I might be ranked at the top of a tennis tournament or surrendered to an enemy, yet I am buried deep in garden dirt to grow a future bloom. What am I?
A seed
A 'seed' refers to tournament placement rankings, sounds like 'cede' (to surrender or give up control), and is the planted embryo of a plant.
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