Pick 'Em Hamburg - Practice Week

steven · Tennis legend

Pick 'Em Hamburg - Practice Week

AnnuverScotinExile · Social player

Agreed Steven. Hewitt had a horrible draw, and I thought that the difficult choice was which of the clay courters in that corner would prevail. So he has done really well. It looks like our predictions were all much of a muchness, and the end result will hinge on subtleties like Gonzo/Gasquet, and who we picked to be runner up to Rafa - assuming that he wins.

As I predicted to her - I worry about where I'm going to pick up that point that Claire is ahead of me by. Beating her is more important than doing well - 12th will do me as long as she is 13th ...

-- Edited by AnnuverScotinExile at 22:36, 2007-05-16

Rochelle · Lower Club Player

haha this is funny coz im doing RUBBISH hehe... o well.. i had other thngd on my mind when i was predicting.. i will hopefully be back strong at RG.. but its not over untill its over

Wendy · Newbie

Well Im still trying for bottom!!!
One of these days................

AnnuverScotinExile · Social player

ferrero now a mini break up in the 2nd set tiebreak, so we could soon be done for the day. Not a very successful one for most of us!

... some time later ... now 14-14 in the tb

... more than 20 minutes after the initial post (if you canbelieve the posted on):

JCF Struggled through 18-16 in the tb.

-- Edited by AnnuverScotinExile at 23:10, 2007-05-16

GC77 · County player

Leaderboard after play on Wednesday:

POS.	PLAYER	TODAY	TOTAL	%

1	Nicki	10	31	70.5%
2	ASE	10	30	68.2%
2	John	10	30	68.2%
2	Cazza	12	30	68.2%
5	Steven	8	29	65.9%
5	Spraggz	10	29	65.9%
-	*Roberta ()**	10	28	63.6%
7	Claire Morris	6	27	61.4%
7	Goldfish	8	27	61.4%
9	Vamos08	6	26	59.1%
9	Wendy	8	26	59.1%
11	Kayce	4	25	56.8%
11	Johnnylad	6	25	56.8%
11	English-Boy	6	25	56.8%
14	Guy	8	24	54.5%
14	Dusty Dick	6	24	54.5%
14	Rochelle	8	24	54.5%
17	Lucy Morris	6	23	52.3%
18	AllyB	6	22	50.0%

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King Kong (#)

5

19

43.2%

AnnuverScotinExile · Social player

Thanks, Guy. Much to my astonishment, I have overtaken the daughter. But things still do not look all that encouraging - of the 5 I have in the 3rd round, 3 of them I predicted to lose here, so they are dead from a points perspective. And one of the 2 I did predict to go forward (Fed) looks like he will struggle to beat an egg.

nicki · Improver

Amazingly I'm still top so happy biggrin

about that. I actually did two versions this time around, the first on instinct and the second after I'd looked at head to heads, 2007 win to lose ratio and success on clay. My second attempt is doing much better than my first which just goes to show that my instinct is rubbish but I can, at least, consider myself a decent enough analyst. aww

So far.....

See what tomorrow brings although I'm hopeful, having 10 still in round 3 with 6 predicted to proceed to the quarters... idea

-- Edited by nicki at 23:20, 2007-05-16

AnnuverScotinExile · Social player

The best I can manage is 10 into the 3rd round. Of those only 5 are predicted to go to the QFs. So you appear to be better than me there.

AllyB · Improver

3rd in Rome, struggling to beat my close relative King Kong in Hamburg

And i thought it was football that was a "funny old game"

Having said that I did spend longer on doing my predictions for Rome, and I possibly went for a few crazy gambles here - none of which has paid off!

AnnuverScotinExile · Social player

Well, Davydenko has struggled through against Simon, which will please most of us. Dammit Gasquet has wound the rollercoaster up by dropping the first serve of his match against Metzer, which will go down less well. Nieminen beat Mayer in a match that most of us expected Youzhny to win. And Nole has just scraped through the first set tb against Benneteau.

nicki · Improver

On the face of it ASE except that my 'dodgy' picks and even my 'not so dodgy' are now looking exceedingly dodgy. Can't see myself finishing the day on top now...

GC77 · County player

Thursday 1st update (2nd round complete, Ferrer through to quarters):

POS.	PLAYER	TODAY	TOTAL	%

1	John	12	42	70.0%
2	Goldfish	12	39	65.0%
2	Spraggz	10	39	65.0%
4	Steven	8	37	61.7%
5	ASE	6	36	60.0%
5	Cazza	6	36	60.0%
5	Rochelle	12	36	60.0%
8	Nicki	4	35	58.3%
8	Claire Morris	8	35	58.3%
8	Kayce	10	35	58.3%
8	Johnnylad	10	35	58.3%
8	Lucy Morris	12	35	58.3%
13	Vamos08	8	34	56.7%
13	Dusty Dick	10	34	56.7%
-	*Roberta ()**	6	34	56.7%
15	Wendy	6	32	53.3%
16	English-Boy	6	31	51.7%
17	AllyB	6	28	46.7%
17	Guy	4	28	46.7%

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King Kong (#)

5

24

40.1%

AllyB · Improver

I have only 6 players remaining in round 3. Of these only Andreev is predicted to lose. So respectability is still possible.

AnnuverScotinExile · Social player

Well, I ended up with 9 into the third round, but only 4 of those are predicted for the QFs (and semis, in each case). So unless those 4 (Fed, Nole, Donkey, Rafa) do the business, I'm outahere. Dammit losing will probably hurt me hard (I had him beating Gonzo), but I see that 3 people managed to predict Melzer, so well done to them.

One things that seems to be true of this pick'em, however, is that everyone else is doing iffily, too. So even though I'm far from happy to date, I'm still there or thereabouts, which is a surprise indeed. I suspect that I may be behind the ****** robot.

And a good day thus far from Blodwyn (Lucy) means that I am only just ahead of both daughters, and could easily be beaten by the pair of them. Oh the shame of it.

There has been a turnaround in the team competition that isn't. AM.com dominated the early rounds, but BT have stormed up the table today. Grr.

-- Edited by AnnuverScotinExile at 17:32, 2007-05-17