2024 WTA Sudden Death League: Australian Open

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Welcome to the 1st event of the 2024 ATP Sudden Death League: Australian Open

Play is scheduled to start on Sunday 14th.

2024 WTA SDL sheet - LEAGUE FILE

Rules of the game:

1. It's a knock-out system: if the player you picked wins, you're through to the next round. If she loses, you're out.

2. You can pick a player only ONCE. Obviously it's important to make smart choices in order to get far. If you have no picks remaining, you're eliminated from the competition.

3. You can't pick a player from a match that has started already. You must be logged in to make your pick; proxy picks are not allowed.

4. You cannot advance to the next round via a walkover. HOWEVER, this rule does not apply once you reach the semifinals

5. As you cannot win a match by a walkover it is highly advised that you make a back-up pick.
Your pick and back up cannot be from the same match. If so, your back up will be invalidated.
If your main pick is invalid (ie late, unreadable or unspecific) then your back up will become your pick.

6. If the player you picked retires during the match, you're out. If she retires before the match, your back-up pick will be used unless you change your pick before your back up match begins.

7. NEVER edit your pick. If you want to change your pick, please quote your old pick and choose a new player. Edited posts will not be taken into consideration.

8. For late picks, we will use whichever timestamp Flashscore.com shows for the match. Your post must be made before the time Flashscore gives. Keep in mind, Flashscore might round the start time (ie if a match begins at 12:07, Flashscore might show 12:05 or 12:10). Ties will not be counted.

9. No changes rule: For the WTA Finals/Bonus comp + the last 16 onwards of the Grand Slams + the last 8 onwards of any other tournament no changes are allowed to your pick or back up once it is entered unless either your pick or back up withdraws. You can add a back up later than your pick if you choose.

We will be making 10 picks for this tournament.
ONE pick per round except for TWO picks in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd rounds, which are split into top and bottom halves.

SCORES FOR THIS TOURNAMENT -

1 correct pick: 70 points
2 correct picks: 140
3 correct picks: 230
4 correct picks: 320
5 correct picks: 430
6 correct picks: 540
7 correct picks; 720
8 correct picks: 1000
9 correct picks: 1400
10 correct picks: 2000

SAVE PICKS FOR 2024

Save picks are awarded at the end of a season for use during the following season. If unused, they expire at the year end.
Our year-end champion receives two save picks. Runners-up #2 through to #4 are awarded one each.

In 2023, two players tied for 4th place.
@boredone3456 has 2 save picks remaining
@AB19 , @Niekotokio , @Max G. and @NaomiKonjuhPotapova have 1 save pick remaining.

1. You can use your save pick to advance if your player loses or retires during her match.

2. Save picks must be used before the last 16 of the Grand Slams or before the last 8 of any other tournament and must be used before the WTA Finals.

3. Please nominate a winning player to replace your losing player - your "burn" pick. If any future picks were made, they will be void. You must indicate that you intend to use your "burn" and make a new pick for the next round from players that are available to you at that point.

4. Your next pick must be correct to gain additional points.

Good luck to everyone, the more the merrier.. It's all good fun.. :)

Please sign up here if you fancy having a go.

WTA SDL League admins for 2024 - Boozyuzi, boredone3456 & nounforcederrors
 
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PMF said:
Do we accidentally have two threads going on same topic?
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Yes, for the moment, we have two. My post was attempted yesterday, and cut out in mid-launch. @boredone3456 then began his today, successfully launched it, and mine came through out of cyberspace today.
Because both threads include the same link to the Google sheets, whatever is posted in one thread's access to Google sheets is automatically in the other thread's access to Google sheets, so no one's pick would be lost.
 
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Yes, for the moment, we have two. My post was attempted yesterday, and cut out in mid-launch. @boredone3456 then began his today, successfully launched it, and mine came through out of cyberspace today.
Because both threads include the same link to the Google sheets, whatever is posted in one thread's access to Google sheets is automatically in the other thread's access to Google sheets, so no one's pick would be lost.
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Thanks for clarifying, and organizing this in general. I was secretly hoping everyone gets double picks. LOL. The ladies draw seems particularly tricky this year!
 
Looks like the Bottom Half plays first this time. First rounds always seem harder to me than subsequent rounds, when we get a better idea of what shape players are in, so I'm hoping to get through the first round! Top half seems more powerful this year? Some of the up and coming youngsters are sure to cause a few upsets?
 
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Looks like the Bottom Half plays first this time. First rounds always seem harder to me than subsequent rounds, when we get a better idea of what shape players are in, so I'm hoping to get through the first round! Top half seems more powerful this year? Some of the up and coming youngsters are sure to cause a few upsets?
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Yeah, lots of good players in the top half. Even those who are ranked 40-80 are capable of beating a seed, like Giorgi versus Azerenka. I think there will be a lot of close matches.
 
R1 Top: Svitolina
R1 Bu: Zheng Qinwen

R1 Bottom: Pera
Bu: Fernandez

Here's to first round survival.
 
As a “new guy,” I would be disappointed in no barking. So do I understand this correctly, I cannot pick the ladies I chose in R1 in subsequent matches?
 
@PhxRacket Correct. That's why you don't want to pick people you think may make it to final rounds, say the QFs & higher, in the early rounds. But you do want to win the early rounds, to avoid elimination, so some play it safe by picking their near-favourites in early rounds. It's a tightrope, or to put it melodramatically, SUDDEN DEATH.
You can, however, use an unused back-up pick again. You can't re-use main picks that you have already used. Example: if Pera shows up and wins, you're through R1 Bottom. You didn't use Saville, your R1 Bottom BU pick. So you can use Saville in a subsequent round if you want to. But you can't use Pera again. If Pera withdraws before her match, we use Saville as you replacement new pick, and then if she wins, you can't use her again.
 
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Also, I had my thread deleted. I think all the picks made it over into the sheet, however if you do not see a pick you made...please please PLEASE repost it.

Again I apologize for the confusion. First event of the year something had to happen hahaha
 
GhostDog said:
R1 Top: Ostapenko
BU: Zheng

R1 Bottom: Svitolina
BU: Vekic
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Svitolina is in the Top Half. We wish someone - you or one of us - had caught this error earlier, before Vekic began play. As it is, Svitolina is an invalid choice as a Bottom pick, so you were locked into your BU.
 
@PhxRacket We're sorry beginner's luck wasn't with you this time. SDL players who have been around the block a few times have grown used to our rules.
Ordinarily, in most tourneys, a full round is played before the next round begins. Then it's easier to understand our Rule #1 (see the rules above in the OP). It says:
1. It's a knock-out system: if the player you picked wins, you're through to the next round. If she loses, you're out.
In the case of split rounds, you must win the half that's listed to play first, before you're eligible to play & win the second half.
Due to occasional unpredictable scheduling, sometimes a few matches from the "other half," the half scheduled to be played later, creep in ahead of time.
That was the case with Svitolina and Siniakova, who are Top Half players.
You made a Svitolina winning pick before your R1B, Pera, played, and you may have assumed you had a win under your belt. However, you had not yet made it out of the Bottom Half, which was supposed to play first (and did, for the most part). When Pera lost, you automatically lost eligibility to continue on to the next half round, and your Svitolina pick became ineligible. It's a tough and anticlimactic result, but there it is, we can't move on unless we win an earlier round.
Hope this is clear?
 
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