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Remember, every choice, whether good or bad, can be deadly...

Suicide Osaka 2010

2009 Final: NyCPsU (USA) def. Tales (NOR)
2008 Final: Law_(AUS) def. rvugt (NED)


1. Each day of play, you must pick 1 winner playing a WTA main draw singles match. (READ: DO NOT PICK A MATCH FROM THE QUALIFYING DRAW!). Of course, the player that you choose, is playing one match scheduled to be played that day (as seen on the order of play).

2. Once you pick someone, you cannot choose them again for the rest of the tournament. So, you don't want to waste a pick on Ana Ivanovic or Maria Sharapova in the early rounds. Conversely, you don't want to make a pick at all on Nicole Vaidisova. Has-beens are not hot.

3. You must choose one player to win each day. If you forget, are sick, or are unable to reach a computer, it will be treated as a wrong pick, and you will be out of the tournament. As well, your pick must be chosen before the pick's match has commenced, otherwise it will be considered a wrong pick, and thus you will again, be out of the tournament.

4. In the case of a walkover, or a withdrawal, each player is allowed to have a back-up pick, selected at the same time as their initial pick. That back-up pick will only be used in the occurence of a walkover or withdrawal, as stated above. Retirements do count as completed matches.

Replacement picks must be identitified like this:

BACK-UP PICK - SAMANTHA "When will I FINALLY Win a Match" STOSUR

If it is not clearly identitified, then both picks will be declared invalid.

5. There are no BYE's for International Events.

6. To sign up, please type the word "In". Variations are more than acceptable. Your sign up will be confirmed when you post your picks on the first day of main draw play, and so it is not necessarily a "must" to sign in.

7. Please be advised that you may only play ONE Suicide Tennis tournament per week. If you play in multiple tournaments per week, you will be given a score of ZERO for the week to go into your ranking.

8. Once you've post your pick it's final, you CAN'T change them.
So don't edit or delete your post or else you will be DISQUALIFIED!

Ranking Points for Suicide Osaka (International)

DAY 1: 1
DAY 2: 15
DAY 3: 30
DAY 4: 50
DAY 5: 70
DAY 6: 130
DAY 7: 200 (No Pick)
DAY 7: 232 (Invalid)
DAY 7: 280 (Winner)

Tournament Homepage

http://www.hp-open.com/en/


Further Information

Time in Osaka Use this

Suicide Tennis Introduction and Rules - Please click this

Suicide Tennis Rankings - Please click this

** IF YOU'RE GOING TO BE AWAY FROM THE COMPUTER/WTAWORLD IS BEING SLOW AND ANNOYING, YOU MAY E-MAIL ME YOUR PICKS AT NOT AVAILABLE

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Suicide Osaka Entry List

The Challengers
14. (081) GBTHECOACH.........(USA) (Kirilenko, Date Krumm, Bartoli, Benesova, Peer, Tanasugarn) Finalist
15. (084) Uranium............(USA) (Kirilenko, Craybas, Bartoli, Date Krumm, Peer, Tanasugarn) Champion

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Order of Play - Day 6
Kimiko Date Krumm vs Shahar Peer
Tamarine Tanasugarn vs Marion Bartoli

Order of Play - Day 5
Samantha Stosur vs Kimiko Date Krumm
Shahar Peer vs Iveta Benesova
Tamarine Tanasugarn vs Chang Kai-Chen
Jill Craybas vs Marion Bartoli

Order of Play - Day 4
Shahar Peer vs Ryoko Fuda
Kimiko Date Krumm vs Aiko Nakamura
Iveta Benesova vs Alberta Brianti
Olga Savchuk vs Jill Craybas

Order of Play - Day 3
Coco Vandeweghe vs Tamarine Tanasugarn
Samantha Stosur vs Junri Namigata
Stefanie Voegele vs Marion Bartoli
Chang Kai-Chen vs Maria Kirilenko

Order of Play - Day 2
Shahar Peer vs. Misaki Doi
Corinna Dentoni vs. Ryoko Fuda
Laura Robson vs. Kimiko Date Krumm
Alberta Brianti vs. Ayumi Morita
Junri Namigata vs. Tomoko Yonemura
Aiko Nakamura vs. Alexandra Panova
Tamarine Tanasugarn vs. Magdalena Rybarikova
Greta Arn vs. Olga Savchuk
Jill Craybas vs. Natalie Grandin
Christina McHale vs. Iveta Benesova

Order of Play - Day 1
Kurumi Nara vs. Maria Kirilenko
Samantha Stosur vs. Sachie Ishizu
Julie Coin vs. Marion Bartoli
Lilia Osterloh vs. Chang Kai-Chen
Alla Kudryavtseva vs. Coco Vandeweghe
Sophie Ferguson vs. Stefanie Voegele

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Results
Day 1: 1 Point (3)

10. (054) Tales..............(NOR) (Fergison)
23. (139) TigerKev101........(AUS) (Kudryavtseva)
24. (185) Goldddfish.........(BUL) (Ferguson)

Day 2: 15 Points (7)

01. (001) Meelis.............(EST) (Chang, Panova)
07. (036) Mikey..............(AUS) (Chang, Arn)
16. (085) something..........(HKG) (Chang, McHale)
18. (092) dontchokeplz.......(SEY) (Chang, Rybarikova)
19. (093) Monzanator.........(POL) (Stosur, Dentoni)
20. (106) claypova...........(AUS) (Stosur, McHale)
21. (121) Andiyan............(NED) (Chang, Panova)

