US OPEN

[mug punta]

Have taken a big multi for a bit of interest in the tennis.
Federer to beat Costa, Martin to beat Santaro, Agassi to beat Ginepri, Moya to defeat Baker, Rusedski to beat Saulnier, Fish to beat Ferrer, Bjorkman to beat Berlych, Grosgen to beat Patience, Hewitt to beat Ferreira and Roddick to beat Jenkins for $100 @15-1.
Only tough ones should be Martin, Rusedski and Bjorkman.

Does anyone give Lleyton and Agassi a hope of beating Federer or Roddick?

[sportznut]

They're definitely the top 4 chances. I'll have to go take a look at the draw and get back to you on that one. The Olympic Games has taken all the publicity away from the Tennis this year and I'd nearly forgotten all about it.

[sportznut]

Men's:
Roger Federer is a very deserving favourite. He shouldn't really have any major problems in his half of the draw except for a possible 1/4 final against Agassi. I really think he should have Agassi's measure though. Hewitt has a pretty good draw and if he continues with his current good form, he has a shot of at least making the semis. Roddick's draw is a bit tougher I feel and his form is not brilliant at the moment. Safin is in his part of the draw and he also has an outside chance of winning here.

Women's:
Justine Henin-Hardenne deserves to be favourite and she has an okay draw. Serena Williams has a great draw, and she must also be one of the main chances. Also think that Davenport and Mauresmo are good chances of at least reaching the semis. Davenport is in great form at the moment and Mauresmo has a good draw.

[Chuck]

MARDY FISH & TAYLOR DENT to win

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[goldmember]

Dent to beat Aynaoui
Jan Michael Gambil to beat Ram
Spadea to beat Horna

[goldmember]

http://www.usopen.org has all the info uou need

[roman@oz]

all this the work of just 1 person
amazing!

[nelgsta]

Hi guys,

AGASSI beat GINEPRI
HENMAN beat KARLOVIC
FERRERO beat ZIB
NALBANDIAN beat VAN SCHEPPINGEN
HEWITT beat FERREIRA
FERRERO beat ZIB

Pretty straight forward first round multi. Dangers are NALBANDIAN & AGASSI (Ginepri has had a massive build up to the OPEN). I can't really see HENMAN dropping his first round.

(I took your multi GOLDMEMBER, looks good on paper :smile: Cheers).

Regards,

Glen.

[sportznut]

On 2004-08-30 17:05, Chuck_3000 wrote:
MARDY FISH & TAYLOR DENT to win


Are you talking about the overall winner or just the first round?

[mug punta]

I've taken another multi and im after a bit of advice from you wise punters out there.
If Nalbandian and Hewitt win their rd 1 clashes I collect $560 including my initial outlay of $210.
I can't really see either losing but would other punters take a small saver on Hewitt with Nalbandians opponent and vice versa with Hewitts opponent and Nalbandian. If both lose that would be unbelievable and I would wear that on the chin

[goldmember]

Muggi, Hewitt should win in straight sets but i'm not sure about Nalbandian as when i'm on him he gets rolled[dont worry i'm not on him]but ive never heard of Scheppingen.

Also got a nice multi still to go,had

HENMAN won
SRICHAPHAN won
ENQIVST won
GROSGEAN
HEWITT

thought the safin /enqvist was a 50/50 game and couldnt believe safin was so short.

[Chuck]

Yes, strange as it may seem, i have backed Fish and Dent to win...i also had smaller bets on Rafael Nadal, Nikolay davidenko and Joachim Johannson, and a saver on Federer

Chuck

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[nelgsta]

SAULINER, Cyril (FRA) v KIEFER, Nicolas (GER): KIEFER, Nicolas (GER)
Straight Bet at $1.38

INTO
HRBATY, Dominik (SVK) v KUCERA, Karol (SVK): HRBATY, Dominik (SVK)
Straight Bet at $1.35

