Posted by Steven on 1/7/2009, 11:31 pm
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WIMBLEDON BOTB - QUARTER-FINALS 'SYNDICATED' REPORT
Fed & Muzza were each picked by over 90% of entrants to reach the semis and were both in imperious form, winning their QFs in straight sets. Duckboy (73%) saw off a spirited fight from Cmawn (2%) to ensure that three of the favourites made it to the QFs, while Haas (19%) caused the upset of the day by beating Nole (69%), leaving the Wimbledon semis full of relative 'veterans' once again, with Muzza the only player aged under 26 who is still left in.
Detailed results can be found at http://www.britishtennis.net/competitions.html
TEAMS
AM.com have managed to stay in the lead for yet another day. Some distance behind are Team CC, up 1 to 2nd, and BT.net, up 4 to 3rd after an excellent day where they added a win in the QF averages to their R3 win earlier in the tournament.
The Feddies dropped back from 2nd to 4th, some of them having indulged in a bit of wishful thinking (i.e. Muzza out before the semis), while Rusedski.co.uk, up 1 to 5th, overtook T4Y, down 1 to 6th, to ensure that 4 of the top 5 in the year-round team rankings are now in the top 5 here.
Other teams on the way up include BBC 606 (up 1 to 7th after missing out on winning the QF round by only 0.02), the 'missing' member of the overall top 5 TAT, up 2 to 9th, and MTF, up 2 to 13th and off the bottom at last.
Teams on the slide include the Hewitts, down 4 to 8th after their hero's wonder run finally came to an end, JM.org, down 2 to 11th, and Tennisopolis, down 2 to 15th.
By the way, the adjustment to the team averages (which compensates for that fact that small teams are always likely to have more extreme averages and thus enables us to have a fair competition between teams without requiring them all to be the same size) is really showing why it is necessary this time - without it, the four smallest teams would fill the top three places and last place!
TOP 10
Unusually, all of the top 5 are from the same country, England. T01 (CC) got one winner wrong today but held onto his lead for another day, albeit only on tiebreak from t12j23r90 (AM), who rose 1 to 2nd after getting 4/4 today. sid (AM), up 2 to 3rd, jack.hl.ng (CC), up 2 to 4th, and kaseldop (GR), up 3 to 5th, also got 4/4 and are a point behind.
There is then a 3-point gap back to Omegadoom (TA), down 4 to 6th after getting one wrong, while RedCabbage (BT), up 9 to 7th, x5daisy (RF), up 9 to 8th, Portsey (BT), up 16 to 9th, and Puschkin (RG), up 17 to 10th, complete the new top 10 after getting all of the semi-finalists correct.
The biggest faller out of the top 10 was Borovnia (TY), who dropped from 4th to 72nd after 'only' getting half of today's winners correct.
ON THE RISE
No less than 59 entrants got all four semi-finalists correct. Of those, 11 moved up more than 100 places - they were Marksman (MT), up 108 to 134th, James Comerford (BB), up 105 to 147th, JoeKhul (TY), up 105 to 156th, Togtdyalttai (TA), up 103 to 159th, steve7085 (GR), up 106 to 169th, nonobobo (RG), up 107 to 173rd, fastest riser of the day GS2 (IN), up 110 to 174th, CBV (BT), up 109 to 176th, luvs10s (TA), up 107 to 183rd, and oneminutetomidknight (AM) & cain bradley (BB), both up 101 to 194=.
DODGY DROPPERS
Only Mork, aka Dark's mum's friend Alien (CC), down 19 to 443rd, failed to score in the QFs, but you had to start out higher up and get 1/4 to get a drop in triple figures, an unwanted distinction shared by Sean Huggan (LH), down 115 to 148th, faller of the day MJD (BT), down 163 to 287th, and woody75 (BB), down 108 to 394th.
TEAM KO
The scores in the team KO Finals with three matches to go are as follows, with the main Final extremely close:
FINAL: (6) Centre Court Forum lead (4) AndyMurray.com 14.35-14.31
3-4: (10) Rusedski.co.uk lead (1) RogerFederer.com 15-12.78
5-6: (3) BBC 606 boards lead (8) LleytonHewitt.biz 15.56-11.67
7-8: (2) AndyRoddick.com lead (5) JamieMurray.org 14.47-13.08
9-10: (13) BritishTennis.net lead (7) Tennis4you.com 15.58-15
11-12: (9) TalkAboutTennis lead (14) RichardGasquet.net 15.33-14
13-14: (16) MensTennisForums lead (15) GBTennisGirls.com 15-11.88
15-16: (12) Other Boards lead (11) Tennisopolis.com 13.33-12.08
OUTLOOK
Amazingly, 85% of the entrants have both of their finalists still standing after the QFs, with well over 300 of them going for a Fed v Muzza Final.
The rest have one finalist left apart from four who cannot score any more points - Sean Huggan (LH) in 148th, who picked Lleyton to win, Odes (TN) in 427th, who picked Nole to win, Alien (CC) in 443rd, who picked Sod to win, and last placed Donna Hammond (TN), who picked Safin to win and is now certain to be the 'lanterne rouge' this time.
QUOTES OF THE DAY
I'll be back with some quotes and a notes about who can still finish in the top three sometime on Thursday, but I'll leave you with the best one from AM.com for now:
AllyB (AM) calls for a stewards' enquiry: "Jaydu up to 33rd? Could any mods please check that someone hasn't hijacked his password and submitted a fraudulent entry under his name?"
N.B. In first three BOTB appearances, jaydu (AM) was the 'lanterne rouge' at the AO, bottom half in Miami and 2nd to last in Rome, but he was in the top half at RG (just) so was already improving and the one entrant who finished below him in Rome was the person I've just quoted!
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