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25 substitute Wild Card, the vacancy shall be treated as any other vacancy below. Any vacancy created by the withdrawal of a seed prior to the release of the Order of Play for the first day of Main Draw shall be filled as follows: - If the withdrawal is among seeds 1 to 4, the 5 th seed is moved into then open position, the 5 th position shall be filled by the 17 th seed, and the 17 th position shall be filled by the next highest ranked player eligible to be seeded. - If the withdrawal is among seeds 5 to 16, the 17 th seed is moved into the open position and the 17 th position shall be filled by the next highest ranked player eligible to be seeded. - If the withdrawal is among seeds 17 to 32 it shall be filled by the next highest ranked player eligible to be seeded. The position vacated by that next highest ranked player shall then be filled by the next player on the original entry list if prior to the commencement of the Qualifying competition or by the eligible Lucky Loser if after the commencement of the Qualifying competition. Any vacancy created by the withdrawal of a seed which occurs after the release of the Order of Play for the first day of the Main Draw shall be filled by eligible Lucky Losers. iv. Number of Seeds The minimum number of seeded players in the Main Draw will be 16. v. Procedure for Placing Seeds (1) Place Seed 1 on Line 1 and Seed 2 on Line 32 (32 draw), Line 64 (64 draw) or Line 128 (128 draw). (2) To determine the placement of the remaining seeds, draw in pairs of two (Seeds 3 and 4) and groups of four (Seeds 5-8, 9-12 and 13-16) and groups of eight (seeds 17-24 and 25-32) from top to bottom as follows:

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