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Spreadsheet link: http://bit.ly/28KpoSE

I am pleased to announce the TfT £12K Celebration Wimbledon Competition.

The rules are as follows:

1. Entry is FREE to those who have had a tip accepted on the "Tips for tikay" thread prior to Tuesday 21st June.


2. The competition will be run during this year's Wimbledon tennis championship from Monday 27th June to Sunday 10th July.


3. Each entrant will pick between five and ten selections in any number of the categories below. You may only pick a maximum of one selection in any category. You have a bank of £100 which you may allocate as you see fit between your bets (with a minimum of £10 per bet). Winnings will be settled on the basis of the prices that are current at 11am on Monday 27th June (as listed on Oddschecker). At least two bookies must have the best price for it to be used otherwise the second best price will be used.
Your bet may be "win only" or "each way" (where available). I will indicate the place terms once the markets are formed.

If any of your selections withdraw before the competition starts, it will be replaced with a "win only" bet on the favourite for that category.

The categories are likely to be:

Men's Winner
Men's Quarter 1 Winner
Men's Quarter 2 Winner
Men's Quarter 3 Winner
Men's Quarter 4 Winner
Women's Winner
Women's Quarter 1 Winner
Women's Quarter 2 Winner
Women's Quarter 3 Winner
Women's Quarter 4 Winner
Men's Doubles Winner
Women's Doubles Winner
Mixed Doubles Winner


4. I will post the definitive list of markets (with links to the Oddschecker pages) in the next post when they are available - probably on Friday afternoon.


5. I will be using information from http://www.wimbledon.com/ for the purpose of deciding the result of each category.


6. Entries must be posted on this thread by 11am on Monday 27th June.


7. The winner will be the person who makes most profit (or least loss) over the course of the tournament. Where two (or more) people achieve the same score, I will split the prize money evenly. There will be no tie-break conditions.


8. My decision is final in all matters (until proven otherwise).


9. If you have any questions, please post below or PM me.



The prizes are as follows:

1st     £50

2nd    £25



Have fun.

Markets.

Men's Winner
http://www.oddschecker.com/tennis/wimbledon/mens/winner
Place odds:   1/2 1-2


Men's Quarter 1 Winner
http://www.oddschecker.com/tennis/wimbledon/mens/player-to-win-1st-quarter
Place odds:   n/a


Men's Quarter 2 Winner
http://www.oddschecker.com/tennis/wimbledon/mens/player-to-win-2nd-quarter
Place odds:   n/a


Men's Quarter 3 Winner
http://www.oddschecker.com/tennis/wimbledon/mens/player-to-win-3rd-quarter
Place odds:   n/a


Men's Quarter 4 Winner
http://www.oddschecker.com/tennis/wimbledon/mens/player-to-win-4th-quarter
Place odds:   n/a


Women's Winner
http://www.oddschecker.com/tennis/wimbledon/womens/winner
Place odds:   1/2 1-2


Women's Quarter 1 Winner
http://www.oddschecker.com/tennis/wimbledon/womens/player-to-win-1st-quarter
Place odds:   n/a


Women's Quarter 2 Winner
http://www.oddschecker.com/tennis/wimbledon/womens/player-to-win-2nd-quarter
Place odds:   n/a


Women's Quarter 3 Winner
http://www.oddschecker.com/tennis/wimbledon/womens/player-to-win-3rd-quarter
Place odds:   n/a


Women's Quarter 4 Winner
http://www.oddschecker.com/tennis/wimbledon/womens/player-to-win-4th-quarter
Place odds:   n/a

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Objection!

Wimbledon? Men? Women?

The Championships, Wimbledon
Gentlemen
Ladies.

Honestly, Mere. You'll drag this place into the gutter ::)



Oh and def in. :)

I would have chosen those terms but decided to use the titles on Oddschecker as some people get easily confused.
Therefore you should blame the shower responsible for Oddschecker. :)

Good recovery.

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I thought this was going to be a much more interesting competition for me when I saw the thread title...  ;nana;

:)

The list of markets that we are going to use are in the second post of this thread.
http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=67004.msg2140961#msg2140961

Note that we are just going to use singles markets as there are no doubles markets available currently.

To help you understand how this works, a typical entry might look like this.


