Australian Open Contest - Mens Singles

[shari91]

NOTE: I AM STILL TRYING TO UPDATE THE QUALIFIERS BUT THE AUSSIE OPEN WEBSITE HASN'T UPDATED THE DRAWS YET. THE FIRST ROUND MATCHES HAVE BEEN UPDATED IN HERE BUT THAT'S ALL IVE GOT SO FAR. IF ANYONE FINDS INFO ABOUT MATCHES THAT ARE STILL SHOWING AS AWAITING A QUALIE PLEASE LET ME KNOW.

Each person is to PM me their winners all the way through until the Final and once the first match commences, I'll post everyone's picks so all of us can follow along. You will receive 10 points for each correct winner of a match. NOT SBR POINTS - POINTS TOWARD YOUR CONTEST SCORE. There will be a 100 point bonus to your score if you correctly pick the two players in the Final and a 50 point bonus if you correctly predict the winner of the Final. If you have chosen the winner of the Final and they are seeded outside of the top 10, you will receive an additional 200 point bonus.

The entry fee is 15 points which must be paid before the commencement of the first match of Round 1. The first match takes place on Monday the 17th at 11am Melbourne time, which is 7pm Sunday in NYC, or 12am Monday in London. I'm waiting for an answer from SBR as to how much they'll be contributing to the prize pool but I'm sure it'll be a decent amount.

Once I've received all the entries and the contest is closed, I'll post the prizes along with everyone's picks.

The women's contest is here: http://forum.sbrforum.com/tennis-han...s-singles.html

[ProfaneReality]

shari....would it be too much to ask for all your posts to be made via an audio recording... you dont have to get on cam.... just post blank videos, verbalizing your posts.

thanks

[shari91]

[ProfaneReality]

I guess thats a no.

[EmpireMaker]

which thread do we enter on?

[ProfaneReality]

is that video she posted still up somewhere? I want to listen to it again

[yisman]

is that video she posted still up somewhere? I want to listen to it again

shouldn't be hard to find, it's been getting posted in constantly, although I can't be arsed to read the last few pages.

http://forum.sbrforum.com/players-talk/867375-unreal-video-fukkin-year-shari-live.html

I'll be entering the contest.

[shari91]

which thread do we enter on?

In here. This will be the thread for the contest.

[ProfaneReality]

shari whyd you make it private...cmon

[brxbmbers42]

In here. This will be the thread for the contest.

call me

[lemart5]

I would like to join the open contests Shari.

[EmpireMaker]

will the rules and entries be posted here too ?

[ProfaneReality]

shari dont make me look bad....unlock the vid please

[EmpireMaker]

points sent

[ha1ogen]

we have to pick a winner for every match? thats a lot of matches, thx shari for doing this

[revnecro1273]

sounds good

[B1GER1C828]

yay this again good job last time Shari! ill b doing it.

[RollPlayer]

I was really confused for a second, I thought you were giving away 10 SBR points for each winner picked. If only... anyways i'll be entering, just gotta wait for my bet on Troicki to clear in the book before i can send the entry fee

[ttwarrior1]

when is the first match, i guess deadline is soon? Anyway i can pay you 5 for 3 days in a row

[RollPlayer]

Points sent

[jjgold]

threw some points in contest for you guys

Well I HAD to

WALKER said give some points to her

[shari91]

I would like to join the open contests Shari.

When you're ready to join, just transfer the entry fee to the first post in this thread. If you'd like to join the women's contest then you can go here and transfer the entry fee there as well.

http://forum.sbrforum.com/tennis-handicapping/891017-australian-open-contest-womens-singles.html

will the rules and entries be posted here too ?

Yeah, I'll post everything in this thread.

shari dont make me look bad....unlock the vid please

I did for about 20 minutes after I saw your posts. I hope you got to see them.

I was really confused for a second, I thought you were giving away 10 SBR points for each winner picked. If only... anyways i'll be entering, just gotta wait for my bet on Troicki to clear in the book before i can send the entry fee

I edited the post to make it more clear. Thank you for pointing that out as that was a question in our last contest as well.

when is the first match, i guess deadline is soon? Anyway i can pay you 5 for 3 days in a row

The first match takes place on Monday the 17th at 11am Melbourne time, which is 7pm Sunday in NYC, or 12am Monday in London. Transferring me the points in chunks is fine.

