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by ponchi101 excusez-nous, nous avons oublié de démarrer ce joint...
Ah, sorry. We forgot to start this joint. This is the place where you can whine about your lousy picks.
Do not worry about being rude. We are French. C'est la vie!
by the Moz Thanks to my Kerber pick I'll have a Weihenstephan Hefe Weissbier. A nasty beer for a nasty loss.
by ponchi101 Worry not. In a few minutes, it seems that you will have plenty of company thanks to a Japanese guy that seems to have lost all zest for playing this game.
Kei... :ax
by ponchi101 Well, Kei took us to the point of nausea and then pulled it out.
Completely unnecessary, but we survived. But this is worth at least a beer. Not dead yet, but certainly scared :vomit:
by the Moz Thank goodness he survived. Or it would have been a shameful double dismissal for me today.
by ponchi101 Those are the worst. You wait three months for the SP, and then step on that land mine right off the truck. It sucks.
Hope you go far in the men's.
by the Moz
ponchi101 wrote: ↑Sun May 30, 2021 5:07 pm Those are the worst. You wait three months for the SP, and then step on that land mine right off the truck. It sucks.
Hope you go far in the men's.
Back at ya :thumbsup:
by Suliso
ponchi101 wrote: ↑Sun May 30, 2021 5:02 pm Well, Kei took us to the point of nausea and then pulled it out.
Completely unnecessary, but we survived. But this is worth at least a beer. Not dead yet, but certainly scared :vomit:
One kind of feels comfortable with Kei in the fifth set against all but a handful of opponents.
by texasniteowl Well...where's the rest of my Hurkacz party? Up 2 sets and then down and out.
by mmmm8 Pardonnez-moi, le jukebox seems to be stuck, so you will all have to hear this on repeat. It's Celine Dion's 1988 Eurovision-winning entry, en francais!


by ptmcmahon I don’t know how Eurovision works, but a Canadian singing for Switzerland (in French too) seems pretty funny. :)
by ponchi101 Celine Dion at Le Salon de Perdants. How much more suicidal can you get? :cry:
by the Moz Indeed!!
by Suliso I'm really pushing my luck. Second straight five set match survived and this time 10-8. I ought to take someone safe tomorrow, but what is safe?
by texasniteowl I have no advice to give since I am dead. Dead Dead.
by ptmcmahon Yeah I'm on the Kei - Paul double. At least yesterday I only saw score after and didn't have to sweat it out live.
by ponchi101
Suliso wrote: ↑Mon May 31, 2021 3:12 pm I'm really pushing my luck. Second straight five set match survived and this time 10-8. I ought to take someone safe tomorrow, but what is safe?
Rafa plays tomorrow. Pick him. Enjoy a day off. Bask in the knowledge that you will not be able to beat the draw but will remain sane longer than the rest of us.
by ptmcmahon There have been many SPs where I have thought to make a safe pick like that that makes it less likely to beat draw, but more likely win game. I haven't done it yet, but has been very tempting.
by ponchi101 And just checked the results and saw that Sebastian Korda lost.
Against P. Martinez, famous in.... I have no idea.
We are in France, there has to be a guillotine nearby. Find it and chop my head off.
by atlpam
ponchi101 wrote: ↑Mon May 31, 2021 7:29 pm And just checked the results and saw that Sebastian Korda lost.
Against P. Martinez, famous in.... I have no idea.
We are in France, there has to be a guillotine nearby. Find it and chop my head off.
The curse of winning just before the start of a slam.
by Togtdyalttai Bah, dude had to get drawn against Tsitsipas in the second round to make picking him so enticing. He looked so good in Parma...
by ponchi101 I know that winning the week prior to a slam means you will not win the Slam, but at least a first round, Sebi... :cry:
It was not a bad pick, just an SP start.
by Ribbons Bah, Martic. I knew better and yet . . . time for a martini. In an Ina Garten cosmo glass.
by PeterSkan Call me red, Fred. Out in R1 on both sides thanks to Sonego and Sorribes Tormo. Or make that Soon-go and Horrible Formo.

I'll have your Grand Marnier, s'il vous plait. All of it!
by mmmm8 Well here I am, at this incredibly tight table of Bautista Agut losers. Some pitchers of sangria please, heavy on the brandy
by atlpam
mmmm8 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 02, 2021 2:24 pm Well here I am, at this incredibly tight table of Bautista Agut losers. Some pitchers of sangria please, heavy on the brandy
Can I squeeze in to this table? (I've been vaccinated)
by ponchi101 Eh... you don't need to be vaccinated here. We are all dead! :zombie: :zombie: :zombie:
(Liked you post ;) )
by ptmcmahon Was back and forth between RBA and PCB today and went with RBA. That means now I have to cheer against PCB too.

If picking someone with a 0-4 record for year (pre FO qualifying) isn't safe, don't know what is :)

Glad I wasn't watching my WTA pick barely scrape out 6-4 in the third.
by 161stAndChilla Belatedly: an entire bottle of something expensive, I don’t care what, and put it on Uncle Toni’s tab!
by the Moz Has FAA won a match since Uncle Toni came on board?
by ponchi101 First round at Madrid or Rome, I forget.
But mostly you are right. I would not put any money on him if he were playing parcheesi.
by mmmm8 Sabalenka'd again, when will I learn....
by ponchi101 That was a good pick. That Aryna has done you in... well, it may be time to change the name of this game to "the booby trap pool", because by now there are no strategies at all. The matches can blow up in your face at any time.
by ptmcmahon Like usual, it's better to be completely wrong about players than only slightly wrong. I never considered picking Sabalenka today, as was planning to save her to make final.