[Javi]

Re: Tennis Tipping #44a - Zhuhai - OOP of Thursday in post #6/79 - Deadline: 8 AM CES

Note for all the players who became 2nd/3rd in their group:

If somebody does not send for the semifinal then they will be replaced by the 2nd/3rd place finisher from their group
If somebody does not send for the final then they will be replaced by the player/team they defeated in the semifinal

This is really odd, specially the final part

 

[DropShotAce]

Re: Tennis Tipping #44a - Zhuhai - OOP of Friday in post #6/95 - Deadline: 8 AM CEST

Your partner did it with me in MTF:SNE:

 

[Demosthenes]

Re: Tennis Tipping #44a - Zhuhai - OOP of Thursday in post #6/79 - Deadline: 8 AM CES

This is really odd, specially the final part

Agreed. My opponent didn't send for SF, why am I playing today?

Was this a board decision? Never seen this.

Edit: Oh wow it's actually in the rules. What a dumb fucking rule. :SNE:

 

[Demosthenes]

Re: Tennis Tipping #44a - Zhuhai - OOP of Friday in post #6/95 - Deadline: 8 AM CEST

@DJDVD what is our TB3

 

[Javi]

Re: Tennis Tipping #44a - Zhuhai - OOP of Friday in post #6/95 - Deadline: 8 AM CEST

Well, what a sad day for tennis :lol: Disgusting tank jobs in both dead rubber matches finishing with retirements. I feel so stupid thinking Sloane would give a f. I should have seen this coming
I wonder why they haven't applied this same TT system to avoid these useless matches.
Oh well. It was a decent tournament winning both RR matches. Congrats Ianb29 :yeah:

Thanks David for managing.
This is the end of the Season for me. See you next year

 

[ianb29]

Re: Tennis Tipping #44a - Zhuhai - OOP of Friday in post #6/95 - Deadline: 8 AM CEST

Well, what a sad day for tennis :lol: Disgusting tank jobs in both dead rubber matches finishing with retirements. I feel so stupid thinking Sloane would give a f. I should have seen this coming
I wonder why they haven't applied this same TT system to avoid these useless matches.
Oh well. It was a decent tournament winning both RR matches. Congrats Ianb29 :yeah:

Thanks David for managing.
This is the end of the Season for me. See you next year

Thanks Javi, sorry that was a horrible way for you to lose but I did wonder if she might tank but wasn't expecting her to retire!

 

[Javi]

Re: Tennis Tipping #44a - Zhuhai - OOP of Friday in post #6/95 - Deadline: 8 AM CEST

Thanks Javi, sorry that was a horrible way for you to lose but I did wonder if she might tank but wasn't expecting her to retire!

No problem, I deserve losing since I was really dumb not tanking into the consideration the high risk of tanking job or retirement happening. You were the smarter of the 2 :yeah:

Also Tim/Phil :smash:

 

[DJDVD]

Re: Tennis Tipping #44a - Zhuhai - OOP of Friday in post #6/95 - Deadline: 8 AM CEST

@DJDVD what is our TB3

Sorry, was having lunch

[B]kfh_9118        Igorche     	Demosthenes	Randy[/B]
GOERGES 6-3 6-3	GOERGES 6-3 6-2	GOERGES 63 64	GOERGES 63 64

kfh_9118/Igorche win on TB3

 

[DJDVD]

Re: Tennis Tipping #44a - Zhuhai - OOP of Friday in post #6/95 - Deadline: 8 AM CEST

Results

Singles Semi Finals

Matches Counted: 3
Matches Remaining: 0

03:02 | (12) Michael! (GER) vs. (5) RoyalFencer (RUS) #SRs: 1-1
02:03 | (6) Javi (ESP) vs. (9) ianb29 (GBR) #SRs: 1-1

Doubles Semi Finals

Matches Counted: 3
Matches Remaining: 0

06:05 | (1) coolfish1103/F4CU (USA/ARG) vs. (7) Phil=)/Tim. (GER/BEL) #SRs: 2-1
06:06 | (2) kfh_9118/Igorche (AUS/SRB) vs. (5) Demosthenes/Randy (ISL/ISL) #SRs: 2-2, #ISRs: 0-0, TB3

 

[DJDVD]

Re: Tennis Tipping #44a - Zhuhai - OOP of Thursday in post #6/79 - Deadline: 8 AM CES

Agreed. My opponent didn't send for SF, why am I playing today?

