[shari91]

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 betpoints - 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. There is also a men's contest here http://www.sportsbookreview.com/forum/tennis-han...s-singles.html

[Jrod124]

shari my PMs are disabled for a month? Anyway I can still play?

[ttwarrior1]

i think i will try this but not good with he no name early round players

[Stacocakes]

sounds good.Can't wait for the Aussie Open to start

[noober]

looking forward to it

[RollPlayer]

Points sent. Thanks for doing this Shari, it should be fun

[Whippit]

when does it start

not sure I like the pm idea....without witnesses we can't tell who's cheating

[shari91]

shari my PMs are disabled for a month? Anyway I can still play?

You can email me your picks at my username here @ hotmail.

when does it start not sure I like the pm idea....without witnesses we can't tell who's cheating

As mentioned above, I'll be posting everyone's entries once the first match starts. We used to just post our picks in the thread until someone just copied and pasted someone else's picks to use as their entry. Unfortunately those two won so the original winner had to share his prize. Matches start at 11am this Monday here in Melbourne = 7PM EST on Sunday.

[revnecro1273]

points sent

[Robber]

will sbr be adding to the pool

[shari91]

AUSTRALIAN OPEN WTA DRAW - ROUND ONE

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

Group One

Caroline Wozniacki vs Gisela Dulko
Tamira Paszek vs Vania King

Lucie Hradecka vs Alberta Brianti
Angelique Kerber vs Dominika Cibulkova

Yanina Wickmayer vs Jarmila Groth
Polona Hercoq vs Anastasija Sevastova

Vesna Manasieva vs Laura Pous-Tio
Tathiana Garbin vs Marion Bartoli

Justine Henin vs Sania Mirza
Jamie Hampton vs Elena Baltacha

Bethanie Mattek-Sands vs Arantxa Rus
Alison Riske vs Svetlana Kuznetsova

Tsvetana Pironkova vs Pauline Parmentier
Timea Bacsinszky vs Monica Niculescu

Rebecca Marino vs Junri Namigata
Arantxa Parra Santonja vs Francesca Schiavone

Group Two

Venus Williams vs Sara Errani
Sandra Zahlavova vs Renata Voracova

Anne Keothavong vs Arina Rodionova
Jill Craybas vs Andrea Petkovic

Kaia Kanepi vs Magdalena Rybarikova
Julia Goerges vs Edina Gallovits-Hall

Elena Vesnina vs Virginie Razzano
Tamarine Tanasugarn vs Maria Sharapova

Na Li vs Sofia Arvidsson
Evgeniya Rodina vs Olivia Rogowska

Zuzana Ondraskova vs Jelena Dokic
Barbora Zahlavova Strycova vs Aravane Rezai

Daniela Hantuchova vs Regina Kulikova
Karolina Sprem vs Chanelle Scheepers

Patricia Mayr-Achleitner vs Andrea Hlavackova
Kathrin Woerle vs Victoria Azarenka

Group Three

Jelena Jankovic vs Alla Kudryatseva
Kateryna Bondarenko vs Shuai Peng

Caroline Garcia vs Varvara Lepchenko
Ayumi Morita vs Alexandra Dulgheru

Alisa Kleybanova vs Irina Falconi
Anne Kremer vs Simona Halep

Sophie Ferguson vs Petra Martic
Kimiko Date-Krumm vs Agnieszka Radwanska

Nadia Petrova vs Ksenia Pervak
Alicia Molik vs Roberta Vinci

Patty Schnyder vs Lesya Tsurenko
Ekaterina Makarova vs Ana Ivanovic

Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez vs Greta Arn
Coco Vanderweghe vs Alize Cornet

Christina McHale vs Carla Suarez Navarro
Dinara Safina vs Kim Clijsters

Group Four

Samantha Stosur vs Lauren Davis
Maria Elena Camerin vs Vera Dushevina

Olga Govortsova vs Anna Chakvetadze
Sally Peers vs Petra Kvitova

Flavia Pennetta vs Anastasia Rodionova
Lourdes Dominiquez Lino vs Johanna Larsson

Sorana Cirstea vs Mirjana Lucic
Mathilde Johansson vs Shahar Peer

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs Kirsten Flipkens
Akgul Amanmuradova vs Kristina Barrois

Anabel Medina Garriques vs Iveta Benesova
Romina Oprandi vs Maria Kirilenko

Lucie Safarova vs Shuai Zhang
Klara Zakopalova vs Melanie Oudin

Bojana Jovanovski vs Kai-Chen Chang
Sybille Bammer vs Vera Zvonareva

[shari91]

Yes Robber.

[jjgold]

Shari just threatened me to give her points for contest?????????????????????

I had 44 lying around so I just gave them for contest

Girl is flat out nuts, I feel like getting her a 3 day trip somewhere and get her out!

[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 Wozniacki vs Dulko match and the Tamira Paszek vs Vania King 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/ws/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/.../ws/wsdraw.pdf

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 men's contest too.

