Thanks for inviting me on this board, Nick. Just thought I'd post my mini-predictions competition for French Open here, as BBC seems to have been shut down last day or so.
I'll leave someone else to do the big official daily predictions contest, but I thought I'd do a little quarter-finals onwards predictions contest. You have to guess the line-up for quarter-finals, then semi-finals, final, and eventual winner, for both the men and the women.
The scoring I'll do right at the end (obviously!), and will work as follows:
Correct quarter-finalist: 5 points
Correct semi-finalist: 10 points
Correct finalist: 20 points
Correct winner: 30 points
Total number of points on offer will be 260 points!
Good luck!
Oh, and here's my entry...
Quarter-finals
Federer v Robredo
Nalbandian v Davydenko
Olivier Rochus v Chela
Nadal v Almagro
semi-finals
Federer v Nalbandian
Chela v Nadal
Final
Federer v Nadal
Winner: Federer
Womens:
quarter-finals
Mauresmo v Venus
Sharapova v Kuznetsova
Henin Hardenne v Petrova
Clijsters v Golovin (risky)
semi-finals
Mauresmo v Kuznetsova
Henin Hardenne v Clijsters
Final
Kuznetsova v Henin Hardenne
Winner: Henin Hardenne
Mens:
QF
Federer v Robredo
Nalbandian v Davydenko
Stepanek v Ferrer
Gonzalez v Nadal
Semis:
Federer vs Davydenko
Ferrer vs Nadal
Final
Federer vs Nadal
Winner:
Federer (I HOPE!!!)
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Women:
QF:
Mauresmo v Schnyder
Safina v Kuznetsova
Henin-Hardenne v Petrova
Hingis v Clijsters
Semis:
Mauresmo vs Kuznetsova
Petrova vs Hingis
Kuznetsova vs Hingis
Winner:
Kuznetsova
Men
Quarter Finals
Federer V Robredo
Nalbandian V Davydenko
Baghdatis V Ljubicic
Blake V Nadal
Semi Finals
Federer V Nalbandian
Baghdatis V Nadal
Final
Federer V Nadal
Winner
Federer
Women
Quarter finals
Mauresmo V Williams
Kuznetsova V Safina
Henin-Hardenne V Petrova
Hingis V Clijsters
Semi Finals
Mauresmo V Kuznetsova
Henin-Hardenne V Hingis
Final
Mauremo V Hingis
Winner
Hingis