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Yeeee-haaaah! Welcome to the final major of the season to complete our competition year. Will one of TheCarambaExperience and wiseword be able to create separation from the other to claim lone most titles of the season? Will Journeyman or snowynoon add to their Wimbledon glory and tie the others on the year or even overtake them? Is it finally my time to be serious and win one of these? Stay tuned for the thrilling final!

Basic rules are very simple (no changes compared to the previous edition, so veterans need not read)

1. For each day of play, pick one player that you think will win their match.
2. If your player wins, you advance to the next day and get to pick again. If your player loses, you are out.
3. Each player can only be chosen once over the course of the tournament.
4. The picks continue every day until only one person is left, everyone has been eliminated, or the tournament has finished. If there is no single contestant that made it the furthest, a tiebreaker will commence (click spoiler a bit below this for details)
5. Each pick has to be submitted before the relevant match starts and once you've submitted the pick, you are stuck with it unless the match did not happen due to a prematch withdrawal. In that case you get to submit a new pick. That's the basic rules already.

At the end, glory, lots of forum cred, and an entry into the competition's Hall of Fame awaits the ultimate winner. The Hall of Fame can be found at:

https://community.betfair.com/tennis/go/thread/view/94186/30945693/suicide-pool-winners-throughout-the-years

Tiebreaker rules and sort of FAQ for additional rules/way things are handled:

Spoiler: Show

Tiebreaker:

If multiple people go out on the same day and no-one remains, these last people to go out submit their best educated judgements regarding the outcome of the final match of the tournament - winner of the final, amount of sets lost by the winner, amount of games lost by the winner, points won by the winner. Judged also in that order. If both are the same in winner, then we go to sets. If both also had the same number of sets, then we go to games. If that's also still the same or the same difference to the actual number, then points won. That should hopefully always lead to a conclusion.

To enable that, those tiebreaker judgements will be sent to me per private message (or maybe X in some cases) instead of being publically announced in the thread. If the tiebreaker involves me, we'd have to find someone else who accepts the private messages, but I'm positive that will not be a problem.

Onto the cases:

Case: A pick I made became invalid because the match didn't happen due to a withdrawal. I have a life and don't sit on the computer all day to monitor such things, so wasn't able to submit a replacement pick. Am I screwed?
Decision: No, there is a backup solution. The last to start eligible favourite (I will use average odds on tennisexplorer.com) of the day is automatically entered for you. Eligible means player that had not been picked yet on a previous day.

Case: There was a retirement. Does the pick still count?
Decision: Yes, picks count the moment 1 ball has been played in the match.

Case: I looked at the wrong schedule and picked a player that doesn't even play. What now?
Decision: Please submit a new pick.

Case: A lot of matches were rescheduled for the next day due to rain. Can I pick from those on the new day?
Decision: No, rescheduled matches are not eligible to be picked from. If this situation arises, I will try to post a list of ineligible matches.

Case: I have the same amount of winning picks as someone else, but I ran out of picks whereas the other person was able to make another pick (which then lost). What happens?
Decision: The other person finishes ahead of you. Think of it this way. The moment you ran out of picks to make, you navigated your bicycle into a big mountain of dung. You are unharmed, but you cannot continue your ride on the bike. The other person only rode their bike into the pile of dung the moment their pick lost, which is a long time after you did it. Therefore the other person made it further and gets to finish ahead of you.

Case: I have a great suggestion for the comp. Am I allowed to tell you and others?
Decision: Sure, suggestions are always welcome!

Case: The Great Leader edy lost before the final day of the tournament. That makes me very sad.
Decision: If it looks like someone else than edy is going to win, edy gets put back into the competition (pending approval from a majority of other contestants) until he has beaten everyone.



Sunday start, so that's when the first pick is due.

