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2025 Australian Open
1. Pick quarterfinalists, semifinalists 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 20 points for each correct champion.
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 will 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.
Picks must be posted before the start of play or soon afterward or at least before the trophy presentations at the end of the tournament.
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Re: 2025 Australian Open
ATP
Quarterfinals:
Sinner over DiMinaur
Fritz over Medvedev
Djokovic over Alcaraz
Zverev over Mensik (Paul)
Semifinals
Sinner over Fritz
Djokovic over Zverev
Final
Sinner over Djokovic 4-6, 6-2, 7-6, 7-5
BL: Ruud
WTA
Quarterfinals
Sabalenka over Zheng
Gauff over Pegula
Keys (Rybakina) over Paolini
Swiatek over Jabeur
Semifinals
Sabalenka over Gauff
Keys over Swiatek
Final
Sabalenka over Keys 7-6, 6-2
BL: Collins
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Re: 2025 Australian Open
Thanks for getting it up!
Men
Quarterfinals
Sinner v. Tsitsipas
Fritz v. Medvedev (Rublev)
Djokovic v. Alcaraz
Auger-Aliassime v. Zverev
Semifinals
Sinner v. Medvedev
Alcaraz v. Zverev
Final
Sinner d. Zverev in 4 sets
BL: Fritz (Brooksby has some chance of confounding him in the first round)
Women
Quarterfinals
Sabalenka v. Q. Zheng
Gauff v. Pegula
Rybakina (Collins) v. Boulter
Kastakina v. Swiatek
Semifinals
Sabalenka v. Gauff
Rybakina v. Swiatek
Final
Sabalenka d. Rybakina in 3
BL: Gauff (Kenin on this court with memories could pull an upset)
I'm thinking that Boulter being DeMinaur's fiancee will give her adopted Aussie status and be good for getting the crowd to pull her a round or two beyond where she'd normally be.
I think I'm giving too much weight to the first week of results by picking FAA to make the quarters, but you're picking Keys to make the final. We'll probably both be disappointed there!
I wanted to pick DeMinaur, but I could not see him making his way out of a group that included Tsitsipas and Khachanov.
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You were saying about Keys?
I've always felt she was the most unfairly criticized player in tennis. Yes, she's inconsistent, but much of that issue is due to injuries. When she stays healthy, she can beat anyone.I really want her to win a slam because she was the best player at the U.S.Open in 2017 but ran into a finalist in Sloane Stephens who had the perfect game to beat her, partitcularly when she was a nervous mess as the heavy favorite. She nearly beat Sabalenka in the 2023 U.S. Open semis when she had a huge lead, which would have set up a toss-up match in the final against Gauff.
I expect her to beat Swiatek if they play in the semis because Swiatek is a bully on hard courts. She crushes opponents who cannot match her power but crumbles when they stand up to her, which Keys certainly can. Beating Sabalenka in the final would be tough because Sabalenka plays the big points better than Keys and has proven her mettle in finals, but Sabalenka has not been in top form here, so it's not impossible.
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Re: 2025 Australian Open
I think these contests have shown that I clearly don't know anything about tennis.
As for Keys, it is just a bit of being ready for her to at least get to another slam final or challenge for the top ranking, but it's been 27 slams since her first one while the next generation of players took over. As I write this, she's in a third set with Swiatek, so you can be right!
Any thoughts on Djokovic beating Alcaraz? I am ready to put Alcaraz in the "very talented, but inconsistent" category; I have doubt that he will dominate the sport with Sinner. I mean, he's behind Zverev in the rankings despite winning 2 slams and a masters!
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Alcaraz has been surprisingly inconsistent, but he's only 21. He has plenty of time to figure out why he cannot maintain his top level week in and week out.
I expected Djokovic to beat Alcaraz because of that inconsistency and because I simply have not seen the slippage from Dkokovic that others have. He wanted to win one tournament desperately last year and did it, beating Alcaraz on clay in straight sets for the gold at the Olympics. For most of the rest of the year he appeared disinterested except at Wimbledon, when he was coming off knee surgery and could not move well.
Sinner has been awfully good, but he might have to serve a year's suspension that forces him out of the next four slams. It is hard for me to see Djokovic beating him if they play in the final, but like Keys against Sabalenka, I don't think it's impossible. Djokovic was awful in their semi a year ago and is much more motivated this time, but Sinner definitely is playing at a high level and has been really good on clutch points as well.
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