First things, to officially enter this contest you must pay the fee of 25 SBR points. To do so, you click the gold coin in the bottom corner of this post and transfer 25 points to me. I will be the bank for this contest, holding the points until the payouts at the end of the tournament.
PAYOUT FORMAT WILL BE DETERMINED BASED ON THE NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS WE HAVE!
TO OFFICIALLY ENTER THIS CONTEST, PLEASE REPLY IN THIS THREAD THAT YOU ARE ENTERED AND DONATE YOUR 25 POINT FEE.
If you do not have 25 points at the time that the entry fee is due, please contact me via Private Message and I will hold your spot for the tournament but will require that you pay the entry fee by FRIDAY, January 22nd at the latest. That would give you one full week in which you gain 6 SBR points per day for posting and should have the fee!
RULES
1. You must submit a completed bracket for the men's draw at the Australian Open by 6:00pm ET on Sunday, January 17th. Any brackets missing picks or submitted after the deadline will not be used in the tournament. ALSO, ANY BRACKET/PICKS EDITED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL ALSO BE VOIDED. All SBR points entered in these cases will be refunded to the players.
2. To submit your bracket, please either cut and paste from the listings at the bottom of this post or do some variety of posting your picks per each segment of the draw in one post. I am posting a sample of how I would suggest you post your picks in quotes at the end of this to keep it simple.
SCORING
*1st round: 2 points for each correct pick.
*2nd round: 4 points for each correct pick.
*3rd round: 8 points for each correct pick.
*4th round: 16 points for each correct pick.
*Quarterfinals: 32 points for each correct pick.
*Semifinals: 64 points for each correct pick.
*Final: 128 points for a correct pick.
For perfect rounds:
*1st round: 200 points
*2nd round: 150 points
*3rd round: 100 points
*4th round: 75 points
*Quarterfinals: 50 points
*Semifinalists: 100 points
*Champion: 200 points
Qualifying for the Australian Open will be complete on Saturday. I will post a direct link to the Australian Open website and the men's draw below. It is your choice if you wish to wait to see which qualifiers win or want to make your picks without that done.
Bracket 1
Roger Federer (1), Switzerland, vs. Igor Andreev, Russia
Juan Ignacio Chela, Argentina, vs. Victor Hanescu, Romania
Stephane Robert, France, vs. Potito Starace, Italy
Oscar Hernandez, Spain, vs. Albert Montanes (31), Spain
***
Lleyton Hewitt (22), Australia, vs. Ricardo Hocevar
Christophe Rochus, Belgium, vs. Donald Young
Paolo Lorenzi, Italy, vs. Marcos Baghdatis, Cyprus
Frederico Gil, Portugal, vs. David Ferrer (11)
***
Fernando Verdasco (9), Spain, vs. w-Carsten Ball, Australia
Ivan Sergeyev vs. Dudi Sela, Israel
Rajeev Ram, United States, vs. Stefan Koubek
Ivan Dodiq vs. Juan Carlos Ferrero (23), Spain
***
Juan Monaco (30), Argentina, vs. Ernests Gulbis, Latvia
Martin Vassallo Arguello, Argentina, vs. Michael Llodra, France
Carlos Moya, Spain, vs. Iilya Marchenko
Dieter Kindlmann vs. Nikolay Davydenko (6), Russia
Bracket 2
Novak Djokovic (3), Serbia, vs. Daniel Gimeno-Traver, Spain
w-Marinko Matosevic, Australia, vs. Marco Chiudinelli, Switzerland,
Kristof Vliegen, Belgium, vs. Michael Berrer, Germany
Denis Istomin, Uzbekistan, vs. Jeremy Chardy (32), France
