2017 ATP Sudden Death League: Paris

[Beacon Hill]

1: Johnson

 

[Pagoo]

Day 1: Gasquet
BU: Sugita

 

[PDJ]

Day 1: Gasquet
BU: Simon

 

[luiz_gustavo]

Day 1: Gasquet
BU: Sugita

 

[Aussie Darcy]

All aboard.
Day 1: Gasquet
BU: Sugita

 

[Locotus]

Day1: Simon
BU: Gasquet

 

[Deleted member 293577]

Day 1: Schwartzman
Bu: Sugita

Oops, change to:

Day 1: Sugita
Bu: Gasquet

 

[JLyon]

DAY1: Shapovalov
BU: Sugita

 

[RS92]

Yuichi I don't really wanna know
How you are a pro
'Cause I just wanna cry

 

[RS92]

What the f*ck. Sugita has like 1000 UE against a player that before this match was 1/1 in the ATP tour this year... I don't understand why this idiot is in the top 40.

Thank god I won the title Basel, because right now I would stop playing this game.

 

[Beacon Hill]

There wasn't an easy pick today, which is often the case with Masters events that give byes to top seeds.

 

[gn]

Johnson lost to Paire of all people and knocked me out in R1 at Basel. I guess that he is not in good form.

 

[Krish872007]

Holy sh1t, Sugita lost, Zverev lost, Johnson lost, Harrison lost. Simon is down 2-5 in the first set. If Simon and Gasquet both lose this could be the mother of all mass exoduses.

 

[Seth]

Welp, Zverev knocks me out. I wasn’t extremely confident in him but a S&V player on an indoor hard court seemed like a decent strategy.

 

[Krish872007]

Day 1: Felicia Lopez
Bu: Gasquet

Lopez isn't playing singles today, so you need to make another pick

 

[stringertom]

Oops, change to:

Day 1: Sugita
Bu: Gasquet

Double oops.

 

[stringertom]

There wasn't an easy pick today, which is often the case with Masters events that give byes to top seeds.

This is the only MS1000 64-draw that gives byes to all 16 seeds, making it harder. Add in there are only 8 matches and no matches on Sunday and it's ridiculously harder.

 

[Backspin1183]

Forgot about this one. Thank Jebus, there's still time for the Gasquet match.

Day 1: Gasquet
BU: Shapovolav

 

[gn]

This is the only MS1000 64-draw that gives byes to all 16 seeds, making it harder. Add in there are only 8 matches and no matches on Sunday and it's ridiculously harder.

56-draw. But IW and Miami are even tougher with 32 byes.

 

[stringertom]

56-draw. But IW and Miami are even tougher with 32 byes.

Draws come in 32, 64 or 128. This is a 64-draw with 16 byes, the only one of its kind. The other MS1000's only offer 8 byes in the 64-format.

IW/Miami trim the 128 to 96 but we get 16 matches to choose from on each of the first two days...much easier.

 

[boredone3456]

Well almost all of us are out...aye

 

[tennis08tarheels]

Good season, everybody. Congrats to the WTF qualifiers! See you all in Brisbane.

 

[Krish872007]

Good season, everybody. Congrats to the WTF qualifiers! See you all in Brisbane.

You can still play the WTF by the way - we run a "regular" competition which is open to everyone
The qualification is for a parallel Top 8 Bonus Competition, which gives those who qualify the chance to earn Save Picks for next season

 

[bezs]

Day 1: Felicia Lopez
Bu: Gasquet

Changing to
Day 1: Gasquet
Bu: Shapovalov

 

[Krish872007]

Day 2 Schedule (Tuesday 31 October):

K Edmund vs. E Donskoy
P-H Herbert vs. F Lopez
A Mannarino vs. D Ferrer
N Mahut vs. P Carreno Busta
D Thiem vs. P Gojowczyk
D Schwartzman vs. V Troicki
P Cuevas vs. K Khachanov
J-L Struff vs. B Coric
F Verdasco vs. A Rublev
S Querrey vs. F Krajinovic
J Sousa vs. P Lorenzi

Complete mass exodus avoided with Gasquet winning just a few minutes ago.

 

[Krish872007]

RACE UPDATE:

With so many WTF Top 8 contenders exiting on Day 1, this throws up an interesting twist to proceedings.

Congratulations to @stringertom who has now sealed the 4th Bonus Competition spot! Currently #4 in the Race and cannot be passed by 5 people.
boredone3456 and JadeC are out of Paris- their fate no longer lies in their hands, though they are still inside the Top 8 in the Race.

The equation is simple now. @The Green Mile MUST reach the Semi-Finals in order to secure a qualification spot.
@gn MUST reach the Paris Final to make the Top 8.

LIVE WTF TOP 8 COUNTDOWN

 

[The Green Mile]

Day 2: Edmund
BU: Querrey

 

[gn]

NOW, it is on my racquet.

Day 2: Querrey
BU: PCB

 

[luiz_gustavo]

RACE UPDATE:

With so many WTF Top 8 contenders exiting on Day 1, this throws up an interesting twist to proceedings.

