{"id":707,"date":"2007-10-06T13:11:42","date_gmt":"2007-10-06T21:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/?p=707"},"modified":"2007-10-06T13:11:42","modified_gmt":"2007-10-06T21:11:42","slug":"atp-fantasy-picks-for-vienna-moscow-and-stockholm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/atp-fantasy-picks-for-vienna-moscow-and-stockholm\/","title":{"rendered":"ATP Fantasy Picks for Vienna, Moscow and Stockholm"},"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

Deadline for picking your team this week is Sunday morning: 1am in Los Angeles\/4am in New York\/10am in London.<\/p>\n

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

My fantasy team is currently #53 out of almost 14,000 teams. That puts me in the top .4 %. I picked both finalists in Tokyo and one of the finalists in Metz.<\/p>\n

I got an extra round out of Sebastien Grosjean with a bit of luck. Grosjean was losing to Stefan Koubek when Koubek blew his top after an overrule by the chair umpire went against him. Koubek was defaulted and lost the match. Wow, that doesn\u2019t happen very often.<\/p>\n

We have three tournaments this week and they\u2019re all very big prize money. Let\u2019s pick three from Vienna, three from Moscow and two from Stockholm.<\/p>\n

Vienna<\/b> (indoor hard, first prize: $183,752)<\/p>\n

The top ranked player this week is playing the most lucrative tournament but should I pick him? Novak Djokovic can make over $183,000 by winning in Vienna or he could make around $234,000 by reaching the finals at Madrid or Paris. He isn\u2019t likely to win Madrid because Roger Federer is playing it and Djokovic may or may not play Paris since he\u2019s already qualified for the year end championships.<\/p>\n

Djokovic\u2019s quarter of the draw is easy but Ivan Ljubicic and Marcos Baghdatis are lurking below him. I think Djokovic can beat both of them and I\u2019m using him for the last time this year to get the sure money. I may regret it when Madrid and Paris roll around.<\/p>\n

Ljubicic has won this tournament the past two years and Baghdatis is 9-1 indoors this year. It\u2019s hard to pick between those two because Baghdatis was 3-0 over Ljubicic till he lost to him in Beijing three weeks ago. What the hell, I\u2019m taking Ljubicic.<\/p>\n

This is a tough tournament to pick. Richard Gasquet is in the same quarter as Carlos Moya. Gasquet just played two weeks in a row and he\u2019s notorious for his poor conditioning. Carlos Moya doesn\u2019t do well in the fall indoors season. Feliciano Lopez is in that quarter too and he has a 9-2 record here, but that was from 2003-2005 and he\u2019s 1-5 indoors this year.<\/p>\n

Guillermo Canas and Fernando Gonzalez are in the bottom quarter. Canas is in the final in Metz this week but he didn\u2019t beat anyone important to get there. Gonzalez continues to be up and down. He lost to Dudi Sela in Davis Cup two weeks ago as Israel defeated Chile. But he got to the final here last year and he also got to the final in Beijing. He has an excellent record in the fall indoor season so I\u2019m taking him. If you have only one pick left for Gonzalez, save him for Madrid.<\/p>\n

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

Moscow<\/b> (indoor carpet, first prize: $142,000)<\/p>\n

I can use Nikolay Davydenko twice more so I\u2019m using him here and in Paris. He doesn\u2019t do well in Madrid but he plays well in Russia. In the last four years, he\u2019s won the title in Moscow twice. Of course, the two years he didn\u2019t win, he lost in the first round. Typical Davydenko.<\/p>\n

Andy Murray is in the next quarter and he\u2019s my second pick. He\u2019s a ridiculous 12-1 indoors this year and I\u2019ve only used him twice so far.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s nobody frightening in the third quarter so I have to pick between Mikhail Youzhny and Philipp Kohlscheiber from the bottom of the draw. This looks like a no-brainer because Youzhny is 10-2 indoors this year, but Kohlschreiber has a 3-0 record over Youzhny all within the last 12 months. One of those wins was a first round victory over Youzhny here last year. Gotta go with Kohlschreiber.<\/p>\n

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

Stockholm<\/b> (indoor hard, first prize: $132,384)<\/p>\n

James Blake has won this tournament the last two years. I can pick him twice more and he doesn\u2019t do well in Madrid and Paris so I\u2019m taking him.<\/p>\n

I only need one more player this week to make up my eight man team so I\u2019m looking in the bottom half of the draw. David Ferrer is the second seed but he\u2019s not a good indoor player and besides, Joachim Johansson and Ivo Karlovic are in his quarter. Johansson may not be in match shape yet and Karlovic isn\u2019t great indoors.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a better pick. Tommy Haas looks like he\u2019s a good indoor player but that\u2019s because he plays well in Memphis every year which isn\u2019t that hard. Still, his quarter has two clay court players and a wild card substitute who\u2019s ranked 687 so I\u2019m taking Haas.<\/p>\n

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

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

Here\u2019s my team: Djokovic, Ljubicic, Gonzalez, Davydenko, Murray, Kohlschreiber, Blake, Haas.<\/p>\n

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