LR Workout 1

Q Sixteen players participated in a tennis tournament. The players were seeded from 1 to 16, with seed 1 being the highest seed and seed 16 being the lowest seed. The following figure gives the draw of matches for the tournament, comprising four rounds – First round, Quarter-Finals, Semi-Finals and Finals. In each round, the winners of the matches advanced to the next round, while the losers were eliminated. In any match, if a lowed seeded player defeats a higher seeded player, the match is termed as an upset.
1. If the player seeded 11 reached the finals, what is the minimum number of upsets that happened in the tournament?
(1) 2 (2) 3 (3) 4 (4) 5

2. The lowest seeded player who can win the tournament without himself causing an upset is

(1) Seed 6 (2) Seed 7 (3) Seed 2 (4) None of these

3. If the player seeded 3 is one of the persons who reached the finals, who among the following can be the other player who reached the finals?
(1) Seed 10 (2) Seed 7 (3) Seed 14 (4) Seed 15

4. If it was known that the player seeded 6 was the winner of one of the semi-finals, who among the following was definitely not the winner of the tournament?
(1) Seed 3 (2) Seed 15 (3) Seed 1 (4) Seed 4

5. What is the maximum number of upsets that could have happened in the tournament?
(1) 6 (2) 8 (3) 12 (4) 15