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Newport Hall of Fame Champs 10th July
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OK guys, we've missed the first scheduled matches for tonight, but still plenty to get your teeth into if you get on in time: 1730 M Fish 1.40 v A Qureshi 2.75 1730 I Kunitsyn 1.72 v M Zverev 2.00 1730 I Bozoljac 2.00 v P Armitraj 1.72 1900 N Kiefer 1.14 v P Capdeville 5.00 1900 J Levine 1.61 v N Healey 2.20 190...
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TFF Wimbledon Dreamteam
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Once again, thanks to everyone who took park in the Tennis For Free Dreamteam dummy run for the French Open. Now, the competition gets under way for real as the TFF Dreamteam for Wimbledon is now open for entries. Currently the list of direct entries are available to be chosen from, with wild cards/qu...
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9th July Newport Hall of Fame Champs
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Little bit late putting these up, but hopefully some of you have time to get your bets in. Three more first round matches for tonight: 1830 V Spadea 1.53 v J Gimelstob 2.37 1830 W Moodie 1.16 v T Alves 4.50 1945 C Guccione 1.53 v M Berrer 2.37 Bets accepted until time displayed next to match. All times are GM...
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Nottingham Open
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Bets accepted until midday Monday R Gasquet 7/2 D Tursonov 6/1 S Grosjean 8/1 I Karlovic 9/1 A Clement 12/1 J Bjorkman 12/1 J M Del Potro 12/1 T Henman 14/1 M Mirnyi 16/1 R Ginepri 16/1 T Joha...
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Nottingham 18th June
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Onto the next leg of our grass court spectacular. Betting all week from Nottingham if I have time. The first day sees Boggo as a fairly warm favourite: 1205 A Pavel 1.83 v G Simon 1.83 1205 S Grosjean 1.28 v D Hrbaty 3.50 1330 R Gasquet 1.22 v V Spadea 4.00 1500 A Bogdanovic 1.53 v G Garcia-Lopez 2.37 1630 I Ka...
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Teams for the Wimby pick 'em
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The new, much more user-friendly Excel-free entry form at http://www.britishtennis.net/07pickem/pickemef.htm is ready to go apart from needing the draw to be made. For the Wimbledon pick 'ems (and possibly for all grand slams if the Wimby one is successful), we are going to invite people from l...
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Robots for the Wimby pick 'em
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We currently have two robots in the pick 'ems: Roberta - picks the higher-ranked player to win every match, based on the same rankings that the tournament uses for seeding purposes (i.e. Monday before the event) KingKong - totally random, the mythical '1 million hairy gorillas' Suggestions for two...
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PICK 'EM - overall rankings
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Overall pick 'em rankings We are going to publish some overall rankings for players who have taken part in some or all of the pick 'ems so far that had a team event attached. The details are just being finalised in consultation with some of the other rankings experts on here and a couple of AM.com represe...
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Queen's Outright Odds
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Here's some outright odds for Queen's. A Roddick 6/4 R Nadal 7/4 N Djokovic 6/1 F Gonzalez 9/1 I Karlovic 12/1 I Ljubicic 20/1 D Tursonov 20/1 M Cilic 50/1 N Mahut 100/1 A Clement 150/1 M Mirnyi 500/1 -- Edited by joh...
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Queens 15th June
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There are two bets to be carried over from yesterday. They are: john: 15 on Ljubicic at 1.33 sheddie: 50 on Ljubicic at 1.33 Here's today's matches: 1135 N Djokovic 1.16 v A Clement 4.50 1205 I Ljubicic 1.36 v N Mahut 3.00 1205 R Nadal 1.002 v M Mirnyi 34.00 1225 F Gonzalez 1.44 v D Tursonov 2.62 1400 A Roddic...
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Queen's 14th June
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Might as well get this going again for a week and a half before Wimbers pickem takes over. Seven matches to pick from tomorrow. 1235 S Grosjean 2.00 v M Safin 1.72 1235 J-W Tsonga 1.30 v M Cilic 3.40 1300 F Gonzalez 1.53 v R Ginepri 2.37 1430 A Roddick 1.04 v A Bogdanovic 9.00 1515 I Ljubicic 1.33 v N Mahut 3.25...
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PICK 'EM at Roland Garros
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Well, as the qualifiying tournament hots up and tennis players from all over the world converge on Paris we know it's time for another of the highest calibre tournaments in the tennis calendar. Yes, it is time once again for BT.net to take on AM.com in The Pick 'Em. Will AM.com win and draw level in the he...
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Shameless Plug - and Help Needed!
