Oh no! What happened?! Why have I fallen so far down the table?! Olek's win took me to 30th earlier today!

Oh no... what happened and what did I predict?! I've been watching Andy's match all afternoon. And what's happening with Cilic?

LT, the Cilic & Soderling results haven't been added yet, and as you're one of approx 100 people who picked them both, you'll be shooting back up the table soon.

-- Edited by SMC1809 on Friday 28th of May 2010 07:50:00 PM

2010 ROLAND GARROS BOTB - DAY 6 'SYNDICATED' REPORT

R2 was finally completed on Friday and all but one of the top half R3 matches finished as well.

Most of the remaining R2 matches were won by the overwhelming favourites, but 11 entrants had cause for celebration when 3% pick Dolgopolov made Gonzo squawk. The 35% of us who picked Chardy or Becker to reach R3 instead of Hewitt were given hope of a bit of damage limitation by Istomin for a while until he eventually went down to the Aussie in 5 sets, but 1% pick Ginepri saved lots of us who picked Querrey from further pain when he took out 19% pick Starace.

Another GEM loss which really started to bite in R3 was le Monf's. After winning five set matches in each of the first two rounds, Foggy had nothing left in the tank against 35% pick Stani. Gulbis pickers suffered a similar fate when Leo Mayer was unable to stop the run of 34% pick ili, though he did push him close. Meanwhile, two favourites whose wins were nevertheless missed out on by more than 30% were Muzza 66% and Berdbrain 69%. However, perhaps the most crucial match of the day, Youzhny 49% v Troicki 1% (where 47% went for Robredo) was suspended with the Russian 2 sets to 1 up and a break up in the 4th.

Detailed results can be found at http://www.freewebs.com/britishtennis/competitions.html and from now on they will be updated regularly each day, with 'headlines', the odd rant (when I just can't stop myself!) and the odd 'quote of the day' appearing on http://twitter.com/botb1 as well.

TEAMS

Despite losing their stranglehold on the individual podium places, world no. 2 ("WR 2") team BritishTennis.net managed to hold onto 1st place for yet another day and even managed to increase their lead to a full point.

The Muzza v Dammit match in R1 has turned into a 6-pointer for the 80% of us who predicted that their winner would survive to at least R4, and the effects of that can be seen in the fact that AM.com WR 5 have moved up another 4 places to 2nd, while the Dammitaires WR 10 have now completed their slide to last place, with the lowest average in R2 and by far the lowest average in R3 so far.

Rusedski.co.uk WR 4 are another predominantly British team on their way up, leaping 6 places to 3rd on Friday, while T4Y WR 12, up 4 to 4th, lead R3 so far and are the third and last team to have moved up more than one place on day 6.

Going the opposite way, R1 winners MTF WR 8 fell 3 to 5th, R2 winners BBC 606 WR 7 fell 1 to 6th, JM.org WR 9 fell 4 to 7th despite little brother's win, defending champions the Feddies WR 1 fell 1 to 8th and TAT WR 3, down 5 to 9th, fell the most of all.

INDIVIDUALS

It was virtually all change in the top 10 on Friday, particularly towards the end of the day, with ili's win lifting emf123 (IN) up 3 to 1st on tiebreak from one of the day's equal top scorers (45/49), Darius (IN), who rose 38 to 2nd.

A point behind, world no. 22 (and one of 21 entrants who equal top scored in R2 with 25/32 correct) Akhenaten (BT) moved up 12 to 3rd, maintaining a reduced BT presence in the top three. He is joined in the top 5 by team-mate DavidC (BT), up 20 to 5th, while Björki (MT), sandwiched between them in 4th, is the only entrant outside the bottom two to have finished the day where she started.

Two more of Friday's equal top scorers soared into the top 10 - The Man From Onken (IN), up 95 to 7th, and nelslus (TA), up 122 to 8th. The new top 10 is completed by 40-42/45 scorers FERNET (MT), up 27 to 6th, Claire Thompson (JM), up 1 to 9=, and former US Open BOTB winner amalyn (MT), up 29 to 9=.

Thursday's joint leaders both dropped out of the top 10 - 36/45 on Friday saw British_is_Best (BT) fall 17 to 18th and Silver (BT) fell 27 to 28= after getting 35/45.

