Posted by Steven on 14/8/2009, 3:16 am, in reply to "Montréal BOTB - day 3 report"
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MONTREAL MASTERS BOTB - DAY 4 'SYNDICATED' REPORT
Amazingly, after the chaos of the first couple of days (or perhaps because of it, maybe it made the job of the top seeds easier), the top 8 seeds all made the Montréal QFs, with only Duckboy and Potty dropping a set in R3.
That means there are no shocks to report today, but the big swing matches were Kolya (picked by 55%) beating Gonzo (23%) to take their H2H to 5-0 and Tsonga (71%) beating Simon (21%) in the all-GEM match.
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
The WTA experts at GB Tennis Girls who won R2 seemed to be about to drop away at one point but recovered later in the day to finish it up 1 in 1st place. They are followed by R1 winners Rusedski.co.uk, up 1 to 2nd and still odds on favourites to end the tournament as the new no. 1s in the overall team rankings, and Team CC, up 3 to 3rd.
The other teams moving up are the Dammitaires, up 7 to 4th and the R3 winners after going for Tsonga to beat Simon in a very big way, and world no. 1s TAT, up 2 to 10th.
The biggest fallers were overnight leaders Tennisopolis, down 6 to 7th. BT.net, down 2 to 6th, JM.org, down 4 to 11th, and BBC 606, down 3 to 12th, also fell back but MTF are still in last place.
INDIVIDUALS
No less than 100 entrants got a perfect 8/8 score in R3, easily a record, making it a brutal day on which 'only' getting 7/8 produced a significant fall unless you were already near the bottom.
Swissgirl (IN) is now out on her own (two points ahead of the field) after Babfive (GB), with whom she was sharing the overnight lead, dropped 31 to 32nd after getting 2 quarter-finalists wrong.
Like the leader, the rest of the top 10 all got 8/8 R3 winners correct. Inokas (ND), Renan (IN) & Vladan (ND), all rose 3 to 2=, while T01 (CC) & Smidster (BT), both up 7 to 5=, are behind them only on tiebreak.
Robxon (BT), up 10 to 7th, and Sue (TN) & MACBORG (CC), both up 12 to 8=, are another point further back, while completing the top 10 on tiebreak, WimbledonAce (AM) & Charlie02123 (TA), both up 17 to 10=, head a group of 9 players who are 4 points (i.e. just one QF win) off the lead.
ON THE RISE
Starting about 2/3 of the way down the table and getting 8/8 was the way to shoot up the table the most and three entrants rose more than 75 places - LadyTigress (JM) & jamatthews (GB) both went up 76 places but the biggest climber of the day was mysterX (TA), up 80 to 134th, making this the second day in a row that an 80 place rise has been the biggest of the day.
DODGY DROPPERS
Even some of those who got 7/8 correct dropped a few places, so getting only 4/8 correct, as 7 entrants did, was lethal. It cost Osmeone (KC) 210 places (down from 27= to 237th), while Sher (CC) fell 184 to 243rd and eblunt (BT) went down 104 to 263rd, though a few players who had been higher up the table to start with fell even further than the latter despite getting more R3 winner picks correct.
The other four players who only got 50% for R3 now fill the bottom four places, with Keith Nunn (AM) and sallydaisy (JM) on another mercy mission from the banana plantation, both down 18 to 271= and sharing last place, though still some distance from the gorillas' cage.
OUTLOOK
One good thing about all 8 seeds reaching the QFs is that 239 of the 272 entrants (88%), including all of the top 90 and 98 of the top 100, have all their semi-finalists still standing, so most people have plenty still to play for, though you have to feel sorry for the two entrants with only two semi-finalists left.
In addition, the top 10 have picked five different champions between them and the top Potty picker is in 19=, so this BOTB is almost certain to go right to the wire - only a Tsonga v Kolya Final can stop it from doing so.
OoP AND PICK %s
Day session from 17.00 GMT
(3) Muzza 89% v (8) Kolya 5%
(1) Fed 96% v (7) Tsonga 2%
Night session from 23.00 GMT
(5) Duckboy 76% v (4) Nole 21%
(6) Potty 67% v (2) Rafa 30%
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