New seedings policy for the big tennis tournaments?

Question

to avoid lopsided draws (men's tournaments) the ATP should change the rules for the seeded players. since many players have different skills on different surfaces, the seeding should also depend on the tournament being played (surface) and not only on the current rankings.

i recently did a project how this could look like for the 4 grand slams and the 9 master series tournaments.

50% the achievement of the preceding year

20% the achievement of the year next to the last

30% the current ranking

the outcome of the seedings for some players

Roddick (French Open) 2006: 1st, 2007: 1st (out in round)

Blake (French Open) 2006: 3rd, 2007: 1st

this new seeding policy would prevent from being seeded these two players 6th resp. 8th at the FO

Davydenko (Wimbledon) 2006: 1st, 2007: 4th

Ferrer (Wimbledon) 2006: 4th, 2007: 2nd

for these two players it would be out of question being seeded 4th resp. 5th in Wimbledon.

comments and other suggestions are welcome

Answer 1

That's far too arbitrary in my opinion.  I think the rankings need to be respected for the most part.  Can you imagine being a player and knowing that you've earned your place to be seeded based on your ranking, only to have a tournament seeding committee nullify all that you've earned by giving your seeding to a lower-ranked, one-surface specialist?  I bet there would be a lot of opposition to that from the players.  When Wimbledon was taking more liberties with how they seeded players based mostly on their grass court results, a lot of the clay-court specialists, who were highly ranked overall, threatened to boycott Wimbledon if they were given a lower seed than their actual rank.  That was the impetus for expanding the number of seeds from 16 to 32.  I think the system works fine now.

Answer 2

i disagree with you, rankings are a reflect of players during an entire year, cause that's what this is about, playing in every surface.-

if they're not good in it, the ranking reflects it.-

if you're a good player in every surface you should have a good ranking.-

Answer 3

Yes I agree to an extent-Do you mean every player should have a clay,Grass and Hard court ranking?-If so I think this would be really interesting and could motivate players like Roddick who is shocking on clay to improve in order to maintain a high ranking. However, I think the ranking system needs to be retained as it represents the  standing of the players over the whole year-Which is what is important. You raise a really good point though and it would be interesting to see if anything like this will happen in the future,