Saturday was not a good day to be a No. 1 seed.
In the three tour-level tournaments following the Australian Open—ATP Montpellier, WTA Linz and WTA Singapore—all three top seeds lost in the semifinals, and all in straight sets.
In Montpellier, Aleksandar Kovacevic defeated Andrey Rublev, 7-5, 6-4. It’s the