INTO
MAYER, Florian (GER) v AGASSI, Andre (USA): AGASSI, Andre (USA)
Straight Bet at $1.12

INTO
MASSU, Nicolas (CHI) v SARGSIAN, Sargis (ARM): MASSU, Nicolas (CHI)
Straight Bet at $1.28

INTO
GOLMARD, Jerome (FRA) v HENMAN, Tim (GBR): HENMAN, Tim (GBR)
Straight Bet at $1.18

INTO
NOVAK, Jiri (CZE) v CALATRAVA, Alex (ESP): NOVAK, Jiri (CZE)
Straight Bet at $1.14

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Dangers are SAULNIER and KIEFER!

First multi got up, took home about $1000, hope you were all on it!

Good luck with this one!

Glen

[goldmember]

Looks like RODDICK wont raise a sweat against Nadal at the moment 6-0 6-3

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[mug punta]

Have taken a multi in tonights matches

KIEFER to beat henman
AGASSI to beat sargsian
HRBARTY to beat rochus
FEDERER to beat pavel
Odds - $2.77. Should go pretty close.

Will also back Lindsay Devenport to beat Venus Williams and to win the whole thing. She is in red hot form

[goldmember]

Watched the hewitt game this morning and he is white hot,and if everything goes as planned he'll meet roddick in the semis,which will the match of the open.

[Floydyboy]

In the womens I favour a
Capriati/Allez Justine Quinella
I think Jennifers paying about 3.60 at the mo so im gunna throw a few dollars in that direction to start with .Ive Just got the feelin that Smokin Joe might self destruct

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[Floydyboy]

well it looks like bye bye Justine .
Didnt even get a chance to put a quinnella on

[Floydyboy]

well i got the bikkies but i feel like a thief (no i dont ) some 'orrible line calls against serena

[mug punta]

Took a multi with capriatti, johansson, hewitt and if Roddick gets the chockies a tidy collect is coming my way.
Was she a bit lucky to beat Serena FB?

[Floydyboy]

She deserved to win but it was close with some long rallies and Capriati was gritty throught out and kept her cool I think the stats will show that serena had a lot more unforced errors but that was the case in the first set yet she won it

[Chuck]

Well, i'm down to my last pick Joachim Johannson, and if he wins the tournament i should be in for a big collect
Chuck

[sportznut]

That's a mighty big IF. Didn't you have a bet on Federer as well?

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[sportznut]

One of those line calls was an absolute shocker! It wasn't even on the outside of the line, it was on the inside of the line and called out!!! Not sad to see her go though. At least we won't have to look at those disgraceful outfits. Somebody really needs to tell her she looks horrid in them.

Had a small bet on Davenport pre-tournament. Starting to wish I'd had more on.

[Floydyboy]

Once again Im on the other side of the fence Im not a serena fan but Im not one to be critical of what they wear If the tournament organisers set or dont set a dress code is up to them (In saying that she does look terrible well un tennislike at least)but Im sorry Let em wear what they will .
I was sitting watching that match the commentators from australia were sitting there criticising the way Old man williams was training them and he should be doing this and that an bla bla .Thats what gets me snarky who are they to tell people how when or where they should play etc then half an hour later they were giving it to roddick about his shirt for christ sake I suppose I find those things on the petty side .Who cares what he was wearing He coulda been wearing a bloody gorilla suit and his oppo still woulda been standing there watching the balls fly past him.I admire the wiiliams because they live in a fishbowl and because of their flamboyance they have ruffled a lot of feathers .Yet theyre always civil and have a laugh with the press >>the debacle at wimbledon was one thing and then that umpire today overuled on the call on the other side of the court .If it was mcenroe(who I a was/ am a fan of)would still be standing there now until he got it over turned .She had her say and walked away .what bothered me was I had my money on she was starting to self destruct as i thought might happen (with Capriatis help ) then she got angry and started grunting harder I thought it was going to spur her on haha .
Any way Im just gunna pull Trigger over to rail here and hop down ...Jeez the high horses have got long legs

[Chuck]

Yes, sportz i did back Federer, but if he wins i only get a tiny collect...

