Talk About Tennis 2.0

Not liking my chances to hold on the lead I've had from the start now that Svitolina has lost.

IronMike is in excellent position if the men's semifinals and final go as expected.

Nope. The person nibbling your heels is TexasNiteOwl, and you both have Sabalenka. If Jabeur wins, then you are in a jam.

I don't think this affects anything much, but you have Burrage losing to Kasatkina in the first round. She actually lost to her in the second round, and won her first round.

I does not change much, but thanks for that. With the rain delays it was so difficult to keep track of who won when

ponchi101 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 13, 2023 2:24 pm Nope. The person nibbling your heels is TexasNiteOwl, and you both have Sabalenka. If Jabeur wins, then you are in a jam.

Not true. I still have a one-point lead and Jabeur has about a 90-percent chance to win the final. Not that worried about TexasNiteOwl overtaking me.

But if Jabeur wins as I expect, Medvedev loses to Alcaraz and Alcaraz loses to the Djokovic-Sinner winner (as most think will happen), IronMake will overtake me with the 10-point bonus for picking the men's Wooden Spoon winner correctly.

jazzyg wrote: ↑Thu Jul 13, 2023 6:05 pm Not true. I still have a one-point lead and Jabeur has about a 90-percent chance to win the final. Not that worried about TexasNiteOwl overtaking me.

Have you learned nothing here? There is a fine tradition known as jinxing ones self!

oh. wait.

if it helps me, go right ahead!!

If Jabeur loses, I will be more upset for her than I will be for my losing a shot at winning YCWJ. Did not think she had a real shot going in and on grass she is my favorite player.

But yes, I was tempting fate with that post.

I love it when we get to the stage in which we are trying to jinx a jinx

I will only update the current scenarios.
The scores are (after the semis)
JazzyG - 62 (Jabeur available at #3)
TexasNIteOwl - 61 (Jabeur at #1)
IronMike - 52 (Alcaraz available at #3)

So:
JazzyG wins if Jabeur AND Alcaraz win (scores remain the same, nobody collects more points)
TexasNiteOwl wins if Marketa wins, because that is worth 24 points (one more round PLUS 20 points bonus)
And (and my math can be faulty)
IronMike wins if Jabeur wins AND Djokovic wins, because he collects 2 points for the Alcaraz pick PLUS 10 bonus points.

What a finish.

lol. I want the spoon! Go Marketa!

but I won't be mad if Jabeur wins.

So, the WOODEN SPOON is MINE!



Before the match I would not have predicted this, but I will take it!

edit: and oh yeah! I hope a lesson about self-jinxing has been learned!

Not only a wooden spoon, but a scorching wooden spoon; you may end up with nothing more than a handful of ashes . We have to wait for tomorrow just to see how many points IronMike gets, but needless to say, your score must be one of the highest ever.

ponchi101 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 15, 2023 2:59 pm Not only a wooden spoon, but a scorching wooden spoon; you may end up with nothing more than a handful of ashes . We have to wait for tomorrow just to see how many points IronMike gets, but needless to say, your score must be one of the highest ever.

Wow! I had no idea! I guess winning it in my #1 slot is pretty rare then?

Maybe we should have a stickied "Greatest Moments" or Hall of Fame post like the Survivor Pool?

Great picking, texasniteowl.

My consolation is now I can pull for Djokovic tomorrow without having to worry about it costing me here if he wins.

With this final, we can have our winner.
Texas Nite Owl wins the 2023 Wimby YCWJ, with a sterling score of 85 points. He chose correctly the wooden spoon for the women's, who was Margarita Betova, who lost to Juvan, to Potapova, to Andreeva to Keys to Sabalenka to Jabeur and to Vondrousova.
On the men's side the wooden spoon went to Lokoli, who lost to Ruud to Broady to Shapovalov to Saffiulin to Sinner to Djokovic to Alcaraz.

TNO: your spoon has been awarded, and I hope you have good-terrible luck in the next events.

Thanks to all for playing.