Wimbledon 2007 Suicide Pool

[Damian WayLNKe]

I would like to run a suicide pool for this year's Wimbledon Men's tournament. It will be divided up into days of the tournament. You only pick one winner for each day and you can only pick each player once. If your player doesn't win then you are out. Your pick for each day must be posted before the start of play for that day. Finally, the first day's schedule should be posted sometime on Sunday so start posting your pick for the first day after that is announced.

Edit: I just realized this should probably be in the Forum games possibly.

Edited June 22, 2007 by LNK

[Guest Old-School Fresh]

Auto-First Round Pick: Rafael Nadal

I doubt he'll make it past there, though, he suxorz on grass.

[Damian WayLNKe]

It's not rounds, it's days. Nadal might not be playing on the first day >_>. Also, how dare you underestimate Mardy Fish and Nadal made it to the finals of Wimbledon last year.

Edited June 22, 2007 by LNK

[gunnar hendershow]

If I had a guarantee I'd be accessing EWB once a day during this tournament I'd totally do this.

[Sir Alan LCSugar]

Yeah, so would I, looks like a good idea.

[Matt]

When does Wimbledon start? This Monday or next?

[IAceI]

This Monday coming. And Rafael Nadal will be playing on Tuesday because he'll be second seed.

[Damian WayLNKe]

Monday's matches

Roger Federer (SUI) [1] vs Teimuraz Gabashvili (RUS)

Juan Martin Del Potro (ARG) vs. Davide Sanguinetti (ITA)

Aisam-Ul-Hag Qureshi (PAK) vs. Lee Childs (GBR)

Rik De Voest (USA) vs. Marat Safin (RUS) [26]

Dmitry Turusnov (RUS) [21] vs. Nicolas Almagro (ESP)

Michael Berrer (GER) vs. Albert Montanes (ESP)

Tomas Zib (CZE) vs. Diego Hartfield (ARG)

Zack Fleishman (USA) vs. Tommy Haas (GER) [13]

James Blake (USA) [9] vs. Igor Andreev (RUS)

Juan Pablo Guzman (ARG) vs. Andrei Pavel (ROU)

Guilles Muller (LUX) vs. Oscar Hernandez (ESP)

Jan Hajek (CZE) vs. Juan Carlos Ferrero (ESP) [20]

Philip Kohlschreiber (GER) [27] vs.Florent Serra (FRA)

Alexander Peya (AUT) vs. Janko Tipsaveric (SRB)

Alejandro Falla (COL) vs. Sam Querrey (USA)

Robby Ginepri (USA) vs. Fernando Gonzalez (CHI) [5]

Andy Roddick (USA) [3] vs Justin Gimelstob (USA)

Danai Udomchoke (THA) vs Carlos Berlocq (ARG)

Fernando Verdasco (ESP) vs Bobby Reynolds (USA)

Andreas Seppi (ITA) vs Dominik Hrbaty (SVK) [31]

David Ferrer (ESP) [17] vs Sergio Roitman (ARG)

Paul-Henri Mathieu (FRA) vs Radek Stepanek (CZE)

Marc Gicquel (FRA) vs Jan Hernych (CZE)

Vince Spadea (USA) vs Ivan Ljubicic (CRO) [15]

Richard Gasquet (FRA) [12] vs Bohdan Ulihrach (CZE)

Arnaud Clement (FRA) vs Nicolas Mahut (FRA)

Jamie Baker (GBR) vs Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA)

Benjamin Becker (GER) vs Juan-Ignacio Chela (ARG) [24]

Carlos Moya (ESP) [25] vs Tim Henman (GBR)

Joshua Goodall (GBR) vs Feliciano Lopez (ESP)

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA) vs Julien Benneteau (FRA)

Nicolas Lapentti (ECU) vs Kevin Kim (USA)

Edited June 24, 2007 by LNK

[Damian WayLNKe]

I'm taking Ferrer over Roitman for day one. Post your picks by noon GMT/7:00AM EST

[Sir Alan LCSugar]

Roddick to win.

[IAceI]

Andy Murray has pulled out.

Tursunov (21) to beat Almagro

Del Potro to beat Sanguinetti

Becker to beat Chela (24)

Bolded my pick. It's a shame because Del Potro has been one of my favourite players since almost November last year or so but he's set to face Federer in the second round. If he didn't come across Federer, Nadal or Roddick - possibly Hewitt since this is grass. I reckon he could make it to the Quarter Finals, unfortunately he won't make it much further than the second round at this rate

Going to challenge myself a little, took a look and will try and pick some non seeds and stuff like that.

