Who Can't Win Jack contest - 2008 Aussie Open

[Jack]

Who Can’t Win Jack Contest - 2008 Australian Open
(Finally a contest where it’s worth picking Pin!!)
(Plus we haven't reached our contest max yet - have we?)

Anyone can pick the men’s and women’s singles winners of the 2008 Australian Open, but it takes real talent to spot the ultimate LOSER of the event. The Wooden Spoon Award goes to the last place finisher of a competition – in tennis terms, it’s the player whose conqueror loses in the next round, whose conqueror loses in the next round, whose conqueror loses in the next round, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wooden_spoon_%28award%29

So for example, in the recent Sydney event, Obziler was the last place finisher. She lost to Golovin in the 1R, who lost to Jankovic in the 2R, who lost to Vaidisova in the QF, who lost to Kuznetsova in the SF, who lost to Henin in the finals. So Obziler won the booby prize of being the “last place” finisher in Sydney.

Get it? It’s tougher than it looks.

ENTRY: To enter the 2008 Australian Open Wooden Spoon contest, pick the names of four men’s singles contestants and four women’s singles contestants who you think are the most likely to finish in “last place” in their respective draws. Rank those players 1-4, with #1 being your most likely to finish “last”.

These picks carry through the rest of the tournament. So if your picks lose in the first round – and you hope they do! – the players who beat your picks become your new selections in the 2R, and so on, until the finals (if you’re lucky…).

SCORING: For each round that one of your entries remains in the running for the Wooden Spoon, you earn a point.

BONUS POINTS: Based on your selected rank of your four picks, you’ll get a multiplier for bonus points – your number 1 pick gets a bonus of (x4), #2 pick gets a bonus of (x3), #3 pick gets a bonus of (x2) and #4 pick gets a bonus of (x1).

EXAMPLE: Let’s say Federer is my #1 pick in the Wooden Spoon contest. If Federer wins, I get no points. But if Federer loses to Hartfield, I get a point for Federer’s loss, and Hartfield automatically becomes my 2R pick. In round 2, if Hartfield wins, I earn no more points from my Federer pick, but if Hartfield loses to Santoro, I now have another point added to my score, and Santoro automatically becomes my new pick. As my #1 pick, any points I earn from Federer and his conquerors get multiplied by (x4).

HINTS: To make it easy on yourself, fill out a full drawsheet, then trace backwards through the draw to find your ultimate losers!

It’s not enough to pick players who you think will lose first round. For instance, there’s a very good chance that Nakamura will lose in the 1R against Henin, but then Henin becomes your pick TO LOSE in the 2R. Unless Olga Poutchkova has a career day Down Under, it’s not likely to happen. You want to find the trail of loser, after loser, after loser…

Entries are due before the start of play in Melbourne on Monday (Sunday night, 7:00pm Eastern Time Zone). Good Luck to all entrants!

[GVGirl]

Cool! Sounds like fun! So will you be giving out a wooden spoon as a prize?;)

[aedra1119]

This sounds great, Jack! Time to fill out the draw...

[dryrunguy]

Sounds like a blast! Looking forward to playing!

Dry

[jjnow]

1. Alejandro Falla
2. Jiri Vanek
3. Sergio Roitman
4. Mischa Zverev

1. Petra Cetkovska
2. Clarisa Fernandez
3. Ashley Harkleroad
4. Mathilde Johansson

Does this look right, Jack?

[Jack]

1. Alejandro Falla
2. Jiri Vanek
3. Sergio Roitman
4. Mischa Zverev

1. Petra Cetkovska
2. Clarisa Fernandez
3. Ashley Harkleroad
4. Mathilde Johansson

Does this look right, Jack?

Indeed it does! ;)

[nelslus]

The "Who Can't Win Jack Contest?" THAT'S a contest? SHEESH- All ya have to do is dress up like Wendy Turnbull and become especially adept with your western forehand grip, and he's all yours. Big Deal.

[mmmm8]

Ladies:
1. Petra Cetkovska
2. Akiko Morigami
3. Dominica Cibulkova
4. Klara Zakopalova/Qualifier facing Klara Zakopalova (TBD)


Risking it a bit.