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By:
TheCarambaExperience
When: 23 Aug 25 18:29
Raducanu
By:
Journeyman
When: 23 Aug 25 19:29
Tery Valentova
By:
SabineIsGOAT
When: 24 Aug 25 03:53
Vondrousova
By:
snowynoon
When: 24 Aug 25 11:01
V.Kudermetova
By:
n88uk
When: 24 Aug 25 13:24
Leylah Fernandez
By:
edy
When: 24 Aug 25 14:29
GRANTCKING takes Valentova
By:
Anubis8
When: 24 Aug 25 14:47
Emma Raducanu
By:
edy
When: 24 Aug 25 14:57
I take McNally.
By:
edy
When: 24 Aug 25 15:01
aaronh takes Raducanu.
By:
wisewords
When: 24 Aug 25 15:53
Emma Raducanu
By:
stocks
When: 24 Aug 25 17:52
Danilovic
By:
Journeyman
When: 24 Aug 25 20:32
Well done Supernova faithful Excited
By:
edy
When: 25 Aug 25 06:00
Advancing to day 2:

aaronh - Raducanu
Anubis8 - Raducanu
edy - McNally
GRANTCKING - Valentova
Journeyman - Valentova
n88uk - Fernandez
SabineIsGOAT - Vondrousova
TheCarambaExperience - Raducanu
wisewords - Raducanu

Freshy Out:

Tjen def. snowynoon 6-4, 4-6, 6-4
Uchijima def. stocks 7-6(2), 4-6, 7-6(9)
By:
TheCarambaExperience
When: 25 Aug 25 07:37
Muchova
By:
Journeyman
When: 25 Aug 25 08:32
Muchova muchness
By:
Journeyman
When: 25 Aug 25 08:47
Unlucky to Stocks btw. These things are enjoyable to play and going out in both on day 1 sucks. We've all been there.
By:
SabineIsGOAT
When: 25 Aug 25 12:09
Townsend
By:
n88uk
When: 25 Aug 25 12:11
Iva Jovic
By:
Anubis8
When: 25 Aug 25 15:38
Anna Kalinskaya
By:
wisewords
When: 25 Aug 25 15:52
Elise Mertens
By:
edy
When: 25 Aug 25 16:03
Aaron: Sakkari
Grant: Mertens
By:
edy
When: 25 Aug 25 16:17
I take Sakkari
By:
TheCarambaExperience
When: 26 Aug 25 02:24
Lamens
By:
edy
When: 26 Aug 25 04:49
Advancing to day 3:

aaronh - Raducanu, Sakkari
Anubis8 - Raducanu, Kalinskaya
edy - McNally, Sakkari
GRANTCKING - Valentova, Mertens
Journeyman - Valentova, Muchova
n88uk - Fernandez, Jovic
SabineIsGOAT - Vondrousova, Townsend
TheCarambaExperience - Raducanu, Muchova
wisewords - Raducanu, Mertens
By:
edy
When: 26 Aug 25 04:51
Grant takes Osaka
By:
edy
When: 26 Aug 25 04:55
I take Lamens.
By:
SabineIsGOAT
When: 26 Aug 25 05:21
Joint
By:
Anubis8
When: 26 Aug 25 14:06
Maya Joint
By:
n88uk
When: 26 Aug 25 15:14
Maya Joint
By:
Journeyman
When: 26 Aug 25 15:41
Xinyu Wang
By:
wisewords
When: 26 Aug 25 15:57
Naomi Osaka
By:
edy
When: 26 Aug 25 16:03
Aaron takes Lamens
By:
Journeyman
When: 26 Aug 25 21:05
Less Rich Emma
By:
TheCarambaExperience
When: 27 Aug 25 03:51
Krejcikova
By:
SabineIsGOAT
When: 27 Aug 25 04:22
Samsonova
By:
edy
When: 27 Aug 25 05:45
Advancing to day 4:

aaronh - Raducanu, Sakkari, Lamens
Anubis8 - Raducanu, Kalinskaya, Joint
edy - McNally, Sakkari, Lamens
GRANTCKING - Valentova, Mertens, Osaka
Journeyman - Valentova, Muchova, X. Wang right-handed
n88uk - Fernandez, Jovic, Joint
SabineIsGOAT - Vondrousova, Townsend, Joint
TheCarambaExperience - Raducanu, Muchova, Lamens
wisewords - Raducanu, Mertens, Osaka
By:
edy
When: 27 Aug 25 05:46
Grant takes Samsonova
By:
edy
When: 27 Aug 25 05:49
I take Leylah.
By:
n88uk
When: 27 Aug 25 08:58
Liudmila Samsonova
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