Posted by Steven on 13/8/2009, 10:25 am, in reply to "Re: Montréal BOTB - day 2 report"
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Most teams would be very happy if their worst player was 100 off the bottom of the table! 
Sadly Fedex's 163 place drop means that's no longer the case but we're still doing well and we're 'virtual' (i.e. if the tournament ended now) ne no. 1s in the overall team rankings.
MONTREAL MASTERS BOTB - DAY 3 'SYNDICATED' REPORT
Day 3 finished early, with a retirement in Rafa's match (but it was Pics, not him!) and Haas retiring against Gonzo too. The matches that caused the most movement were the wins for Stani (52%), Gonzo (57%) and Simple (76%), while the upsets were all damage limitation for those of us whose winner picks for the matches concerned went out in R1, with JCF (picked by just 6%) Youzhny (5%) Hanescu (3%) and Petzschner (1%) all beating more heavily backed opponents.
Detailed results can be found at http://www.britishtennis.net/competitions.html, with 'headlines' appearing on http://twitter.com/botb1 as well, while for a nicknames guide, please see http://www.andymurray.com/forum/showthread.php?t=253)
TEAMS
At Wimbledon, they fought it out for last place a long way adrift of the rest, so it may say something about how the results have been here that Tennisopolis, up 1 to 1st, and WTA experts & long-time day 3 leaders GBTennisGirls, up 3 to 2nd and the winners of R2, have moved their battle to the top of the table in Montréal!
R1 winners Rusedski.co.uk dropped 2 to 3rd, though are only 0.02 behind GBTG, with BT.net, up 2 to 4th, just 0.04 ahead of the Feddies, down 2 to 5th. Team CC also dropped 2 places and are now 6th.
Moving up fast are JM.org, up 4 to 7th, AM.com, up 5 to 8th, and BBC 606, up 3 to 9=, a position they share with the Ducklings, up 1, the six players in each of those two teams having managed identical numbers of correct picks (76/144 in R1 and 65/96 in R2) so far.
On the slide are the Dammitaires, down 4 to 11th, TAT, yo-yoing back down 3 to 12th, and MTF, down 5 (down 9 in two days!) to last.
INDIVIDUALS
Entrants were flying up and down the table almost as much as on Tuesday and when the dust settled, Swissgirl (IN) & Babfive (GB) had both got 9/12 correct on day 3 and risen 3 places to share the lead.
Hev (IN) & JAMES4578 (JM) also got 9/12 and moved up 18 to 3=, a point off the lead, while 7 entrants who got 8/12 dropped one place to 5= - Daniel/Belgarath1981 (RF), abc (BT), Inokas (ND), Kels (AM), Drew (BT), Renan (IN) and highest placed newbie Vladan (ND) are all 2 points off the lead.
Apart from the top four, five more players who got 9/12 on Wednesday shared the top score in R2 with 13/16 correct - T01 (CC), Smidster (BT), sailguy500 (TN), poolietennis (IN) & Daniel (LH) all moved up 39 to 12=. Carrying on the theme of groups of entrants moving up or down in unison, the three overnight leaders all got 7/12 on Wednesday and dropped 16 to 17=.
ON THE RISE
Nobody who started the day outside the top quarter of the table managed to get more than 8/12 correct on day 2, so unusually the biggest rise of a day was less than 100 places, with three AM.commers hfwardhouse (AM), DR4Life (AM) & drewziph (AM) all climbing 80 places to 147=.
DODGY DROPPERS
Getting 50% on day 3 was enough to avoid a three-figure drop, though newbie big D man to the Z (AM), down 99 to 150, surely deserved one for having such a silly nickname (any guesses as to what it means?!), but nine of the players who scored less than 50% did drop more than 100 places, with Fedex (GR) & mysterX (TA), both down 163 to 214=, dropping the most out of those who got 5/12 correct but getting out-plummeted by GiulioAxe (MT), down 200 to 251= after getting just 4/12 correct.
shotgun (MT), down 44 to 271st, and the gorillas also got just 4/12 but the new 'lanterne rouge' is shortbreadsue (AM), aka sound's mum, down 5 to 272nd. Still, she should take heart from the performance of Dark Necrofear (CC)'s mum MACBORG (CC), who is 20= in her second BOTB, nearly 100 places ahead of her son. It's cool the way some people are getting the rest of their family involved and thus adding a family battle to the intra- and inter-team ones!
OUTLOOK
Despite the chaos of the first three days, all of the top 11 seeds survived to reach R3 and over 2/3 of the entrants have all of their quarter-finalists still standing going into R3, ranging from joint leader Swissgirl (IN) all the way down to patrick (TA) & Silver (BT) way down in 268=!
Conversely, three of the top 20 have less than 7 quarter-finalists still standing, including the other joint leader Babfive (GB) with 6, but everyone has at least five 'live' R3 matches except sallydaisy (JM) in 253= - picking Count Duckula, Haas, Èiliæ & Robredo to get there means she has only four. As so often in the past, she must have known that the hungry gorillas would need some rescuing at this stage!
OoP AND PICK %s
CC1 at 15 GMT: (4) Nole 92% v Youzhny 0% (1)
BN1 at 15 GMT: (6) Potty 96% v Hanescu 0% (0)
CC2 nb 17 GMT: (5) Duckboy 96% v (10) Verdasco 4%
BN2 nb 17 GMT: (3) Muzza 97% v (Q) JCF 0% (0)
CC3 after RvV: (2) Rafa 86% v Petzschner 0% (0)
BN3 after MvF: (8) Kolya 55% v (11) Gonzo 23%
CC4 nb 23 GMT: (1) Fed 98% v Stani 1%
BN4 nb 23 GMT: (7) Tsonga 77% v (9) Simple 21%
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