Men's Winner
Mark Cox  £5 e/w

Men's Quarter 1 Winner
Roger Taylor  £20

Men's Quarter 4 Winner
Buster Mottram  £10

Women's Winner
Jo Durie  £10 e/w

Women's Quarter 2 Winner
Sara Gomer  £10

Women's Quarter 4 Winner
Sue Barker  £30 


Remember that I will take the prices that are available at 11am on Monday.
I hope that helps!


Good luck.

IN

i see entries have to be posted on the thread, one entry max per category

wimbledon comp

mens

murray £15 e/w

womens

Keys £15 e/w

womens quarters

Q3 Keys to win £20

Q2 Bencic to win £10

mens quarters

Q3 Thiem to win £10

:)

Congratulations on being the first entry.

Confirmed.

wimbeldon comp

mens

murray £20 win

woman
keys £20 win

3rd quarter

zererev £20 win

2nd quarter

nishikora £20 win

womans 2nd quarter
radwanska £20 win

Confirmed.
Good luck.

Mens Winner
Murray £20

Mens Q2 Winner
Johnson £10 EW

Mens Q3 Winner
Thiem  £20

Womens Q2 Winner
Konta £20

Womens Q4 Winner
£20

Thanks for running this, Mere!

You're welcome.

Unfortunately, there are no e/w terms for the Quarter winners.
Also, can you nominate who you want in the Women's Q4.

Sorry - can't post & watch soporific footy at the same time

No problem.

Confirmed.
Good luck.

Mens 2nd Qtr.
£20 Kei Nishikori 9/2

Womens 2nd Qtr.
£30 Agnieszka Radwanska 5/1

Womens 3rd Qtr.
£20 Angelique Kerber 11/2

Womens Winner.
£10E/W Agnieszka Radwanska 25/1

Mens Winner.
£5E/W Alexander Zverev 100/1

Confirmed.
Good luck.

Just for the avoidance of doubt, the prices used will be the best (or second) prices available at 11am on Monday.

Morning Mere.

20 points win on each of the following



Mens winner Murray

Womens winner  Kvitova

Mens Q1  Raonic

Mens Q2  Cilic

Mnes Q3  Del Potro

Morning hector.

Confirmed.
Good luck.

Tennis is not my strongest game but I'll have a stab at this please Mr Mere.

Men's 2nd 1/4: £10 Maran Cilic
Men's 3rd 1/4 : £20 Dominic Thiem
Women's winner : £20 Serena Williams
Women's 2nd 1/4 : £20 Petra Kvitova
Women's 3rd 1/4 : £10 Ana Ivanovic
Women's 4th 1/4 : £20 Venus Williams

Thanks as always.

You're welcome.

Confirmed.
Good luck.

£10 Dimitrov - Mens Second Qtr Qinner
£50 Murray - Mens Winner
£20 Kvitova - Womens Winner
£10 Stephens - Womens 1st Qtr Winner
£10 Flipkens - Womens 3rd Qtr Winner


Thanks for running Mere

mens winner Raonic £10e/w
mens 2nd Qtr Cilic   £20
mens 3rd qtr  Wawrinka £20
womens 2nd qtr kvitova £20
womens winner  Mugwruza  £20

cheers mere

You're welcome.

Confirmed.
Good luck.

You're welcome.

Confirmed.
Good luck.

Men's Second Quarter Gilles Muller- 20
Men's Third Quarter Florian Mayer - 10

Womens second quarter Caro Garcia 20
Womens third quarter Pliskova - 25
Womens fourth quarter Venus Williams - 25

Mens Winner     THIEM £17.50 EW

Mens Q1  Raonic £10 WIN

Mens Q2  Cilic £10 WIN


Mens Q3 Winner Thiem  £10 WIN


Womens Q4 Winner V Williams £35 WIN

Men's Winner
Thomas Berdych  £5 e/w

Men's Quarter 1 Winner
Milos Raonic  £10

Men's Quarter 4 Winner
Jo Tsonga £10

Women's Winner
Sloane Stephens  £5 e/w

Women's Quarter 2 Winner
Makarova  £10

Women's Quarter 4 Winner
Sabine Lisicki  £50 

Confirmed.
Good luck.

Confirmed.
Good luck.

Confirmed.
Good luck.

Wow, hat off to you Mere on running this and the invention of it.