ON THE RISE

As mentioned above, 3 of the top 10 got 36 points out of 45 on Friday, but 3 more entrants managed that as well - Manaus (AM), up 135 to 16th, Claire Bear (AM), up 156 to 27th, and riser of the day T. x (CC), up 189 to 46th.

Further down the table, other entrants who rose 130+ places were Origmarm (TW), up 149 to 86th, Tennis4you (TY), up 135 to 124=,
Lizzim (AM), up 160 to 126th, Russiafan (CC), up 142 to 127th, and --cj-- (TA) & Marek0526 (IN), both up 144 to 142=.

DODGY DROPPERS

The lowest scorer of the day with just 21/45 was Tammy (DF), who stays in 2nd last 10 points behind those above her but 6 points clear of lanterne rouge Petzschner's Left Thumb (IN), who after getting 22 points on day 6 is level with Amélie the GEM bot but now way ahead of the gorillas.

The other entrants who scored 25/45 or less on Friday were Yorkie (AM), down 32 to 345th after getting 23, Gaël (RG), down 55 to 336th after getting 24, and Gabriel (RG), down 17 to 342nd after getting 25. Those entrants all started the day close to the bottom though, so the biggest fallers came from among the half dozen or so who got 26/45 on day 6, with faller of the day tarnais (RG), down 247 to 287th, Ivanatis (MT), down 199 to 301=, AllyB (JM), down 175 to 305th, and La Cereza (IN), down 164 to 315th, all plummeting more than 150 places.

Further up the table, the same fate also befell janeInScotland (JM), down 172 to 197th, Suliso (TA), down 177 to 215th, ManOfJelly (BB), down 152 to 216th, rondun (JM), down 153 to 217=, BeauJarkko (TA), down 165 to 226=, juliette (RG), down 201 to 226=, Craven91 (BT), down 164 to 228th, and trisco (CC), down 164 to 266th, despite them all scoring at least 29 points for the day.

SATURDAY

Remaining R3 matches:


SL 1: (6) Duckboy 51% v (Q) 'bash 0% (nobody - 48% of us who went for Monaco desperately need 'bash to pull off a big upset though!)
C6 2 t/f: (11) Youzhny 49% v Troicki 1% - 47% who picked Robredo hoping for a Tricky Vickytory!
C1 2: (9) Pics Ferrer 99% v (22) Melzer 1%
PC 3: (3) Nole 97% v (31) Hanescu 2%
SL 3: (7) Verdasco 97% v (30) Kohli 2%
C1 3: (16) JCF 81% v Ginepri 0% (0) - 16% went for Querrey
C2 3: (14) Ljubo 54% v (24) Bellucci 38% - a big swing match
C7 3: (19) Almagro 53% v Dolgo 0% (1 - LadyTigress (BT) in 36= .. and the 46% who went for Gonzo will be hoping her risk pays off again!)
PC 4: (2) Rafa 100% v (28) Hewitt 0% (1 - irenerer (RF) in 243=)

TEAM KO

Latest QF scores at the end of Friday, based on average scores in RG R3 - all of the higher seeds are behind at the moment!

(8) Rusedski.co.uk 16.06 lead (1) BritishTennis.net 15.08
(13) Centre Court Forum 14.09 lead (5) TalkAboutTennis 13.50
(11) BBC 606 boards 15.50 lead (3) JamieMurray.org 13.50
(10) AndyMurray.com 15.35 (having seen off the Feddies in the L16) lead (2) MensTennisForums 14.37

For the final L16 results and 5th-8th place play-off scores, please see the main results pages.

Make that 2 sets to Gabashvili!

Nobody has picked him to win this, but 176 have picked Duckboy to win it.

Gabashvili is about to serve for the match against Rodduck!!!!

6-4 6-4 5-2....

15-0, Rodduck sends it wide.
30-0, winner down the line from Gabashvili
40-0, Rodduck puts it into the net.... 3 match points!

WINNER FROM GABASHVILI! HE DOES IT!

Interestingly, Gabashvili is another player who's been having good success on the Challenger Tour this past 12 months.

-- Edited by LadyTigress on Saturday 29th of May 2010 11:14:13 AM