{"id":697,"date":"2007-09-23T10:34:43","date_gmt":"2007-09-23T18:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/?p=697"},"modified":"2007-09-23T10:34:43","modified_gmt":"2007-09-23T18:34:43","slug":"atp-fantasy-tennis-picks-for-mumbai-and-bangkok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/atp-fantasy-tennis-picks-for-mumbai-and-bangkok\/","title":{"rendered":"ATP Fantasy Tennis Picks for Mumbai and Bangkok"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re deep into the ATP Fantasy Tennis Season<\/a> so check out my Fantasy Tennis Guide<\/a>. You\u2019ll find Fast Facts, Strategies, and Statistics to help you play the game.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sign up and join our subleague<\/a>! It\u2019s called tennisdiary.com. We send weekly email updates to all subleague members before the submission deadline.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The deadline for picking your team this week is Sunday<\/strong>, September 23, 10pm EST and Monday, 4am CET. I’m late with these picks because Bangkok didn’t put it’s draw out until today.<\/p>\n

Rear View Mirror<\/strong> – a look at last week\u2019s picks<\/p>\n

There weren\u2019t any picks last week because all of the men were playing Davis Cup but I do have one thing to say about my last set of picks. I caught a case of TMI when I made picks for Bucharest. TMI is \u201ctoo much information.\u201d<\/p>\n

If you go to tennisform.com and click on the pulldown menu labeled \u201cSelect a tournament\u201d then click on Bucharest, you\u2019ll get the record of every player who\u2019s ever played in Bucharest (tennisform hasn\u2019t updated the 2007 results yet). Jurgen Melzer and Florent Serra have excellent records in this tournament and even though they\u2019ve been playing terribly this year, I chose them instead of another player in their quarter, Gilles Simon. Simon has been playing well lately and he ended up winning Bucharest.<\/p>\n

I should have used the tournament record as a tiebreaker between two equally matched players instead of favoring it over Simon\u2019s recent record of good results. Isn\u2019t hindsight wonderful?<\/p>\n

There are two tournaments this week and the first prize is similar so we need four players from each tournament.<\/p>\n

Bangkok<\/strong> (indoor hard court, first prize: $76,500)<\/p>\n

I am a happy camper this Sunday morning. The U.S. won its Davis Cup tie against Sweden and Russia came back from a 2-1 deficit to beat Germany and that means the Davis Cup final is in the U.S. and I can go to it!!!<\/p>\n

Tommy Haas did not play the reverse singles for Germany, though, and I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s because he\u2019s a woeful clay court player or he has an injury. The Davis Cup ties just ended so I don\u2019t have information yet but Germany played Philipp Petzschner instead of Haas and Petzschner is ranked number 206 in the world and is not a clay court specialist. I bring this up because Haas is playing in Bangkok this week so check the draw before you go to bed tonight to see if he pulled out.<\/p>\n

[UPDATE: Tommy Haas has a viral infection that got worse during the night.]<\/p>\n

The Bangkok event is loaded with top players: Novak Djokovic, Andy Roddick and Tomas Berdych are here. Carlos Moya is here too but he\u2019s in Djokovic\u2019s quarter. Obviously you should save Djokovic for Madrid and one of the more lucrative indoor hard court events such as Vienna.<\/p>\n

And here we have an interesting choice because, remember, we want to pick one player from each quarter. Moya hasn\u2019t played well on indoor hard court since 2003 so I\u2019m going to ignore this quarter and pick two players from Berdych’s quarter.<\/p>\n

Berdych is in a tough quarter. Thomas Johansson, Ivo Karlovic, and Feliciano Lopez are there. But Johansson hasn\u2019t played well on indoor hard court this year and Lopez is too inconsistent. What I’m going to do is take Berdych and Karlovic instead of making a pick in Djokovic’s quarter.<\/p>\n

Haas has Joachim Johansson in his draw and Johansson is killer in fall indoor hard court tournaments. Unfortunately he\u2019s not available for ATP fantasy tennis. I would not save Haas for Madrid, he doesn\u2019t do well there, but do save him for Paris where he has an excellent record. I\u2019m using Haas this week because I\u2019ve only used him three times and he doesn\u2019t play a lot of fall indoor tournaments.<\/p>\n

[UPDATE: since Tommy Haas has a viral infection I’m taking Carlos Moya.]<\/p>\n

I can use Roddick one more time. Should I use him this week? He\u2019s never gotten past the third round at Madrid and probably won\u2019t play Paris if he\u2019s already qualified for the year end championships. However, if he does poorly at Madrid he might choose to play Lyon or Vienna which both pay much more so I\u2019m saving him. Instead I\u2019m taking Dmitry Tursunov because no one else in that quarter inspires confidence.<\/p>\n

Notice below that I\u2019ve posted a website that is streaming the Bangkok event on the internet.<\/p>\n

Live Webcast<\/a>
\nBangkok Draw<\/a><\/p>\n

Mumbai<\/strong> (outdoor hard court, first prize: $65,850)<\/p>\n

Richard Gasquet hasn\u2019t gone past the second round of a hard court tournament since Indian Wells but he doesn\u2019t have any competition in his quarter and I haven\u2019t used him much because he\u2019s sick or injured so often. I\u2019m using him now.<\/p>\n

A possible third round matchup between Fabrice Santoro and Jarkko Nieminen is hard to pick. Santoro is 2-0 lifetime over Nieminen but Santoro is winding his career down. Neither one has a good hard court record this year but Santoro\u2019s is better so I\u2019m taking him.<\/p>\n

Paul-Henri Mathieu is maddeningly inconsistent on hard courts: he had a first round exit in Cincinnati and the US Open and a semifinal in New Haven. He should be able to beat Nicolas Kiefer in the first round but I\u2019m a bit nervous because Kiefer got to the semifinals at Beijing last week but we can’t pick Kiefer because he’s not available for ATP fantasy tennis so I’m going with Mathieu.<\/p>\n

Rainer Schuettler actually has a 2-2 record against Llleyton Hewitt but Hewitt won both hard court matches so I\u2019m going with him since I haven\u2019t used Hewitt this year.<\/p>\n

Mumbai Draw<\/a><\/p>\n

My Picks<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s my team: Gasquet, Santoro, Mathieu, Hewitt, Berdych, Karlovic, Haas<\/strike> Moya, Tursunov.<\/p>\n

Happy fantasies!<\/p>\n

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We\u2019re deep into the ATP Fantasy Tennis Season so check out my Fantasy Tennis Guide. You\u2019ll find Fast Facts, Strategies, and Statistics to help you play the game. Sign up and join our subleague! It\u2019s called tennisdiary.com. We send weekly email updates to all subleague members before the submission deadline. The deadline for picking your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,22,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atp-players","category-atp-tournaments","category-fantasy-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}