Wimbledon Dream Team 2008

[bagpuss]

Tennis For Free are running another Wimbledon competition this year:

http://tffdreamteam.com/wimbledon/

Not the most fantastic prizes in the world, but there was a few of us took part last year & it looks like Fantasy League have stopped running a Wimbledon based competition.

The draw takes place next Friday & entries have to be in by the completion of the first set (tournament starts 23/06)

[foreverengland]

Having had a go at both the Aussie & French ones I'll throw my hat in the ring again - it's quite a decent comp (although tend to agree with you regarding the prizes!)

Haven't joined a TFF ML before - does someone from here set one up?

[bagpuss]

Consider it done:

League - FISO Forum
Password - d59512b7e1bef5c32abf79a99f0e84e7

Hopefully we'll get a few more joining over the coming days. Easy to play, and requires no effort once the tournament is underway

(btw - theres no mini-league prizes, its just for fun)

[foreverengland]

Good lad.

Would be nice if there was a ML prize, but on the plus side, £150 worth of vouchers for women's clothes is much more of an incentive

[Shaggy365]

I'm in. The clothing will do for Mrs S birthday present

[Spencer4]

I'm in

[Five long bones]

And The Bare Bones makes five.

If I remember correctly this comp was very well run last year, with very quick points updates after matches, hope it`s the same this year.

[dalythgoe]

I'm in- it should be a laugh

[tommymooney]

I know nothing! But I'm in

[Grant]

I'm in. Know very little about the women's game other than the very top players. And that I want to choose Ivanovic 10 times

[zipnolan]

Know nothing about tennis - so I stuck one in

[Crompton]

Know nothing about tennis - so I stuck one in

Have a game on here

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[bagpuss]

Nice to see this has picked up a bit of interest. As Five long bones says, scores and tables are updated quick - usually within an hour of matches finishing, and often straight away. All helps to add a bit of interest to the next couple of weeks.

Good luck to all that have signed up so far, still about 24 hours to get entries in for anyone else who's interested.

[amshimself]

not a particularly huge fan of tennis but have got a team together

the methods i used to select my women possibly aren't tactical greatness but hey!

[AKNel1]

I'm in - absolutely no chance of winning

[steve foster]

Have entered my effort.

[Jester]

I entered last night...

[tommymooney]

can we view the league to see who is in?

[Spencer4]

can we view the league to see who is in?

Click on Bagpuss's name then you see his group.

Pair of Aces 0 0 0
Ravers making a racquet 0 0 0
The Racquets Of Dodd 0 0 0
Jest Hit it! 0 0 0
Bloodaxe United 0 0 0
fozzies 0 0 0
The Bare Bones 0 0 0
Pimms & Pigeons 0 0 0
Lythgoe's Disciples 0 0 0
New Balls Please! 0 0 0
The Kop Kings 0 0 0
Oh I Say 0 0 0
Djokos Djokers 0 0 0
the fimbles 0 0 0
Nelson Admirals 0 0 0
Toblerowns

[Demo]

I'm in. Team name - Roger That!

I'm not a massive tennis fan so I expect to do some league propping.......

[tommymooney]

Cheers Spencer - I'm "new balls please!"

[Shaggy365]

18 of us. At least I know how far down the league table I can be.

[Spencer4]

Pair of Aces 0 0 0
Toblerowns 0 0 0
The Racquets Of Dodd 0 0 0
Ravers making a racquet 0 0 0
Bloodaxe United 0 0 0
Jest Hit it! 0 0 0
The Bare Bones 0 0 0
fozzies 0 0 0
Pimms & Pigeons 0 0 0
Toffeelover 0 0 0
Lythgoe's Disciples 0 0 0
New Balls Please! 0 0 0
The Kop Kings 0 0 0
Oh I Say 0 0 0
Djokos Djokers 0 0 0
Roger That! 0 0 0
the fimbles 0 0 0
Nelson Admirals 0 0 0

[toffeelover]

I'm in just

Picked lots of East European sounding ladies , no idea if they're any good

Left it late, so didn't have time to see if any of them were playing each other in the first round

New balls please, entries now closed

[toffeelover]

We're off and running. Final FISO league below, 3 of us already off to a flyer

• Ravers making a racquet 22 0 22
  The Kop Kings 22 0 22
  the fimbles 22 0 22
  Pair of Aces 0 0 0
  Toblerowns 0 0 0
  The Racquets Of Dodd 0 0 0
  Bloodaxe United 0 0 0
  Jest Hit it! 0 0 0
  The Bare Bones 0 0 0
  fozzies 0 0 0
  Pimms & Pigeons 0 0 0
  Toffeelover 0 0 0
  Lythgoe's Disciples 0 0 0
  New Balls Please! 0 0 0
  Oh I Say 0 0 0
  Djokos Djokers 0 0 0
  Roger That! 0 0 0
  Nelson Admirals 0 0 0

See you're bottom already Adrian

[toffeelover]

And we're joint 31st in the mini-league table, with an average score per person of 3.7.

How impressive is their updating

[scopsm]

Shame I only remembered about Wimbledon this morning, Euro 2008 has overtaken this year for me. Missed out on this comp.

Its a well run game with points updating very quickly.
Finished around top 10 last year, I think.

[AKNel1]

My Men's Team
Player Points
Total 24
1 Rafael Nadal (2) 0
2 Novak Djokovic (3) 0
3 David Nalbandian (7) 0
4 Marcos Baghdatis (10) 24
5 Dmitry Tursunov (25) 0
6 Tommy Haas 0
7 Nicolas Lapentti 0
8 Sebastien Grosjean 0
9 Marat Safin 0
10 Alex Bogdanovic (WC) 0

My Women's Team
Player Points
Total 23
1 Maria Sharapova (3) 0
2 Serena Williams (6) 23
3 Elena Dementieva (5) 0
4 Daniela Hantuchova (10) 0
5 Amelie Mauresmo (29) 0
6 Alona Bondarenko (28) 0
7 Lindsay Davenport (25) 0
8 Michaella Krajicek 0
9 Sabine Lisicki 0
10 Kateryna Bondarenko 0

[bagpuss]

As far as I can tell - these are team owners:

Pair of Aces - bagpuss
Toblerowns - ?
The Racquets Of Dodd - nigel1305
Ravers making a racquet - ?
Bloodaxe United - Shaggy365
Jest Hit it! - Jester
The Bare Bones - Five long bones
fozzies - steve foster
Pimms & Pigeons - Spencer4
Toffeelover - toffeelover
Lythgoe's Disciples - dalythgoe
New Balls Please! - tommymooney
The Kop Kings - Grant
Oh I Say - zipnolan
Djokos Djokers - cam23
Roger That! - Demo
the fimbles - amshimself
Nelson Admirals - AKNel1

Anyone willing to claim the others (or point out my mistakes!)

amshimself, tommymooney & zipnolan are setting the early pace

[toffeelover]

Picked lots of East European sounding ladies

Great strategy!

Kirilenko and Cibulkova already bitten the dust