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    #26
    Tennis singles 2017 YE: PREDICTIONS NOW PLEASE

    On the men's side, I have no boldness to offer: my top 3 is current top 3 in order, and my top 4 is a perm of Multipleman's top 4. Difficult to do otherwise when the top guys just seem so dominant. I paid the price last year for my ambitious punt on Kyrgios (though I was damn right about Raonic). This year there were only 5 names I considered seriously: the 4 I've ended up choosing, plus Nishikori. Oh, and just possibly Thiem or Wawrinka at opposite ends of the age spectrum. I don't see Federer back in the top 10.

    1. Murray
    2. Djokovic
    3. Raonic
    4. Nadal

    On the women's side, it all seems so much less predictable: there must be a dozen or more women who would have a really strong chance of a top 4 year end ranking. Only Serena seems to me to be a "must choose".
    But that makes the guessing more fun.

    1. Ka Pliskova
    2. S Williams
    3. Kerber
    4. Keys

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      #27
      Tennis singles 2017 YE: PREDICTIONS NOW PLEASE

      I was almost tempted to make an attention-grabbing shout of Kasatkina, who is storming up the rankings, and who I reckon will end the year with a single figure ranking. But probably not quite top 4 within the next twelve months.

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        #28
        Tennis singles 2017 YE: PREDICTIONS NOW PLEASE

        Bumping this partly to seek more entrants to the contest but also to ask if anyone can let me know how, as thread originator, I can edit the thread title (to change the year, obv.)

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          #29
          Tennis singles 2017 YE: PREDICTIONS NOW PLEASE

          Go to your opening post, edit it, and then edit the title.

          It's really that simple.

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            #30
            Tennis singles 2017 YE: PREDICTIONS NOW PLEASE

            Ta very much Gero!

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              #31
              Tennis singles 2017 YE: PREDICTIONS NOW PLEASE

              Djokovic
              Murray
              Raonic
              Wawrinka

              Kerber
              Muguruza
              Williams (S)
              Pliskova

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                #32
                Tennis singles 2017 YE: PREDICTIONS NOW PLEASE

                Djokovic
                Murray
                Zverev (Alex)
                Raonic

                Kerber
                Serena
                Muguruza
                Konta

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                  #33
                  Tennis singles 2017 YE: PREDICTIONS NOW PLEASE

                  I was tempted by del Potro - if he remains injury free, he's a good top 4 bet, but I wonder if he will. So, anyway...

                  Djokovic
                  Murray
                  Nishikori
                  Thiem

                  Williams (S)
                  Pliskova (Ka)
                  Keys
                  Halep

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                    #34
                    Tennis singles 2017 YE: PREDICTIONS NOW PLEASE

                    Something of a stab-in-the-dark at this stage, as what went on in pre-season training will have a lot to day about it. But here goes anyway.

                    Men's
                    Djokovic
                    Nadal
                    Murray
                    Goffin

                    Women's
                    Kerber
                    Cibulkova
                    S.Williams (from only ~7 tournaments)
                    Bencic

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                      #35
                      Tennis singles 2017 YE: PREDICTIONS NOW PLEASE

                      Djokovic
                      Raonic
                      Nadal
                      Murray

                      Serena Williams
                      Pliskova
                      Kerber
                      Bencic

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                        #36
                        Tennis singles 2017 YE: PREDICTIONS NOW PLEASE

                        hawkvshandshaw, are you familiar to us under a previous username?

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                          #37
                          Tennis singles 2017 YE: PREDICTIONS NOW PLEASE

                          Yeah I used to be Haussmann.

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                            #38
                            Tennis singles 2017 YE: PREDICTIONS NOW PLEASE

                            ah, ok. Thanks for the predictathon entry. I'd been wondering if you were SSK, a tennis thread regular who entered this contest last year but not (so far at least) this year (as is also the case with Etienne, but I know he's still posting as Etienne). Still, with the addition of 4 new entrants, we've got a field of 8 so far compared to last year's 6.

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                              #39
                              Tennis singles 2017 YE: PREDICTIONS NOW PLEASE

                              1. Murray
                              2. Djokovic
                              3. Nishikori
                              4. Del Potro (if anyone's going to stick their neck out for him, it'd better be me.)

                              1. Kerber
                              2. S. Williams
                              3. Muguruza
                              4. Halep

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                                #40
                                Tennis singles 2017 YE: PREDICTIONS NOW PLEASE

                                I'm kind of ashamed of my start - having one player (Serena) left amongst the last 16 of the first major of the year. It's kind of shatteringly bad. But looking at other peoples' success rate here makes me feel less terrible.

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                                  #41
                                  Tennis singles 2017 YE: PREDICTIONS NOW PLEASE

                                  It's a marathon not a sprint, SB!

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                                    #42
                                    Tennis singles 2017 YE: PREDICTIONS NOW PLEASE

                                    Federer
                                    Nadal
                                    Djokovic
                                    Murray
                                    is still available to any late entrants.

                                    It won't be that, though. The top two names are simply not going to play enough tournaments this year to accumulate sufficient points.

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                                      #43
                                      Tennis singles 2017 YE: PREDICTIONS NOW PLEASE

                                      Such late entrants are too late, because...

                                      Evariste Euler Gauss wrote: Anyway, get your predictions in for 2017 year end! Ideally and for maximum righteousness, do so before a competitive ball is struck in the new year, but entries up to the start of the Aussie Open will be accepted.
                                      But yes, one Slam does not a year make. Which is why I'm not (yet) sweating on my prediction of Delpo to make the top four.

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                                        #44
                                        Tennis singles 2017 YE: PREDICTIONS NOW PLEASE

                                        Sam, this is it, and no, you can't change your entry, sorry. Occupational hazard. Everyone has Serena somewhere in their top 4.

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                                          #45
                                          Tennis singles 2017 YE: PREDICTIONS NOW PLEASE

                                          Haha, thanks! I thought there was a separate thread for it somewhere but couldn't remember what it was called. And I was only joking really. Maybe they'll protect her ranking while she's out ...

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                                            #46
                                            Tennis singles 2017 YE: PREDICTIONS NOW PLEASE

                                            They will. But only for entry into tournaments, not for seeding and World No.1 purposes.

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                                              #47
                                              Bumping this because multipleman was asking about it.

                                              The predictions for YE 2017 start a few posts from the foot of page 1 (the earlier posts are about the 2016 competition).

                                              We're all doing terribly, though I think Janik gets a special prize for saying *expressly* what the rest of us just implied, namely that Federer and Nadal would not be the top two.

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                                                #48
                                                Still a lot of points to play for, but on the ATP side, just comparing the 9 entries with the current top 4 in the YTD ("Race") rankings, being Nadal, Federer, A Zverev, Thiem, I can report that 2 of the 9 have not a single one of those, and the other 7 entries have exactly one name each from the current Race top 4 (being 4 x Nadal, 2 x Thiem and 1 x A Zverev).

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                                                  #49
                                                  The currently lowest Race-ranked player in anyone's entry is still Del Potro, at 25, tipped by Sam, but I can see him overtaking Murray, Nishikori and Raonic (all tipped by multiple entrants) by the end of the season.

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                                                    #50
                                                    Originally posted by Evariste Euler Gauss View Post
                                                    We're all doing terribly, though I think Janik gets a special prize for saying *expressly* what the rest of us just implied, namely that Federer and Nadal would not be the top two.
                                                    And despite that, my Women's tips are somehow worse! I've managed to pick three players who were about to embark on their worst season for years, and one who was already pregnant at the point I was writing.

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