Woman winner - Petra Kvitiva - £20 win at 14/1

Men winner - Andy Murray - £30 win at 7/2

Woman Q1 -Ana Ivanovic - £20 win at 12/1

Woman Q2 - Johanna Konta - £15 win at 12/1

Men Q2 - Giles Simon - £15 win at 50/1.

Will accept whatever odds anyway. Sorry about spelling mistakes! Thanks for running it!

Hello  Mere

Men's Quarter 2 Winner
Dominic Thiem £50

Men's Quarter 4 Winner
Nick Kyrgios 15

Women's Winner
Belinda Bencic    £5 EW

Women's Quarter 1 Winner
Coco Vandeweghe £15

Women's Quarter 4 Winner
Carla Suarez Navarro £10

Thanks for running! 

Thank you and you're welcome.
Tighty does all the creative thinking. :)

Ana Ivanovic is actually in Q3 of the draw; the bookies have just erroneously given her odds for Q1.
I'll assume that you want Q3 for now but you can make any changes you like until 11am.

Confirmed.
Good luck.

You're welcome.

Confirmed.
Good luck.

Not forgotten, Vince. 

Well, maybe a little...

5 hours you say? Plenty of time. I picked out the seven of diamonds yesterday. This should be a doddle.

I don't know, picking out the 7d seems pretty easy compared to beating hector in a tennis tipping competition.

13 entries so far with 2 hours left to enter.

Free to enter for anyone who has had a bet accepted on Tips for Tikay.

£75 in prizes!

Mens Winner
Murray £20 EW

Mens Q2 Winner
Cilic £10

Mens Q3 Winner
Zverev £10

Womens Q2 Winner
Radwanska £30

Womens Q3 Winner
Keys £10

Nice one for running Mere

Here you go. All on the nose.

Men's winner: Djokovic: £40

4th quarter: Kyrgios: £10

Women's winner: Radawanska: £20

1st quarter: Vandeweghe: £20

3rd quarter: Kerber: £10

Thanks, chief.

Thank you and you're welcome.

Confirmed.
Good luck.

You're welcome.

Confirmed.
Good luck.

Men's

Milos Raonic
£10 ew

Men's Q2

Nishikori
£20

Men's Q3
Thiem
£20

Women's outright
Kvitova
£20 ew

Thanks yet again for running it all!

You're welcome.
Your bets need to be on at least 5 different selections.

I never read these things properly.

Have altered it in the quote above :)

Confirmed.
Good luck.

Entry is closed.

We have a compact field of 16 runners, each with a chance of winning the £50 top prize with a runner up prize of £25.

Doh, meant to do this this morning and work got in the way! GL all.

Sorry.

All entries with associated prices are here: http://bit.ly/28KpoSE


Good luck everyone.

Enjoy.

No worries, my fault, should've done it sooner.

oooh let him in. I think the whole country feels that people should be given a 2nd chance.

:)

Sabine Lisicki won her 1st round match, good news for maldini32.
She now plays Sam Stosur in R2.

Ms Ivanovic falls at the first hurdle.

Venus Williams has won her first round match but I wouldn't be buying any champagne if I'd backed her to win her quarter. :)

Novak Djokovic has a comfortable first round win.
Madison Keys has a comfortable first round win.
Kirsten Flipkens has a comfortable first round win.

Haha thanks hector!

In summary after day 1.

Round 1 for the top half of the men's draw and the bottom half of the women's draw is complete with the exception of Gilles Muller who is 11-11 in the 5th set against Santiago Giraldo.

The only tipped player to lose was Ana Ivanovic.

Just thought I'd give you guys a head start, that's all.

thanks for doing the competition!

That's very sporting of you.
I'm sure that it is much appreciated.

You're welcome.

Rain at Wimbledon.

In the matches that did get played:

Serena Williams won.
Caroline Garcia won.
Andy Murray won.
Stan Wawrinka won.
Nick Kyrgios won.
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga won.
Juan Martin del Potro won.

Gilles Muller won 15-13 in the final set in a match carried over from yesterday.

Coco Vandeweghe also progressed to round 2.


Bad news for backers of Belinda Bencic; the lovely Tsvetana Pironkova is favourite to beat her in their first round match. I'd guess that there are still doubts about her back injury.