Boys later

[Kirkus]

I'll see to it that the winner(s) receive a wooden spoon as the prize.

[Aziza]

Haha! I love this one!!

Patience
Slanar
Gicquel
Zverev

Johansson
Kudryavtseva
Kleybanova
Cetkovska

[Charlie02123]

I'll see to it that the winner(s) receive a wooden spoon as the prize.

Or perhaps a medal? If there are 30 contestants?

BTW Jack, I SWEAR I was planning on posting a thread asking who people thought the wooden spoon would be. I didn't think about making it this wonderful tapestry of predictions, though, so I'm very glad you beat me to it.

[JTContinental]

Women

1 Angelique Kerber
2 Virginia Ruano Pascual
3 Anastasia Rodionova
4 Flavia Pennetta



Men

1 Nicolas Almagro
2 Marc Gicquel
3 Juan Martin del Potro
4 Bobby Reynolds

[Jack]

Women:
1. Tu
2. C. Fernandez
3. Linetskaya
4. Dellacqua

Men:
1. Lu
2. Slanar
3. Ventura
4. Klein

(The Tu-Lu picks were just the way my draws worked out!)

[Jack]

The "Who Can't Win Jack Contest?" THAT'S a contest? SHEESH- All ya have to do is dress up like Wendy Turnbull and become especially adept with your western forehand grip, and he's all yours. Big Deal.

Wendy had me at hello.

[GVGirl]

Here is goes on the fly...

Men

1. Vanek
2. J.Levine
3. B. Klein
4. Roitman

Women

1. Malek
2. Meusburger
3. Kerber
4. Harkleroad

[evil_juju]

OK here it goes :

Tennis Ladies

Petra Cetkovska
Mathilde Johansson
Dominica Cibulkova
Ashley Harkleroad

Tennis Boys

Jiri Vanek
Bobby Reynolds
Jesse Levine
Marc Gicquel


*ok I hope this is right I'm hungover and sleepy

[tinamarie]

This is fun :)


Ladies:

1. Meilen Tu
2. Akiko Morigami
3. Casey Dellacqua
4. Jessica Moore

Men:

1. Kevin Anderson
2. Yen-Hsu Lu
3. Martin Slanar
4. Brydan Klein

[atlpam]

1. Clarisa Fernandez
2. Gisela Dulko
3. Julie Ditty
4. Yaroslava Shvedova


1. Paul Capdeville
2. Marc Giquel
3. Denis Gremelmayr
4. Michael Russel

[Madame]

WTA
1. Linetskaya
2. Dellacqua
3. Wozniacki
4. Ruano Pascual

ATP
1. Lu (Yen-Hsun)
2. Pashanski
3. Economidis
4. Jones

[oohsalmon]

1. Denis Istomin
2. Dudi Sela (who has been an SP pick! :shocked:)
3. Brydan Klein
4. Yen-Hsun Lu

1. Petra Cetkovska
2. Tatiana Malek
3. Angry Anastasia Rodionova
4. Clarisa Fernandez

[Charlie02123]

ATP

1. Martin Slanar (according to my racket bracket)
2. Bryan Klein
3. Olivier Patience
4. Kevin Anderson

WTA

1. Caroline Wozniacki (according to my racket bracket)
2. Virginia Ruano Pascual
3. Roberta Vinci (who's playing Ruano Pascual in the first round)
4. Evgenia Linetskaya

FUN FUN FUN!

[Scotty]

Women's:

1. Meilen Tu
2. Stephanie Dubois
3. Sophie Ferguson
4. Tamarine Tanasugarn

Men's:

1. Nick Lindahl
2. Mischa Zverev
3. Yen-Hsun Lu
4. Paul Capdeville

[zephblabs]

this seems fun!

