Wanderer

Provisional Standing after Day 6 Rank User Nation Total 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 TB 1 NikolaB 1801 313 342 343 263 261 279 2 LDOG 1764 336 317 330 221 274 286 3 sami-eg 1746 347 319 281 207 260 332 4 toulousain 1740 296 321 302 216 293 312 5 africaboy 1736 291 333 312 218 309 273 6 heywoodu 1723 359 330 298 176 254 306 7 bestmen 1712 296 284 309 358 214 251 8 vinipereira 1695 342 333 278 202 256 284 9 Monzanator 1678 315 329 267 243 290 234 10 ady48 1667 288 334 251 211 302 281 10 Wanderer 1667 345 290 310 182 254 286 12 szy123 1652 326 304 277 215 250 280 13 chrischi08 1639 296 338 261 211 262 271 14 Speedy 1619 280 317 294 219 263 246 15 Sindo 1618 320 321 283 207 289 198 16 crovitlaci 1604 292 321 294 205 279 213 17 amen09 1602 313 332 236 228 242 251 18 titicow 1599 328 276 231 269 250 245 19 hckosice 1594 277 333 269 189 249 277 20 Ufilov 1587 300 330 257 213 302 185 21 Vinicius Vaz 1582 272 336 254 183 214 323 22 vlad 1578 264 325 280 230 262 217 23 Pablita 1556 268 327 246 227 249 239 24 Laraja 1548 304 240 303 189 229 283 24 rybak 1548 309 337 231 214 176 281 26 Dolby 1541 322 279 268 220 211 241 27 OlympicsFan 1533 330 322 257 166 218 240 28 Henry_Leon 1505 288 323 247 179 234 234 29 Vektor 1470 202 334 219 213 253 249 30 Vojthas 1462 313 270 247 163 235 234 31 SteveParker 1461 269 334 249 177 208 224 32 Ustatsch 1364 250 277 243 225 224 145 33 JOSE SEIJO 1230 266 298 138 274 254 01: August 31st - First Round - Group A, Group B, Group C, Group D 02: September 1st - First Round - Group E, Group F, Group G, Group H 03: September 2nd - First Round - Group A, Group B, Group C, Group D 04: September 3rd - First Round - Group E, Group F, Group G, Group H 05: September 4th - First Round - Group A, Group B, Group C, Group D 06: September 5th - First Round - Group E, Group F, Group G, Group H 07: September 6th - Second Round - Group I, Group J 08: September 7th - Second Round - Group K, Group L 09: September 8th - Second Round - Group I, Group J 10: September 9th - Second Round - Group K, Group L 11: September 10th - Quarterfinals 12: September 11th - Quarterfinals 13: September 13th - Semifinals 14: September 15th - Bronze Medal Match, Gold Medal Match Mistakes are always possible. PM me if you notice any.

[hide] Second Round September 6th - September 9th, 2019 16 Nations, 2 Groups, the 1st and 2nd Nations from each Group will qualify for the Quarterfinals Group I Date & Time (GMT +8) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 6th 2019, h. TBD Poland Russia September 6th 2019, h. TBD Argentina Venezuela September 8th 2019, h. TBD Poland Argentina September 8th 2019, h. TBD Venezuela Russia Group J Date & Time (GMT +8) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 6th 2019, h. TBD Spain Italy September 6th 2019, h. TBD Serbia Puerto Rico September 8th 2019, h. TBD Spain Serbia September 8th 2019, h. TBD Puerto Rico Italy Group K Date & Time (GMT +8) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 7th 2019, h. TBD United States 5 Greece September 7th 2019, h. TBD Brazil 5 Czech Republic September 9th 2019, h. TBD United States 20 Brazil September 9th 2019, h. TBD Czech Republic 10 Greece Group L Date & Time (GMT +8) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 7th 2019, h. TBD France 8 Lithuania September 7th 2019, h. TBD Australia 20 Dominican Republic September 7th 2019, h. TBD France 10 Australia September 7th 2019, h. TBD Dominican Republic 25 Lithuania [/hide]

