And the 32nd seed you mentioned is the 32nd seed in the tournament, which means that the ranking among all the players participating in this tournament is not necessarily the 32nd in the world. For example, Nadal, Federer and Djokovic are ranked 1 to the third place in the current US Open, but if Federer doesn't play due to injury or other reasons, Djokovic is the second seed, because besides Nadal, the players who participate in the US Open.
The advantage of seed players is that they will play against players with low rankings in the first few rounds, which is easy to win, but it is not absolute. For example, those top ranked players, such as Safin and Hewitt, have lost their scenery, their status is not as good as before, and their rankings are not as good as before, but they are definitely hard to chew. I think it is also a headache for any seed player to meet them. The most typical example is that Djokovic met Safin in the second round of Wimbledon this year and was eliminated.