Ladies:
1.Petkovic, Andrea GER
2.Moore, Jessica, AUS
3. Salerni, Ma. Emilia ARG
4. Fernandez, Clarisa ARG

Men:
1. Anderson, Kevin RSA
2. Levine, Jesse USA
3. Odesnik, Wayne USA
4. Gremelmayr, Denis GER

[mrjiggyfly2]

Men

1. Martin Slanar
2. Brydan Klein
3. Yen-Hsun Lu
4. Olivier Patience

Women

1. Clarisa Fernandez
2. Roberta Vinci
3. Pauline Parmentier
4. Gisela Dulko

[Tscott415]

Men:
1. Bobby Reynolds
2. Michael Russell
3. Alun Jones
4. Wayne Odesnik

Women:
1. Petra Cetkovska
2. Tatjana Malek
3. Gisela Dulko
4. Roberta Vinci

[Justme]

I can't believe how much work and research I have to do for these contests.

Men
1. Bryden Klein
2. Jesse Levine
3. Michael Russell
4. Alun Jones

Women
1. Petra Cetkovska
2. Tatjana Malek
3. Virginia Ruano Pascual
4. Caroline Woznaicki

[Moose]

Women:
1. Maret Ani
2. Andrea Petkovic
3. Petra Cetkovska
4. Sofia Arvidsson

Men:
1. Mischa Zverev
2. Nicolas Mahut
3. Stefan Loubek
4. Alun Jones

[munchin]

Okay, time to embarass myself.

Men:

1. Martin Slanar
2. Paul Capdeville
3. Mischa Zverev
4. Fabio Fognini


Women:

1. Kateryna Bondarenko
2. Tatjana Malek
3. Roberta Vinci
4. Jessica Moore

[mysterX]

I'm trying to decide what's the best strategy - picking one from each quarter, or deciding which quarter is most likely to lose from the semifinals on, then loading up on picks from that quarter. I decided to go with the one from each quarter strategy, with a slight variation for WTA.

ATP

1. Jiri Vanek
2. Alun Jones
3. Martin Slanar
4. Jesse Levine

WTA

1. Sophie Ferguson
2. Akiko Morigami
3. Gisela Dulko
4. Anne Kremer

[PeterSkan]

Neat. I'll try to get an entry in!

[mmmm8]

Ladies:
1. Petra Cetkovska
2. Akiko Morigami
3. Dominica Cibulkova
4. Klara Zakopalova/Qualifier facing Klara Zakopalova (TBD)


Risking it a bit.



Boys later



Women (Edit):
1. Akiko Morigami
2. Petra Cetkovska
3. Clarisa Fernandez
4. Su-Wei Hsieh


Men:
1. Jamie Baker
2. Denis Gremelmayr
3. Paul Capdeville
4. Kristof Vliegen (this sounds like the right contest for him)

[ponchi101]

This has got to be the weirdest contest of them all;
Mine:

men:
Marcel Granollers-Pujol
Sam Warburg
Yen-Hsun Lu
Denis Istomin

women:
Mariya Koryttseva
Ivonne Meusberger
Angelica Bachmann
Madison Brengle

So, how do we ROOT for them? :confused:

[Jack]

So, how do we ROOT for them? :confused:

You don't, you root against them!

Trust me, when Brengle gets a set and a break up on Perebinyis, you'll be cheering for her to choke!;)

[Takao]

Ladies:
1) Linetskaya
2) Vinci
3) Wheeler
4) Brengle

Gentlemen:
1) Slanar
2) Sela
3) Klein
4) Pashanski

[e11even]

ATP
1. SLANAR, Martin AUT
2. PATIENCE, Olivier FRA
3. PASHANSKI, Boris SRB
4. JONES, Alun AUS

WTA
1. VINCI, Roberta ITA
2. LINETSKAYA, Evgenia ISR
3. DULKO, Gisela ARG
4. KNAPP, Karin ITA

:thumbsup:

[beaujarkko]

Women (Edit):

4. Kristof Vliegen (this sounds like the right contest for him)


LOL. I also thought you'd like to know that on my draws, my ACTUAL biggest loser is Juan Ignacio Chela.

[beaujarkko]

Ok, here goes.

Women

1. Marta Domachowska
2. Madison Brengle
3. Clarisa Fernandez
4. Tzipora Obziler

Men

1. Juan Ignacio Chela
2. Sergio Roitman
3. Bobby Reynolds
4. Fabio Fognini

[Jack]

LOL. I also thought you'd like to know that on my draws, my ACTUAL biggest loser is Juan Ignacio Chela.

