US Open 'Battle of the Boards' pick 'em 2009

steven · Tennis legend

US Open 'Battle of the Boards' pick 'em 2009

Drew · Aug 27, 2009

Looking forward to another battle Steven...up to 200th now...up 446 from a very low base.

Silver · County player

I have a hell of a lot of points to defend from this one. I better have my proper hat on for this...

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Everything to gain for me this year!

(If I can get an entry in

)

Drew · Aug 28, 2009

Entered early because wont have time over the weekend...fingers crossed !

murrayman650 · ATP level

I have nadal getting knocked by Gaquset in the first round, I just have a gut instict about it

steven · Tennis legend

I fear the only thing gut about it is how gutted you'll be when Dammit lets you down. I'd like to see it happen though, even if I won't be risking picking it.

-- Edited by steven on Saturday 29th of August 2009 09:00:20 PM

Silver · County player

But that means you've backed a GEM.

And particularly one of the more notorious ones...

steven · Tennis legend

Thankfully qualifying did finish tonight and as quite a few people seem to have already noticed, the entry form with qualifiers placed is now available at http://www.britishtennis.net/competitions.html

Winner picks from BOTB pick 'em entries before qualifiers placed: Fed 58%, Muzza 26%, Rafa, Duckboy & Potty 5% each, Nole 1% ...

Also, andymurray.com, Team CC, the Feddies, Tennisopolis, BritishTennis.net & TalkAboutTennis.com are all at or above the minimum team size threshold already, even before the post qualies rush starts, while MTF & Rusedski.co.uk each have 4 entrants so need at least one more, half a dozen more teams already have 2 or 3 and five more teams have 1.

With entries due to close at 15.00 GMT on Monday, there are about 37 hours to go at the time of writing, so good luck! biggrin

wolf · Tennis legend

Federico Zeballos of Bolivia? Who on earth is he? Honestly never heard of him.

I think you might mean Horacio Zeballos of Argentina, who I do seem to remember came through qualifying.

steven · Tennis legend

wolf wrote:

Federico Zeballos of Bolivia? Who on earth is he? Honestly never heard of him.

I think you might mean Horacio Zeballos of Argentina, who I do seem to remember came through qualifying.

I thought that was odd too (and that he must be the lowest-ranked entrant in the draw and possibly the first ever USO main draw player from Bolivia if it really was Federico not Horacio), but I forgot to investigate when I'd finished addign the qualifiers late last night.

In fact, on both http://www.usopen.org/en_US/scores/draws/ms/r1s3.html and the pdf version though, it says Federico Zeballos from Bolivia.

The bio it clicks through to says Federico Zeballos from Bolivia ranked 1326, career high 1325.

Very, very odd!

steven · Tennis legend

You might have been surprised to find Federico Zeballos of Bolivia on the entry form after qualifiers were placed, playing fellow qualifier Michael Berrer in R1. I was, but was too tired to investigate in the early hours of this morning, so thank you to wolf of the BT.net team for noticing and alerting me to it again.

Anyway, that's what it said (and still says) on the USO site, and the link from the draw there even goes to a bio of Federico WR 1326 (who got double bagelled by Gaston Giussani in R2 of the Santa Cruz Future in Bolivia this week and may be wondering if he can give up his wild card into the Cochabamba Future this coming week in order to fly to New York LOL), but the Zeballos who qualified was actually Horacio Zeballos of Argentina WR 76!

I've changed the entry form now (the ATP BC and USO site BC forms are still wrong at the time of writing, worth bearing in mind if you're entering them too), but it won't affect you unless you picked Berrer would beat Federico and you now think Berrer will lose to Horacio, in which case you might want to re-enter - if so, please pick "RE" from the type of entry box to ensure that we look for your old entry and overwrite it.

9/51 entrants since qualifiers were placed picked Federico to beat Berrer, but I'm guessing they just read it as if it was the other Zeballos anyway!

-- Edited by steven on Sunday 30th of August 2009 10:50:59 AM

wolf · Tennis legend

steven wrote:
I've changed the entry form now (the ATP BC and USO site BC forms are still wrong at the time of writing, worth bearing in mind if you're entering them too), but it won't affect you unless you picked Berrer would beat Federico and you now think Berrer will lose to Horacio, in which case you might want to re-enter - if so, please pick "RE" from the type of entry box to ensure that we look for your old entry and overwrite it.

Or if you thought Federico would beat Berrer but now think that Berrer will beat Horacio. wink

steven · Tennis legend

I knew someone would feel they just HAD to say that LOL

Silver · County player

I'm in. I accidentally forgot to answer the last set of questions though :( Oops!

My slightly 'off-the-wall' pick was Querrey making the quarters.

If he loses round 1 I will DESTROY HIM WITH MY CAPS LOCK OF ANGER.