MABS

Medvedev 76 62 62 WON
27 games LOSS
Donskoy 26 46 57 LOSS 
Karlovic 46 75 76 63 WON
So we have 2x win 2x loss here but Donskoy should really have won the third set, he was 4-1 up there and looked really good but then collapsed like the mental midget he is. Disgusting. Still a solid plus thanks to Medvedev.

Lorenzi + Millman deliver .

I know he's decent and I belive he will win a title some day but Nicolas can serve pretty good and will be hard to break for Filip. Nicolas at 198cm tall has a serve that translates well to grass.

Ruben Bemelmans (+3.5) to beat Steve Johnson at 2.00 with Pinnaclesports
Steve beat Ruben in Nottingham challenger final 2013 7-5 7-5 but I don't care about that. Steve is not in the sort of form to go out and destroy an opponent like Ruben on grass. He plays very unsecure right now and I fear for him when he's coming up against who I think is the hottest qualifier of them all. Ruben spells danger for Steve and he will keep this close. 

You are missing the big picture, you belive Filip wins on a surface he's played less then 10 matches on in his career in a tournament he's only won one qualifying match when he's been away since march. He's not even expecting himself to win this probably. He probably just wants to go out there and get some match practice. Everyone has the right to have their own opinion but here I fear you are wrong.

Good opinions exchange on Travaglia vs Millman - sure Milman is playing in a good form and has a higher chance of winning this match, but it is also true that S. Travaglia is not the weakest player coming out of qualies...
Although Liquidglass has a valid point, I do like Millman -1,5 sets, as it allows a set to worthy opponent - just regular stakes.
My opinion only, not a sure thing (none is) no disrespect meant, as a 7:6, 6:4, 3:6 and 6:4 could do it for both...
 
Happy Canada day, and GL to all
 

Good opinions exchange on Travaglia vs Millman - sure Milman is playing in a good form and has a higher chance of winning this match, but it is also true that S. Travaglia is not the weakest player coming out of qualies...
Although Liquidglass has a valid point, I do like Millman -1,5 sets, as it allows a set to worthy opponent - just regular stakes.
My opinion only, not a sure thing (none is) no disrespect meant, as a 7:6, 6:4, 3:6 and 6:4 could do it for both...
 
Happy Canada day, and GL to all
 

I'm not backing him large, even stakes as always. And just for the record, I guess that he's not actually the weakest link. Bonzi is. Klahn is a close call, but we'll see, perhaps Travaglia is going to force me to regret my words.

Not at all. I think there are better matchups to focus on especially on the first two days of a slam. I agree with you that millman is the better player, but certainly not by a street . He also faces a very determined street fighter here who breezed through qualifying. Definately a long match in prospect. Good luck if you back him large!!

Lol!! I really do not mind you saying anything in a bid to find qualifying reasons for a pick. However I just could not let you get away with describing Travaglia as the weakest link from the group of qualifying players. He goes into that game with a more than average chance of winning for a guy whose game is well suited to the surface. His record on grass in the last 2years is very good and the odds also reflect that.

1pt Mihaela Buzarnescu to win the 3rd Quarter at 29.00 with Bet365
Interest stakes for obvious reasons.
E.Gulbis/J.Clarke - Over 3.5 sets at 2.00 with Paddy Power
Gulbis is the better player, there can be no doubts about that, but Clarke plays his heart out in home conditions and he's played decent tennis recently, so I think that it's very likely that we are going to see a tight battle here, either thanks to Clarke fighting hard or thanks to Gulbis fooling around.
Mikhail Kukushkin to beat Vasek Pospisil at 1.66 with Pinnacle
I've already opposed Pospisil once on grass in this season and I'm happy to do so again against Kukushkin, who is just the better player of the two overall. Much better, in fact, and with a much better form book as well.
Lara Arruabarrena-Vecino to beat Ana Bogdan at 1.81 with Marathonbet
The surface should suit Bogdan slightly more, but she hasn't played for so long that I'm not really sure that LAV should be only a minor favourite here. Could be a case of Bogdan just picking up a check honestly. I like the odds regardless.
Paolo Lorenzi to beat Laslo Djere at 1.73 with Paddy Power
Speaking of picking up checks, Djere is currently still playing in a clay court Challenger in Milan, which is about the last thing you'd want to be doing a couple of days ahead of Wimbledon if success is what you want. Lorenzi is an aging force, but I'd have him around the 1.50 mark given all the situational factors. Also, he has at least a somewhat competent serve (unlike Djere).
Petra Martic to beat Ekaterina Makarova at 1.97 with Pinnacle
Makarova is stuck in a really strange spot at the moment, with no victories in sight. She's obviously capable of beating Martic, but I can't have her as the favourite given the losing streak and given that Martic has played a couple of reasonable matches on grass already. 60/40 imo.
Daria Gavrilova to beat Zarina Diyas at 1.80 with Paddy Power
I have to admit that Diyas has dropped from my radar recently, but Gavrilova hasn't and I didn't mind her recent performances - that she didn't win too many matches can be attributed to the fact that she had to face Kvitova and Radwanska pretty much straight away. Diyas will be a solid step down.
John Millman (-1.5 sets) to beat Stefano Travaglia at 1.86 with Unibet
I don't really enjoy opposing qualifiers, but Travaglia looks to be the weakest link from that group of players and the draw hasn't been particularly kind to him either, so I'd say that he's going to find it really hard to get a result. On grass, Millman should win - and perhaps comfortably so.

