US open 2012: ATP Matches of the Day: Day 1

Fantastic comeback by PHM

Yes, not over yet but from MP down that's pretty good.

Allez PHM!

I mean, YES!

Chardy has been playing well this summer on the American hard courts (Canada and Cinci) so I was expecting him to win easily and I am happy he didn't make me regret my pick. I'm so happy PHM won as there was a lot of points on the line... When is Feli playing? to him!

Tenez wrote:

Amritia3ee wrote:ROTLA, Tenez can you make it so we have more comments per page.
Going into page 2 so quickly is a bit furstrating.

I agree...we'll look into that.

Done . Its now doubled from the previous value. I'll increase it as more members join in which increases the number of postings per topic.

Thanks ROTLA. I often read the forum on my cell phone and it can get quite annoying when advancing through the pages. More comments per page will make it much better.

Fed in control. As expected, experimenting at times. Cilic is looking like going down. 0-2 sets down already.

summerblues wrote: Thanks ROTLA. I often read the forum on my cell phone and it can get quite annoying when advancing through the pages. More comments per page will make it much better.

The maximum I can increase it to is 50. atm its at 30. You want me to put 50, I'll do it.

50 would work better for me but I will leave it to your judgment. For me, it is not the end of the world either way - just do whatever you think will be best for everyone.

summerblues wrote:50 would work better for me but I will leave it to your judgment. For me, it is not the end of the world either way - just do whatever you think will be best for everyone.

50 it is now.

Results: Day1
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[3] A Murray (GBR) d A Bogomolov Jr. (RUS) 62 64 61

Points:
rotla: 3
tenez: 3
nitb: 3
laverfan:3
wow: 3
sphairistike: 3

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[1] R Federer (SUI) d D Young (USA) 63 62 64

Points:
rotla: 1
tenez: 1
nitb: 1
laverfan: 1
wow: 1
sphairistike: 1

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[30] F Lopez (ESP) d R Haase (NED) 63 75 62

Points:
rotla: 30
tenez: -30
nitb: 30
laverfan: -30
wow: -30
sphairistike: 30

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P Mathieu (FRA) d I Andreev (RUS) 26 46 76(1) 76(4) 61

Points:
rotla: 33
tenez: 33
nitb: -33
laverfan: 33
wow: 33
sphairistike: 33

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J Blake (USA) d L Lacko (SVK) 75 62 36 63

Points:
rotla: -33 (Didn't see that lacko was on a 5 match losing streak )
tenez: 33
nitb: 33
laverfan: 33
wow: 33
sphairistike: 33

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[32] J Chardy (FRA) d F Volandri (ITA) 63 64 63

Points:
rotla: -32 ( another dumb pick )
tenez: 32
nitb: 32
laverfan: 32
wow: -32
sphairistike: 32


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Standings as on 28-Aug-2012:

Points:
rotla: 2
tenez: 72
nitb: 66
laverfan: 69
wow: 8
sphairistike: 132

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No. fo correct predictions

rotla: 4/6
tenez: 5/6
nitb: 5/6
laverfan: 5/6
wow: 4/6
sphairistike: 6/6

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sphairistike gets all 6 predictions correct for day 1.

I am happy to be Nadal to sphairistike and Tenez as long as NITB is all right being the Murray equivalent.

Well done Sphairi!!! I knew when you joined here we had a connoisseur amongst us!!!

oooooh, that wretched Russian ball-basher had to let me down and not convert his MPs
at least the more complete player won

I am happy! To be fair, I got scared for a second with PHM... All the other picks were not as hard especially that Chardy has been having a good American hard court season so far... Congrats to you too Tenez, you only missed by one! The thing is though, as I said, all the matches unseeded vs. unseeded are where it's toughest to make a correct prediction and where it can cost you so I will have to be careful with those with all the connoisseurs on this site... The thing you won't see me do from now on is to bet for Murray or Djoko to win as there is too much at stake if they lose so I'll use the little bit of cushion I have to take those losses and hope for the best!

sphairistike wrote:....The thing you won't see me do from now on is to bet for Murray or Djoko to win as there is too much at stake if they lose so I'll use the little bit of cushion I have to take those losses and hope for the best!

...and smart as well!

We are in trouble rotla!

Tenez wrote:Well done Sphairi!!! I knew when you joined here we had a connoisseur amongst us!!!