[goldmember]

watching the Roddick - Johansson game on fox and Roddick is struggling,

[mug punta]

Just broke him in the 3rd set. It aint all over YET!!

[goldmember]

yeah he just won the 3rd set, he's steppin up the pace and he's got the momentum

[mug punta]

I reckon this ones going to five!!
Just broke him in the 4th

[goldmember]

just gone to the 5th now and the way he's going it'll be over in 15 min !

[goldmember]

I reckon the've swapped shirts after 2 sets,cause roddick didnt have a clue up until then and now johansson has done a sally robbins ! roddick down 15-30 and hit 3 aces

[Floydyboy]

Im watching it too
shes a bit folkloric our sally
I woulda thrown her in the water

[goldmember]

Roddick startin to lose his cool,gunna go down to the wire now!

[goldmember]

NO MORE RODDICK, BYE BYE

[sportznut]

You're kidding! Can't believe it! Geez, Chuck's bet on Johannson is still alive.

Bet there were some aces in that match.

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[Floydyboy]

believe it!!!
I dont think hell beat hewitt but

[Floydyboy]

only 64 aces
lol
rod 34
joh 30

[goldmember]

roddick couldnt handle johansson's serve early on, but hewitt is probably the best returner in tennis, so it will be a great game to watch, think hewitt will win, wonder who sis will be going for ? is blood thicker than water?

thought the $1.35 for federer and $1.07 for roddick were under the odds so i didnt have a bet.LUCKILY.

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[sportznut]

All the 'experts' were saying over a week ago that a Hewitt/Roddick semi was just about a certainty. Funny that. Johannson's VERY impressive. I've backed him a few times in this tournament but I thought Roddick would be just a bit too good today. Hewitt's been brilliant. He'd be favoured but he's no good thing.

It's looking like Federer to me, which is pretty much what I thought 2 weeks ago.

[sportznut]

Hey, I've just seen that Molik and Woodbridge are in the final of the mixed. :smile:

[rabbitz]

I had this big multi going and then when i was doing it I thought what else can i chuck in and i looked at the tennis and I thought Dividend of $15.23 sounds good,throw in roddick $16.30 sounds better,bye bye,but you know I forgot about EGGS.
Saw a movie on SBS about 15 years back
It was called EGGS,EGGS A HARD BOILED STORY
Funny that
Cheers

[sportznut]

On 2004-09-08 20:32, sportznut wrote:
Had a small bet on Davenport pre-tournament. Starting to wish I'd had more on.


Now I'm not. :smile:

[goldmember]

Got a shock when i woke up this morning to find out the 2 russian girls won, so now theres no yanks left,i feel REALLY dissapointed.

[sportznut]

Yeah, what a shame! :grin:

[goldmember]

I suppose the pomms are used it every year at wimbledon, i hear that they bet on which round the last one will reach.

[sportznut]

Watch it Goldmember. The Brits are doing pretty well in the juniors now, so in a few years time... who knows?

[moeee]

The girl who beat Capriatti,there doesn't look much of her.
Looked like she needed every ounce of energy just to reach the net when she served.

[sportznut]

Just seen the opening couple of games of the final and it's already looking pretty ominous for Hewitt. I just can't see him beating Federer in this form.

[morrissey]

oh its so good to see federer beat hewitt so convincingly.. and you know what else... nah its just too good to see an aussie get humiliated... :smile: and i am english too, there have been calls to get henman in to at least give roger a game... or wina few in each set at least

[sportznut]

Remind us all again just how many Grand Slam tournaments Tim has won. :smile:

Seriously, Federer was my tip all along at the US Open and although I expected Hewitt to give him a closer match, I never really thought he would beat him. Hewitt played brilliantly all the way through to get there, but he just doesn't seem to be able to match it with Federer these days. There's no big disgrace in that though because Federer's just playing unbelievably well at the moment.


