and they are off...

and I am desperately trying to remember my picks!

Cilic and Mahut already through...

Tursy about to go a set apiece...

Tursy has an early break in the third..

Del Potro on serve in first set

Seppi through - fairly sure I didnt pick him :angry:

Tursy was obviously just fooling as he takes the third set 6-2 and goes on through...

so far, so good - all is as you would expect :)

I'm pretty sure I went Cilic, Mahut and Tursy. Wish we could see the picks!

me too! but now I have doubt - I need to see them!

Del Potro and Becker through for those keeping an eye on their picks!

Grosjean currently on his way having taken the first set 6-1

Just had a squiz at the results. Im doing ok I think although I dont think I got Becker as had to pick before the qualies were placed so just went totally random!
Who do u have to win Pebs?

I, rather boringly, have Djoko - its honestly the way I panned it out rather than thinking he would and making it fit...

how bout you?

I have Ferrer to beat Djoko in the final! Not sure how it happened :o

I dont think I had seppi to win either but maybe del potro.

ooo, you just never know!

I quite like this contest - am curious to see how bad I have been!

I picked those two but not sure how far I picked them to go. :shrug:

Who did Grosjean play? I think I picked him to go out to Stepanek somewhere ....

Anyone go for Fed to make the final or win? I knocked him out in the semi I think.

Djoko is the man on form but I doubt he'll win both tournament. So Miami will be for someone else.

I picked Tursy, Grojean,Mahut , Tipsy but dont think I picked Cilic .(Ive no record of it ).
Yes Djoko is the man on form ,I picked him to win the final but ..gut feeling says otherwise. :unsure:

I think I knocked him out even earlier than that :unsure:

given my track record, watch him win now!

:o

You better do your penance in the Fed-worship thread.

Of course he is going to win! :yahoo:








:pray:

I knocked him out in the semi too, to Tsonga B)

he did whip Hewitt's ass on the way there though :D

On current form I picked Hewitt to trash Federer and then go out in the next round. But in the cold light of day I am not sure about that anymore. I picked a Nalbandian Djoko semi in one half and I think a Roddick Davdydenko semi in the other.... I think.... :unsure:

Kuerten says farewell to Sony Ericsson Open
By Sandra Harwitt
MIAMI, March 26 (Reuters) - Former world number one Gustavo Kuerten lost 6-1 7-5 to Frenchman Sebastien Grosjean on Wednesday in his last appearance at the Sony Ericsson Open.
The Brazilian, plagued by a long time hip injury but granted a wildcard into the Miami draw, has said he will retire after this year's French Open starting in May unless he receives a wildcard into the Olympic Games in Beijing in August.
"I think it is a great decision that I did to play at least (a) few more tournaments for myself and to be able to enjoy," said Kuerten.
Urged on by a small crowd chanting "Guga, Guga", the three times French Open champion did his best to send the match into a third set and held even with the 52nd-ranked Grosjean until near the end of the second.
Saving two break points on serve in the 10th game, Grosjean finally had the winning answer on the third break point when he hit a backhand down the line.
"The first set I thought maybe would be too fast for him and I (would) not be able to enjoy so much," Kuerten said. "But then luckily I was wrong. Then I had some great feelings in the second."
Kuerten has never fully recovered from a hip injury in which surgery offered limited results. Frequently when serving, he could be seen adjusting his hip with his hand.
"It's sliding a little bit to the side, so I have to put it back," Kuerten said of his on-court realignment. "But to be able to play and perform like the guys, for me it's really difficult. It would be impossible.
"That's probably the main thing that makes me decide to stop."
A finalist in Miami in 2000, Kuerten pushed Pete Sampras to four sets with the last three going to tiebreakers in that championship match.
"Playing Pete in the final, that was the first time I had that experience in my life," Kuerten said.
"That day in the final I remember the atmosphere on the court was really amazing. Not only we played some great tennis, a match that lasted for three or four hours, but people getting involved and really being part of the match."
Also in the first round, 35th-ranked Dmitry Tursunov beat fellow Russian Evgeny Korolev 4-6 6-3 6-2.
Albert Montanes of Spain defeated Japan's Kei Nishikori, who won his first career title as a qualifier at Delray Beach last month, 7-5 6-2.
(Editing by Alan Baldwin)

its the old bluff MJT - honest :halo:

I was willing to sacrifice my points and earn my :turkey: just to ensure Fed went on to win...

Think I picked Step to lose to Grosjean!!! I have Fed out in the semis I think, I gave him a good run.

I don't like to spoil anyone's fun but Safin is having a major tussle here, now serving at 4-5 in the third against Reynolds

Meanwhile Benneteau is through after swapping breadsticks with Schuettler :blink:

:moody:

was that match point I just saw Safin save? :unsure:

it goes into tie break in the third then...

which Safin lost

:argh:

yeah, my scoreboard is sticking, couldn't really follow it even that way.

Bad luck pebs...

Fish is struggling too against Clement, looks like his run could be over!

Bolelli is through.

Fish still treading water.

Simon is fighting back against Ancic :(

What the hell happened to Safin?!?!? He's just become total kack. That screws up my prediction too! :( :(

Forget the week of Fish puns, he's fried.

That's as low as it gets for Safin :( :rolleyes: :banghead: :banghead: :moody:

Please win sometime soon :pray:

mine are totally gone - I should be languishing near the bottom now - awful day for me :angry:

J Benneteau (FRA) d R Schuettler (GER) 16 61 62

:unsure: Schuettler used to be such a threat.... But he seems too have completely lost the plot now.... rather unfortunate ...

Marat just needs to get his head straight...sort out some priorities.....but, thats what everyone has been saying the past 2 years...... :P I guess it might be rehab for him then..

SAFIN LOST???

It's a conspiracy! A conspiracy I tell ya! They just want to screw up our predictions

:argh:

Straightforward for Kiefer against Nieminen by the looks of it, wins 3 and 2.

Seppi-Blake just starting.

And Djokovic starting against Kevin Anderson, about whom all my memory banks contain is that he's very tall.

Which may not be quite enough to see him through today.

Well, he's giving Nole a workout by the looks of it. 5-5 now, nobody's had a BP yet.

Blake a set up now against Seppi, JCF likewise against Montanes.

Djoko into a first set tie break with Kevin Anderson and losing it! currently 4-1 in that...

I'll be more than a little miffed in my winner goes out now!