Was this a board decision? Never seen this.

Edit: Oh wow it's actually in the rules. What a dumb fucking rule. :SNE:

Honestly, I didn't know this either until I read the Round Robin section of the rules

 

[DJDVD]

Re: Tennis Tipping #44a - Zhuhai - OOP of Friday in post #6/95 - Deadline: 8 AM CEST

SATURDAY OOP


Julia GOERGES vs Anastasija SEVASTOVA TB2
Coco VANDEWEGHE vs Ashleigh BARTY TB3



Please send all your picks to DJDVD
Picks count for Singles and Doubles Final (Day 1/2)


Deadline to send picks is 4:30 PM local time and 9:30 AM CEST

[B]EXPLANATION:[/B]
Send only [B]last names[/B] (the ones in CAPITAL).
Match with [U][B]TB[/B][/U] after it - Pick the winner and the full score (Ex: AZARENKA 6-7 7-6 6-1)
Match with [U][B]SR[/B][/U] after it - Pick the winner and the set ratio (Ex: JANKOVIC 2-1)

 

[DJDVD]

Re: Tennis Tipping #44a - Zhuhai - OOP of Saturday in post #6/116 - Deadline 9:30 AM

Head-to-Head

Singles Final

01:01 | (12) Michael! (GER) vs. (9) ianb29 (GBR)


Doubles Final

00:01 | (1) coolfish1103/F4CU (USA/ARG) vs. (2) kfh_9118/Igorche (AUS/SRB)

 

[Demosthenes]

Re: Tennis Tipping #44a - Zhuhai - OOP of Saturday in post #6/116 - Deadline 9:30 AM



Nobody even knew of this rule's existence. Does it make sense to you @DJDVD? I can't imagine it does since you seem like a logical person, I'm shocked that you would choose to not only enforce it but post it in this thread so that @kfh_9118 and @Igorche would send. If that team had any shame they would let Randy and I play tomorrow, this is probably the most undeserved win in the history of TT.

@AdeyC I have never seen or heard about this rule before, when was it added? It must be a typo or something that was put in by accident. Totally asinine decision.

Hopefully this mistake will be rectified, Randy and I will be sending tomorrow.

 

[DJDVD]

Re: Tennis Tipping #44a - Zhuhai - OOP of Saturday in post #6/116 - Deadline 9:30 AM

Nobody even knew of this rule's existence. Does it make sense to you @DJDVD? I can't imagine it does since you seem like a logical person, I'm shocked that you would choose to not only enforce it but post it in this thread so that @kfh_9118 and @Igorche would send. If that team had any shame they would let Randy and I play tomorrow, this is probably the most undeserved win in the history of TT.

@AdeyC I have never seen or heard about this rule before, when was it added? It must be a typo or something that was put in by accident. Totally asinine decision.

Hopefully this mistake will be rectified, Randy and I will be sending tomorrow.

It's the same as notifying ALT players/teams that they might play. I didn't mention them, nor send a PM. I just posted that rule as a general reminder.
And no shame necessary for the winning team. It's not their fault at all :shrug:

 

[Demosthenes]

Re: Tennis Tipping #44a - Zhuhai - OOP of Saturday in post #6/116 - Deadline 9:30 AM

It's the same as notifying ALT players/teams that they might play. I didn't remind them, nor send a PM. I just posted that rule as a general reminder.
And no shame necessary for the winning team. It's not their fault at all :shrug:

It's not the same, because this rule is bullshit. The LOSERS from RR should not have a chance at SF, in what world does that make any sense to you? :spit: If I or any other rational person had been perusing the TT rules on a Thursday night and I stumbled across that, I would laugh it off and keep moving.

