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by JTContinental Welcome invitees and those who have come to bask in their greatness! 13 players have survived the treacherous first few days of this vindictive SP and have qualified for UPDATED thread infamy. TMQ doesn't want to jinx things (lies) but the revelry of the UPDATED thread often proves to be overwhelming, leading to exceedingly poor choices on the first day. But for now, let's name and celebrate our remaining players:

Ajay.gov : - Svitolina>>V. Kudermetova>>Azarenka>>Samsonova>>Kasatkina>>Zheng>>M. Andreeva>>Paolini

Catman : - Yastremska>>Alexandrova>>Azarenka>>Anisimova>>Badosa>>Svitolina>>M. Andreeva>>Zheng>>Keys>>Swiatek>>Gauff>>Sabalenka

Federex : - Yastremska>>Collins>>Azarenka>>Samsonova>>Kasatkina>>Svitolina>>Keys<<Zheng>>Pegula

GreenGourd : - Yastremska>>Collins>>Azarenka>>Tauson>>Kasatkina>>Svitolina>>Keys>>Zheng>>Pegula

IronMike : - Yastremska>>V. Kudermetova>>Azarenka>>Tauson>>Kasatkina>>Anisimova>>Alexandrova>>Zheng>>Pegula

Mu_royals : - Yastremska>>Boulter>>Azarenka>>Tauson>>Kasatkina>>Svitolina>>Alexandrova>>Zheng>>Pegula

New England Nitemare : - Yastremska>>Collins>>Azarenka>>Svitolina>>Kasatkina>>Anisimova>>M. Andreeva>>Zheng>>Keys>>Swiatek>>Gauff>>Sabalenka

Omegadoom : - Yastremska>>Collins>>Azarenka>>Samsonova>>Kasatkina>>Svitolina>>Keys>>Zheng>>Pegula

Pudding : - Yastremska>>Raducanu>>Kartal>>Tauson>>Vondrousova>>Svitolina>>Alexandrova>>Zheng>>Pegula

SMC_mom : - Yastremska>>Samsonova>>Azarenka>>Tauson>>Alexandrova>>Svitolina>>Pegula>>Zheng>>Keys>>Swiatek>>Gauff>>Sabalenka

Sh79 : - Yastremska>>Ostapenko>>Azarenka>>Anisimova>>Alexandrova>>Svitolina>>Keys>>Zheng>>Pegula

Vexchaps : - Yastremska>>Boulter>>Azarenka>>Samsonova>>Putintseva>>Zheng>>Boisson>>Svitolina>>Pegula

Webswinger88 : - Yastremska>>Collins>>Pegula>>Svitolina>>Kasatkina>>Zheng>>Alexandrova>>No Pick
by JTContinental Our unlucky 13th player DQ'ed by no pick, leaving us with a dozen. We've got one showdown and and huge bandwagon.

The breakdown

Qinwen Zheng 10
Jasmine Paolini 1
Elina Svitolina 1
by JTContinental TMQ will be out and about tomorrow, so even though this could potentially end today, I'm setting up the Day 9 thread for any survivors.
by ptmcmahon It won’t end today, although we could have a solo winner decided (since Paolini played Svitolina)
by JTContinental 11 remaining players all making relatively safe picks today

The breakdown

Jessica Pegula 8
Madison Keys 3

Survivors: 3
Dead: 8
Unknown: 0
by JTContinental Opening the day 10 thread as I’ll be unavailable in the day
by Oploskoffie 11 pickers made relatively safe choices. 72,73% of them were just taken out by Lois Boisson :shock:
by Suliso They could still get medals (unlikely)
by ptmcmahon Down to 3.
by JTContinental
Oploskoffie wrote: ↑Mon Jun 02, 2025 1:38 pm 11 pickers made relatively safe choices. 72,73% of them were just taken out by Lois Boisson :shock:
Oops!
by JTContinental Everyone took Swiatek today
by JTContinental Today everyone takes Gauff, all who perhaps hasn’t seen a)Coco’s record vs Keys and b)Coco’s record vs Andreeva
by Oploskoffie So much for Andreeva's record against Gauff.... Boisson strikes again!! :shock:
by Suliso What to do now? Take Boisson or Sabalenka? :)
by ptmcmahon This is always the hardest debate in the SP. Do you go with the pick more likely to get you through, or the one more likely to give you a chance to beat the draw.
by ponchi101 Pick the one to get you through. No extra medal for beating the draw.
by Suliso Exactly, I expect everyone will take Sabalenka. About 90% chance of a medal.
by ptmcmahon Usually it's a harder decision where the underdog isn't such a huge underdog.

Which have had said for a couple of rounds of course.
by JTContinental She’s winning this thing
by ponchi101
JTContinental wrote: ↑Wed Jun 04, 2025 7:20 pm She’s winning this thing
I hope :twisted:
by ptmcmahon
JTContinental wrote: ↑Wed Jun 04, 2025 7:20 pm She’s winning this thing
Oh, so people are saving her for final!
by catman Yes, saving Lois for the final...
by ptmcmahon Even if not intentional if that does happen it would be the funniest beat the draw story in SP history.

Funny enough, Boisson was my top pick for the YCWJ contest. Deserve negative points for getting it so wrong.
by ponchi101 If we start punishing people in this forum for getting something terribly wrong, man, where would that end?
With this guy :ax:
by JTContinental It’s been a long time since anyone has had a chance to beat the draw
by ptmcmahon Didn't people beat the women's draw at USO last year? Or do you just mean RG?
by ponchi101 You can check all the results for the SP's in TAT2.0 in the Hall of Fame topic (in the SP subforum) ;)
by JTContinental
ptmcmahon wrote: ↑Thu Jun 05, 2025 4:42 pm Didn't people beat the women's draw at USO last year? Or do you just mean RG?
Oh, they might have. My laptop died on day 2 of that slam, so someone else ran the pool
by ptmcmahon Hmmm... so seems like you are what stops people from beating the draw :) We know we don't have the pressure of being lightly roasted :D