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Aus Open: Now it gets fishy for McNamee

884 views 31 replies 11 participants last post by  SpikeyAidanm 
#1 ·
right Kim is hurt and will surely request a Tues start (thats if she doesnt withdraw)

in top half, Lindsay Davenport is hurt and probably does same.
Amelie Mauresmo will most likely play 2 matches tomorrow, plus Justine will play final on Sat and if that goes long -thats 3 of them might say we want a Tues start.


McNamee is gonna be stuck between a rock and a hard place.

who does he please ??? Kim Clijsters or 3 of the Top 5 seeds ???
 
#4 ·
lol true - of course if he gives Kim the extra day he's also giving Alicia Molik the extra day as well because they're in the same half of the draw.

The other half as you mentioned above has 3 seeds (top half) who either have to play matches tomorrow or need the extra day to recover ;)

Of course he could give one of those 3 seeds (top half) the night match on Monday night to avoid a full on bombardment from them all :)

My guess is with the men's singles matches, Moya vs Blake will be one of the night matches with Philippousis vs Johansson the other (but that's just my speculation) :) And since Moya is in the final against Hewitt tomorrow it will also raise the question who will get the extra day's rest since they are in different halves of the draw.
 
#8 ·
I loved McNamara during the draw announcement - when Jim Wilson asked how he was going he said something along the lines of, it's just worth sitting here to see McNamee get this excited.
 
#11 ·
nnah the night matches are always 1 mens singles and 1 womans singles. The last few years i've been an australian man has been one of the night matches in the 1st round. So I think Johansson and phillopousses will be the mens night match on the 1st or 2nd night. They wouldnt put 2 mens mathces on. justine will probably be the other singles match, on the 1st or 2nd night and venus the other night match on the 1st or 2nd night.
 
#12 ·
It's going to be up to the promoters.

Last year they had a No 1 (Serena Williams) and a previous winner (Andre Agassi) on during the day session and a previous winner at night (Jennifer Capriati) with a local favourite (Mark P)

So they could do the same in terms of the males but not the females <vbg>
 
#14 ·
Yeah I think there is a possibility of Kim's match on the same night as the Moya/Blake match - there's no way the Moya/Blake match will be shipped off to Vodafone or an outside court - the promoters were saying how big a clash that will be so it'll either make it onto Centre Court one way or another.

Of course they can always put a match like they did last year when Justine played Anna K and by the time I got from my accommodation @ 11am across the road to the Tennis Centre the match was over ;)
 
#16 ·
lol SpikeyAidanm you never know it might be a good qualifer :devil:

Well I personally would love to see Chris Guccione get put onto CC or Vodafone but he won't - he's playing a fellow Aussie but he'll most likely get shipped off to Court 15 or so :)

Poor Olivia she'll most likely be on CC against Justine - nice induction into Women's Tennis ;)
 
#18 ·
blake/Moya night match on monday, phillo/Johansson night match on tuesday

Molik/Qualifier on monday and kim/Marlene on tuesday.

Lets bet on who will be on which court and when, rather than the actual winners.
I got twenty on what i said. anyone wanna see that 20 or raise?
 
#21 ·
Put Shrapanova on Vodafone and you'll still hear her at Center Court ;) That might be their best bet - she might get complaints if she's on an outside court <g>

They could very well give Venus against Ashley CC as well - I just want to know if they're going to do the usual top half men, bottom half women or vice versa or mix them all around <g>

Because unless we know that we could all be totally wrong :)

Roddick/Gonzalez - CC (Monday day)

Mark P/Thomas J - CC (Monday night)
Venus/Ashley - CC (Monday night)

Molik/Qualifer - Vodafone (Tuesday)
Hewitt/opponent (Qualifer?)- CC (Tuesday day)

Kim/Marlene - CC (Tuesday night)
Blake/Moya - CC (Tuesday night)

Just to piss her off - Davenport/Dragomir-Ilie - Vodafone or MCA (Monday) <g>

I can't be bothered going through all of them <g>
 
#23 ·
I think they will put sharapova on vodaphone becuase she is pretty and will attract crowds. I'm not say she can't play, to the contrary, but the fact that shes hot will draw even more people.

I don't think moya/blake is overated. moya'a in good form and granted blake played a crap of a match in sydeny, b4 that in Perth he was playing great tennis. It has a lot of potential, for a 1st round match.

for sharapova they wont list what courts she's on, it will be like a scavenger hunt. Instead of follow the yellow brick road, follow the grunts to sharapova.
 
#25 ·
nnah it wont gonna on Margaret court. Blakes not a seed but still has a fairly highish ranking. Too good of a match up too be a round 1, IMO. Even if it would be a bad match up the players are both fairly popular and that always has some bearing on where they are placed.
 
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