Day 3: 30 Points (8)

02. (005) Sexysova...........(CZE) (Chang, Craybas, Kirilenko)
03. (009) shaui.P............(CUB) (Chang, Namigata, Vandeweghe)
04. (014) shaktincredible....(INA) (Stosur, Craybas, Vandeweghe)
05. (016) tiffanykatya.......(HKG) (Chang, Craybas, Vandeweghe)
08. (046) iDaniela...........(MCO) (Stosur, Craybas, Kirilenko)
11. (055) Wedgie619..........(AUS) (Bartoli, Benesova, Vandeweghe)
17. (086) cometz9............(USA) (Voegele, Date Krumm, Vandeweghe)
25. (206) mcb................(GBR) (Kirilenko, Peer, Vandeweghe)

Day 4: 50 Points (1)

09. (050) ganymedeyu.........(TAI) (Chang, Peer, Bartoli, -----)

Day 5: 70 Points (1)

06. (029) Andreas............(DEN) (Stosur, Craybas, Bartoli, Peer, Chang)

Day 6: 130 Points (4)

12. (061) Gavnich77..........(GBR) (Kirilenko, Craybas, Bartoli, Date Krumm, Tanasugarn, Peer)
13. (061) rvugt..............(NED) (Kirilenko, Peer, Bartoli, Date Krumm, Tanasugarn, Day 6: No Pick)
22. (129) Mariusz82..........(POL) (Chang, Craybas, Bartoli, Date Krumm, Tanasugarn, Peer)
26. (UNR) Kirilenko-Fan......(GER) (Stosur, Craybas, Bartoli, Date Krumm, Tanasugarn, Peer)

Day 7 (No Pick): 200 Points (2)

14. (081) GBTHECOACH.........(USA) (Kirilenko, Date Krumm, Bartoli, Benesova, Peer, Tanasugarn)
15. (084) Uranium............(USA) (Kirilenko, Craybas, Bartoli, Date Krumm, Peer, Tanasugarn)

Day 7 (Invalid): 232 Points
Day 7 (Winner): 280 Points

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Day 6 Statistics
Most Picked: Peer (3), Tanasugarn (2), No Pick (1)
Best Pick: Tanasugarn - For obvious reasons
Seeds/Challengers Out: 0/4
Seeds/Challengers Remaining: 0/2 (0/0 with D7 Pick)
Suicide Player of the Day: The 'Schiavone' Award - Uranium: With some unothadox play this week (picking 3/4 Top seed before SF day) this player has shown that Schiavone is not the only one who can mix it up with great approches and vollies at the net... Congratulations Uranium, Champion of Osaka 2010!!!

Day 5 Statistics
Most Picked: Tanasugarn (4), Peer (2), Chang (1)
Best Pick: Peer - (6/2 6/0)
Seeds/Challengers Out: 1/0
Seeds/Challengers Remaining: 0/6 (0/5 with D6 Pick)
Suicide Player of the Day: The 'Stosur' Award - Andreas: As much as I hate to admit this Slammin' Sammy's inconsistancy has even been evident in her best year on tour, and today Andreas showed inconsistancy from not being able to back up some other performaces this week in Osaka (Hopefully Sam can back up her performance this week)...

Day 4 Statistics
Most Picked: Date Krumm (5), Benesova (1), Peer (1), No Pick (1)
Best Pick: Date Krumm - (6/2 6/0)
Seeds/Challengers Out: 0/1
Seeds/Challengers Remaining: 1/6
Suicide Player of the Day: The 'Clijsters' Award - ganymedeyu: We all know that Kim plays a reduced schedule but even she shows up when she starts playing a tournament (of except at the AO this year), maybe gany just forgot they had to make a pick today...

Day 3 Statistics
Most Picked: Bartoli (8), Vandeweghe (6), Kirilenko (2)
Best Pick: Bartoli - (6/2 6/2)
Seeds/Challengers Out: 5/3
Seeds/Challengers Remaining: 1/7
Suicide Player of the Day: The 'Williams' Award - shaui.P: This player choose Craybas as their D3 pick (she isn't playing), and therefore had to go with Coco. I don't know if this was an honest mistake or this player emulating famous tanks from Miss S. Williams during 'lower' level events...

Day 2 Statistics
Most Picked: Craybas (9), Peer (3), Date Krumm (2), McHale (2), Panova (2), Arn (1), Benesova (1), Dentoni (1), Namigata (1), Rybarikova (1)
Best Pick: Peer/Namigata - (6/2 6/3)
Seeds/Challengers Out: 2/5
Seeds/Challengers Remaining: 6/10
Suicide Player of the Day: The 'Zvonareva' Award - Sexysova: This player has come on leaps and bounds this year, much like Vera, climbing up the ranking with agressive play (and will we see a famous tantrum from either before year's end?)...

Day 1 Statistics
Most Picked: Chang (10), Stosur(6), Kirilenko (5), Furguson (2), Bartoli (1), Kudryavtseva (1), Voegele (1)
Best Pick: Kirilenko - (6/0 6/1)
Seeds/Challengers Out: 0/3
Seeds/Challengers Remaining: 8/15
Suicide Player of the Day: The 'Wozniacki' Award - TigerKev101: When faced with a choice of the final match in today OOP, this player choose to play defensively picking the No/5 Seed. Unfortunately defensive plays in Suicide won't get you to World No/1...

*Suicide PotD will be based on the 7 YEC participants

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