Are you referring to us proletariats, who practice 'agricultural' style of Tennis, by such a Socratic/Platoesque categorization as you have done?

laverfan wrote:

Tenez wrote:Well done Sphairi!!! I knew when you joined here we had a connoisseur amongst us!!!

Are you referring to us proletariats, who practice 'agricultural' style of Tennis, by such a Socratic/Platoesque categorization as you have done?

Why Socrat and Plato? Always have be en a Heraclitus person meself

Tenez wrote:

sphairistike wrote:....The thing you won't see me do from now on is to bet for Murray or Djoko to win as there is too much at stake if they lose so I'll use the little bit of cushion I have to take those losses and hope for the best!

...and smart as well!

We are in trouble rotla!

Don't worry, I rarely select any easy-to-predict matches. I did a couple on day-1 but I won't do that now. Its too early days to start playing safe picking the upset when with the lead.

Everyone still has a chance to win, 13 days of prediction is a lot.

noleisthebest wrote:
Why Socrat and Plato? Always have be en a Heraclitus person meself

Classic Categorization first appears in the Western world under Socrates/Plato/Aristotle.

According to the classical view, categories should be clearly defined, mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorization (highly opinionated and unverified public Internet link).

I assume a statement like connoisseur amongst us implies a mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive set of sets of connoisseur and non-connoisseur, since 'us' is the set of sets, it implies a separation of people who appreciate 'fine' things vs others who are relegated to 'coarser' things.

LF,

now you're really raking my memory...All Greek philosophy has been relegated in the Junk folder of my brain for a long time, I just kept a bit of it in the outbox folder for poetical reasons
I found them all sheer ofence to the beautiful creation called Man.
You can see I've been quite a rebel in me school days, speaking of which, have you found the answer to The question yet: Why?

noleisthebest wrote:LF, now you're really raking my memory...All Greek philosophy has been relegated in the Junk folder of my brain for a long time, I just kept a bit of it in the outbox folder for poetical reasons

Human beings are very good at cropping/erasing vestigial bits. Good for you.

noleisthebest wrote:I found them all sheer ofence to the beautiful creation called Man.

I am pretty sure the reference is Human rather the Gender aspects. Greeks and many others tried their best to understand, demystify, glorify and deify beauty of humans. Form, function, ratios, and hundreds of mathematical concepts, like symmetry, proportions, etc. were applied to humans to understand such a creation. The search for the Higgs Boson, is a journey, that started with perhaps Heraclitus/Socrates/Plato/Aristotle and many others, to understand this Creation.

noleisthebest wrote:You can see I've been quite a rebel in me school days, speaking of which, have you found the answer to The question yet: Why?

A label, that was invented as part of a categorization, to have rebel and non-rebel classifications. Pretty Boolean and cut-and-dry.

We have exchanged so many questions, perhaps you would care to refresh my fading memory, so I can continue my quest for the answer to The Why?

laverfan wrote:

noleisthebest wrote:LF, now you're really raking my memory...All Greek philosophy has been relegated in the Junk folder of my brain for a long time, I just kept a bit of it in the outbox folder for poetical reasons

Human beings are very good at cropping/erasing vestigial bits. Good for you.

noleisthebest wrote:I found them all sheer ofence to the beautiful creation called Man.

I am pretty sure the reference is Human rather the Gender aspects. Greeks and many others tried their best to understand, demystify, glorify and deify beauty of humans. Form, function, ratios, and hundreds of mathematical concepts, like symmetry, proportions, etc. were applied to humans to understand such a creation. The search for the Higgs Boson, is a journey, that started with perhaps Heraclitus/Socrates/Plato/Aristotle and many others, to understand this Creation.

noleisthebest wrote:You can see I've been quite a rebel in me school days, speaking of which, have you found the answer to The question yet: Why?

A label, that was invented as part of a categorization, to have rebel and non-rebel classifications. Pretty Boolean and cut-and-dry.

We have exchanged so many questions, perhaps you would care to refresh my fading memory, so I can continue my quest for the answer to The Why?

This is just the universal, philosophical Why, no unearthed hatchets.....as for "faded memory" well that's the luxury I once could boast of..not any more, not even faded, not even tatters, shreds, dust, vapour...

raiders_of_the_lost_ark wrote:50 it is now.

Thanks rotla, this is great.