ForeverDelayed wrote:

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Go Federer.... gone for a huge risk with him winning the title, and I'd be surprised if the top 4 seeds all reached the semi finals... but that's what I've gone for.

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Me too. I went for the Amoeba - when I was doing Billy's entry, it turned out the bookies had done the same though, as had 45% of the entrants. With Gulbis and Ivo being heavy fvourites for their matchs, that's likely to leave those of us who picked Fish in the bottom half.

The player the bookies seem to disagree the most with us about is Youzhny - they have Tommy Haas beating him in R1!

QUICK UPDATE

This is the first AMS BOTB with more than 200 entrants and the number of teams with more than 5 entrants in double figures,

As usual, it's going to be a while before there are any results up (though it will be before the end of Monday UK), but if you know your picks and want to work out which matches are the most crucial, there's a provisional picks % analysis up and you can get to it via http://www.britishtennis.net/Competitions.html

From Tuesday, there will be reasonably frequent intra-day updates.

Edward Seater as an opponent - nearest I'll ever get to having a chance of beating a pro tennis player at a tennis-based game!!!

By the way - Steven, why are you not representing BT.net?!!!!

Now you've gotme worried, I'll fetch my coat!!!

My semifinalist and serial bull killer Mikhail Youzhny lost.

*bangs head against wall*



I had Ancic winning till he met Fed, so it doesn't help me at all.

I can't remember a worse first day of a pick 'em - lots of 50/50 matches to pick, all of which went against me, plus a couple of results so weird I didn't even consider the possiblilty of them going the wrong way.

The most annoying one was Gonzo out-muppeting Berdbrain  since that match was 3-pointer, i.e. virtually everyone had their winner from that match winning R2 as well.

Also the bookies must have known something I didn't about Youzhny or Haas because I picked Youzhny, saw when I did Billy's entry that the bookies had gone for Haas, thought surely not, did searches on both of them to see if e.g. Youzhny had picked up an injury in Toronto, didn't find anything and assumed that the bookies had lost the plot on that one.

Btw, I notice there's no sheddie in the list, so I can declare the Count the winner of the infamous duel for Cincy already.

Is that a jar of jam you're holding about your head, Count? I guess you salvaged the one jar Bethan didn't take with her ...

-- Edited by steven at 09:45, 2008-07-29

I'm doing better already than at Wimbledon!