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"Wimbledon Prediction Game"

Right, here we are. The Wimbledon 2006 Prediction game. Fairly straight-forward - just put the name of your predicted winner of each game (just delete the other name...) Will do it for each round with new things being added etc.


1st Round

Roger Federer (Swi) (1) v Richard Gasquet (Fra)
Robin Soderling (Swe) v Tim Henman (Gbr)
Nicolas Mahut (Fra) v Jurgen Melzer (Aut)
Jiri Novak (Cze) v Kristof Vliegen (Bel) (30)
Tommy Haas (Ger) (19) v Jiri Vanek (Cze)
Carlos Berlocq (Arg) v Richard Bloomfield (Gbr)
Wayne Arthurs (Aus) v Fabrice Santoro (Fra)
Jan Hernych (Cze) v Tomas Berdych (Cze) (13)
Tommy Robredo (Spa) (11) v Simon Greul (Ger)
Paul Goldstein (USA) v Novak Djokovic (Ser)
Potito Starace (Ita) v Mikhail Youzhny (Rus)
Igor Kunitsyn (Rus) v Gael Monfils (Fra) (21)
Paradorn Srichaphan (Tha) (29) v Agustin Calleri (Arg)
Ivo Karlovic (Cro) v Stanislas Wawrinka (Swi)
Davide Sanguinetti (Ita) v Kevin Kim (USA)
Nicolas Almagro (Spa) v Mario Ancic (Cro) (7)
David Nalbandian (Arg) (4) v Wesley Moodie (Rsa)
Albert Portas (Spa) v Arnaud Clement (Fra)
Benjamin Becker (Ger) v Juan Ignacio Chela (Arg)
Vincent Spadea (USA) v Fernando Verdasco (Spa) (28)
Juan Carlos Ferrero (Spa) (24) v Fernando Vicente (Spa)
Roko Karanusic (Cro) v Rainer Schuettler (Ger)
Xavier Malisse (Bel) v Benedikt Dorsch (Ger)
Frank Dancevic (Can) v Radek Stepanek (Cze) (14)
Thomas Johansson (Swe) (12) v Jonas Bjorkman (Swe)
Florent Serra (Fra) v Lukas Dlouhy (Cze)
Stefano Galvani (Ita) v Alexander Waske (Ger)
Daniele Bracciali (Ita) v Dominik Hrbaty (Svk) (20)
Paul-Henri Mathieu (Fra) (32) v Mark Philippoussis (Aus)
Max Mirnyi (Blr) v Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo (Spa)
Oliver Marach (Aut) v Yeu-Tzuoo Wang (Tpe)
Kristian Pless (Den) v James Blake (USA) (8)
Lleyton Hewitt (Aus) (6) v Filippo Volandri (Ita)
Flavio Saretta (Bra) v Hyung Taik Lee (Kor)
Albert Montanes (Spa) v Tomas Zib (Cze)
Gilles Muller (Lux) v Olivier Rochus (Bel) (26)
David Ferrer (Spa) (23) v Simon Stadler (Ger)
Ivo Minar (Cze) v Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (Spa)
Greg Rusedski (Gbr) v Marat Safin (Rus)
Luis Horna (Per) v Fernando Gonzalez (Chi) (10)
Sebastien Grosjean (Fra) (15) v Gilles Simon (Fra)
Jamie Delgado (Gbr) v Michael Berrer (Ger)
Marcel Granollers-Pujol (Spa) v Andrei Pavel (Rom)
Alan Mackin (Gbr) v Marcos Baghdatis (Cyp) (18)
Nicolas Massu (Chi) (31) v Andrew Murray (Gbr)
Bjorn Phau (Ger) v Julien Benneteau (Fra)
Robin Vik (Cze) v Florian Mayer (Ger)
Janko Tipsarevic (Ser) v Andy Roddick (USA) (3)
Ivan Ljubicic (Cro) (5) v Feliciano Lopez (Spa)
Justin Gimelstob (USA) v Christophe Rochus (Bel)
Alessio Di Mauro (Ita) v Alberto Martin (Spa)
Danai Udomchoke (Tha) v Dmitry Tursunov (Rus) (27)
Jarkko Nieminen (Fin) (22) v Marcos Daniel (Bra)
Dick Norman (Bel) v Martin Lee (Gbr)
Razvan Sabau (Rom) v Phillip Kohlschreiber (Ger)
Alejandro Falla (Col) v Nikolay Davydenko (Rus) (9)
Gaston Gaudio (Arg) (16) v Jean-Christophe Faurel (Fra)
Alexander Peya (Aut) v Irakli Labadze (Geo)
Melle Van Gemerden (Ned) v Joshua Goodall (Gbr)
Mardy Fish (USA) v Robby Ginepri (USA) (17)
Andre Agassi (USA) (25) v Boris Pashanski (Ser)
Andreas Seppi (Ita) v Jamie Baker (Gbr)
Yen-Hsun Lu (Tpe) v Robert Kendrick (USA)
Alex Bogdanovic (Gbr) v Rafael Nadal (Spa) (2)

1 point for each correct result. Points will increase in later rounds and scores in sets will be added etc.


Bonus Points

Fastest Serve (5 points for correct player, 10 points for correct speed (mph)):



How many games will Roger Federer lose in the entire championship? (50 points if correct, 10 points if within 5):


On how many days in the championships will there be rain? (50 points if correct):



P.S If you have bothered to do all of that and have entered - thanks a lot :)just trying to get the new forum going....

SCORES AFTER SEMI FINAL

Grandprix 172
Machie 167
Jamie 150
CF 54
Shrimper 44

SCORES AFTER QUARTER FINAL

Grandprix 156
Machie 151
Jamie 142
CF 38
Shrimper 28

Hmmm... maybe I should have kept with my 183 minutes guess lol :-D

Length of match in minutes (1000 points for exact, 50 for within 10 minutes): 126

Nadal aces?: 9

Federer aces?: 5

Will the winner drop to their knees like an idiot?: Yes

Length of match in minutes (1000 points for exact, 50 for within 10 minutes): 153

Nadal aces?: 8

Federer aces?: 11

Will the winner drop to their knees like an idiot?: Of course

Length of match in minutes (1000 points for exact, 50 for
within 10 minutes): 154
Nadal aces: 7

Federer aces: 10

And yes, they will.

Sorry for not sorting this out before - just got back from little seaside break. Understand if people don't manage to predict these.

Length of match in minutes (1000 points for exact, 50 for within 10 minutes):

Nadal aces?:

Federer aces?:

Will the winner drop to their knees like an idiot?:

Federer to win the final.

I'M BACK.

Federer will win the final.

Guess i was being a bit contoversial saying that Nadal will win.