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

ROUND TWO

Group 1
Wozniacki vs King
Brianti vs Kerber

Groth vs Hercoq
QUALIFIER vs Bartoli

Henin vs QUALIFIER
QUALIFIER vs Riske

Pironkova vs Niculescu
Marino vs Schiavone

Group 2
Williams vs Voracova
QUALIFIER vs Craybas

Kanepi vs Goerges
Vesnina vs Sharapova

Li vs Rodina
Dokic vs Rezai

Hantuchova vs Sprem
Hlavackova vs QUALIFIER

Group 3
Jankovic vs Peng
Garcia vs Morita

QUALIFIER vs Halep
QUALIFIER vs Date-Krumm

Petrova vs Molik
QUALIFIER vs Ivanovic

Arn vs QUALIFIER
McHale vs Clijsters

Group 4
Stosur vs Camerin
Govortsova vs Peers

Pennetta vs Larsson
Cirstea vs Peer

Flipkens vs Barrois
Benesova vs Oprandi

Zhang vs Oudin
Chang vs Bammer


ROUND 3

Group 1
King vs Kerber
Hercog vs Bartoli

QUALIFIER vs QUALIFIER
Pironkova vs Marino

Group 2
Williams vs Craybas
Kanepi vs Sharapova

Li vs Dokic
Sprem vs QUALIFIER

Group 3
Peng vs Morita
Halep vs QUALIFIER

Molik vs QUALIFIER
QUALIFIER vs Clijsters

Group 4
Stosur vs Peers
Pennetta vs Peer

Barrois vs Oprandi
Oudin vs Bammer

ROUND 4

King vs Bartoli
Progress to QF: King

QUALIFIER vs Marino
Progress to QF: Marino

Williams vs Kanepi
Progress to QF: Williams

Li vs Sprem
Progress to QF: Li

Peng vs Halep
Progress to QF: Peng

Molik vs QUALIFIER
Progress to QF: QUALIFIER

Peers vs Peer
Progress to QF: Peers

Oprandi vs Oudin
Progress to QF: Oudin

QF #1 Winner
Marino

QF#2 Winner
Li

QF#3 Winner
Peng

QF#4 Winner
Oudin

Semi Final #1 Winner: Marino
Semi Final #2 Winner: Peng

Final Winner: Marino

[shari91]

Still waiting on qualies. My suggestion is to do your bracket as much as you can and then just slot those ones in when they're decided. You'll save a lot of time this way.

[shari91]

A little over 24 hours until this contest is closed. Don't be scared off the women everyone - so many of them are headcases that you don't need to be a regular tennis bettor to do well. Half of the top seeds will probably be out after the first round.

[shari91]

Now that the last day of qualies has finished, I'm going to start updating the draw. The official site hasn't listed the matches yet but TI has so I'll use that for the time being. I'll list the updated qualies in RED to make it easier for you to find in the list if you've already done a big portion of your entry.

[revnecro1273]

suggestion for future grand slam contests...create a group at racquet bracket...way easier for everyone involved

[shari91]

suggestion for future grand slam contests...create a group at racquet bracket...way easier for everyone involved

Of course! I never thought of that!!!

Would love to but all tennis lines don't come through SBR hence the multiple threads from tennis noobs every Slam bitching about not being able to bet while the rest of us sit back and laugh. If you can get SBR to figure it out though, let me know.

[Slainte]

Interesting one, good idea

[shari91]

Slainte darling, I don't see your points. You know your tennis - at least join the women's one. The prizes will be huge and it's all a crapshoot anyway with these headcases. Top 5 paid plus lucky loser.

[shari91]

Top 5 win prizes plus the lucky loser (the one who scores the least amount of points) so 6 people are going to cash from this one. Look at your odds Mr "I only bet +EV" yappers. Get in here.

[revnecro1273]

Of course! I never thought of that!!!

Would love to but all tennis lines don't come through SBR hence the multiple threads from tennis noobs every Slam bitching about not being able to bet while the rest of us sit back and laugh. If you can get SBR to figure it out though, let me know.

i don't quite understand...what does tennis lines not coming through sbr have to with not setting up a group at racquet bracket?

[Nard Dog]

I am in. Also, yeah, shouldn't be too hard to create a private racquet bracket, pretty sure they have this option. Will be much easier on the contest host.

[ATP123]

sent mine in, hope its legible enough, made my selections primarily by looking at the womens faces, if i win we will all be in for a treat throughout with beauty

[yisman]

are the group three participants decided yet?

I did the whole bracket this morning but I'm waiting for group 3 to submit

[shari91]

are the group three participants decided yet? I did the whole bracket this morning but I'm waiting for group 3 to submit

They still haven't released them. They have a note on their website saying schedule of play for the next day will be released the night before so I'm assuming they've forgotten to update this part of the draw and I won't be able to get them now until they release who is playing tomorrow.You'd think that info would be out somewhere because players need to know who their opponents are so they can prepare but I've just woken up and only checked the Aussie Open site. Still not updated.

[shari91]

Draw is now updated with all qualifiers.

There's a little over 2 hours left to PM your picks to me. Bear with me today because I've had a few things happen to throw my day and night off so I am scrambling to get my bets in and sort out my own picks. I'll post my draw soon after the first match starts but it may be a few hours until I get the other ones up. Best of luck everyone.

[Optional]

Picks sent.

Good luck everyone!

[yisman]

I guess they don't care about Americans, but what horrendous timing

not only is it starting during an NFL playoff Sunday, but the information on the draw isn't even out until like 2 hours before it starts

I'm almost done

would've been nice had they started a day later or even two hours later

[shari91]

Yeah Yiser, they haven't even updated the site yet. I had to get the qualies from TI. It's starting to get really cloudy and dark here too. I think some of the matches may get rained out or at least delayed. Hopefully not though.

[jjgold]

added 39 more points to contest

[Optional]

Pinny hasn't got lines up for any of those group 3 matches yet.

I guess they don't care about Americans

Awww, c'mon Yis. I'm sure it's not just Americans they don't care about

[yisman]

yeah I checked Pinny but TI at least posted them

I think I'll take Schnyder and Cornet

not sure about ferguson/martic

[ATP123]

like cornet quite a bit