Congratulations to @stringertom who has now sealed the 4th Bonus Competition spot! Currently #4 in the Race and cannot be passed by 5 people.
boredone3456 and JadeC are out of Paris- their fate no longer lies in their hands, though they are still inside the Top 8 in the Race.

The equation is simple now. @The Green Mile MUST reach the Semi-Finals in order to secure a qualification spot.
@gn MUST reach the Paris Final to make the Top 8.

LIVE WTF TOP 8 COUNTDOWN

Hey Krish, wondering if I'm qualified as well, since only @kvejkr , @gn and @The Green Mile can surpass me now. As I see, @Aussie Darcy can no longer get to the points that I have as of now, but I could be wrong!

 

[Krish872007]

Hey Krish, wondering if I'm qualified as well, since only @kvejkr , @gn and @The Green Mile can surpass me now. As I see, @Aussie Darcy can no longer get to the points that I have as of now, but I could be wrong!

Great spot! Yes, I think you're right - you're qualified as well - well done! So that's 5 WTF Top 8 spots now taken, looks like today's results worked out perfectly in your favour

Since both you and Aussie Darcy won today, the points difference can't be made up. Max he can gain on you now is 940 pts, but it looks like you're 990 ahead.

 

[stringertom]

Day 2: South Park KYLE EDMUND

B/u: Querrey

 

[tennis08tarheels]

Draws come in 32, 64 or 128. This is a 64-draw with 16 byes, the only one of its kind. The other MS1000's only offer 8 byes in the 64-format.

IW/Miami trim the 128 to 96 but we get 16 matches to choose from on each of the first two days...much easier.

It's certainly a tough draw to pick. What makes it even tougher is that it's a French tournament, meaning there are no garbage wild cards. Their WCs are good players like Mahut and Benneteau.

 

[Krish872007]

Shapo just lost as well.

If Gasquet had lost, we'd have been looking at the largest opening day exodus ever in the SDL, even outdoing the 2013 debacle - literally no-one would have survived.

 

[stringertom]

It's certainly a tough draw to pick. What makes it even tougher is that it's a French tournament, meaning there are no garbage wild cards. Their WCs are good players like Mahut and Benneteau.

It has traditionally yielded mass bloodbaths in SDL...IIRC there was one year when only one SDLer made it past day 2 and we were all cheering him on to win the whole tournament but he failed pretty late. I think it was Romeo??? Was it 2012 with Janowicz vs Ferrer in the finals or 2013 when then unknown PH Herbert qualified and knocked off Paire 1R???

 

[ark_28]

Day 2 Querrey

BU Ferrer

 

[Krish872007]

It has traditionally yielded mass bloodbaths in SDL...IIRC there was one year when only one SDLer made it past day 2 and we were all cheering him on to win the whole tournament but he failed pretty late. I think it was Romeo??? Was it 2012 with Janowicz vs Ferrer in the finals or 2013 when then unknown PH Herbert qualified and knocked off Paire 1R???

2013 when Herbert beat Paire in straight sets on the opening day - that sealed it really.

 

[stringertom]

2013 when Herbert beat Paire in straight sets on the opening day - that sealed it really.

The day PAYOR changed its definition to Paire At Your Own Risk.

 

[Aussie Darcy]

Day 2: Querrey
BU: Lopez

 

[Aussie Darcy]

Hey Krish, wondering if I'm qualified as well, since only @kvejkr , @gn and @The Green Mile can surpass me now. As I see, @Aussie Darcy can no longer get to the points that I have as of now, but I could be wrong!

Great spot! Yes, I think you're right - you're qualified as well - well done! So that's 5 WTF Top 8 spots now taken, looks like today's results worked out perfectly in your favour

Since both you and Aussie Darcy won today, the points difference can't be made up. Max he can gain on you now is 940 pts, but it looks like you're 990 ahead.

Don't worry, I wouldn't consider myself a threat! I ruined any chance I had my missing the QF pick for both Basel and Vienna! No chance in hell i'm winning this tournament!

 

[Boozyuzi]

Day 2: Thiem

BU: Querrey

 

[bezs]

Day 2: Querrey
Bu: Carreno Busta

 

[Krish872007]

Day 2: Querrey
BU: Thiem

 

[I Am Finnish]

NOW, it is on my racquet.

Day 2: Querrey
BU: PCB

I will follow you

2. Querrey

Thiem

 

[TripleATeam]

I don't know, Querrey doesn't seem to want to enter the top 10...

D2: Edmund
BU: Lopez

 

[PDJ]

Day 2: Thiem
BU: Querrey

 

[winchestervatennis]

D2 khachanov bu thiem

 

[kishnabe]

d2: Thiem

BU: Querrey

Thiem can follow through on at least one match?

 

[Tennis sensation]

Day 2: Querrey
BU: Thiem

 

[Backspin1183]

Day 2: PCB
BU: Edmund

 

[NaomiKonjuhPotapova]

Day 2: Sousa
BU: Edmund