by JTContinental For the first time in many slams there are not 6000 people still alive on Golden Ticket day, only to be immediately decimated. Thanks to Angelique Kerber and Katerina Siniakova, the slaughter happened early on and the floor here will remain relatively clean.
by JTContinental Our 5 VIPS
GlennHarman : Mertens>>Kvitova>>Riske>>Anisimova>>Ostapenko>>Rybakina>>Jabeur>>Badosa
HotChocolate : Cirstea>>Sorribes Tormo>>Riske>>Kvitova>>Ostapenko>>Anisimova>>Niemeier>>Rybakina>>Jabeur>>Tomljanovic
Leemur : Garcia>>Andreescu>>Parry>>Tomljanovic>>Ostapenko>>Halep>>Bouzkova>>Cornet
Mr_socko : Riske>>Andreescu>>Juvan>>Frech>>Ostapenko>>Halep>>Watson
TennisLover1607 : Riske>>Andreescu>>Mertens>>Cornet>>Ostapenko>>Rybakina>>Garcia
by JTContinental And the Day 7 breakdown is all over the place!
Marie Bouzkova 1
Caroline Garcia 1
Ons Jabeur 1
Jule Niemeier 1
Heather Watson 1
by JTContinental TMQ's husband has tested positive for covid, which has forced TMQ to retreat posthaste to a downstairs lair with 4 small dogs where he will remain for the foreseeable future. Therefore, he is taking the night off from STANKing and DANKing to wrangle slightly put off miniature pinschers and chihuahuas, but will be back tomorrow to don his robe and pass final and correct judgment on your losing pick.
by JTContinental A couple of face offs today so we will definitely have carnage
by Suliso Two or three will be left standing...
by ponchi101 JT, hope your hubbie will do fine and it will be the mild case of C19, nothing major.
TennisLover is the first down today, with Garcia losing. Leemur lives one more day.
by GlennHarman I don’t know how the others feel, but I feel like I’m either going to lose out or run out of picks very soon. I am by no means confident in my pick for today (Jabeur), but if I do luck out, I have no idea what pick I could justify the next time we pick in this half. I continue to feel that the women’s SP is the most impossible contest we have, and looking at the favorites who are gone vs. the completely unexpected ones still there, I can take no credit beyond blind luck for still being here.
JT, best wishes to the husband. I had been quite careful, but being twice vaccinated and twice boosted, I really let my guard down at an event in Illinois 3 weeks ago and I got it. My symptoms were so mild that I wouldn’t have gotten tested except that several people I had been close to were testing positive. My entire illness was over in 48 hours, though I did the recommended isolation. Chris did not get it (though also not tested), so I felt good about isolating well enough from him.
Now to watch tennis…..GH
by ponchi101 98% of the rest of TAT2.0 feel you are doing great in this pool because 100% of us in that group are dead. You are still alive and kicking.
Sorry to hear about your bout with C19, but glad to hear it was mild and you pulled through.
And glad to see you around here.
by Cuckoo4Coco And we are down to 4 and it will definitely go down to 3 with either Niemeirer or Watson saying good bye.
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New England Nitemare Cuckoo4Coco wrote: ↑Sun Jul 03, 2022 2:13 pm
And we are down to 4 and it will definitely go down to 3 with either Niemeirer or Watson saying good bye.
HotChocolate moves on with the Niemeirer win!!
by Cuckoo4Coco So unless Jabeur loses which I doubt but the way things have gone in this tournament you never know it will be down to 3 .
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ptmcmahon New England Nitemare wrote: ↑Sun Jul 03, 2022 2:46 pm
Cuckoo4Coco wrote: ↑Sun Jul 03, 2022 2:13 pm
And we are down to 4 and it will definitely go down to 3 with either Niemeirer or Watson saying good bye.
HotChocolate moves on with the Niemeirer win!!
What a crazy thing we get to say in an updated picks thread
by slamdog Congrats and best of luck to the remaining 3!
by JTContinental 3 players, 3 picks
The breakdown
Paula Badosa 1
Alize Cornet 1
Elena Rybakina 1
by JTContinental Greetings from the underground lair! It turns out it's not just TMQ's husband that has covid, but pretty much everyone on the block that isn't TMQ. It's quite apocalyptic to only have 4 guard miniature pinschers/chihuahuas for company.
