Tennis Frontier Rome Draw Challenge

[Moxie]

I don't think there is any emergency. I was thinking more along the lines of Fed
staying at home as a way of showing moral support consider that the babies are less
than a week old.

Roger's been there before. If he thinks he can play Rome, then he doesn't think he needs to stay home. There's no mystery to this, unless, as I said, there's something else. If everyone is healthy, (which seems to be the case, and we hope for,) and he says he's playing then he won't withdraw. If anyone has the experience of how to deal with infant twins, it's the Federer clan. I'm sure grandparents have rallied 'round, and there are nannies galore, as well.

 

[Denis]

QFs

Nadal-Murray
Wawrinka - Dimitrov
Fognini - Raonic
Djokovic - Ferrer

Semis

Nadal - Wawrinka
Fognini - Djokovic

Final

Djokovic defeats Nadal

WC Gulbis DH Isner

Roger is spoiling this draw challenge again btw. If he plays I am putting him instead of Fognini.

 

[Kieran]

QF

Nadal-Isner
Wawrinka-Berdych
Federer-Dolgo
Gulbis-Djoker

SF

Nadal-Wawrinka
Federer-Djoker

W Nadal
R/Up Federer

WC Grigor
DH Murray

 

[Riotbeard]

QF
Novak, Ferrer, Federer, Dolgopolov, Berdych, Wawrinka, Isner, Nadal

SF: Novak, Federer, Wawrinka, Isner

F: Novak, Wawrinka

W: Novak

WC: Gulbis
DH: Dimitrov

Edit: 5/11 nishikori withdrawl.

 

[GameSetAndMath]

QF: Nadal vs. Cilic, Wawrinka vs. Grigor, Tsonga vs. Federer, Ferrer vs. Djokovic

SF: Nadal vs. Grigor, Federer vs. Ferrer

F: Nadal vs. Federer

W: Federer

DH: Grigor

WC: Gulbis

 

[Moxie]

Here are the results:

Denisovich wins, with a commanding: 130

Riotbeard: 95

GameSetMath: 70

Kieran: 50 (Note: Kieran…you picked Dimitrov as your WC. The rules state that the WC has to be outside of the top 16 seeds, and Dimi was #12, so, sorry, no points.)

Moxie: 25 (Clearly I have been doing too much multi-tasking. I set up the WTA challenge and forgot to make any picks at all; here, I started then forgot to put up SFs and Fs + winner. DOH! Well, I wouldn't have won, anyway.)

Congratulations to Denisovich, our Rome winner! Thanks for playing, everyone. Do remember El Dude's Slam Challenge for RG…and the draw comes out on Friday.

 

[Murat Baslamisli]

I was wise to set this one out. I had no read on the thing honestly.I would have voted Roger to make it to semis at least, thinking , OK , he is fine, he saw the twins, he trained a bit, it is business as usual. I don't think it is ever business as usual for Roger any more. Stan losing to Haas...

Well done to the top 3.

 

[Riotbeard]

Well done Denis! Second victory of the year! Us true believers are doing ok with the draws this year.