Talk About Tennis 2.0

Since this is largely a core-group contest, I'm not going to go over all the rules again. This post is mostly to alert you to the fact that the first matches start on Wednesday. You might want to be prepared, but that doesn't necessarily help much. But do remember that all of the seeds get a first round bye, so the first two days of matches are unseeded players against unseeded players. It is not unusual for the first round to take out a lot of contestants.

Given how hard we got hit at AO, I'm predicting this one to end on Day 2 at latest

Here is the ATP draw. This is for information only, please do not post any picks here.

Top Half

N. Djokovic (1)/Bye
S. Mochizuki vs A. Vukic
A. Kovacevic (WC) vs Z. Zhang
Bye/T. Etcheverry (30)

T. Paul (17)/Bye
A. Michelsen vs J. Munar
E. Quinn vs P. Kypson (WC)
Bye/U. Humbert (14)

C. Ruud (9)/Bye
N. Moreno de Alboran vs L. Klein
A. Fils vs N. Borges
Bye/A. Davidovich Fokina (23)

C. Norrie (28)/Bye
L. Sonego vs M. Kecmanovic
G. Monfils vs M. Purcell
Bye/H. Hurkacz (8)


D. Medvedev (4)/Bye
F. Cobolli vs R. Carballes Baena
R. Safiullin vs D. Evans
Bye/S. Korda (29)

A. Mannarino (21)/Bye
S. Wawrinka vs T. Machac
H Grenier vs A. Muller
Bye/G. Dimitrov (13)

T. Fritz (12)/Bye
P. Kotov vs A. Tabilo
F. Fognini (WC) vs B. Zapata Miralles
Bye/S. Baez (19)

L. Musetti (26)/Bye
B. van de Zandschulp vs D. Shapovalov (PR)
M. Raonic (PR) vs R. Nadal (PR)
Bye/H. Rune (7)

Bottom Half

A. Rublev (5)/Bye
A. Murray vs D. Goffin
C. Eubanks vs B. Nakashima (WC)
Bye/J. Lehecka (32)

F. Tiafoe (18)/Bye
D. Lajovic vs E. Ruusuvuori
L Pouille vs D. Altmaier
Bye/S. Tsitsipas (11)

B. Shelton (16)/Bye
J. Mensik (WC) vs S. Hong
A. Shevchenko vs D. Koepfer
Bye/F. Cerundolo (22)

J. Struff (25)/Bye
B. Coric vs S. Ofner
T. Kokkinakis vs M. Giron
Bye/J. Sinner (3)


A. Zverev (6)/Bye
C. O'Connell vs J. Draper
Y. Hanfmann vs P. Cachin
Bye/T. Griekspoor (27)

A. Bublik (20)/Bye
J. Shang vs J. Thompson
T. Daniel vs D. Galan
Bye/A. de Minaur (10)

K. Khachanov (15)/Bye
T. Seyboth Wild vs J. Wolf
F. Marozsan vs A. Popyrin
Bye/N. Jarry (24)

F. Auger-Aliassime (31)/Bye
C. Lesienne vs D.Kudla
L. Van Assche vs M. Arnaldi
Bye/C. Alcaraz (2)

Here is the WTA draw. This is for information only, please do not post any picks here.


Top Half

Iga Swiatek 1/Bye
E. Andreeva vs Danielle Collins
Camila Giorgi vs Katie Boulter
Bye/Linda Noskova 26

Madison Keys 18/Bye
R. Montomery vs H. Baptiste
Tamara Korpatsch vs Yulia Putintseva
Bye/Ekaterina Alexandrova 15

Jelena Ostapenko 10/Bye
Angelique Kerber vs Petra Martic
N. Habino vs Venus Williams [WC]
Bye/Veronika Kudermetova 17

Donna Vekic 25/Bye
Caroline Wozniacki [WC] vs Lin Zhu
Mirra Andreeva vs Katie Volynets [WC]
Bye/Ons Jabeur 6


Elena Rybakina 4/Bye
Paula Badosa vs [WC] Ashlyn Krueger
[WC] Sara Sorribes Tormo vs Marie Bouzkova
Bye/Anastasia Potapova 28

Anna Kalinskaya 21/Bye
T. Townsend vs Magda Linette
Tatjana Maria vs Arantxa Rus
Bye/Jasmine Paolini 13

Beatriz Haddad Maia 12/Bye
R. Sramkova vs Yafan Wang
McCartney Kessler [WC] vs N. Parrizas Diaz
Bye/Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 22

Marta Kostyuk 31/Bye
M. Hontama vs Shuai Zhang
B. Pera vs Daria Saville
Bye/Marketa Vondrousova 7

Bottom Half

Qinwen Zheng 8/Bye
Varvara Gracheva vs Yue Yuan
Cristina Bucsa vs Caroline Dolehide
Bye/Victoria Azarenka 27

Sorana Cirstea 19/Bye
Sloane Stephens vs Mayar Sherif
Elina Avanesyan vs Oceane Dodin
Bye/Daria Kasatkina 11

Liudmila Samsonova 14/Bye
Naomi Osaka vs S. Errani
Xinyu Wang vs Anna Karolina Schmiedlova
Bye/Elise Mertens 24

Anhelina Kalinina 32/Bye
Magdalena Frech vs Lucia Bronzetti
Xiyu Wang vs Clara Burel
Bye/Coco Gauff 3


Jessica Pegula 5/Bye
Anna Blinkova vs Karolina Pliskova [WC]
Diane Parry vs Martina Trevisan
Bye/Leylah Fernandez 29

Caroline Garcia 20/Bye
Viktoriya Tomova vs Sofia Kenin
Diana Shnaider vs Ana Bogdan
Bye/Maria Sakkari 9

Elina Svitolina 16/Bye
Katerina Siniakova vs Greet Minnen
L. Hovde vs Lesia Tsurenko
Bye/Emma Navarro 23

Dayana Yastremska 30/Bye
Emma Raducanu [WC] vs R. Masarova
Elisabetta Cocciaretto vs Peyton Stearns
Bye/Aryna Sabalenka 2

Nice to see the entire draw in one place, in a reasonably readable format!

Since Badosa withdrew after the deadline, and this is a practice SP, I am giving EVERYONE a one time pass through to WTA Day 2. So this is like we are starting on Day 2, with a clean slate, so any players you picked on Day 1, will be available for you to pick later on, if they won today.

PS......IF you (Oplo, Tenedab, etc.) missed making a pick for the WTA SP on Day 1, and you would like to play in this SP, you can, but this for the WTA SP only!

For the ATP, even if your Day 1 pick has not finished his match before play starts tomorrow, you will still need to make a pick from the Day 2 match list and survive both matches.

Surviving two IW round 1 picks in one day would be quite the feat

As with Day 2, if your pick from Day 2 had not finished their match, you still need to make a Day 3 pick and survive both matches.