***
Mikhail Youzhny (20), Russia, vs. Richard Gasquet, France
Jan Hajek, Czech Republic, vs. Robby Ginepri, United States
Lukasz Kubot, Poland, vs. Mischa Zverev, Germany
Santiago Giraldo, Colombia, vs. Tommy Robredo (16), Spain
***
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (10), France, vs. Sergiy Stakhovsky, Ukraine
Fabio Fognini, Italy, vs. Taylor Dent, United States
w-Ryan Harrison, United States, vs. Janko Tipsarevic, Serbia
Simon Greul, Germany, vs. Tommy Haas (18), Germany
***
Nicolas Almagro (26), Spain, vs. Xavier Malisse
Benjamin Becker, Germany, vs. Grega Zemlja
Alejandro Falla, Colombia, vs. Marcos Daniel, Brazil
Marcel Granollers, Spain, vs. Robin Soderling (8), Sweden
Bracket 3
Andy Roddick (7), United States, vs. Thiemo de Bakker, Netherlands
Teimuraz Gabashvili, Russia, vs. Thomaz Bellucci, Brazil
Feliciano Lopez, Spain, vs. Pablo Cuevas, Uruguay
Rainer Schuettler, Germany, vs. Sam Querrey (25), United States
***
Tomas Berdych (21), Czech Republic, vs. Robin Haase, Netherlands
Daniel Brands, Germany, vs. Evgeny Korolev, Kazakhstan
w-Sebastien Grosjean, France, vs. Marsel Ilhan
Olivier Rochus, Belgium, vs. Fernando Gonzalez (11), Chile
***
Marin Cilic (14), Croatia, vs. Fabrice Santoro, France
Guillaume Ruffin vs. w-Bernard Tomic, Australia
Igor Kunitsyn, Russia, vs. Jose Acasuso, Argentina
Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, Spain, vs. Stanislas Wawrinka (19), Switzerland,
***
Viktor Troicki (29), Serbia, vs. Nicolas Lapentti, Ecuador
Philipp Petzschner, Germany, vs. Florian Mayer, Germany
James Blake, United States, vs. Arnaud Clement, France
Michael Russell, United States, vs. Juan Martin del Potro (4), Argentina
Bracket 4
Andy Murray (5), Britain, vs. Kevin Anderson
Marc Gicquel, France, vs. Simone Bolelli, Italy
Jarkko Nieminen, Finland, vs. w-Nick Lindahl, Australia
Florent Serra, France, vs. Jurgen Melzer (28), Austria
***
John Isner (33) vs. Andreas Seppi, Italy
Louk Sorensen vs. Yen-hsun Lu, Taiwan
Daniel Koellerer, Austria, vs. Antonio Veic
Matthew Ebden vs. Gael Monfils (12), France
***
Radek Stepanek (13), Czech Republic, vs. Ivo Karlovic, Croatia
Julien Benneteau, France, vs. David Guez
Mardy Fish, United States, vs. w-Andrey Golubev, Kazakhstan
w-Jason Kubler, Australia, vs. Ivan Ljubicic (24), Croatia
***
Philipp Kohlschreiber (27), Germany, vs. Horacio Zeballos, Argentina
Blaz Kavcic vs. Wayne Odesnik, United States
Lukas Lacko, Slovakia, vs. Leonardo Mayer, Argentina
Peter Luczak, Australia, vs. Rafael Nadal (2), Spain
Suggested Posting Format
That will take you through to the semifinalists in each bracket. After that simply match-up your semifinalists from each bracket and complete your picks. For example
Since we have some time prior to the deadline for submitting your pick, please ask any questions you have NOW so that we can clarify for everyone!
PAYOUT FORMAT WILL BE DETERMINED BASED ON THE NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS WE HAVE!
TO OFFICIALLY ENTER THIS CONTEST, PLEASE REPLY IN THIS THREAD THAT YOU ARE ENTERED AND DONATE YOUR 25 POINT FEE.
If you do not have 25 points at the time that the entry fee is due, please contact me via Private Message and I will hold your spot for the tournament but will require that you pay the entry fee by FRIDAY, January 22nd at the latest. That would give you one full week in which you gain 6 SBR points per day for posting and should have the fee!
