Australian Open 2023 is at the final stage, with the world's best battling it out at Melbourne Park.
Being a seed at a Grand Slam typically shields you from other seeded players until the latter stages of the event.
It also allows tennis critics and fans to predict future matchups during the tournament.
With world No.1 Carlos Alcaraz not playing at Melbourne Park, here is what you need to know about how the men's seeds looked this year.
How do the Australian Open seedings work?
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Just like the other three Grand Slams, the Australian Open uses the current ATP men's rankings to determine the men's seed order - which is 32 players.
Organisers usually take the ATP rankings from the previous Monday before the tournament begins.
French Open and US Open have had the same system for seedings in recent times, but Wimbledon only recently moved over to it in 2021.
Until the 2021 tournament, Wimbledon organisers had used a computer-based system favouring grass court results to decide the seedings, giving players who had gone far at Wimbledon the previous year an advantage.
Tennis rankings Australian Open 2023
The men's seedings at the Australian Open do not exactly reflect the men's ATP rankings as there are a number of injured players in the top 32.
Injured world No.1 Carlos Alcaraz withdrew from the main draw, meaning Rafael Nadal became the No.1 seed.
All other players subsequently moved up at least one spot in the seedings order because of the teenage Spaniard's misfortune.
Two players outside of the top 32 were also seeded because of injured and absent players.
Confirmed men's Australian Open 2023 seedings and eliminations
| No. Seed | Player | Nationality | Ranking |
| 3 | Stefanos Tsitsipas | Greece | 4 |
| 4 | Novak Djokovic | Serbia | 5 |