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Re: AOSP25 Women's Picks and Results Thread
Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2025 1:10 am
by mmmm8
Oploskoffie wrote: ↑Mon Jan 13, 2025 10:40 pm
mmmm8 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 13, 2025 4:44 pm
Irena2 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 13, 2025 4:30 pm
Was there merch for "I've been Bondarenko'ed?"
I wish!
Not actual merch, but perhaps you remember a certain one-off "I got BondarenKO'd in the quarter final of a major" t-shirt?
OMG, it's coming back to me. I wonder if I have the images saved somewhere in the depths of my Google drive. Good times.
Re: AOSP25 Women's Picks and Results Thread
Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2025 1:55 am
by tenedab
JTContinental wrote: ↑Mon Jan 13, 2025 11:16 pm
mcbride10s wrote: ↑Mon Jan 13, 2025 10:00 pm
A longstanding rule doesn’t make it a good rule. Vondrousova withdrew “hours before” her match, meaning play likely started for the day and it would have been too late to make a new pick. Getting the LL makes sense. But, not my pool, not my rules, I’m out, fair and square, just seems no harm no foul to get the LL instead of an arbitrary elimination from a for fun suicide pool. If it was the 3rd round or something and your player withdrew then tough luck, but that isn’t the case here. Oh well.
I do sympathize as it sucks to go out that way, but it's a good rule, and there are reasons that it is in place.
1)It creates an administrative nightmare on the back end for volunteers who are doing this in their spare time. For example, sure Vondrousova withdrew hours before the tournament, but it was late night/early morning on a weekend in my time zone, and I'm not sitting a my computer all day constantly checking the draw looking for withdrawals, nor should I have to. The 15 players eliminated also did not do this.
2)You didn't pick the LL, so it creates an environment that is unfair to the other players who made a pick.
Vondrousova's withdrawal wasn't entirely unexpected
Re: AOSP25 Women's Picks and Results Thread
Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2025 3:02 pm
by Irena2
mmmm8 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 14, 2025 1:10 am
Oploskoffie wrote: ↑Mon Jan 13, 2025 10:40 pm
mmmm8 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 13, 2025 4:44 pm
I wish!
Not actual merch, but perhaps you remember a certain one-off "I got BondarenKO'd in the quarter final of a major" t-shirt?
OMG, it's coming back to me. I wonder if I have the images saved somewhere in the depths of my Google drive. Good times.
That is a better spelling for "BondarenKO'd!" I do hope someone has an image. I don't remember it - would love to see it!
Re: AOSP25 Women's Picks and Results Thread
Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2025 12:37 am
by JTContinental
After subtracting a whopping 9 no picks and one interloper that keeps picking despite not having made a pick on day 1, we are down to 71 players for Day 4.
I predicted before the tournament that Tauson was going to take out a good chunk of the field, so let's see if I am right.
The breakdown:
Clara Tauson 18
Belinda Bencic 17
Donna Vekic 11
Leylah Fernandez 9
Liudmila Samsonova 7
Paula Badosa 4
Mirra Andreeva 2
Magdalena Frech 1
Marta Kostyuk 1
Diana Shnaider 1
Re: AOSP25 Women's Picks and Results Thread
Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2025 5:46 am
by Suliso
It will be very hard for Ms Tauson to do it now.
Re: AOSP25 Women's Picks and Results Thread
Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2025 12:54 am
by JTContinental
We lost 2 more to the dreaded No Pick, leaving us with 60 players left for day 5
The breakdown
Danielle Collins 12
Dayana Yastremska 12
Elina Svitolina 10
Yulia Putintseva 6
Madison Keys 5
Beatriz Haddad Maia 3
Ons Jabeur 3
Daria Kasatkina 3
Jasmine Paolini 2
Amanda Anisimova 1
Katie Boulter 1
Varvara Gracheva 1
Elena Rybakina 1
Re: AOSP25 Women's Picks and Results Thread
Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2025 1:07 am
by ashkor87
ChatGPT recommends Keys
Re: AOSP25 Women's Picks and Results Thread
Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2025 12:02 pm
by Suliso
Negligible attrition today (2).
Re: AOSP25 Women's Picks and Results Thread
Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2025 4:47 pm
by jazzyg
Three.
Re: AOSP25 Women's Picks and Results Thread
Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2025 9:19 pm
by joanjettson
I'm sure TMQ must be busy, but I do miss the stank-nalysis.
Re: AOSP25 Women's Picks and Results Thread
Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2025 9:31 pm
by JTContinental
joanjettson wrote: ↑Thu Jan 16, 2025 9:19 pm
I'm sure TMQ must be busy, but I do miss the stank-nalysis.
We are currently hanging a huge exhibition in the gallery, but I am hoping to get to it in the next night or two. I love snarking.
Re: AOSP25 Women's Picks and Results Thread
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2025 1:22 am
by JTContinental
My count seems to be off by 2 yesterday, as we still have 59 active players
The Day 6 breakdown:
Mirra Andreeva 26
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 12
Jessica Pegula 12
Paula Badosa 5
Naomi Osaka 3
Coco Gauff 1
Re: AOSP25 Women's Picks and Results Thread
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2025 7:44 am
by Suliso
Another light day it seems, albeit we did lose 3 Naomi pickers.
Re: AOSP25 Women's Picks and Results Thread
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2025 12:30 pm
by Suliso
As Yoda would say - wrong you were, down to 44 we are.
Re: AOSP25 Women's Picks and Results Thread
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2025 1:00 pm
by joanjettson
Thanks a lot, Jessie! I'm out because I was too lazy to type Pavlyuchenkova