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You MUST hide your post. To do that, you have only to delete the space between the bracket "[" and the text "hide" in "[ hide]" at the beginning of prediction post. Do the same at the end of prediction post with "[ /hide]" too. PREDICTION DESIGN - START COPYING HERE ---> [ hide] Second Round September 6th - September 9th, 2019 16 Nations, 2 Groups, the 1st and 2nd Nations from each Group will qualify for the Quarterfinals Group I Date & Time (GMT +8) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 6th 2019, h. TBD Poland Russia September 6th 2019, h. TBD Argentina Venezuela September 8th 2019, h. TBD Poland Argentina September 8th 2019, h. TBD Venezuela Russia Group J Date & Time (GMT +8) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 6th 2019, h. TBD Spain Italy September 6th 2019, h. TBD Serbia Puerto Rico September 8th 2019, h. TBD Spain Serbia September 8th 2019, h. TBD Puerto Rico Italy Group K Date & Time (GMT +8) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 7th 2019, h. TBD United States Greece September 7th 2019, h. TBD Brazil Czech Republic September 9th 2019, h. TBD United States Brazil September 9th 2019, h. TBD Czech Republic Greece Group L Date & Time (GMT +8) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 7th 2019, h. TBD France Lithuania September 7th 2019, h. TBD Australia Dominican Republic September 7th 2019, h. TBD France Australia September 7th 2019, h. TBD Dominican Republic Lithuania [ /hide] ---> PREDICTION DESIGN - STOP COPYING HERE

If you only judge by a name, you wouldn't guess around 50% where certain athletes come from Anyway, Italian tennis federation, as flawed as it can be, really is one of the strongest around there. There is a challenger level tournament almost every week in Italy! Which is a very helpful, plenty of young players get opportunity to play a professional tournament and often against decent opponents. And good thing is - even there are bunch of challengers in China/Japan/Korea - the level at the tournaments in Italy is much higher. Geography Just checked - this year, around 20 challenger tournaments in Italy alone

Let's hope Bianca finishes it in two sets

Understandable But he is the youngest in the top 300 (On Live Ranking Sinner is 127th)

U21 players are usually considered as NextGen. It first started in early 2000s when Hewitt, Federer, Nalbandian, Fererro, Roddick, Safin were young players and were making their way to the top of the game. It is mainly marketing thing. Since all of them became GS champions as soon as they started the hype (unfortunately only Nalbandian didn't win a slam, lost Wimbledon final to Hewitt in 2002) people hope it would happen with NextGen 2.0. Looks like they are just WindowsVista while old guard are wonderful, long living Windows XP But I think Tsitsipas among the mentioned ones would win Slam first. Felix Auger also if he stays healthy. And Zverev when he gets brain transplant.

He is not in top 100 yet

Well, he always had the talent but I believe he struggled with injuries when next gen was promoted. And he is born in 1996 so he's definitely NextGen player, luckily not as hyped as Zverev

Starting with Schiavone, Italian tennis keeps growing. Now on the men's side. Jannik Sinner is such a talent! There are also Zeppieri and Musetti as notable young talents but overall bunch of upcoming young players.

This is why Slams have that "thing"

I completely forgot that Ferrer had retired

Matteo

Monfils double faulting Matteo's road to SF

Wow this was crucial challenge for Matteo

Dimitrov had 0-7 H2H with Federer, Schwartzman is 0-7 with Nadal. If you know what I mean

He has a good fighting spirit

Verkerk? Yup, that was surprise, I was a kid, cheering for Agassi and was a bit angry how some unknown guy was there but not my hero

And speaking of that RG 2004 - four Argentinians in the quarterfinals, three in semis and the winner was the lowest ranked of them all

Feli Lopez did have some injuries, but still managed to play all the slams Always in the main draw!

I am among those who blame Radek for Vaidisova's career. She might have returned sooner than later and MIGHT.... well

IF, IF Schwartzman wins, this would be first slam after... Roland Garros 2004 where none of Federer/Djokovic/Nadal names won't be heard in the semifinals. The year I started high school and now I am starting my thirties

C'mon Matteo If only Schwartzman could do wonders later

[hide] Second Round September 6th - September 9th, 2019 16 Nations, 2 Groups, the 1st and 2nd Nations from each Group will qualify for the Quarterfinals Group I Date & Time (GMT +8) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 6th 2019, h. TBD Poland 2 Russia September 6th 2019, h. TBD Argentina 12 Venezuela September 8th 2019, h. TBD Poland 8 Argentina September 8th 2019, h. TBD Venezuela 10 Russia Group J Date & Time (GMT +8) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 6th 2019, h. TBD Spain 5 Italy September 6th 2019, h. TBD Serbia 20 Puerto Rico September 8th 2019, h. TBD Spain 5 Serbia September 8th 2019, h. TBD Puerto Rico 10 Italy [/hide]