RULES
1. You must submit a completed bracket for the men's draw at the Australian Open by 6:00pm ET on Sunday, January 17th. Any brackets missing picks or submitted after the deadline will not be used in the tournament. ALSO, ANY BRACKET/PICKS EDITED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL ALSO BE VOIDED. All SBR points entered in these cases will be refunded to the players.
2. To submit your bracket, please either cut and paste from the listings at the bottom of this post or do some variety of posting your picks per each segment of the draw in one post. I am posting a sample of how I would suggest you post your picks in quotes at the end of this to keep it simple.
SCORING
*1st round: 2 points for each correct pick.
*2nd round: 4 points for each correct pick.
*3rd round: 8 points for each correct pick.
*4th round: 16 points for each correct pick.
*Quarterfinals: 32 points for each correct pick.
*Semifinals: 64 points for each correct pick.
*Final: 128 points for a correct pick.
For perfect rounds:
*1st round: 200 points
*2nd round: 150 points
*3rd round: 100 points
*4th round: 75 points
*Quarterfinals: 50 points
*Semifinalists: 100 points
*Champion: 200 points
Qualifying for the Australian Open will be complete on Saturday. I will post a direct link to the Australian Open website and the men's draw below. It is your choice if you wish to wait to see which qualifiers win or want to make your picks without that done.
Bracket 1
Roger Federer (1), Switzerland, vs. Igor Andreev, Russia
Juan Ignacio Chela, Argentina, vs. Victor Hanescu, Romania
Stephane Robert, France, vs. Potito Starace, Italy
Oscar Hernandez, Spain, vs. Albert Montanes (31), Spain
***
Lleyton Hewitt (22), Australia, vs. Ricardo Hocevar
Christophe Rochus, Belgium, vs. Donald Young
Paolo Lorenzi, Italy, vs. Marcos Baghdatis, Cyprus
Frederico Gil, Portugal, vs. David Ferrer (11)
***
Fernando Verdasco (9), Spain, vs. w-Carsten Ball, Australia
Ivan Sergeyev vs. Dudi Sela, Israel
Rajeev Ram, United States, vs. Stefan Koubek
Ivan Dodiq vs. Juan Carlos Ferrero (23), Spain
***
Juan Monaco (30), Argentina, vs. Ernests Gulbis, Latvia
Martin Vassallo Arguello, Argentina, vs. Michael Llodra, France
Carlos Moya, Spain, vs. Iilya Marchenko
Dieter Kindlmann vs. Nikolay Davydenko (6), Russia
Bracket 2
Novak Djokovic (3), Serbia, vs. Daniel Gimeno-Traver, Spain
w-Marinko Matosevic, Australia, vs. Marco Chiudinelli, Switzerland,
Kristof Vliegen, Belgium, vs. Michael Berrer, Germany
Denis Istomin, Uzbekistan, vs. Jeremy Chardy (32), France
***
Mikhail Youzhny (20), Russia, vs. Richard Gasquet, France
Jan Hajek, Czech Republic, vs. Robby Ginepri, United States
Lukasz Kubot, Poland, vs. Mischa Zverev, Germany
Santiago Giraldo, Colombia, vs. Tommy Robredo (16), Spain
***
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (10), France, vs. Sergiy Stakhovsky, Ukraine
Fabio Fognini, Italy, vs. Taylor Dent, United States
w-Ryan Harrison, United States, vs. Janko Tipsarevic, Serbia
