by Jackie Roe, TW Social Director
Hey there, TWibe. Welcome to the first Deuce Club of the new year!
Who’s ready for the Oz Open to just start already? Yeah, me too. But we’ve got some business to take care of before the games begin, so read on.
Are you already registered for the AO '12 Suicide Pool? If not, check out the following announcement from the fabulous Mariya at TalkAboutTennis.com:
It's time again to try and make it through a fortnight of a battle for survival in the Australian Open '12 Suicide Poolat* *TalkAboutTennis.com*. If you've played it before, you know what to do. Click* here to play. You should find the thread for the first day (after the OOP is announced) at that link. The deadline to enter is the scheduled start of play on Monday, January 16th (11 am in Melbourne).
If you don't know how to play the Suicide Pool, continue reading or click here:
The basic idea of the Suicide Pool is to pick, for each day of the tournament (in this case, the Aussie Open), one player from the OOP who you think is going to win his/her match. If he/she wins, you get to pick a fresh player from the next day's OOP. The end goal, of course, is to progress to the final and pick the eventual winner. There is a catch: you can only pick a player once for the entire tournament (so, for instance, you might want to save Djokovic for a later round).
There are separate games for the ATP and WTA singles draws and you can play one or both of them. There will be a fresh thread open every day of the tournament, for both the ATP and WTA. You'll also see a thread which tracks updated results once the tournament begins. *
Additional rules:**
You have to be a registered member of TAT, which you can easily do by registering *here for free.
We will be keeping track of the fortunes of the TWibe. If you want your name to be tracked, please indicate this with the text "TW" in your first day's (and ONLY your first day's) pick. Only include your TW name if it’s different from your username on TAT. Check out the example below:*
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Thomaz Bellucci
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TW
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Thanks, Mariya. Best of luck to all participants. Last year, both pools were won by TWibers—I know we’ve got it in us to make it two in a row!
Will we have a TW contingent at the tournament? Aussiemarg is attending, I know. Anyone else? GVGirl (Karen) is covering the tournament and wanted me to pass along the following invite:
Please let TWibe members know that I will be in Australia from January 13-30. Love to meet up with them. They can drop me an email at TWOZ@GVTNews.com.
Hope a TW gathering comes together! And as always, if you’d like to share reports/photos from your Melbourne experience, send them to me here and I’ll showcase them in a future DC.
That’s all for now. You know the drill: Use this space to continue sharing predictions or lamenting about your favorite's horrendous draw, or feel free to mix things up and go the off-topic route instead (better for the nerves). Me? I’ll be planning out my sleep schedule for the next two weeks . . .
Have a wonderful weekend, and enjoy the start of the AO!