I don't want to risk a pick on this, but Mahut vs. Clement will be a great first round match, probably Court 13 worthy, and I can see Mahut possibly taking that. But both men are in great form.

Also I'm calling it now, Martin Klizan will win the Boys tournament.

EDIT: Rik De Voest is South African, not from the USA.

Edited June 27, 2007 by IAceI

[gunnar hendershow]

Well I'll give this a try in any case, hopefully I'll be able to keep up with it.

Juan Carlos Ferrero to win on Day One.

[ACCBiggz]

Ivan Ljubicic

[Guest Crockmaster]

James Blake, if possible.

[ACCBiggz]

Update on picks made.

Andy Roddick (3) def. Justin Gimelstob, 6-1, 7-5, 7-6 (7-3)

James Blake (9) vs. Igor Andreev

Ivan Ljubicic (15) vs. Vincent Spadea

David Ferrer (17) vs. Sergio Roitman, 6-3

Juan Carlos Ferrero (20) vs. Jan Hajek

Juan Martin Del Potro vs. Davide Sanguinetti

[Damian WayLNKe]

Here's the matches scheduled for tomorrow

Nikolay Davydenko (RUS) [6] vs.Evgeny Korolev (RUS)

Alex Bogdanovic (GBR) vs. Chris Guccione (AUS)

Gael Monfils (FRA) vs. Thomas Johansson (SWE)

Kristof Vliegen (BEL) vs. Juan Monaco (ARG) [32]

David Nalbandian (ARG) [23] vs. Mischa Zverev (GER)

Frank Dancevic (CAN) vs. Stefan Koubek (AUT)

Nicolas Devilder (FRA) vs. Mariano Zabaleta (ARG)

Ernests Gulbis (LAT) vs. Marcos Baghdatis (CYP) [10]

Lleyton Hewitt (AUS) [16] vs. Richard Bloomfield (GER)

Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP) vs. Simone Bolelli (ITA)

Max Mirnyi (BLR) vs. Yen Hsun-Lu (TPE)

Ivan Navarro Pastor (ESP) vs. Guillermo Canas (ARG) [22]

Filippo Volandri (ITA) [30] vs. Nicolas Keifer (GER)

Fabrice Santoro (FRA) vs. Ivo Karlovic (CRO)

Amer Delic (USA) vs. Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)

Potito Starace (ITA) vs. Novak Djokovic (SRB) [4]

Tomas Berdych (CZE) [7] vs. Nicolas Massu (CHI)

Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI) vs. Michael Llodra (FRA)

Hyung Taik-Lee (KOR) vs. Martin Vassallo Arguello (ARG)

Luis Horna (PER) vs. Augustin Calleri (ARG) [29]

Jonas Bjorkman (SWE) [19] vs. Fernando Vicente (ES)

Igor Kunitsyn (RUS) vs. Yeu-Tzuoo Wang (TPE)

Wayne Arthurs (AUS) vs. Thiemo De Bakker (NED)

Robert Kendrick (USA) vs. Tommy Robredo (ESP) [11]

Mikhail Youzhny (RUS) [14] Kristian Pless (DEN)

Marin Cilic (CRO) vs. Gilles Simon (FRA)

Florian Mayer (GER) vs. Sam Warburg (USA)

Michael Russell (USA) vs. Jarkko Nieminen (FIN) [18]

Robin Soderling (SWE) [28] vs. Olivier Rochus (BEL)

Jonathan Marray (GBR) vs. Sebastien Grosjean (FRA)

Werner Eschauer (AUT) vs. Ruben Ramirez-Hidalgo (ESP)

Mardy Fish (USA) vs. Rafael Nadal (ESP) [2]

[ACCBiggz]

Jarkko Nieminen (FIN) [18]

I just have a good "pick against Americans" plan.

[Guest Crockmaster]

Sebastien Grosjean - I'll probably be following a similar 'pick against Brits' strategy.

[IAceI]

Max Mirnyi to beat Yen Hsun-Lu

Second day is filled with potential banana skins, Max has played a lot of tennis though recently and he's a great grass court player. Done well against Nadal at Queens so I'll go with him, seems like a decent choice.

EDIT: This is providing Del Potro wins, he's making hardwork of a match he should win, especially based off recent form. But Sanguinetti is just an annoying wall-type opponent who puts everything back and forces mistakes.

Then again, if I didn't make interesting picks, I wouldn't find this very interesting.

Still, if Klizan win's the boys I'm claiming the tournament >_>

Edited June 25, 2007 by IAceI

[gunnar hendershow]

I want to go with Max Mirnyi as well.