There is plenty of company on the loser death barge however, as the R64 matches cleaned out our little group. It is now time to pass judgment on this pile of losers, rating their bloated corpses as DANK or STANK
Angelique Kerber (21 victims) STANK You waited one round to long and Kerber's sell by date passed. A tempting pick given how wildly erratic Mertens has been playing, but Kerber's game relies on quickness and she is definitely a slower than she used to be.
Alison Riske-Armitraj (6 victims) DANK A good pick given Riske-Armitraj's grass court pedigree. Bouzkova has been due for a breakout for a couple of years, and unfortunately for you, this might be that time.
Kaja Juvan (4 victims) STANK What were you thinking? Matches featuring Heather Watson as one of the competitors often have vultures circling over the court so heavy is the STANK of carrion. A well deserved meal for the birds.
Maria Sakkari (4 victims) DANK Maria (not Maria) is 34 and has only made it past the second round of a major once before in 15 years of trying, so TMQ can only surmise that she has sold her soul to the devil.
Barbora Krejcikova (3 victims) STANK I'm not sure that Krejcikova is 100% healthy--she was severely hampered at the French Open and didn't seem to be playing well here.
Katie Boulter (3 victims) STANK She takes out a bunch of people annually, but like "fetch" and Laura Robson, Katie Boulter is never going to happen.
Shuai Zhang (1 victim) DANK This match was well contested, so no shame here.
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ponchi101 JTContinental wrote: ↑Mon Jul 04, 2022 10:56 am
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Maria Sakkari (4 victims) DANK Maria (not Maria) is 34 and has only made it past the second round of a major once before in 15 years of trying, so TMQ can only surmise that she has sold her soul to the devil.
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Touch match to call for the announcers, who simply could not decide to flip it and call one by her first name, he second by her last, and make it clear,
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ptmcmahon JTContinental wrote: ↑Mon Jul 04, 2022 10:56 am
Maria Sakkari (4 victims) DANK Maria (not Maria) is 34 and has only made it past the second round of a major once before in 15 years of trying, so TMQ can only surmise that she has sold her soul to the devil.
And you could have added she never made it past the third round
by JTContinental We are close to crowning a winner!
by JTContinental And that winner will be HotChocolate! Please stay with us as they attempt to beat the draw
by Cuckoo4Coco Congrats to Hotchocolate.
by Leemur Well played Hotchocolate!
by New England Nitemare Nice going HotChocolate!!! Hope you can beat the draw now!!!
by JTContinental Today's breakdown
Ons Jabeur 1
by JTContinental And we move on to day 10!
by ponchi101 A tough pick. Let's hope Hotchocolate chooses wisely.
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Cuckoo4Coco ponchi101 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 05, 2022 7:09 pm
A tough pick. Let's hope Hotchocolate chooses wisely.
He has already picked Anisimova and Rybakina. So he is gonna have to select either Halep or Tomljanovic. And the way it looks from where I am sitting he pretty much has to pick Tomljanovic or he has zero chance of beating the draw. If he picks Halep that means he would have to ride Marie to win the Final.
by JTContinental Day 10 breakdown
Ajla Tomljanovic 1
by JTContinental TMQ is actively cheering against this pick, as he has picked Rybakina in a money SP that is down to 3 people
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ptmcmahon WHAT? You are doing SPs outside of TAT!
Traitor!
by
ponchi101 Proceedings will be started as the accused party has publicly confessed to adultery.
He will be shown the instruments of torture and... wait. He is playing TWO SP's? Torture enough. Carry on...
by JTContinental And that concludes our pool!
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ponchi101 A very good run for Hotchocolate
We will upload your
as soon as JT makes it official (a new topic).
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JTContinental ptmcmahon wrote: ↑Wed Jul 06, 2022 12:10 pm
WHAT? You are doing SPs outside of TAT!
Traitor!
ponchi101 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 06, 2022 1:05 pm
Proceedings will be started as the accused party has publicly confessed to adultery.
He will be shown the instruments of torture and... wait. He is playing TWO SP's? Torture enough. Carry on...
I won $200, so totally worth it
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ptmcmahon $200 worth it for the feelings of all of us here
Although worth remembering if we ever have to pay you off!
Congrats though.