You are a good manager but this is too much, too far. Very disappointing.

 

[DJDVD]

Re: Tennis Tipping #44a - Zhuhai - OOP of Saturday in post #6/116 - Deadline 9:30 AM

It's not the same, because this rule is bullshit. The LOSERS from RR should not have a chance at SF, in what world does that make any sense to you? :spit: If I or any other rational person had been perusing the TT rules on a Thursday night and I stumbled across that, I would laugh it off and keep moving.

You are a good manager but this is too much, too far. Very disappointing.

I just manage according to the rules, whether someone else made them or not :shrug:
(It will be a topic for a rule change in the off-season)

 

[Demosthenes]

Re: Tennis Tipping #44a - Zhuhai - OOP of Saturday in post #6/116 - Deadline 9:30 AM

I just manage according to the rules, whether someone else made them or not :shrug:
(It will be a topic for a rule change in the off-season)

Yes, to a fault sometimes. There has to be some kind of brain inside of the managers, following these rules blindly is just crazy to me. If the rules said to never log in to TF again, would you do that too? I see why Alen left the board now.

We get fucked over once again @Randy. Not only this idiotic rule, but losing on TWO retirements! We lost to people who thought Peng and Strycova would struggle today. :haha: This really sours a great year for us but thanks for being the best partner ever Heather. We will have our revenge next season.

Good luck @coolfish1103 and @F4CU :yeah:

 

[DJDVD]

Re: Tennis Tipping #44a - Zhuhai - OOP of Saturday in post #6/116 - Deadline 9:30 AM

Yes, to a fault sometimes. There has to be some kind of brain inside of the managers, following these rules blindly is just crazy to me. If the rules said to never log in to TF again, would you do that too? I see why Alen left the board now.

We get fucked over once again @Randy. Not only this idiotic rule, but losing on TWO retirements! We lost to people who thought Peng and Strycova would struggle today. :haha: This really sours a great year for us but thanks for being the best partner ever Heather. We will have our revenge next season.

Good luck @coolfish1103 and @F4CU :yeah:

That rule is already there since 2013/2014 :lol:

We can't change rules for just one match/tournament, you should know that. Although I'm not a fan of this rule either, we have to respect it. I understand your frustrations and I've noticed this topic for the off-season rules discussion.

p.s. I don't see how this connects with Alen leaving the board though

 

[Demosthenes]

Re: Tennis Tipping #44a - Zhuhai - OOP of Saturday in post #6/116 - Deadline 9:30 AM

That rule is already there since 2013/2014 :lol:

We can't change rules for just one match/tournament, you should know that. Although I'm not a fan of this rule either, we have to respect it. I understand your frustrations and I've noticed this topic for the off-season rules discussion.

p.s. I don't see how this connects with Alen leaving the board though

I'm done now, it's just a game but it sucks when deserving players are out of the tournament in favor of undeserving players due to some stupid rule that nobody knew about. But, such is life.

Sorry for the hostility, I'm quite pressed (as you can tell) by these two retirements as much as the rule. Thank you for conducting yourself professionally when I wasn't. :lol:

All I can do now is hope for this rule to change next season (and to make it back to Singapore/Zhuhai )

 

[Randy]

Re: Tennis Tipping #44a - Zhuhai - OOP of Saturday in post #6/116 - Deadline 9:30 AM

@Demosthenes sad way to end our wta year 2 retirements and kiki serving for a set which would have given it us. That rule surely won't be here next year but I guess that's how the cookie crumbles

congrats @kfh_9118 @Igorche good luck in Next Round , I think nobly you guys shouldn't send for next round to make up for that rule. But that is my Opinion on the win. Up to y'all, still love and respect y'all either way.

Also good luck to @coolfish1103 @F4CU and thanks for hosting @DJDVD