[jjgold]

Shari looking forward to the automated bracket software.

When will it be ready?

French?

Thanks

[shari91]

Shari looking forward to the automated bracket software.

When will it be ready?

French?

Thanks

As soon as you tell John to withhold some of your cut and reinvest it in the tennis forum.

[revnecro1273]

points sent

[Cabo]

Is this winner take all?

[pavyracer]

As soon as you tell John to withhold some of your cut and reinvest it in the tennis forum.

I concur and would love to see some of that money invested in the soccer forum too.

[beefcake]

Shari, you know you don't have to do this with whats going on down there. Thank you anyway though!

[shari91]

Shari, you know you don't have to do this with whats going on down there. Thank you anyway though!

You're a sweetheart Beefy but there's not much else I can really do at this point other than cross my fingers that Melbourne doesn't get any more rain. One of our roads apparently disintegrated today and we've had some flooding, but nothing like Queensland, New South Wales or north of Melbourne. So we're actually ok at the moment. As long as we don't get any more rain for the next few days to allow our catchments to calm down a bit then we should have escaped the worst of it.

I'm going to start typing up the draw now and post it even though all of the qualies haven't been determined. At least that way everyone has the option of getting started instead of doing it all in one shot which will be time-consuming considering we're starting from Round 1 this time.

[shari91]

AUSTRALIAN OPEN ATP DRAW - ROUND ONE

I will add the names of the qualifiers as they become available

Group One

Rafael Nadal vs Marcos Daniel
Ryan Sweeting vs Daniel Gimeno-Traver

Bernard Tomic vs Jeremy Chardy
Alejandro Falla vs Feliciano Lopez

John Isner vs Florent Serra
Radek Stepanek vs Denis Gremelmayr

Rui Machado vs Santiago Giraldo
Donald Young vs Marin Cilic

Mikhail Youzhny vs Marsel Ilhan
Blaz Kavcic vs Kevin Anderson

Milos Raonic vs Bjorn Phau
Juan Ignacio Chela vs Michael Llodra

David Nalbandian vs Lleyton Hewitt
Richard Berankis vs Marinko Matosevic

Michael Russell vs Matthew Ebden
Jarkko Nieminen vs David Ferrer

Group Two

Robin Soderling vs Potito Starace
Gilles Muller vs Simon Stadler

Denis Istomin vs Jan Hernych
Richard Mello vs Thomaz Bellucci

Ernest Gulbis vs Benjamin Becker
Alexandr Dolgopolov vs Mikhail Kukushkin

Andreas Seppi vs Arnaud Clement
Phillip Petzschner vs Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

Jurgen Melzer vs Vincent Millot
Carsten Ball vs Pere Riba

Dudi Sela vs Juan Martin Del Potro
Grega Zemlja vs Marcos Baghdatis

Guillermo Garcia-Lopez vs Michael Berrer
Eduardo Schwank vs Leonardo Mayer

Illya Marchenko vs Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo
Karol Beck vs Andy Murray

Group Three

Tomas Berdych vs Marco Crugnola
Philipp Kohlschreiber vs Tobias Kamke

Ryan Harrison vs Adrian Mannarino
Frank Dancevic vs Richard Gasquet

Nikolay Davydenko vs Florian Mayer
Fabio Fognini vs Kei Nishikori

Mischa Zverev vs Janko Tipsarevic
Rainer Schuettler vs Fernando Verdasco

Nicolas Almagro vs Stephane Robert
Igor Andreev vs Filippo Volandri

Flavio Cipolla vs Benoit Paire
Peter Luczak vs Ivan Ljubicic

Viktor Troicki vs Dmitry Tursunov
Brian Dabul vs Nicolas Mahut

Ivo Karlovic vs Ivan Dodig
Marcel Granollers vs Novak Djokovic

Group Four

Andy Roddick vs Jan Hajek
Michal Przysiezny vs Igor Kunitsyn

Carlos Berlocq vs Robin Haase
Julien Benneteau vs Juan Monaco

Stanislas Wawrinka vs Teymuraz Gabashvili
Grigor Dimitrov vs Andrey Golubev

Frederico Gil vs Pablo Cuevas
Thiemo de Bakker vs Gael Monfils

Mardy Fish vs Victor Hanescu
Tommy Robredo vs Somdev Devvarman

Sergiy Stakhovsky vs Daniel Brands
Lukasz Kubot vs Sam Querrey

Albert Montanes vs Dustin Brown
Pablo Andujar vs Xavier Malisse

Yen-Hsun Lu vs Gilles Simon
Lukas Lacko vs Roger Federer

[szk1983]

great contest. thanks a lot!

