Posted by Steven on 3/7/2009, 1:28 am, in reply to "Money !!"
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The rest of the report from Wednesday, as promised:
OUTLOOK - TEAMS
In the teams league, AM.com will win if Muzza wins the title or Fed fails to reach the Final, Team CC will win if Fed beats Muzza in the Final, the Feddies will win if Fed beats Duckboy in the Final and the Ducklings will win if Duckboy wins the title.
BT.net will come 2nd if Muzza reaches the Final, T4Y will come 2nd if Duckboy beats Haas in the Final and Team CC will come 2nd otherwise. Five different teams can still finish in 3rd place.
In the team KO, Team CC will win if Fed wins the title or Muzza fails to reach the Final, with AM.com winning otherwise. Rusedski.co.uk will edge out the Feddies for 3rd place unless Fed beats Duckboy in the Final.
OUTLOOK - INDIVIDUALS (E&OE!)
If Duckboy reaches the Final, T01 (CC) will finish 1st and jack.hl.ng (CC) 2nd, with SONIque (AR) 3rd if Duckboy also wins the title or Portsey (BT) 3rd if he loses in the Final.
If Muzza wins the title, sid (AM), GoGo (AM) & t12j23r90 (AM) will fill the top three places, giving their team the quintuple, i.e. teams league, team KO and top three individuals.
If Muzza loses in the Final, t12j23r90 (AM) will finish 1st, with sid (AM) 2nd & kaseldop (GR) 3rd if Haas wins the title or kaseldop (GR) 2nd & Omegadoom (TA) 3rd if Fed wins the title.
In other words, the top half semi seems to be the more crucial one for BOTB purposes, but with so many entrants still having both finalists left, places in the top 10, 50, 100, etc, and the associated ranking points are still very much up for grabs, so there is plenty still to play for even if you were not mentioned above.
QUOTES OF THE QFs
DJ (MP) was reduced to hoping for drastic measures before the QFs: "i think my only hope of making it into the top 200 is if everyone except djokovic comes down with swine flu"
murrayman650 (BT) is looking on the bright side: "At 425th I still think that I have a chance in this ..."
SLess (CC) is a bit sad that she can't even claim her best prediction was 100% hers: "Was super chuffed with the Haas pick - although MrL has taken the glory for that one (and to be fair, he did say Haas! Haas! Haas! after we had a long discussion about the merits of Tommy vs Nole this Wimbledon)"
tlimvvo2max (CC) thinks he may have worked out how AM.com have managed to stay just ahead of his team for so any days: "Better ask DN - Alien really IS his mum's friend. ... unless... DN's been playing a deep game all this time and he's an AM.com sleeper agent?" Oops, cover blown!
Sher (CC) is reduced to confiding her troubles to Richard Gasquet: "Dammit, i was only 1 place away from the top 100.. but of course, i go down again."
LT (JM) had heard a story that suggests that one of the serial muppets may behave like one off-court too: "... an unnamed male player sent his tennis-player girlfriend a watch that he'd been given by a sponsor, which she had also been given a copy of by the sponsor ..."
Oneminutetomidknight (AM) thinks he knows who the culprit was: "If that's not Berdych then im a banana!" I think that probably makes 23.59 a pineapple ...
UPDATES ON FRIDAY
I'm lucky enough to have a seat on Centre Court on Friday, so there won't be a report until late, but Bethan should get the chance to send an update to the site at some point early on Friday evening.
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