Greenleaf, it'll be great to see you enter. Maybe I can tempt others to give it a go, Madeline, stircrazy, Helki, DJ....? It's great fun, honest!! And don't let fear of being rubbish stop you, no one gets agressively competitive it's all good natured fun and banter.

So far we have 14 entries from this board, including Sheddie...Count Zero will I feel sure enter and try to win back his lead over the Shedman.

The qualifiers are now placed in the entry sheet, which can be found at the link in Steven's first post.

Hope to see lots more entries by the deadline noon (BST) tomorrow. Shameless plug over!

Sheddie wrote:

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yep about time that count got some dignity back after another trashing at the hands of "shedman the slayer" in Monte Carlo.....what's that now....about 14 wins for me and 1 loss

Viva la Fora Italico !!!!!



who let the shedman out .....who....who.....who

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Yes, viva il Foro Italico - where the Count finished in 2nd behind me last year and whupped your ass!

In the last 12 months, you are 4-2 against him, but the 4 includes the three slams you both entered, where you tend to mash him - he's never got more than 500 ranking points from a slam, you've never got less. You managed to avoid both entering the same pick 'em for four consecutive tournaments from Cincy to Paris.

Edit: add in Miami and Monte Carlo from last year and it's 6-2, though in MC 2007 you were separated by just 3 points.

-- Edited by steven at 00:29, 2008-05-05

Oops, sorry to mess up your brilliant interpretation there, Bethan!

Just about to start thinking about them ... and glad that at least I made the top 10 overall before plummeting as these points come off! LOL

Entrants so far, with 11 hours to go (127 from 21 countries) - the first % in each line shows the percentage of total entrants in each team, the last % shows the change so far compared to the total entrants that team had for Monte Carlo. The line shows which boards already have enough entrants to count for the team competition, though every team will no doubt welcome more!

33 = 26% AM AndyMurray.com -20%
15 = 12% RF RogerFederer.com +88%
15 = 12% BT BritishTennis.net -17%
12 = 9% CC CentreCourtHavoc -20%
12 = 9% IN Individuals (no team) -33%
9 = 7% TY Tennis4you.com -25%
8 = 6% GR Rusedski.co.uk +33%
7 = 6% RG RichardGasquet.net +600%
5 = 4% AR AndyRoddick.com +25%
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4 = 3% MT MensTennisForums -20%
3 = 2% SG Stevegtennis.com +50%
2 = 2% TN Tennisopolis.com +100%
1 = 1% BZ BritishTennisZone new/re
1 = 1% BB BBC boards new/re

-- Edited by steven at 01:39, 2008-05-05

steven got a piccy!!!

which appears to be a bunny in shades with cutlery

best get on with my entry, knock the shed down a peg or 2.

another case of the dammits?