PLEASE READ - IMPORTANT SUICIDE POOL UPDATES

[beaujarkko]

A couple of things heading into Day 3:

1. Marion Bartoli has already advanced due to her opponent's withdrawal. This makes her an ineligible pick.

2. If your Day 2 pick did not finish (Hantuchova, Isner, Mahut, de Bakker), you MUST still make a Day 3 pick in the appropriate thread(s) and survive the conclusion of both matches tomorrow.

[beaujarkko]

Bumping.

[beaujarkko]

Bump ba bump ba bump.

[Kirkus]

Le Bumpage.

[beaujarkko]

For the Men's pool, we are waiting for the official order of play, but you may NOT pick (as if you'd want to) from the Isner/Mahut match for your day 4 pick. LOL.

[shtexas]

Youzhny/Mathieu is actually not on the schedule for Day 4, but is still an eligible pick. Those who have chosen one of them can keep them as their day 4 men's pick. They will also have to pick a day 5 from the Friday schedule when it goes up tomorrow (and Youzhny/Mathieu will not be included as a choice for day 5).

So, if you stick with Youzhny or Mathieu, you will have to survive both that pick and your day 5 pick on Friday. Sort of like when we have rain delay or suspensions due to darkness. You keep picking and have to survive both.

[Federer70]

are people still in if they picked simon for today - since it seems the walkover was last minute

[Moose]

are people still in if they picked simon for today - since it seems the walkover was last minute

Yes, the Simon pickers are through. No official word of the retirement by Marchenko was released prior to start of play/thread closing, so it is a different scenario than where an anouncement is made well in advance, and we can post notice publicly.

We have always allowed a walkover winner to advance when the anouncement of the retirement comes to us after scheduled start of play