:cheesy:

When I was considering my 2-4 picks, I considered a path that had Davydenko as the biggest loser. But I didn't have the guts to enter it, because - while Llodra is a tough draw - Davydenko is so steady in the majors.

[beaujarkko]

:cheesy:

When I was considering my 2-4 picks, I considered a path that had Davydenko as the biggest loser. But I didn't have the guts to enter it, because - while Llodra is a tough draw - Davydenko is so steady in the majors.


I agree. Steadier than Chela, too, I'd argue. I'd love to see him go out Day 1.

[oploskoffie]

Hopeless Chicks

1. Angelika Bachman
2. Madison Brengle
3. Mariya Koryttseva
4. Roberta Vinci

Woeful Dudes

1. Martin Slanar
2. Brydan Klein
3. Yen-Hsun Lu
4. Fabio Fognini

[MeganFernandez]

WOMEN
1. Poutchek
2. Linetskaya
3. Meilin Tu
4. Cetkovska

MEN
1. Roitman
2. Montanes
3. Brydan Klein
4. Yen-Hsun Lu

[MeganFernandez]

WOMEN
1. Poutchek
2. Linetskaya
3. Meilin Tu
4. Cetkovska

MEN
1. Roitman
2. Montanes
3. Brydan Klein
4. Yen-Hsun Lu


WOMEN (reordered)
1. Linetskaya
2. Poutvchek
3. Meilin Tu
4. Cetkovska

MEN (reordered)
1. Brydan Klein
2. Roitman
3. Montanes
4. Yen-Hsun Lu

[aedra1119]

Men:

1) Brydan Klein
2) Jose Acasuso
3) Bobby Reynolds
4) Olivier Patience

Women:

1) Petra Cetkovska
2) Yaroslava Shvedova
3) Meilen Tu
4) Su-Wei Hsieh

[mmmm8]

LOL. I also thought you'd like to know that on my draws, my ACTUAL biggest loser is Juan Ignacio Chela.

I don't remember now if I went with him, but he was my SP pick candidate

[shtexas]

I'll try:

Men:

1. Slanar
2. A. Jones
3. Horna
4. Fognini

Women:

1. Obziler
2. C. Fernandez
3. Malek
4. Wozniacki :(

[dryrunguy]

Well, I know I did this right, but I'm shocked at some of the women I came up with!

1. Santiago Ventura
2. Stefan Koubek
3. Dudi Sela
4. Boris Pashanski

1. Petra Cetkovska
2. Alla Kudryavtseva
3. Virginie Razzano
4. Michaella Krajicek (sorry, suliso!)

(Under what would be my second choice for a Racquet Bracket scenario, Krajicek would have been my #2 seed. Ouch!)

Dry

[carlitos2006]

Maybe if I enter enough of these contests, I'll actually have a shot at winning one.

Women:
1) Cetkovska
2) Clarissa Fernandez
3) Cibulkova
4) Linetskaya

Men:
1) Levine
2) Fognini
3) Lu
4) Luczak

[suliso]

Men:

1. Jose Acasuso
2. Augustin Calleri
3. Santiago Ventura
4. Jiri Vanek

Women:

1. Meilen Tu
2. Gisela Dulko
3. Yaroslava Shvedova
4. Petra Cetkovska

[Martini4me]

Female spooners:

1. Anne Kremer
2. Clarisa Fernandez
3. Mathilde Johansson (but so cute!!)
4. Karin Knapp

Male spooners:

1. Olivier Patience
2. Kevin Anderson
3. Brydan Klein
4. Alun Jones

[PeterSkan]

The Jackettes

1. Casey Dellaqua
2. Alize Cornet
3. Giselka Dulko
4. Petra Cetkovska

The Jacks

1. Yen-Hsun Lu
2. Denis Gremelmayr
3. Boris Pashanski
4. Jiri Vanek

[rabbit]

The Jackettes

1. Casey Dellaqua
2. Alize Cornet
3. Giselka Dulko
4. Petra Cetkovska


No!!! Alize will win it all....:cool:

[Jack]

Bump - fifteen minutes for entries! Bring out your dead!!

[Jack]

Who Can't Win Jack contest for 08 AO is closed. Good luck to your losers and check the picks & scores threads for updates!