How Nadal fans can excuse this is joke of a grand slam draw is beyond me and just shows these people don't like tennis, all they're after is dull breaking Fed's slam record. What a bunch of dogmatic chumps! This is about YE#1 too and dull is going to get another undeserved one by just hoarding clay. Pathetic.
The best player is supposed to get the hardest draws specially when he's already vultured 2 or 3 too many and he gets the exact opposite of a tough draw. And this is happening in slam after slam, draw after draw. It just never ends. Tennis is a corrupt sport and the ATP is rigging it for Nadal to keep the slam race alive because they know mowgli doesn't have the talent and tennis skills to do it without external help.
I think, as Broken has suggested, you don't actually know how the draw works. The best player is not supposed to get the hardest draws. In fact, it is the opposite. One of the privileges of the #1 (and #2) ranking/seeding is to be farthest away from the other, theoretically, toughest player in the draw. By the same token, you can't meet #3/#4 until the SFs, and etc. You meet low ranked players in the early rounds. You can complain, but as I say, this is a perk of top rankings...easier path in the draws. Where this gets messed up is with the "dangerous floater," i.e., a player with an artificially low rank due to absence (usually from injury.) An example of this was Djoker getting JMDP first round at the Olympics in Rio '16, even though he was ranked #1...JMDP was the worst possible first round for anyone, and Novak lost.
As to the rigging, it's important to note A) that the ATP doesn't run the Slams, so you'll have to accuse the ITF, if you want to go there, and B) you're within your rights, I suppose, if you want to believe that the ITF/RG pre-made the draw and then staged an elaborate, televised farce to throw us all off of the scent, but it does seem far-fetched to me.