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[mug punta]

Yeah, we all know how talented the Pomms are at sport. How did they go at the Olympics again Morrisey?
Then theres your cricket team. Were you even born the last time they won the ashes?
Oh sorry soccers your #1 sport, it's about our 10th most popular and we even towelled you at that!!!

[sportznut]

I don't think I'd be crowing too much about the Cricket Mug Punta. England are improving very fast and I personally think the Ashes will be a real struggle next year.

[mug punta]

You have got to be kidding Sportz. Why? Because they played well against the West Indies.They are the worst team in world cricket.
They will get smashed again.

[goldmember]

At the moment i cant see them winning anything, EVEN darts, but i agree in a couple of years they might have their turn, the australian team will lose a few players and have to rebuild again

[sportznut]

I am not kidding. In the past, Australia has had such a huge psychological edge over the English team, the games were almost over before they started. But Michael Vaughan isn't intimidated by Australia in any way and I'm sure under his captaincy England will be much stronger. Their form at the moment is basically just as good as ours and they have improved in many areas of their game. Australia may still come out on top, but they can't just expect an easy time like they have in some previous series.

[Chuck]

cricket is my favourite sport - and i have to say that the pomms have NO chance of winning the next ashes...i mean who is going to do it for them??? They've got the most overrated player in the world Stephen Harmison, who, might i remind you bowled SEVEN test wides in an over last season. Michael Vaughn is in a complete form slump. Giles + Trescothic + Thorpe are all reaching the end of their tether. And when you compare most of their players to the likes of: Hayden, Langer, Ponting, Martyn, Gilchrist, Warne, Gillespie, McGrath - you can't really think anything other than that the aussies wil thrash them...
GO AUSTRALIA!!!!!!!!

[moeee]

On 2004-09-13 10:19, morrissey wrote:
oh its so good to see federer beat hewitt so convincingly.. and you know what else... nah its just too good to see an aussie get humiliated... :smile: and i am english too, there have been calls to get henman in to at least give roger a game... or wina few in each set at least


Would you mind not coming to this forum and hanging shit on the Aussies please.
We don't need your help.

[sportznut]

On 2004-09-13 17:41, Chuck_3000 wrote:
They've got the most overrated player in the world Stephen Harmison, who, might i remind you bowled SEVEN test wides in an over last season.

Geeez, he's made a monumental improvement since then and taken an absolute stack of wickets. I take it you don't think much of those world rankings that have him as the number one bowler in the world?

[goldmember]

Well said moeee,didnt see no pomms in the final, maybe their over the moon that he made his 2nd grand slam semi, so i suppose THAT is a success for them, they might even win wimbledon in 2050

[Chuck]

simply ridiculous...i could name 30 test bowlers better than him...vaas, warne, pollock, aktar, murali, gillespie, kahn, singh...the list goes on...

[goldmember]

Chuck, maybe they can bring back larwood !

[morrissey]

utter drivel chuck, and this is the reason that most sporting fans hate the aussies. Yes i know you all love to beat the mother country but thats a lock. You know the great thing, most english sports fans love the aussie spirit to win and attitude.. where you give it out and take it with grace etc. But then they hear sports fans like you who dont like to give any credit at all to the english or anyone really. Its always an aussies fault when you lose, never been beaten by a better team...

We wont win the ashes but we wont get thrashed, just wait and see...

PS you did beat our second and third teams in the soccer, i appreciate a win is a win but lets be fair. When we play you at one of your games rugby union, u havent beaten our best team for nearly five years or so. That team this year was a shadow of its former self. :smile:

ps: i do love the aussie sporting spirit by the way, dont be so bitter in the face of friendly banter...

[Chuck]

sorry mate, i guess i was just a bit pissed off after Joachim Johannson lost (as well as my big bet on him to win the tourny @ 200/1). I still stand by what i say, though, that the Aussies will thrash the poms...interesting to see the results :wink:

Good Luck All
Chuck