i agree tennis insight is good, but the ATP have also improved in that regards recently.
however on tennis insight you can also match a players results against vs different criteria, not sure if the ATP can do that.

Makes it much more fun than those "pick all the seeds to get through every round and then decide whether you think rog, rafa, nole or muzza will win" tournaments.

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True, but how anyone can pick with any confidence these grass court mug vs grass court mug matches I'm not sure.

You can count the number of good grass court players on both your hands. It gets pretty desperate when you are picking Montanes, Malisse, Davydenko, Navarro and Spadea to get to the third round.

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I found it rather liberating - I suppose that's the difference between being being Ranked #127 in the world and being ranked #16.  I can go for my shots without any pressure.

 

-- Edited by The Hoose on Monday 22nd of June 2009 10:27:05 AM

I'm preparing myself for a low finish having eventually decided to go with my heart rather than my head of several of the picks.

I mean, Bogdanovic isn't going to reach the fourth round, is he?

Feliciano Lopez could be the earlier target for abuse...having picked him to reach round four, he's dropped his opening service game to a lucky loser!!!

I know what you mean, eblunt! I thought this one looked like it wasn't going to be too bad at first sight, but when I got into making picks in detail, it was horrendous.

wolf wrote:

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True, but how anyone can pick with any confidence these grass court mug vs grass court mug matches I'm not sure.

You can count the number of good grass court players on both your hands. It gets pretty desperate when you are picking Montanes, Malisse, Davydenko, Navarro and Spadea to get to the third round.

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Yes, I'm seeing all these grass court clowns playing each other and thinking why didn't they draw a Brit ... and why didn't the LTA/AELTC maximise the number of Brits in the draw to give us a better chance of at least one of them drawing a grass court clown again.

Christophe Rochus hasn't won a match at Wimby since 2000, he's lost 8 in a row (i.e. more than Boggo) and yet I still couldn't bring myself to pick Cuevas against him!

 

I feel a little apprehensive going into this pick 'em as, using Steven's earlier technique, I am twinned with Safin...

For the record (subject to small corrections later when the last few problem entries have been sorted out), 98% picked Flake to reach R2, 95% picked him to reach R3, 86% picked him to reach R4 (10% for Andreev), 27% picked him to reach the QFs (47% Haas, 23% Cilic) and 4% picked him to reach the semis.

So his loss won't have a significant effect if you had him out before R4, and even then not much effect unless Andreev gets there.

Entries slowed down a bit in the last 18 hours and we seem to have about 450 entries again for the third slam (not starting on a Sunday) running, which is cool, given that the system can cope with up to 500. Entries from the UK are up on the AO, entries from the US are down - it didn't help that the most up to date section on Duckboy's forum is Roland Garros, so no obvious place to post about a Wimby pick 'em!