Aussie Open pick'em predictions competition

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

RE: Aussie Open pick'em predictions competition

Drew · Jan 15, 2007

Bethan did anyone else have Amer Delic to win in R1?

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Drew wrote:

Bethan did anyone else have Amer Delic to win in R1?

Yes. Mkkreuk and DavidC both had Delic. Oh, and I thought about it, does that count?

(don't worry I didn't give myself the point)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Thanks for the scores Bethan - I obviously need to brush up on my knowledge of the Mahuts and Gicquels of this world. My record on the matches involving non-seeds (6/16) was so poor, that I would have done better to have used my cat's random pawing over the draw in my newspaper!

Vonce · Club Coach

2nd place, woo-hoo. I thought I fecked up with some of my predictions tbh. Not naming many of them but the Delic and Garcia-Lopez were 2 of them

steven · Tennis legend

imoen wrote:

Steven 330; Vonce 277; Drew 268; Imoen 264; Mkkreuk 240; Rob C 149.

I think Alan Mackin's got more chance of winning the AO than I have of getting anywhere near 330 ever again! Thanks for the reminder of what fun it was during the summer though!

steven · Tennis legend

How are people doing today?

I'm 7-5 so far , but it could have been so much better - Rochus beat Guccione 9-7 in the 5th and Capdeville came back from 2 sets down to beat Benneteau in 5 -

I also had Berrer to beat Zverev, Lacko to beat Smeets and Mackin to beat Lapentti, none of which look like sensible picks now. The only consolation - I hadn't backed any of my 5 losers today to go any further than R2.

Backing Mackin now looks a bit like heart ruling head, it was very disappointing that Alan lost so easily in the end, and extended his 11 or 12-match losing streak (depending on how you count it) in ATP-level main draws. Still, he only extended that streak because he did so remarkably well to qualify.

I'm now tied 3-3 with the bookies in matches where I've gone against the odds - plus I got the one they had as too close, Berrer v Zverev, wrong too. I'm with them on all the remaining matches, except I went for Evil Kunitsyn to beat Nice Santoro.

In order to match my USO R1 performance, I need all 20 remaining R1 matches to go my way. Ad pigs might fly!

-- Edited by steven at 07:41, 2007-01-16

RobC · All-time great

Sorry to say it, Steven, but I'm 10-2 up at the mo.... I'd had Benneteau beating Capdeville (Where on earth did that performance come from? Capdeville's been tootling around 130- 160 for 12 months now, making the odd South American/US challenger QF) and I'd not expected Smeets to carry on his Wildcard tournament winning form into the main draw...

Still plenty of time for Blake, Soderling or (please, no) Andy to totally mess me up and lose though.

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

I'm currently 9-4 I had Benneteau winning, but I did get Smeets to go through. Zverev, I don't like

Similarly Nalby and Lapentti, who between them have mucked up my rd2 as well! (I had Alan getting to the third round - definitely heart over head!)

Drew · Jan 16, 2007

With 16 results in Im 10-6...argghhh...3 of my guys lost 5 setters....

RobC · All-time great

14-2. Feeling very smug.

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

RobC wrote:

14-2. Feeling very smug.

16-5 for me. I'm pretty happy with that. Really didn't expect Kohlschrieber to beat Vliegen though.

I'll update the scores after the day's play has finished. The way this is going that probably means it won't be updated until about 6pm GMT as I'm going out in about an hour so unless everyone retires/finishes in the next 45 mins or so...

steven · Tennis legend

It's nearly 2 am in Australia and two matches are still on court!

But, aaargh what's been going on in the last couple of hours? When I left the last 14 matches, it was all looking quite good, I come back to find:

- Mathieu had to retire when he was 2 sets up and a mini-break up in the t/b - poor guy!

- Silly old Soderling lost to Mayer from 2-1 up

- Kuznetsov came back from 2-1 down to beat Luczak

- Malisse, my pick for 'surprise semi-finalist', found a way to lose to Clément

I'm an amateurish 18-12 on the day, and with Malisse gone, completely out of the running, I assume.

Hope other people have had better days!

RobC · All-time great

For me, it was pride before a fall. I'd picked Soderling to reach the fourth round

Apart from that, Clement, Muller, Kuznetsov, Dancevic and Kohlschrieber have spoiled my party. So along with Smeets and Capdeville, I'm now 22 and 8, and not holding out much hope for Mirnyi & Seppi.....

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Last match still not finished and I've got to go out, will do the scores as soon as I get back, I guess everyone knows pretty much where they are though...