Kung Fu Panda wrote:

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Wish James Ward would play Federer now.

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 or boggo considering how he pasted ginperi this year!

Clearly those of us who thought Fed would be ready for a last stand at the Cincy Corral this week have a lot to thank Boggo for - specifically for taking Ginepri aside after he played him and teaching him how to do the classic old-style Boggo win-the-1st-lose-a-tight-2nd-crash-and-burn-in-the-3rd choke!

I've just sent another full update to http://www.britishtennis.net/Competitions.html. Reaching a Marat level of madness, the only entrant to have lost their winner pick is now the outright leader - only Cincy can do this, because it screws up the results other tournaments can't reach!

While I am still languishing in the depths just outside the gorillas' cage, I am slightly heartened to have been joined in 198th= by such illustrious company as reigning AO champion ASE ... Grundon who is running the competition with me in Bethan's absence (and looking at how Bethan's doing this time without having worked on the comp, Grundon and I are thinking of arguing that the hours of organising clearly take such a toll on your picks that organisers should be rewarded with a 10 point bonus to compensate ) ... and reigning Kinky Khampion Claire Bear!

The two remaining matches today both have the potential to be absolutely quacking contests, with Count Duckula (well they would give the last R1 night match to someone who looks like he comes from Transylvania, wouldn't they!) taking on Eeeee-gor Andreev in R1 and Duckboy trying to get revenge for his AO defeat against Kohli the cabbage writer in R2.

Stop press: make that, as Sally on AM.com put it, the crispy Woong-Sun duck. Roddick was on the scoreboard when the match first appeared on live scores but has now been replaced by lucky loser Woong-Sun Jun, so I suppose he must have quacked during the warm-up! I bet the Americans in the crowd with night session tickets are jumping for joy about that ... not!