Week 24 - WTA International $235K - Birmingham, UK - Grass

Miriambee · Futures level

RE: Week 24 - WTA International $235K - Birmingham, UK - Grass

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Just in case any of the girls are reading this thread, I am going for 48, with 4 comfortable straight set wins.

steven · Tennis legend

Final entries - good luck to all 4 girls!

Jaggy1876 - 4 (1/1/2/0)
Josh - 6 (2/1/1/2)
tony_orient - 7
steven - 8 (3/3/2/0)
jake270392 - 9 (3/4/2/0)
RBBOT - 10
Miriambee - 12 (3/3/3/3)
WD40 - 13
Coup Droit - 14 (5/5/3/1)
Bob in Spain - 48 (12/12/12/12)

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Good to see Laura sneak into the top 8 seeds and get a couple of extra days to return to full fitness. Hantuchova will have the advantage of having already played a match on grass though (assuming she wins). Heather also has a losing grass court H2H to even up and Czink is quite a decent player on grass.

Bamburac about to start.

steven · Tennis legend

Sabrina (the one most of us predicted to win the least games) lost the first 2 games against Rodionova but managed to get to deuce in both, which is quite impressive. She has won 40% of the 20 points played so far.

wolf · Tennis legend

Rodionova leads 6-1 3-0, huge difference in class as you'd expect.

steven · Tennis legend

Sabrina lost 1 & 1, which means she outdid all our average predictions (mode 0, median 0.5, mean 1, ignoring Bob and those who didn't make individual predictions) and she won 33% of the points, so odd as it seems when a player had been fed 2 breadsticks, well done to her

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

steven wrote:
Sabrina lost 1 & 1, which means she outdid all our average predictions (mode 0, median 0.5, mean 1, ignoring Bob and those who didn't make individual predictions) and she won 33% of the points, so odd as it seems when a player had been fed 2 breadsticks, well done to her

I'm insulted wink

One of the other girls is going to have to win 7-6 6-7 7-6 for me to get my 48 games. Not out of this yet biggrin

Peter too · Tennis legend

Winning games against a much stronger opponent usually comes down to having a good first service. Sabina won 50% of her 1st serves, Eden so far is winning 71%.

Peter too · Tennis legend

Eden is now getting a lot more 1st serves in but not winning as many points with them.

Peter too · Tennis legend

Ah well! It was a good theory while it lasted, Eden has now won a game mainly by winning more points on her 2nd service than her 1st.

steven · Tennis legend

Q1: (WC) Daneika BORTHWICK (GBR) 832 lost to Caroline GARCIA (FRA) 114 [q1] (CH: 113 05/2013) by 2 & 1

Q1: (WC) Jessica REN (GBR) 1137 lost to Catalina CASTANO (COL) 167 [q14] (CH: 35 10/2006) by 2 & 1

Q1: (WC) Eden SILVA (GBR) 1145 lost to Sharon FICHMAN (CAN) 117 [q3] (CH: 114 08/2010) by 0 & 2

Q1: (WC) Sabrina BAMBURAC (GBR) 910 lost to Arina Rodionova (AUS) 135 [q7] (CH: 62 08/2010) by 1 & 1

So well done, RBBOT - 10 games it was. About 1 game more than the average of our estimates (ex-Bob) too.

RBBOT · Futures qualifying

I'd like to thank my manager, the coaching staff, my teachers, my family, and most importantly everyone who picked the other numbers so that 10 was the only one left by the time I got here!

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

Only 1 bagel as well as the breadsticks and sausage rolls. Nothing higher though but then the rankings gap was massive so well done anyway to the girls for doing better than expected.

Ratty · County player

You're being very charitable, because I hardly think the opponents would have been putting in 100%. I fail to see how anyone benefits from this farce.