Thomas Berdych won his first round match and it's raining again.

Agnieska Radwanska is comfortably through to round 2.

you couldn't tell on the form she's showing today, her leg movement is so much better than a  lot of the other players

Still as high as 40/1 with some bookies

Yes, she seemed in good shape. The fitness concerns seem unfounded.

Wins today for:

Novak Djokovic
Alexander Zverev
Dominic Thiem
Thomas Berdych
Petra Kvitova
Belinda Bencic
Agnieska Radwanska
Johanna Konta

A loss for:
Florian Mayer against Dominic Thiem.

Sloane Stephens has (finally) won her 1st round match.

Karolina Pliskova lost to Misaki Doi in round 2.

Venus Williams is one set all against Maria Sakkari and her left thigh is definitely causing her problems.

Madison Keys is through to round 3.
Sabine Lisicki is through to round 3.

Venus Williams is through to round 3.

Belinda Bencic retired with what looked like a wrist injury in her second round match.

Angelique Kerber is through to round 3.

Kirsten Flipkens lost in 3 sets to Madison Keys.

Carla Suarez Navarro is through to round 3 after beating Denisa Allertova in 3 sets.

Ms Lisicki looked great in her match. Perhaps a dark horse?

Caroline Garcia lost in three sets to Katerina Siniakova in round 2.

She should win her next match against Shvedova/Svitolina who aren't looking too great at the moment.
However, she should then play Muguruza.


Edit:   ... or maybe not. Muguruza has lost her first three games against Jana Cepelova. :)

Ms Murguruza a set and a break down now.

If this game finishes as it has started, I think this could open up for Ms Lisicki to make a strong run.

Everything appears to be falling into place for her, certainly.
She was 120/1 before the tournament started; she'll be less than 20/1 if Muguruza loses.

Garbine Muguruza lost in round 2 to Jana Cepelova.

Giles Simon has been defeated by Dimtrov, whilst Muller was beaten by Kuznetsov - both today

Thanks.
I don't keep such a close eye on the men's event.

No probs. Can't criticise a man who likes to watch the ladies sweat  ;)
Wish I'd gone with my original choice of Bouchard rather than Konta - but you never know...

NB I think Garcia has also exited the ladies

I spotted that one!
http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=67004.msg2144776#msg2144776

Who'd have guessed?

Never in doubt.

Agnieska Radwanska has just scraped past Ana Konjuh to reach round 3.

... and finally ...

Johanna Konta lost to Eugenie Bouchard in round 2 and Coco Vendeweghe is through to round 3 after beating Timea Babos.

The draw has opened up very nicely for her but she is still crocked.

Also, there's bad news for anyone who has picked Dominic Thiem twice; he just lost.

Can't imagine anyone would be so daft.

Juan Martin Del Potro beat Stan Wawrinka in round 2.

Venus Williams is through to round 4.

Serena Williams is through to round 3.
Carla Suarez Navarro is through to round 4.

Nick Kyrgios  is through to round 3.
Thomas Berdych  is through to round 3.
Jo-Wilfrid Tsonga  is through to round 3.

Sloane Stephens is through to round 3 but is looking rather lackadaisical even by her standards.

Angelique Kerber is through to round 4.

Novak Djokovic is out.

Ekaterina Makarova has beaten Petra Kvitova to reach round 3.

Steve Johnson beat Grigor Dimitrov to reach round 4.

Sabine Lisicki lost to Yaroslava Shvedova in round 3.

In the battle of the prom queen vs the drama queen, Madison Keys beat Alize Cornet to reach round 4.

Ms Radwanska was at her most Agnieska-like this evening and, after tying a game Katerina Siniakova in knots has advanced to round 4.

Coco Vandeweghe is through to round 4.

Sloane Stephens couldn't concentrate quite long enough and lost 8-6 in the 3rd set of her 3rd round match against Svetlana Kuznetsova after being 5-2 up.

Serena Williams had a comfortable and drama free victory over Annika Beck to reach round 4.

Juan Martin Del Potro lost the continuation of his third round match against Lucas Pouille.

Thomas Berdych beat Alexander Zverev to reach round 4.

Nick Kyrgios and Jo-Wilfrid Tsonga are both through to round 4.

