 2018
  • In the same quarter is Andrey Rublev, who reached the round of 16 last year as an unseeded player before losing to Berrettini in three hard-fought sets.
    — Max Gendler, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2020
  • An unseeded team will leave Omaha with the championship for the first time since Coastal Carolina in 2016.
    — Tim Bielik, cleveland, 25 June 2022
  • For anyone else, a five-set win against an unseeded opponent on the first Wednesday of the French Open would have been quickly forgotten.
    — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 26 May 2022
  • Williams appeared to twist her ankle on the court’s damp grass midway through the first set of her first-round match against the unseeded Aliaksandra Sasnovich of Belarus.
    — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 29 June 2021
  • Swiatek was unseeded at Roland Garros and, despite feeling confident ahead of the season, hadn't been playing her best in the build up to the tournament.
    — Ben Church and Christina MacFarlane, CNN, 13 Oct. 2020
  • The Aztecs will be joined by two other unseeded teams: Oregon and Louisiana-Lafayette.
    — Ellen J. Horrow, USA TODAY, 24 May 2023
  • The Czech player is the first to win the title after entering the competition unseeded.
    — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 15 July 2023
  • While she was once ranked as high as No. 14 in the world, a series of injuries saw Vondrousova enter Wimbledon unseeded at world No. 42.
    — Justin Klawans, The Week, 16 July 2023

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