[Tsonga]

Should be a fun tourney.

[shari91]

TO SUBMIT YOUR PICKS:

You take each first round winner and slot them through until the end. Just to make it clear: You're starting off by telling me what Round 2 would look like if you were going to be watching a round 2 match. So the first names you'll give me are the winners from the Nadal vs Daniel match and the QUALIFIER vs Gimeno-Traver match as the winners will be playing each other in Round 2. Then you go on to the next subgroup and carry those winners through.

I've provided an example and if you need a visual of what your entry should look like, here you go: http://www.australianopen.com/en_AU/...s/ms/r1s1.html

Even better, if you want to make it easier on yourself and you have access to a printer, use this, work it out manually and then just PM me using the format I've given you: http://www.australianopen.com/en_AU/.../ms/msdraw.pdf

The first round you're trying to set up is Round 2 because you're picking the winners of round 1. Please PM in the format I listed below as it'll make it so much easier for me to figure stuff out, especially since we're starting from the first round this time and I'm running the women's contest too.

Example entry (copy and paste this to PM to me)

ROUND TWO

Group 1
Nadal vs QUALIFIER
Tomic vs Falla

Isner vs QUALIFIER
Giraldo vs Cilic

Youzhny vs Anderson
Phau vs Llodra

Hewitt vs Berankis
Ebden vs Ferrer

Group 2
Soderling vs QUALIFIER
Istomin vs Mello

Gulbis vs Dolgopolov
Seppi vs Tsonga

Melzer vs Ball
Del Potro vs Baghdatis

Berrer vs Mayer
Marchenko vs Murray

Group 3
Berdych vs Kamke
Harrison vs Gasquet

Davydenko vs Nishikori
Tipsarevic vs Verdasco

Almagro vs Andreev
Paire vs Ljubicic

Troicki vs QUALIFIER
Dodig vs Djokovic

Group 4
Roddick vs Kunitsyn
Haase vs Monaco

Wawrinka vs QUALIFIER
Gil vs Monfils

Fish vs Robredo
Brands vs Kubot

Brown vs Malisse
Lu vs Federer


ROUND 3

Group 1
Nadal vs Falla
QUALIFIER vs Cilic

Youzhny vs Llodra
Hewitt vs Ferrer

Group 2
Soderling vs Mello
Gulbis vs Tsonga

Ball vs Del Potro
Mayer vs Murray

Group 3
Kamke vs Harrison
Davydenko vs Verdasco

Almagro vs Paire
Troicki vs Djokovic

Group 4
Roddick vs Haase
QUALIFIER vs Gil

Fish vs Brands
Brown vs Federer

ROUND 4

Nadal vs Cilic
Progress to QF: Nadal

Youzhny vs Hewitt
Progress to QF: Youzhny

Soderling vs Tsonga
Progress to QF: Soderling

Del Potro vs Murray
Progress to QF: Murray

Harrison vs Verdasco
Progress to QF: Verdasco

Paire vs Djokovic
Progress to QF: Djokovic

Roddick vs QUALIFIER
Progress to QF: Roddick

Fish vs Brown
Progress to QF: Brown

QF #1 Winner
Nadal

QF#2 Winner
Murray

QF#3 Winner
Djokovic

QF#4 Winner
Roddick

Semi Final #1 Winner: Nadal
Semi Final #2 Winner: Djokovic

Final Winner: Nadal

[ttwarrior1]

read it ten times, don't understand, too afraid i would miss a pick

[shari91]

read it ten times, don't understand, too afraid i would miss a pick

If you print off the PDF that I posted that should make it a lot easier for you. And I always let people know if they've messed up somehow so they can correct it. It looks more difficult than it really is. I promise.