Predictions for 2008

Salmon · Tennis legend

Predictions for 2008

Sheddie · administrator

I think johnnylad has been swept along with Wardmania after reading about his training camp with Toni Nadal

johnnylad · Tennis legend

I have been swept along with Wardmania for nearly two years.

Not being funny but why would Toni Nadal bother with someone who he didn't believe could make it to the top!

Ward will make top 150 this year.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

BUMP!

RobC · All-time great

now stickified.

Yorkie · Lower Club Player

Andy Murray top 5

Jamie Baker top 150

Ward, Skupski & Eaton top 500

Cox, Hewitt & M Smith top 700

I'm expecting something from Allinson this year but i'm not really sure what to go for, hopefully top 700!

thornley 4 top 100 · Social player

daniel evans top 200
smethurst top 250
coupland unr
cox top 600
willis top 50
pauffley 1141
chaudry 100000000000

gazzpash · Club Coach

thornley 4 top 100 wrote:

daniel evans top 200
smethurst top 250
coupland unr
cox top 600
willis top 50
pauffley 1141
chaudry 100000000000

There's some optimism! Haha!
Take it you dont like George or Chaudry

Vandenburg · Futures level

mmm not sure for end of season tho im saying
murray-6
Bogdanovic-120
Goodall-220
Slabinsky-230
Bloomfield-250
baker-300
ward-350
eaton-350

Drew · Jul 19, 2008

Seems a fair list Vandenburg....dont think I have welcomed you before...welcome !!!

Vandenburg · Futures level

predictions-how about johhny lad and some common sense!!!!!!!!!!! lol

steven · Tennis legend

I made a table of the predictions back in January. I've dug it up and despite it seeming to have been a relatively good year, around 80% of the predictions turned out to be over-optimistic ... and only 5 out of 21 players whose rankings were predicted by two or more people before the 2008 AO did better than the average ranking people expected. Can you guess who they were?

I'll add a bit of colour and post the table in the next day or two.

freerider · Futures level

eaton and... evans?

freerider · Futures level

oh 5... eaton evans milton? Fleming and slabinsky maybee

steven · Tennis legend

Eaton yes, Evo yes, but Slabba everyone was overoptimistic about (once you take into account that he'll have dropped to about 350 by the end of the year when his African points come off) and nobody bothered to predict for Fleming or Milton. (possibly one person predicted for Milton, I excluded those who hadn't been predicted by more than one person since those predictions were all way out anyway)

There's one more player (in the GB top 10) who outperformed the average guess by 22%, the same as Eaton, and two players who outperformed the average guess but by less than 5%. (Evo outperformed by 17%)