I saw your men's picks before I made my selections but am not intentionally copying. Since Wawrinka has taken Djokovic to the brink in their last three slam matches and beat him in Melbourne, there's no reason he can't do it again with Djokovic's shaky form, and I'm even including Wimbledon, when the Djoker won with his B game. Wawrinka looked quite at Wimbledon, too. 

EDIT: I had not looked at your women's picks, but I see we both have Kvitova winning the tournament (you as a substitute). If there were 100 entrants instead of two, ours almost certainly would be the most similar. 

ATP

Quarterfinals

Djokovic over Tsonga (Murray)
Wawrinka over Raonic
Ferrer over Johnson
Federer over Dimitrov

Semifinals

Wawrinka over Djokovic
Federer over Ferrer

Final

Federer over Wawrinka 6-3, 2-6, 7-6, 6-4

Biggest Loser: Gasquet
MINTIMRG: 10

WTA

Quarterfinals

Serena (Stosur) over Ivanovic
Kvitova over Makarova
Kerber over Safarova
Halep over Wozniacki

Semifinals

Kvitova over Serena 
Halep over Kerber 

Final

Kvitova over Halep 6-4, 6-4

Biggest Loser: Errani 











 

Last edited by funches (8/23/2014 10:39 am)

No men's top 16 seed lost in the first round. Can't remember the last time that happened. Cibulkova was the only top 16 seed to lose for the women, and the player who beat her is outside the top 1,200. I don't know if you've heard about CiCi Bellis. Of course that would require you to live in a cave. I sure hope Bellis doesn't lose 6-1, 6-1 today after the hype machine has gone into overdrive for her. 

So I went back to the Tennis-X message board today and dredged up my post about Peng Shuai after she beat Clijsters in San Diego in 2005. Wozniacki just took the first set after Peng served for it, so she probably won't win, but it's inexplicable that she's done nothing in her career. 

My post from 2005: 

Players don't play the same way every match, so I'm not sure about Peng being in the top three down the road, but after watching every point of yesterday's match, I'll go even further than Clijsters (who said Peng would be in the top three by the end of the year).  

If Peng plays consistently like she did yesterday (which isn't likely), she will be No. 1 in the world in the next few years. I'd barely heard of that girl when the match started, but she's the second coming of Monica Seles (minus the grunt). The incredible power from both sides. The beautiful angles. The toughness on big points. 

Clijsters backed up because the ferociity of Peng's shots made her back up. It's not like Clijsters forgot how to play suddenly after winning 26 consecutive hard-court matches. She's never had much variety (although she hit some excellent drop shots in the first set) or come to the net much, so there was no reason for her to start trying to come to the net last night. 

Peng's only weakness is a powder puff second serve that goes up before it comes down. Clijsters did not take as much advantage of it as Davenport would or Pierce will today, but at 5-8, Peng should be able to improve that serve down the road. 

I'm not sure I've ever seen an unknown woman (to me) play as well as Peng did last night.