Wimbledon predictions?

[Simon]

last night in the wimbledon wrap up, becker made what i think is a valid point....the other players are too busy accepting his phenomenal talent and superiority especially on grass and just don't attack him enough anymore....most of the top players are satisfied if they give him what they consider a good enough fight....he pointed out some instances where hewitt could have really taken the fight to him and didn't....

federer doesn't ever expect to lose when he steps on court and his opponents rarely expect to win except when they are precocious teenagers(gasquet, nadal) or slightly unbalanced tennis geniuses(safin)...the result is that an aura of near invincibility surrounds him....of course roddick might prove this wrong tomorrow, but somehow i doubt it very much...

thats right to a point, but when watching him play you dont have to be a genius to know how he wins. he simply hits every ball deep and pin point. He gives his opponent nothing and as you say, he expects to win. Players are good enough to beat him on a given day, but in a 365 day calender year he is by far the best and most consistent player...

 

[Mister Wright]

I don't want Roddick to win, but to be a chance I have to pick him...

RODDICK

 

[archie mac]

I don't want Roddick to win, but to be a chance I have to pick him...

RODDICK

I suppose this is one problem with this comp. only the two top ranked posi. can win, when we come to the final. A bit like the grand slam final in away. I know the quick answer is to do better early on. The only way I can think, to make it more exciting for more people, is to include the womens or doubles finals in the final round of tipping.

Just a thought

 

[Mister Wright]

I suppose this is one problem with this comp. only the two top ranked posi. can win, when we come to the final. A bit like the grand slam final in away. I know the quick answer is to do better early on. The only way I can think, to make it more exciting for more people, is to include the womens or doubles finals in the final round of tipping.

Just a thought

Yeah, I think from the Quaters the women's comp should be included, at least they are the players most people know.

 

[archie mac]

Yeah, I think from the Quaters the women's comp should be included, at least they are the players most people know.

I think that a good idea, women's tennis is not as predictable as it once was.

 

[Simon]

i guess we can have a look at introducing that for the US open, ill probably run that one...

 

[Anil]

thats right to a point, but when watching him play you dont have to be a genius to know how he wins. he simply hits every ball deep and pin point. He gives his opponent nothing and as you say, he expects to win. Players are good enough to beat him on a given day, but in a 365 day calender year he is by far the best and most consistent player...

i totally agree....he is phenomenal....i am just saying that the other top players shouldn't go into court with a defeatist attitude....that plays right into his hands and helps him to win even more easily....

 

[Jono]

Adding women's from the quarters would be an excellent idea actually.

Congrats to Marc for the win.

 

[marc71178]

i guess we can have a look at introducing that for the US open, ill probably run that one...

I hope you do!

 

[marc71178]

Final scores:

Marc 356
Jono 315
Simon 291
Faaip 280
The Norwegian 269
Kyle 262
Archie 255
Chaminda 233
Steds 221
V Reddy 211
biased indian 172
Andy 171
Ginger 127
Hoggy 82


For information, correct predictions:

Marc 85
Simon 85
The Norwegian 85
Jono 83
Archie 82
Kyle 82
Chaminda 73
Ginger 73
Andy 67
V Reddy 63
biased indian 60
Steds 47
Faaip 25
Hoggy 21

Percentage correct:

Faaip 80.65%
The Norwegian 72.65%
V Reddy 69.23%
Steds 68.12%
Marc 67.46%
Simon 67.46%
biased indian 67.42%
Chaminda 66.97%
Jono 65.87%
Ginger 65.77%
Archie 65.08%
Kyle 65.08%
Andy 60.91%
Hoggy 53.85%

 

[Pratters]

I am glad we have had this competition from the beginning of the year.

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

Hehe sweet. I like my percentage correct.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Hehe sweet. I like my percentage correct.

Then again, you only predicted when it was easy.

 

[marc71178]

Interesting to see the number of correct predictions by each person.

 

[Jono]

Damn I would have had a chance had I got in in time to get my Federer and Hewitt predictions for the quarters.

My percentage is a bit low though lol. Gotta improve on that for the US Open.

 

[Pratters]

i guess we can have a look at introducing that for the US open, ill probably run that one...

I would like to run the predictions competition in some slam too

 

[Simon]

I would like to run the predictions competition in some slam too

whats the likelyhood of you being around the forums for 2 weeks without going away?!?!

 

[Pratters]

whats the likelyhood of you being around the forums for 2 weeks without going away?!?!

I am managing our cement plant in Uttar Pradesh which requires me to go there obviously.

Considering it was me who brought up the idea of starting the competition, why not have me doing it in some slam too, specially considering I want to

 

[Simon]

hey if you can commit to running the comp for 2 weeks go right ahead...
im happy enough for other people to run it consiering i have the fantasy tennis comp to look after and wcc...

 

[Pratters]

hey if you can commit to running the comp for 2 weeks go right ahead...

I would like to in some grand slam and we can work it out when you have problems running a competition, I am not away for two weeks and stuff.