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova had Coco Vandeweghe for breakfast in round 4.

Angelique Kerber had a comfortable match against Misaki Doi to reach the quarter-finals.

The battle of the bludgeon against the rapier has just gone to a deciding set as Agnieska Radwanska levels up against Dominika Cibulkova.

The bludgeon wins a classic 9-7 in the third.
Ms Radwanska is out.

Roger Federer beat Steve Johnson.

Kei Nishikori retired in his match against Marin Cilic.

Simona Halep has ended the hopes of Madison Keys who picked up a leg injury (?) at the start of the third set.

The draw for the quarter-finals of the ladies championship is complete:

Serena Williams v Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova

Dominika Cibulkova v Elena Vesnina

Simona Halep v Angelique Kerber

Venus Williams v Yaroslava Shvedova


fatcatstu, Horneris and Tal have tipped Angelique Kerber to win her quarter.

4Ksuited, bergeroo, HutchGF and tikay have tipped Venus Williams to win her quarter.

HutchGF has tipped Serena Williams to win outright.

For the men,

Sam Querrey v Milos Raonic
Roger Federer v Marin Cilic
Jiri Vesely/Thomas Berdych v Lucas Pouille   (Vesely and Berdych are tied at 2 sets apiece)
Jo-Wilfrid Tsonga v Andy Murray

hector62, maldini32 and tikay have Milos Raonic

hector62, HutchGF, Matt50, ripple11 and tikay have Marin Cilic

maldini32 has Jo-Wilfrid Tsonga


4ksuited, aaron1867, hector62, Matt50, stumpythefish, swinebag22 and TightEnd have Andy Murray to win outright.

fatcatstu and ripple11 have Milos Raonic to win outright

maldini32 has Thomas Berdych to win outright

Berdych won his 4th round match.

Angelique Kerber wins.

Venus Williams wins.

The table after the ladies' quarter-finals:


Tipster      Total
tikay      350.00
bergeroo      250.00
4ksuited      200.00
HutchGF      200.00
fatcatstu      115.00
Horneris      115.00
Tal      57.50
aaron1867      0.00
hector62      0.00
hummuspie      0.00
maldini32      0.00
Matt50      0.00
ripple11      0.00
stumpythefish      0.00
swinebag22      0.00
Tightend      0.00

Well this is most pleasing, though exactly as expected.

Did Tal, Tighty, hector & co not enter?

EDIT - Sorry - just seen them all at the bottom of the table.


So here's the deal, as I'm in a generous mood this morning.

If anyone wants to do business, & chop it up now, feel free. I'll take first prize, obv, & you can argue amongst yourselves for the rest. 

Deal?

I would love to hear your thought processes behind your Cilic and Raonic choices.

Deep statistical analysis & an in-depth knowledge of tennis, hector, Level 4 stuff really.

Gets worse: I've peaked. No more in-play bets. Busto. Buster Bloodvessel.

Is this win on your stake, by the way?

Wins for:

Raonic
Federer
Berdych
Murray

The table after the gentlemen's quarter-finals:


Tipster      Total
tikay      410.00
bergeroo      250.00
4ksuited      200.00
HutchGF      200.00
hector62      120.00
fatcatstu      115.00
Horneris      115.00
maldini32      60.00
Tal      57.50
aaron1867      0.00
hummuspie      0.00
Matt50      0.00
ripple11      0.00
stumpythefish      0.00
swinebag22      0.00
Tightend      0.00

Serena Williams is through to the final of the ladies' championship.

Andy Murray will play Milos Raonic in the final of the gentlemen's singles.

Serena Williams won the ladies' championship.

Andy Murray won the gentlemen's tournament.

The prize winners are:

1st    tikay  £50

2nd   4ksuited   £25


Congratulations.
tikay will be in contact with regard to payment, presumably once he is back home.

Well played the winners. Thanks Mere for running it so well

Top Mereistry, Mere.

Nice of tikay to rig Wimbledon for a £50 comp. The Arnold Rothstein of Blonde.

To add to my embarrassment of winning this - that was certainly not supposed to happen - I forgot all about this, & plum forgot to send the runner-up his prize.

All round fail, one way or another. Apologies.

However, 4ksuited, the Runner-Up, has written to me with a rather nice suggestion, which I'll post on Fred shortly.