Wimbledon rankings were decided 6 weeks before Wimbledon?

caramba I thought of a funny game yesterday but then came to conclusion it's alot of work so you & edy probably wouldn't be interested, but I'll explain it anyway..

between now and Wimbledon women's singles final day (July 12th), including today there's 25 days to make picks before the Saturday final arrives.

the game is that on every day between now and then, you have to select 1 player who you don't think will win the Wimbledon women's tournament. so that's 25 picks. if 2 of us play, we can only pick from the WTA top 60. if 3 of us play, we can only pick from the WTA top 80.

the aim of the game is to not pick the winner. the dynamics will change between then and now as the days tick by, so today you may think Kasatkina has no hope of winning Wimbledon but 3 weeks from now you may feel differently. you have to navigate the constantly changing dynamics over the course of the next 25 days and the winner of the competition is the one who hasn't selected the actual winner. we'll only find out who the winner & loser is on July 12th when the final is decided.

we can only select a player once, so the player pool of 50 will be constantly diminishing as each day ticks by, making it harder for us to select a player who won't win.

thoughts?

of course if the winner of Wimbledon women's ends up being a player outside the top 50, we'll automatically both win.

also when we know who the semi finalists and finalists are it'll be funny to look back on the thread and see that, for example, I picked Ons Jabeur on June 18th after she got destroyed 6-1 6-0 by Jasmine only for her to win Wimbledon 3 1/2 weeks later and make me look like a total idiot

Qinwen withdrew from Berlin

mp on serve in breaker. loses both points on serve to go bp and mp down. absolutely incredible muggery

Fonseca is about 2 years away from being a factor, tobias. the market consistently overrates him, whether he wins or loses today

this isnt the first match he's choked mp on serve

what happens if I miss a day? pick two names the next day?

make 2 picks on* the same day

the idea*

ok

(the reason I said next day, was so you don't get defaulted for missing a day).

but 2-3 days of double picks works.

I hadn't thought about withdrawals. has anyone from the top 50 withdrew from Wimbledon that we know of (as of today)?

it's funny that we both wanted to pick Lulu Sun for our first pick

ok, so if we're going to do it I'll setup a thread in a few mins. with 2 of us needing to make 25 picks each, that means we'll use the top 60 of the current WTA rankings this week, which I'll include the full list in the thread. if this goes to plan we'll make 50 different picks between us over 25 days, and there will be 10 players left unpicked (if one of these players wins Wimbledon then we both win). or is top 60 too easy? should I make it top 55?

well we need people who will be willing to make picks on a daily basis for the next 25 days. edy might want to, but can't see anyone else wanting to? and we can just test it out for this grass season to see how it works?