Simon Greul, Germany, vs. Tommy Haas (18), Germany
***
Nicolas Almagro (26), Spain, vs. Xavier Malisse
Benjamin Becker, Germany, vs. Grega Zemlja
Alejandro Falla, Colombia, vs. Marcos Daniel, Brazil
Marcel Granollers, Spain, vs. Robin Soderling (8), Sweden
Bracket 3
Andy Roddick (7), United States, vs. Thiemo de Bakker, Netherlands
Teimuraz Gabashvili, Russia, vs. Thomaz Bellucci, Brazil
Feliciano Lopez, Spain, vs. Pablo Cuevas, Uruguay
Rainer Schuettler, Germany, vs. Sam Querrey (25), United States
***
Tomas Berdych (21), Czech Republic, vs. Robin Haase, Netherlands
Daniel Brands, Germany, vs. Evgeny Korolev, Kazakhstan
w-Sebastien Grosjean, France, vs. Marsel Ilhan
Olivier Rochus, Belgium, vs. Fernando Gonzalez (11), Chile
***
Marin Cilic (14), Croatia, vs. Fabrice Santoro, France
Guillaume Ruffin vs. w-Bernard Tomic, Australia
Igor Kunitsyn, Russia, vs. Jose Acasuso, Argentina
Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, Spain, vs. Stanislas Wawrinka (19), Switzerland,
***
Viktor Troicki (29), Serbia, vs. Nicolas Lapentti, Ecuador
Philipp Petzschner, Germany, vs. Florian Mayer, Germany
James Blake, United States, vs. Arnaud Clement, France
Michael Russell, United States, vs. Juan Martin del Potro (4), Argentina
Bracket 4
Andy Murray (5), Britain, vs. Kevin Anderson
Marc Gicquel, France, vs. Simone Bolelli, Italy
Jarkko Nieminen, Finland, vs. w-Nick Lindahl, Australia
Florent Serra, France, vs. Jurgen Melzer (28), Austria
***
John Isner (33) vs. Andreas Seppi, Italy
Louk Sorensen vs. Yen-hsun Lu, Taiwan
Daniel Koellerer, Austria, vs. Antonio Veic
Matthew Ebden vs. Gael Monfils (12), France
***
Radek Stepanek (13), Czech Republic, vs. Ivo Karlovic, Croatia
Julien Benneteau, France, vs. David Guez
Mardy Fish, United States, vs. w-Andrey Golubev, Kazakhstan
w-Jason Kubler, Australia, vs. Ivan Ljubicic (24), Croatia
***
Philipp Kohlschreiber (27), Germany, vs. Horacio Zeballos, Argentina
Blaz Kavcic vs. Wayne Odesnik, United States
Lukas Lacko, Slovakia, vs. Leonardo Mayer, Argentina
Peter Luczak, Australia, vs. Rafael Nadal (2), Spain
Suggested Posting Format
Bracket 1
Roger Federer,Juan Ignacio Chela,Stephane Robert,Oscar Hernandez
Federer,Hernandez
Federer
***
Lleyton Hewitt,Christophe Rochus,Paolo Lorenzi,Frederico Gil
Hewitt,Gil
Hewitt
***
Fernando Verdasco,Dudi Sela,Rajeev Ram,Juan Carlos Ferrero
Verdasco,Ferrero
Verdasco
***
Juan Monaco,Martin Vassallo Arguello,Carlos Moya,Nikolay Davydenko
Monaco,Davydenko
Davydenko
Federer, Davydenko
Federer
Roger Federer,Juan Ignacio Chela,Stephane Robert,Oscar Hernandez
Federer,Hernandez
Federer
***
Lleyton Hewitt,Christophe Rochus,Paolo Lorenzi,Frederico Gil
Hewitt,Gil
Hewitt
***
Fernando Verdasco,Dudi Sela,Rajeev Ram,Juan Carlos Ferrero
Verdasco,Ferrero
Verdasco
***
Juan Monaco,Martin Vassallo Arguello,Carlos Moya,Nikolay Davydenko
Monaco,Davydenko
Davydenko
Federer, Davydenko
Federer
*Federer,Djokovic
Federer
*Del Potro,Nadal
Nadal
Federer
Federer
*Del Potro,Nadal
Nadal
Federer
