Looks like Sheddie was the only one of us not to pick Duckboy to win tonight - he drops from 6th to 10th. The top 9 are still within 8 points (1 R4 win) of the leader.

Sheddie's old mate 'bash seemed to be getting taken apart by Tommy Haas, whom you can usually rely on to do that sort of thing to such upstarts, with ruthless German efficiency. However, 'bash has mounted a bit of a comback from 6-0 5-1 down ... he's broken once, held and now has 2 bps for 5-4!

Hmm, the scoreboard's now gone back to 5-3 0-0 ... not as bad as during the Duck-Titch t/b when it went 6-5 2-2 4-4 3-3 5-4 match ...

Oops, 15-40 0-0 Ad Haas ... oh, now it's 15-40 again ... make your mind up! Ad Haas ... match! Oops, now it's deuce again. Another scoreboard glitch or a disputed cal? I guess we'll never know! Ad Haas. Take your bets - I'm going for 15-30 next.  Doh! Match Haas. Seems to be permanent this time ... does the Masters Series TV scoreboard agree? Ah 5-0 1st set, Soderling that then!

Nothing worse than when a match goes your way after a bad session and then you realise everyone got it right!

James Blake has pushed the self-destruct button against Benneteau, who leads 6-2 *4-3 - 15 of us had the player on Blake's side of the draw winning (and I think it was him in all 15 cases - I think the 4 probably went for Monfils to beat Benneteau and Blake) and some us us (gulp!) had him going a lot further.

Davydonkey is a set and a break up against Hernych - only 13 of us went for the Undertaker in this match - I imagine the other 6 all thought it would be Tigger beating him though.

Table after the first 3 rounds are completed: Seagull maintains his lead, but has 8 people within one win of him so it can all change.

	ROUND	R1	R2	R3	MAXI.
	To finish	0	0	0
	Per win	1	2	4	160
POS.	PLAYER	R1	R2	R3	TOTAL	%
1	Seagull	23	40	36	99	61.9%
2	ForeverDelayed	22	36	40	98	61.3%
2	Alex	18	40	40	98	61.3%
4	Drew	16	34	44	94	58.8%
5	RobC	17	36	40	93	58.1%
6	John	22	38	32	92	57.5%
6	Anniez	20	36	36	92	57.5%
6	steven	22	38	32	92	57.5%
6	Guy	18	38	36	92	57.5%
10	David Cox	20	38	32	90	56.3%
11	Josh	20	36	32	88	55.0%
12	aria81	19	36	32	87	54.4%
12	RedCabbage	19	32	36	87	54.4%
14	andyjmr	21	32	32	85	53.1%
15	Johnnylad	19	38	24	81	50.6%
15	Mike D	15	38	28	81	50.6%
17	Imoen	18	30	32	80	50.0%
18	Mkkreuk	15	34	28	77	48.1%
19	Arka	18	30	16	64	40.0%

wow - I'd thought I was dead and buried.

Come on Ferrero and Ljubicic then!!

I was going to cut the 'blog' today, but found myself punching the air when I noticed that Ljubo had completed the big Dave on big Dave.

7 of us got it right, and four of us (Drew on 102, Rob on 101 and John & me on 100) have overtaken seagull (99) and FD & Alex at the top, sheddie joining the last two on 99.

The top 8 are now separated by 4 points, i.e. half a match in this round!

Arka, now with 38.1% of the total possible points, is the first player to drop below 40%, but before anyone says "wouldn't the average panda pawing his picks at random have done better than that?" ... the expected score from completely random picks at this stage is less than 34%, so he can still claim to be a relatively intelligent panda! 

Don't care about Nadal & Ferreiro, as they're both already out by my predictions. ditto Chela and Russell. The big one for me today is A-Rod vs Gasquet: Come on the Duck boy!!