Men's = http://www.wimbledon.com/en_GB/scores/draws/2018_MS_draw.pdf
Women's = http://www.wimbledon.com/en_GB/scores/draws/2018_LS_draw.pdf

South Korea vs Mexico
The Mexicans have a lightweight team like the Koreans, but I think the Osório team's position is more aggressive, very different from what it was against the German national team. Koreans need the positive result, an hour will have to give way. Even if it is closed for a certain time, Mexico has the resources to wrap up this defense of South Korea that is not the best. I believe in at least two goals for the Mexican team in the match.
Mexico Over 1.5 @1.98  (NetBet) - unit: 1
 

Hi, just on a quick glance noticed that you did not give any points for prediction of 1-1 score in Serbia-Swiss match - should give a point for GG asit was 1-2...
Btw, fantastic job organizing and keeping track of the whole thing!!!!!!!

brilliant treble CP 

great tip kenny, well done 

Also, I like another underdog in another final tomorrow - home boy in a challenger, I would rate him as a 60% favorite...
GL
just checked, every challenger tomorrow has a home country player Go Daniel  
 

Warriors are awesome…  Having just said that, I must try by going for Chardy winning his 10th straight on grass against always good to watch Gasquet. As it is a tournament final, it should be a good match and I believe that the odds should be even, but since they are not, I am willing to go for Jeremy  @ around 2,5 for a win… Gasquet has better h2h 4:1 but they did not play on grass against each other, and Chardy seems on fire these days so there could be a play to watch amongst these fun football matches...
 

Its always difficult to plan these things for next season as a few members move on etc... but as it stands at the moment these are how the new division will look. Obviously any inactive members will be removed when we get nearer the time.
Anyone not on here because of elimination will have to re-apply next August.
 



 
 

I couldn't wait for the clarification, had to check FIFA website!
"The Golden Ball will go to the competition’s best player. FIFA will announce a shortlist of ten players after the semi-finals. The Technical Study Group of FIFA will decide on the winner until the end of the Final. The players who finish second and third will receive the adidas Silver Ball and adidas Bronze Ball respectively."
"The leading goalscorer at every FIFA World Cup™ finals is awarded the adidas Golden Boot. If two or more players are tied on goals, the winner will be decided by the total assists. If assists cannot split them, the players who played the least minutes will emerge with the prize."
So Golden Boot is, essentially top goalscorer but with the assists/minutes played criteria applying rather than dead heat rules.

Diego Schwartzman to beat (-2.5 sets) Adam Pavlasek at 2.00 with bet365
I don't get many bets correct these days but this one I think I have a pretty good chance of landing. Pavlasek just beat the non-clay player Mirza Basic and it didn't surprise too many people I think. I was not surprised by it happening myself at least, he mostly did what he was supposed to do as he is the better clay player of the two. But here Adam will face a guy who's got a game in the class of top 10 clay players this season. I saw Diego playing in first round where he beat Calvin Hemery pretty nicely, he played as solid on serve that you simply have to wonder how far can he go in RG 2018. He went out in a 5 set match to Nole last season but I think he's improved his game a lot and doesn't lose sets easily to guys ranked below 50 in the world. He's now ranked 12 and I suspect we might see him even closer to top 10 soon or he will break the top 10. For me he is too solid in his game to lose a set to this czech even though he is kind of specialized on clay. Adam simply is a few levels below Diego so Diego has a pretty good chance of taking it without droping a set. But there can be some tight sets here with tie-breaks to come or maybe even Diego can lose a set by a break so watch out for that because it can get tough as always with small margins deciding the winner of a set. But having seen Diego playing as good as he did in first round made me confident that he can win next round in 3 sets but I count on Adam to make this bet hard to bring home so I'm a bit worried but I trust Diego at the same time. So all in all this might get tricky but I'm hoping Diego plays solid enough to break Adams serve a few times.

Just before start a quick note based on recent displays - taking over 32 games in Schwarc - Pavlas. match, under 31 in Delpo's match and Herbert plus 4,5 games... Gl

Just before start a quick note based on recent displays - taking over 32 games in Schwarc - Pavlas. match, under 31 in Delpo's match and Herbert plus 4,5 games... Gl

Many thanks to Billy Hills and all others who took part and made this interesting!
 

GGL + Paire won, Hsieh lost, not too bad. Adding a small double for tomorrow.
Johanna Larsson (vs. Mattek) + Shuai Zhang (vs. Kucova) at 1.79 with Marathonbet
Both are at least a class above on clay and I really am not worried about the small issues in their form books. Larsson has had enough time to recover from the finals given the Tuesday start and Zhang should be much more focused here than she was last week. Mattek is yet to do anything half-decent this season (and the conditions shouldn't help her at all) and Kucova has been playing on the lower levels for a while now, so I don't fancy their chances at all.