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Sorry to hijack this section of the site, I just didn't know where to put this thread! Tennis For Free is launching a FREE "Dream Team" competition for Wimbledon, with a first prize of a £1,000 holiday up for grabs. However, before then, just to try out the engine, we've setup a dummy run for t...
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Future PICK 'EM comps - TESTERS needed!
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As many of you know, I'm intending to try and get more boards/sites involved and run a much bigger pick 'em for Wimby if we can make it feasible to run it without the master spreadsheet (or Bethan or me, for that matter) cracking under the strain! Two reasons - 1) because it would be fun and 2) to tempt...
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Hydro Group International
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Outright odds as of Wednesday night L Hewitt Evs J Monaco 3/1 L Horna 7/2 G Monfils 5/1 Bets accepted until midday on 25th -- Edited by john at 22:36, 2007-05-23 -- Edited by john at 23:28, 2007-05-24
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Hydro Group International 25th May
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Time for the semis. Nice and early due to RG starting on Sunday. J Monaco 1.50 v L Horna 2.50 L Hewitt 1.28 v G Monfils 3.50 Bets accepted until midday, but I won't be too strict on that for whichever match is second up. Just point out in your message that match hasn't started and I'll find somewhere to confi...
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Hydro Group International 24th May
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Quarter finals time already: 1205 A Roddick 1.36 v G Monfils 3.00 1305 L Horna 1.61 v A Montanes 2.20 1345 L Hewitt 1.20 v D Hartfield 4.33 1515 N Davydenko 1.36 v J Monaco 3.00 Bets accepted until displayed times
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Hydro Group International 23rd May
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The remaining six second round matches: 1200 A Roddick 1.12 v K Pless 5.50 1200 H-T Lee 1.57 v G Monfils 2.25 1315 V Spadea 1.83 v D Hartfield 1.83 1315 J Monaco 1.25 v M Russell 4.00 1315 N Davydenko 1.16 v N Lappenti 4.50 1430 L Hewitt 1.50 v P Starace 2.50 Bets accepted until displayed times
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Hydro Group Tennis International 21st May
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This week's betting action comes from Austria. I'll try and get some outright odds up in the next couple of days. Here are Monday's matches: 1100 A Montanes 1.40 v D Bracciali 2.75 1100 H-T Lee 1.50 v D Udomchoke 2.50 1200 A Roddick 1.10 v A Peya 6.50 1200 M Mirnyi 1.72 v M Montcourt 2.00 1200 K Pless 1.50 v C B...
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Pick 'Em Hamburg - Practice Week
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Steven (along with his trusty assistant Bethan!!) are having a break from running the official Pick 'Em tournament this week. However, as there are a number of people on both this board and AM.com who enjoy the game so much, I have offered to run the competition, using Steven's excellent excel templ...
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King Kong's score wrong ?
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I don't understand how King Kong has 1.25 points from round 2 after 2 matches have been played.
The two matches are
(1) Federer (SUI) d. Almagro (ESP) 63 64
Acasuso (ARG) d. (8) Ljubicic (CRO) 64 63
where Federer and Ljubicic had byes in the first round.
With King Kong picking at random, 1...
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Pick 'Em returns in Rome (BT.net v AM.com - can we continue the dominance?)
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Hey Guys, it's that time again! Timetable of events: 11am (BST) Saturday 5th May draw made. Sometime that afternoon draw sheet will be available for download. (Stephen will post when and where this is as usual). Sunday afternoon, qualifiers will be added to the draw. 9pm Sunday 6th May entries must...
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Estoril Open 4th May
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I've got time to get these up now before I go away. Probably won't be able to get any more up for weekend, so will update leaderboard on Sunday: 1330 P-H Mathieu 1.40 v J Monaco 2.75 1345 R Gasquet 1.10 v V Spadea 6.50 1500 T Robredo 1.61 v A Calleri 2.20 1600 N Djokovic 1.14 v G Garcia-Lopez 5.00 Bets accepte...
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Estoril Open 3rd May
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Ok guys, feel free to bet away. I won't be able to settle all these bets until Friday. I may be able to get up some odds for some Friday matches at this point, but they will not be settled until Sunday afternoon. Then we will break for 2 weeks and let the pickem comp take over. R Gasquet 1.10 v F Gil 6.50 A Caller...
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Estoril Open
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Time for some outright odds. Nole is favourite this week, but the market is much more open than last week's Nadal-dominated affair: N Djokovic 5/2R Gasquet 4/1T Robredo 4/1N Davydenko 7/1F Gonzalez 10/1P-H Mathieu 12/1A Calleri14/1J M Del Potr...
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