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    1/17/2016 9:17 am  #1

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    2016 Australian Open contest

    Sorry for getting it up so late.  I'll keep it open until you enter, funches.

    THE RULES

    1. Pick quarterfinalists, semifinalists, finalists, and champions for both ATP and WTA draws. You will receive 7.5 points for each correct quarterfinalist, 5 points for each correct semifinalist and finalist, and 20 points for each correct champion.  Djokovic and Serena are only worth 10 points.

    2. SUBSTITUTE PICK: Pick a player from each draw to replace one of your quarterfinalists. If this player makes the quarters, they will take the place of whomever you picked in that section of the draw

    3. BIGGEST LOSER: pick the highest seed that will lose in the earliest round from each draw. The player must be a top-16 seed. You get 5 points if your seed is the highest to lose and 2 points if your seed falls in the same round as the highest seed to lose.

    EXTRAS

    ***Unseeded quarterfinalists are worth an extra half point for every seed they take out en route.

    ***WTF bonus: if you have a pick that makes it to the quarterfinals that no one else made (not even as a substitute pick), you'll gain an extra 5 points for it.  WTFs only valid if we have more than 2 entries.

     

    1/17/2016 9:46 am  #2

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    Re: 2016 Australian Open contest

    Men

    Djokovic v. Tsonga
    Federer v. Berdych
    Nadal (Anderson) v. Wawrinka
    Lopez v. Murray

    Djokovic v. Federer
    Wawrinka v. Murray

    Djokovic v.Murray

    Djokovic

    BL: Simon

    Women

    Serena v. Sharapova
    Radwanska (Stephens) v. Kvitova
    Kerber v. Muguruza
    Venus v. Halep

    Serena v. Radwanska (Stephens)
    Muguruza v. Halep

    Radwanska v. Halep

    Radwanska

    BL: Bacsinszky

    I'm going traditional for the men and wacky for the women.

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    1/18/2016 12:29 am  #3

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    ATP

    Quarterfinals

    Djokovic over Nishikori
    Federer over Kyrgios 
    Raonic (Wawrinka) over Nadal 
    Murray over Isner 

    Semifinals

    Djokovic over Federer
    Raonic over Murray 

    Final 

    Djokovic over Raonic 7-6, 6-4, 6-4 

    Biggest Loser: Simon 

    WTA 

    Quarterfinals

    Serena over Bencic
    Stephens over Kvitova
    Azarenka over Kerber
    Halep over Pliskova

    Semifinals

    Serena over Stephens (Bouchard) 
    Azarenka over Halep

    Final

    Serena over Azarenka 6-4, 3-6, 6-3

    Biggest Loser: Bacsinszky

     

     

    1/18/2016 12:31 am  #4

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    I don't even think Radwanska will get past the second round, so your wacky picks will kill me if you're right. 

     

    1/22/2016 8:03 pm  #5

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    I'm curious, did you really think Bouchard would take out Radwanska?

    We both had Halep going deep and she's our BL on the women's side.  On the men's side, Verdasco took out Nadal, making him our BL.

    Sloane Stephens continues to mystify, as she follows up winning a tournament with going out in the first round of a slam.  Just like the US Open!

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    1/22/2016 8:59 pm  #6

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    Yep, I thought Bouchard would beat Radwanska. Going into the tournament I was not impressed with Radwanska's three tournament victories in a row, which included a 1-2 round robin performance at the WTA Championships when she needed Halep to blow five set points in the first-set tie breaker to avoid being eliminated. 

    But Radwanksa has played quite well so far. She's always susceptible to an in-form power player, but it's going to take exactly that to beat her. 

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    1/25/2016 8:08 am  #7

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    Quarterfinal results:
    Forehand_lob: 4 men, 4 women
    funches: 5 men, 3 women

    We are very even here.  Given that he needed a long, long match against Simon, I give Nishikori a reasonable chance of beating Djokovic.

    I'd say that Kerber is due a win against Azarenka, but Azarenka will probably win.  I had a weird dream that involved seeing an article indicating that Sharapova beat Serena, but I think that can probably only happen in dreams.

    The Keys v. Zhang match is painful to watch.  Keys is obviously badly injured, and with no tiebreak in the 3rd set, I don't see how she wins.

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    1/25/2016 3:32 pm  #8

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    My tape ran out right after Keys won the first set. I went online and was shocked at the score. It was another hour before I read what happened. 

    The other night, I went to bed with Gavrilova up 6-0, 1-0 on Suarez Navarro. As one of nine people left in the Talk About Tennis survivor pool, I had Gavrilova to win that match. Got up the next day and watched the rest on tape, stunned. If Gavrilova had won and then beaten Radwanska (a long shot, yes), I would have won the contest outright because the other six people left would have taken Radwanska while I, who already had used Radwanska in the first round, would have taken Serena. 

    I will be very surprised if the women's final is not my predicted Serena v. Azarenka, but I'd love to see Radwanska beat Serena if they play in the semis. I love Kerber's game, but she's been clobbered by Azarenka every time they've played, including a couple of weeks ago. I don't think she believes she can beat Azarenka. 

     

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    1/25/2016 3:35 pm  #9

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    Nadal, by the way, has a good chance of finishing dead last in the men's draw. He lost to Verdasco, who lost to Sela, who lost to Kuznetsov, who lost to Monfils, who will lose badly to Raonic, who most people expect to lose to Murray, who most people expect will lose to Djokovic. 

     

    1/26/2016 9:17 pm  #10

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    Thank goodness I was wrong about Azarrenka. 

    Never in a million years would I have expected Kerber to save five set points to win in straight sets (the reverse I could have seen), but she's always had the game to complete at the top. Now that she finally appears to have the self-belief, I hope she takes advantage of it by pushing Serena to the brink in the final. She has the game to hang with Serena. 

     

     

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