Australian Open 2013: Matches of the day : Day 5 18-Jan-2013

The schedule of play is out for tomorrow. This half is beginning to look much more interesting.

1. Venus Williams (USA) [25]
v
Maria Sharapova (RUS) [2]

My pick: Venus

2. David Ferrer (ESP) [4]
v
Marcos Baghdatis (CYP) [28]

My pick: Ferrer makes these kind of grinding matches easily. Hence my pick

Kevin Anderson (RSA)
v
Fernando Verdasco (ESP) [22]

A rematch of the recent Hopman hopman cup where Anderson won in st. sets TB. My pick is Anderson is still going to win it tomorrow.

4. Jurgen Melzer (AUT) [26]
v
Tomas Berdych (CZE) [5]

My pick: Melzar

5. Julien Benneteau (FRA) [32]
v
Janko Tipsarevic (SRB) [8]

I'll go for Benn.


6. Sam Querrey (USA) [20]
v
Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI) [15]


Stan the man.

Owwwcccchhhhh. Some meaty matches there ROTLA.

Shreiker

Ferrer, though had Baggy not had a 5 set match in the bank I might have voted for him.

I will go with Nando.

Berdy to overcome Jurgen

Despite Tipsy's marathon with Lacko I think he will have too much for Benny. Tipsy for me.

Stan should come through Querrey.

OK, after Laura's win, I'm all fired up now, time to supress emotions and go for the yuk choices

Sharapova, Ferrer, Verdasco, Berdych, Tipsarevic, Querrey.

apart from the ones to pick from, there are some good matches to watch tonight

Maria Sharapova (RUS) [2]


Marcos Baghdatis (CYP) [28]

Kevin Anderson (RSA)


Tomas Berdych (CZE) [5]

Julien Benneteau (FRA) [32]



Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI) [15]

sharapova, ferrer, anderson, berdych, tipsarevic, querrey

why not jj almagro?!?!

Must have gone through our attention. I'll go for Almagro. In case it counts.

Just woke up...this is what you call not jetlag, but tennis-fan-lag ...

Oh, I hate this! Only women playing atm
No wonder noone's around

Hopefully Na can win her match quickly, so I get to watch Nole before it gets too late here.

summerblues wrote:Hopefully Na can win her match quickly, so I get to watch Nole before it gets too late here.

tell me about it....sheduling at its worst

at laaaaast!
Nole time

Kvitova in the stands, cheering for Stepanek. 3 all.

Radek keeping it close so far. Was worried he would lose the service game from 40-0 up.

You have the feeling that Nole will step it up towards the end of the set though.

Break point???

summerblues wrote:Break point???

Yes, watch how it's done now, Nole to break Step now and serve for the set

I think you are right; Nole looks like he is just biding his time, waiting to pounce. He was lucky on that break point though.

And here it is.

Step very good, but not good enough for Nole atm. 1:0.

Nole looks very comfortable, doing just enough; not trying anything more than that.

Federer-Tomic on at 7pm; glad it is on the weekend. I do not expect Fed to be troubled, but will want to see it nonetheless.

Will check out Jerzy before going off to bed.

Almagro takes the first set.

Almagro beats JJ in 3 sets. JJ was spent having closely lost the first 2 in TBs.

What a win for Anderson. Awesome play..

Yes and I backed him up if I remember correctly.

I am sooooooooooooo tired. Even the walk in the snow this morning didn't manage to quite wake me up tennis courts look so beautiful under snow.

Yes...now it's even snowing quite a bit in London...

Tenez wrote:Yes...now it's even snowing quite a bit in London...

I did throw two snowballs 25 miles southeast

I wonder when Gallery Play is going to come out from behind that sofa

go on baggy, breaks back!

Ferrer takes it 6-4. Grinding match. Ferrer looks better.

Ferrer looking to take it in 3. And he shall.

noleisthebest wrote:I wonder when Gallery Play is going to come out from behind that sofa

got that!

Well, there's no reason for me to be behind a sofa, it's all an open book to me

gallery play wrote:

noleisthebest wrote:I wonder when Gallery Play is going to come out from behind that sofa

got that!

Well, there's no reason for me to be behind a sofa, it's all an open book to me

good to now

what did you make of Skyfall in the end?

noleisthebest wrote:

gallery play wrote:

noleisthebest wrote:I wonder when Gallery Play is going to come out from behind that sofa

got that!

Well, there's no reason for me to be behind a sofa, it's all an open book to me

good to now

what did you make of Skyfall in the end?

I liked Skyfall. The competition in that genre is fierce so they had to make some choices. I think they made the right choices.
I can't make up an argument why the Connery sequence is better. My 10 year old son loved it, he walked around the house at least for 3 days after the movie pretending he was Bond.

I thought Mendes completely lost the plot. You wouldn't know that was a Bond film if you only watched vintage ones.
Shame. Craig was good as always. And that bad girl.

i thought it was very good 2bh, thoroughly enjoyed it!

noleisthebest wrote:I thought Mendes completely lost the plot. You wouldn't know that was a Bond film if you only watched vintage ones.
Shame. Craig was good as always. And that bad girl.

Skyfall is of all the bond movies the one with the best rating on imdb. Surely you don't have to agree with the "wisdom of the crowds" but 'completely lost the plot' is quite a contrast with that.
I actually think Mendes was true to the original. It's why this movie is better then the IM and Bourne movies: skyfall has a good combi of fast paced modern action and old Bond values.

Apologies for missing the results. I have 2 days to backlog to cover.. But I will.

Here is goes:

1. Venus Williams (USA) [25] lost to Maria Sharapova (RUS) [2]

Rotla: -2
Tenez: 2
nitb: 2
SB:
Luvspots: 2
LK : 2
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2. David Ferrer (ESP) [4] def Marcos Baghdatis (CYP) [28]

Rotla: 4
Tenez: -4
nitb: 4
SB:
Luvspots: 4
LK : 4

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3. Kevin Anderson (RSA) def Fernando Verdasco (ESP) [22]

Rotla: 33
Tenez: 33
nitb: -33
SB:
Luvspots: 33
LK : -33

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4. Jurgen Melzer (AUT) [26] lost to Tomas Berdych (CZE) [5]

Rotla: -5
Tenez: 5
nitb: 5
SB:
Luvspots: 5
LK : 5

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5. Julien Benneteau (FRA) [32] lost to Janko Tipsarevic (SRB) [8]

Rotla: -8
Tenez: -8
nitb: 8
SB:
Luvspots: 8
LK : 8

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6. Sam Querrey (USA) [20] lost to Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI) [15]

Rotla: 15
Tenez: 15
nitb: -15
SB:
Luvspots: -15
LK : 15

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Points as on 19-Jan-2013

Rotla: -135 + 37 = -97
Tenez = 171 + 43 = 214
nitb: 18 + 131 = 149 - 29 = 120
SB: -177
Luvspots: 42 -1 = 41 + 37 = 78
LK: -26 -131 = -157 + 1 = -156

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No of correct Predictions:

Rotla: 10/23 + 3/6 = 13/29
Tenez: 15/23 + 4/6 = 19/29
nitb:15/23 + 4/6 = 19/29
SB: 2/6 + 0/0 = 2/6
Luvspots: 15/23 + 5/6 = 19/29
LK: 7/11 + 5/6 = 12/17

LK and luvsportz get 5/6 wins.

i got 5/6 bud as well! i just got querrey wrong

luvsports! wrote:i got 5/6 bud as well! i just got querrey wrong

Corrected.

ta not sure it makes much diffo anyways

luvsports! wrote: ta not sure it makes much diffo anyways

No. I am still the bestest!