Aussie Open pick'em predictions competition

Drew · Jan 16, 2007

RE: Aussie Open pick'em predictions competition

RobC · All-time great

Nearly 3am, and it's the fourth set tiebreak.

All my humanity wants Reynolds to win now - that way both players, the officials, coaches, ball boys, cleaners and the two spectators that must still be there can go home .......

However, I picked Seppi, and Reynolds will overtake Greg if he wins, so if the Aussies want to play tennis till 4am, let them. C'mon Andreas! He who drinks the most Red Bull wins!

Drew · Jan 16, 2007

2 sets all...dam...Bobby better win....3.00am in Melbourne....

RobC · All-time great

Seppi wins. That's me 24 & 8.

Drew · Jan 16, 2007

Dam u Seppi.....Bobby does not stay up that usually !!!

Drew · Jan 16, 2007

RobC wrote:

Seppi wins. That's me 24 & 8.

smarty pants ! (19&13 for me)

steven · Tennis legend

20-12 for me today. Very well done Rob!

The really galling thing is that I turned out to have disagreed with the betting odds for four matches today and got them all wrong! Had I just gone along with the odds for all 32 matches, I'd have got 24-8 too!

-- Edited by steven at 17:56, 2007-01-16

RobC · All-time great

steven wrote:

Had I just gone along with the odds for all 32 matches, I'd have got 24-8 too!

There's not meany poor bookmakers....

andyjmr · Intermediate Club Player

Perhaps some of those we fancied to win might have wilted in the heat? .. Benneteau comes to mind as he only won 5 games in the final 3 sets. It all evens out for me though as Nalbandian and Verdasco got lucky after both being 2 sets down.

I had high hopes the crowd might have pulled the aussies Guccione and Luczak through but alas 'twas not to be. I think I might be 23/9 for today, which seems to be quite good.

-- Edited by andyjmr at 19:39, 2007-01-16

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Position Name       Day1 Day2 total
1         RobC         23   24   47
2=       Andyjmr    23   23   46
2=       Imoen       22   24   46
4         Akhenaten 24   21   45
5         GC77        23   21   44
6=       John         22   21   43
6=       Steven     23   20   43
6=       Vonce      21   22   43
9         Mkkreuk   24   18   42
10       Drew       22   19   41
11       DavidC     18   20   38

I'm trying out this format for displaying scores. If it gets too complicated I'll just put up the total. By the way, these are scores out of 64 (32 for each day).

No one got that Soderling would lose to Mayer.
I am the only one to correctly guess that Muller would beat Gaudio
Only mkkreuk and DavidC got that Kohlschreiber would beat Vliegen
We have 3 non-patriots amongst us. RobC, Andyjmr and Akhenaten all went for Lapentti to beat Mackin. How could you?
John is the only who got that Capdeville would beat Benneteau.
DavidC and myself are the only two to correctly predict a Kuznetsov win over Luczak.

Once again any mistakes let me know and any players/matches you're curious about let me know.

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

andyjmr wrote:

Perhaps some of those we fancied to win might have wilted in the heat? .. Benneteau comes to mind as he only won 5 games in the final 3 sets.

Apparently he lapsed into unconsciousness after the match and all... (read it on the Beeb quotes page). Tipsy was about to beat Nalby as well before he had to retire from the heat so I think it played a huge part today.

RobC · All-time great

imoen wrote:

John is the only who got that Capdeville would beat Benneteau.

John - how did you know? Did you spike his salt pills?

RobC · All-time great

imoen wrote:

Position Name Day1 Day2 total
1 RobC 23 24 47

I'll bask in the glory

- bound to see all my choices go down the pan tomorrow

-- Edited by RobC at 19:28, 2007-01-16

Akhenaten · Pro player

We have 3 non-patriots amongst us. RobC, Andyjmr and Akhenaten all went for Lapentti to beat Mackin. How could you?

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mkkreuk · Admin:Moderator + ATP qualifying

i think my day will finish 11/16. Reasonable i think. THe bottom half is going to ruin my chances. I have a lot of players going deep there that are already out and ive mucked up the eight of the draw with mackin/nalbandian etc not getting a single prediction right!