Direction: on the basis of the information given below :
In the table below is the listing of players, seeded from highest (#1) to lowest (#32), who are due to play in an Association of Tennis Players (ATP) tournament for women. This tournament has four knockout rounds before the final, i.e., first round, second round, quarterfinals, and semi-finals. In the first round, the highest seeded player plays the lowest seeded player (seed #32) which is designated match No. 1 of first round; the 2nd seeded player plays the 31st seeded player which is designated match No. 2 of the first round, and so on. Thus, for instance, match No. 16 of first round is to be played between 16th seeded player and the 17th seeded player. In the second round, the winner of match No. 1 of first round plays the winner of match No.16 of first round and is designated match No. 1 of second round. Similarly, the winner of match No. 2 of first round plays the winner of match No. 15 of first round, and is designated match No. 2 of second round. Thus, for instance, match No. 8 of the second round is to be played between the winner of match No. 8 of first round and the winner of match No. 9 of first round. The same pattern is followed for alter rounds as well.
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If the top eight seeds make it to the quarterfinals, then who, among the players listed below, would definitely not play against Maria Sharapova in the final, in case Sharapova reaches the final?
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- Amelie Mauresmo
- Elena Dementieva
- Kim Clijsters
- Lindsay Davenport
Correct Option: C
If the top eight seeds make it to quarterfinals, then from the table we can find that Sharapova being top seed will meet seed 8 in the quarterfinals, and in the semifinals she will meet the winner of the match between seeds 4 and 5. So she will not meet seeds 4, 5 or 8 in the finals.
We can sum up the given information as below:
(ii) No team plays against the same team more than once
(iv) No ties permitted.
As per the information given for stage I, we can conclude and draw the table that
(a) As B lost at least one match, hence A won all the 3 matches.
(b) The two teams who lost all the matches cannot be A (as it won all 3 matches), cannot be B (since it is given that E lost to B), cannot be D (since D won against C & F). Hence, the two teams must be C and F.
(c) F did not play against the top team (i.e. A).
We can tabulate all the information as :
In the given below table a blank space means there was no match in this stage (i.e there was no match between A and E in this stage), Result of a match for a team is shown in its row,
(d) A lost both its matches against E and F.
(e) F won against A, hence is the bottom team (out of C and F) which won both the matches F won against C as well. This also means that C lost both its matches against B and F.
(f) Apart from A and C, one more team lost both the matches in Stage-II. That team can neither be E (since A lost to E), nor B (since C lost to B), nor F (as F won both its matches). Hence, the team must be D.
