Yeah, I doubt it. I did a quick check yesterday and only 1 out of 164 people had Ferrero as the winner!

Count Duckula has just taken out Fed in straights, so between the 164 of us, we've got 0/328 semi-finalists correct so far, if you see what I mean. The gorillas are winning the QFs by miles!

Greenleaf, although you are just outside the top 50 now, you could still finish in the top 5 if Nole wins the title! BT.net are going to finish 2nd (behind the Dammitaires) or 3rd (behind the Ducklings as well) and the Count has beaten Sheddie in Rome for the second year in a row.

wooohooo

Sheddie wrote:

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Count, just you wait till RG, the battleground of champions....where the shedman ruled supreme in 2008

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That's an interesting premonition

BT.net are going to finish 2nd in the teams comp now that Duckboy has quacked against Wawrinka.


-- Edited by steven at 16:28, 2008-05-10

I might as well just post most of today's AM.com report in here, since it says all that needs to be said.

TEAMS

4th placed CentreCourt won the semi-finals, but Duckboy's withdrawal against Stani means that there is no change in the overall positions and the 1-2-3 can now be confirmed as RichardGasquet.net, who being French knew Tsonga's clay form well enough to pick Simon to beat him en masse, followed by BritishTennis.net and AndyRoddick.com.

INDIVIDUAL TOP 10

Nole's win today means that BalaK (AM) moves up from 5th to 1st and is now sure to win this pick 'em. However, he will turn a 1-point win into a massive 7-point win if Nole wins the Final, which would add 89 more ranking points to his total, so the Final is far from irrelevant even to him.

Sure to be 2nd is lainey (BT), up 4 to 2nd, a Tennisopolis member playing for her 2nd choice team, just ahead of last night's leader DR4Life (AM), who drops 2 places today, but ensures that everyone on the podium is someone from outside the top 250 in the overall rankings!

The latter's mother, Wendy (AM), will finish 4th and probably (though I haven't checked yet) take over as world no. 1 from ASE, but the last place in the top 5 is still up for grabs, with greenleaf (BT), up 29 to 24th today, able to take it if Nole wins the Final.

COMING UP ...

In case anyone has forgotten, there's no pick 'em for Hamburg AMS (probably a blessing given that it's another Sunday start!), so the next pick 'em will be for Roland Garros, which is another Sunday start too, but at least the qualifiers should be known in advance in that case. Lots of R1 matches are due to be played on the first Sunday, so entries will close at 09.00 GMT (10 a.m. UK) on Sunday 25 May. A blind entry form will be available from the Monday before RG starts for anyone who will be away over the second UK May bank holiday weekend.

The ATP are running a bracket challenge for Hamburg, so you want more practice before RG, you could have a go at that.

Final update and new overall rankings tomorrow.

Woo! Hopefully Djokovic won't slip tomorrow.

Really looking forward to RG.