Posted by Steven on 10/11/2009, 3:12 am, in reply to "Re: Paris masters Battle Of The Boards - Day 1 report"
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PARIS MASTERS BOTB - DAY 2 'SYNDICATED' REPORT
The first two days have proved that GEMs will be GEMs and, unfortunately, GErMans will do their best to be GEMs too!
Day 2 lowlights thus included Kohli (picked by 88%) losing to Seppi, Beck (77%) losing to Kubot, and Chokieu (54%) retiring against Tricky, while in the other nearly 50:50 match, Montanes (48%) prevailed against majority pick Hanescu.
Detailed results can be found at http://www.britishtennis.net/competitions.html, with 'headlines' appearing on http://twitter.com/botb1 as well.
TEAMS
Three teams had a particularly good day. Many Murray fans remembered Montanes putting on a decent display against their hero in Valencia, so backed him to beat Hanescu, and they were lucky enough to be proved right. That was the main reason why AM.com rose 4 to 1st and JM.org rose 4 to 4th, just ahead of the day's biggest risers TAT, up 5 to 5th after making their move through the bottom half of the table when Isner won.
The Feddies stay in 2nd (and in 'virtual' world no. 1 position) and day 1 leaders Tennisopolis have managed to stay in the top three, but world no. 1 team Rusedski.co.uk have dropped 3 to 6th behind both of their closest rivals in the overall rankings.
The biggest fallers, though, were The Daily Forehand, down 4 to 8th, while BT.net, down 1 to 10th, are now a fair way adrift in last place.
INDIVIDUALS
Jose Javier/Buyaka86 (RF) was the first entrant to break out of the leading group and he was the outright leader on 6/6 then on 7/7. However, his luck then ran out and he only got 3 of the last 4 matches correct, and thus fell 15 to 16= over the day as a whole.
When the dust had settled on Monday, six of Sunday's joint leaders were sharing 1st place - Darius (IN), WimbledonAce (AM),
fil-813 (IN), Hawkeye (AM), BHar11 (TA) & Jelena Jankovic fan (IN) are all on 10/11.
One point behind in 7= are EKGuy39 (AM) & Tenez (CC), both up 53, and Fiercehart (TA), LindaB (JM), Luke Croll (GR), petalp (CC), SteveWalker (BT), Anna (IN) & darren c (TN), all down 6. The highest placed top 5 player is world no. 4 Lizzim (AM), up 44 to 16=.
ON THE RISE
13 entrants scored 8/9 on day 2 - the six joint leaders, the two in 7= who rose 53 places, and the five fastest risers of the day: Katie (AM), Allan (AM), luvs10s (TA), jaydu (AM) & Miriambee (BT), all up 162 to 16=.
DODGY DROPPERS
The biggest fallers were three of the five entrants now in =last who scored just 3/8 on day 2 - emf123 (IN), dusty dick (BT) & mintsauce (AM), all down 143 to 203=. They are among 20 entrants who have still not escaped the gorillas' cage!
TUESDAY
CC-1 - R2 - Kolya 99% v Becker 0% (1 pick)
C1-1 - R1 - Almugro 61% v Chokedinelli 39%
CC-1 - R1 - Chardy 68% v Monaco 32%
C1-2 - R1 - Stani 100% v Guez 0% (1 pick)
CC-3 - R2 - Verdasco 93% v Seppi 0% (1 pick)
C1-3 - R1 - Benneteau 73% v Petzschner 27%
C1-4 - R1 - F-Loppy 92% v Clement 8%
CC-5 - R2 - Tsonga 91% v Montanes 4%
CC-6 - R2 - Simon 75% v Ljubo 24%
QUOTES OF THE DAY
Jtdrum (TA) hit the nail on the head when he saw his day 1 score: "Well don't I just suck" (personally, I'd blame the players!)
Sallydaisy (JM) "Ivo is now up 7'6 and 3'1" began the day by walking straight into an ASE (AM) special: "Is that his height and waist measurement?"
After the first pair of matches on day 2, WallaceEMann (GR) was on 4/4 and had just one wish: "End the tournament, or at least the game, NOW!!!"
Meanwhile, Imoen (BT) had an even more cunning plan: "I have won every single match in the bottom half so far....and lost every single match in the top half. But everyone knows the top half is pointless, it will be an Andy v. Fed semi, can we void all the other matches on that basis?"
Her team-mate, wolf (BT), was having a very bad day: "*Throws tennis ball at Chokieu on screen* If Hanescu loses I might as well give up, I will be buried so far under the gorillias' cage there is no way back up."
Later, hfwardhouse (AM) thought that Isner was in danger of missing the point: "Could someone please explain to Mr Isner the importance of the pickem - he is NOT meant to lose this match, and MUST win otherwise dire consequences WILL result. Thank you" - it clearly worked!
wolf (BT) then thought he saw a chink of light: "Please say that takes me off the bottom." ... and yes, Isner's eventual win did!
WimbledonAce (AM) has mastered the art of understatement: "Safin just fluffs a BP, reliability has never been his strong point."
Finally, Linda (AM) proved that there are some former world no. 1s who just can't take the pace any more ... "I can't stand the excitement, I think I'll log off and go to Tesco."
