Great Moments in the History of the Survivor pools

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On a muggy and rainy London afternoon, 30 souls were brought to the London tower...
No. No. The deja vu is so absolute. A young woman whose last name ends in OVA. 30 corpses. And unknown assassin. A good pick that went terribly wrong, like a young woman turning a wrong corner in a dark alley in the city, in the late XIX century, and finding that a Mr Jack and his knife were awaiting for her.
A terrible demise, 30 people in shock, as this promising young player lost to a Miss Raducanu, of British nationality but Romanian roots. Romania, land of the blood thirsty, famous count that has ideologically has struck once again.
The souls of these losers will be dragged, one by one, to an obscure Pub where they can drown their grief and sorrow. May them rest in peace or get completely skunk-faced, knowing that they did what was logical, but the twisting blade...
Damn, just ran out of dumb British metaphors. Sorry you people were slaughtered. We will join you soon, rest assured.
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joanjettson wrote: Thu Jul 01, 2021 12:51 pm What about Miss Double Cheek'd Tati? She once was a legendary goddess of fickle fate, but I do not recall her specific myth / origin story. (Or last name)
Tatiana Golovin. Career high of #12, but barely above .500 at the slams, including six first round losses. Don't remember if there was ever one huge incident with her..she just constantly let her pickers down.

A quick image search also shows lots of swimsuit, modelling shots...so could definitely question her focus at times (and perhaps that is where double cheek came from?)
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It should be called the Gilles Simon memorial hall of fame where you enshrine of all of those who have let us down.
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Did the Andrey Rublev loss to Marton Fucsovic qualifies as a great moment in the annals of the Suicide Pool? You be the judge:
4-1 record against his opponent.
Last three sets played were 2, 2 & 1, prior to W.
Fucsovics told Rublev "I don't want to play you again ever" after a recent loss.
Rublev went up 2 sets to 1.
The fourth set was a 6-0 drubbing, by Fucsovics.

And then he takes out 56% of the pool, by playing miserable tennis for two sets.
Yes, this qualifies totally as a putrid performance.
May Andrey Rublev NEVER win a slam.
May his name live in infamy.
May he go bald and fat at age 26
A curse on his house.

And may all of us, his victims, learn from this match. Do not trust this man with your tennis destiny every again.
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The worst part... it's the day when the two halves of the draw merge and you can "relax" a little knowing you have extra picks.
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Lovely stories...
at RG, I was enticed and beguiled by the beauty of her name - should have remembered not to bet on someone playing her first major! I refer to, of course, the musical, sonorous Osorio Serrano..
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And at the USO, Vs a guy called Griekspoor, Jan Lennard Struff decided to, once again, wipe out the largest wagon of the day.
28 souls fell, and fell, and fell. This was the stock market crash of 87, or some other NYC metaphor for people that simply did not know what on earth hit them.
The sole consolation? Well, really none, but you can bet that lots of more players would have picked Struff had they not died yesterday. It was a good choice, as he would have met Novak.
Pitiful. Let the Struff household be struck by the pox :cry: :cry: :cry:
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Saw an OG forgotten legend today. Playing in essentially a full leg cast - karma for the many SP lives she and her sister knocked out
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mmmm8 wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 8:14 pm 20210901_160622~3.jpg

Saw an OG forgotten legend today. Playing in essentially a full leg cast - karma for the many SP lives she and her sister knocked out
"She just needed a little support." ~ Venus Williams
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We talk a lot about "rules" to play this game. NEVER pick a French, never pick from a match where there is a Chinese player, and a lot of other silly rules. One of them is, at times, do not pick against qualifiers. Our logic has been that they come in in form, after having played three matches to reach the main draw.
Well, because I lost by picking against TWO qualifiers, but that rule is quantifiable, I decided to check. How well did the Qualifiers do here?
Here are the lists:
ATP
Molcan (into 3rd round)
Trungelliti (into 2nd round)
Likel (lost to Molcan, fellow Q)
Otte (into 2nd round)
Zapata Miralles (LL, beat F. Lopez 1st round)
Van de Zandschulp (into 3rd round)
Karlovic (lost 1st round)
Marterer (lost 1st round)
Halys (lost 1st round)
Gojowczyk (Into 3rd round)
Rune (lost to Novak, 1)
Donskoy (lost to FAA, 12)
Creesy (beat Carreño Busta, 9)
Majchrzak (lost 1st round)
Laaksonen (into 2nd round)
Hoang (lost 1st round)
Eubanks (lost 1st round)
Kukushkin (LL, lost 1st round IN FIVE)

18 in total, including the LL's that made it through. 8 through to the second round, but two lost to a very high seed (#1 and #12) and one even beat a high seed (#9). And one lost to a fellow Q, so that was pre-ordained. So, if you take out those four special cases, it was 7 out of 14, for a perfect 50%

WTA
R. Marino (Lost to Svitolina, 5)
Minnen (LL) (into 2nd round)
Loeb (lost to Swiatek, 7)
Raducanu (into 2nd round)
Ruse (lost to Voundrosova)
Dart (lost 1st round)
Konjuh (lost 1st round)
Boulter (lost 1st round)
Sharma (lost to Krejcikova, 8)
Parrizas Diaz (lost 1st round)
Bucsa (lost to Teichmann, Cincy runner up)
Galfi (lost to Martic, 30)
Kr. Pliskova (into 2nd round)
Masarova (into 2nd round)
Rakhimova (LL, into 3rd round)
Grammatikopoulou (into 2nd round)
Masarova (into 2nd round)
Schmiedlova (into 2nd round)
Danilovic (into 2nd round)
Sherif (LL, lost 1st round)

9 won, out of 20. But 4 lost to high seeds (#5, #7 and #8) OR Teichmann, who was a recent runner up at Cincy. So, in the WTA, it would be 9 out of 16, for a better than average 56%. If you feel that Martic (#30) would also be a given, it would be even more skewed towards NOT picking against a qualifier.

So it seems that we have been right. Picking AGAINST a qualifier is at best a 50/50 proposition in the ATP (unless they play a high seed, and why would you pick a high seed this early?) or, in the WTA, worse than average. We have been warned.
(I will repeat this at the Aussie, to get more numbers)
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Angelique Kerber. On this day, well, she sucked. She took out almost 1/2 of the pool, losing to 19 yo L. Fernandez (by one day).
Not much to say. Simply, Fernandez just played better in all facets. A good pick, that simply blew up on some people's faces.
Go get drunk.
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There HAVE to be a million Sam Querry stories in this place. EVERY TIME I break my embargo on him, thinking OK THIS TIME HE WON'T (expletive) IT UP HIS OPPONENT ONLY HAS ONE LEG he (expletive) it up. NEVER AGAIN I SAY.
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And this happened to you... when? Because for me it was around 2007. I scan the draws to see where he is just to avoid him... ;)
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This looks like it is heading to a different type of "Great Moments in the History of Suicide pools". We might have a lot of people miss the first day deadline because no one will be sure who is actually playing until the resolve the Djokovic visa issue. :roll:
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I doubt anybody was picking Novax for the first day, so we will see.
But if somebody that enters the pool picks Novax, and loses due to deportation, well, I gather that says a lot about how closely they follow tennis :D
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