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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....

Yes thanks for doing this for us Jamie :)

Roger Federer (Swi) (1)
Mario Ancic (Cro) (7)
Radek Stepanek (Cze) (14)
Jonas Bjorkman (Swe)
Lleyton Hewitt (Aus) (6)
Andrew Murray (Gbr)
Jarkko Nieminen (Fin) (22)
Rafael Nadal (Spa) (2)

I think I'm winning :D

Cruciatum Fixative wrote:
>can I still go for the
> bonus points?

Yeah go for it.

I'll make up some more questions for the semi's and final. Maybe throw in a few ladies' questions too.

Sorry I haven't been updating the scores- I've just had so much on, I'll try get it done soon.

OK then, I'll wait for the semi ones... But I predict 3 days of rain :-)

Will join in near the end.
Fourth Round

Roger Federer (Swi)
Mario Ancic (Cro) (7)
Fernando Verdasco (Spa) (28)
Jonas Bjorkman (Swe)
Lleyton Hewitt (Aus) (6)
Marcos Baghdatis (Cyp) (18)
Jarkko Nieminen (Fin) (22)
Rafael Nadal (Spa) (2)

HUZZAH.

People.

FIRST ROUND SCORES

Grandprix 46
Jamie 44
Machie 38

Scores after Round 2

Grandprix 96
Jamie 96
Machie 90

SCORES AFTER ROUND 3

Jamie 120
Grandprix 114
Machie 111

Hey that's pretty good, I did better than I thought :D I'm sure I'll over take in the 4th round.

SCORES AFTER ROUND 4

Machie 139
Grandprix 138
Jamie 136
Shrimper 28
CF 20

I did terribly that round. Machie and Shrimper won that round.