Welcome to the first annual Season-Long Tennis PEEHS!



Rules

1. Research is allowed and encouraged. Suggested links for research:
http://www.tennisabstract.com/
https://www.atptour.com/en/
https://www.wtatennis.com/
https://live-tennis.eu/en/atp-live-ranking

2. Entries must be submitted via pm to me by the start of play of the 2021 season, which is scheduled to be friday January 1st, but could change depending on whether or not australia gets their **** together. I need a volunteer to receive my entry, please reply if you're up for it.

3. If the answer is a player, only full names or surnames are acceptable, no nicknames please.
Examples of acceptable answers:
Novak Djokovic
Nadal
Bautista Agut
Examples of unacceptable answers:
Vax
Nadull
Princess

4. If the answer is a country, the actual name of the country (germany, australia, canada, etc.) or the standard three letter abbreviation of the country (GER, AUS, CAN, etc.) is acceptable. The only exception being france, for which "lolfrance" is acceptable. Any other nicknames or derogatory names for countries are unacceptable.

5. Numbering your answers is appreciated but not required.

6. All questions are for men's and/or women's singles able-bodied events only.

7. Entry is free. Sidebets are cool.

Scoring

If you're new to PEEHS, the basic objective is to pick answers that are correct, and that few or no other people picked. Correct answers are worth as many points as total people who have guessed that answer. The best score per question is 1 (an ace), which means you guessed a correct answer that nobody else guessed.

Incorrects are scored as (highest score for any answer for that question) + (number of different correct answers for that question).

Definitions

CMO = Completed Matches Only. This means that any match relevant to the question must be completed to have action. Any match ending by walkover, retirement, or default will not count.
M = Men's. The answer must be a male player.
W = Women's. The answer must be a female player.
M/W = Men's or Women's. The answer can be a male or female player.
ATP level tournament = Any tournament that awards at least 250 ATP ranking points to the winner.
WTA level tournament = Any tournament that awards at least 280 WTA ranking points to the winner.
Challenger = For the purpose of this contest I define a challenger as: for men, tournaments that award 80-125 ATP ranking points to the winner, and for women, tournaments that award 80-160 WTA ranking points to the winner.
Country = For answers that are a country, this means the country the players officially represent, regardless of where the players were born or live in.

Questions

To be revealed after the australian open, hopefully february 1st:
1. (M) Name a player who was not ranked in the ATP top 5 at year end 2020 who has earned at least 400 ranking points so far in 2021.
2. (W) Name a player who was not ranked in the WTA top 5 at year end 2020 who has earned at least 500 ranking points so far in 2021.
3. (M/W) Name a player who will have won an ATP/WTA/Challenger title or have reached the semifinal of the australian open in 2021.

To be revealed after the "golden swing" March 1st:
4. (CMO, M/W) Name a player who will have won at least 5 matches on clay courts in central or south american countries in ATP/WTA/Challenger events so far in 2021.
5. (M) Name a player who has won at least 5 tiebreak sets in ATP level matches so far in 2021.
6. (CMO, M/W) Name a player who has at least 10 match wins in ATP/WTA/Challenger matches so far in 2021.

To be revealed after Miami, april 5th:
7. (M/W) Name a player who had never won a grand slam, Indian Wells, or Miami, before 2021, who will reach the quarterfinal of either Indian Wells or Miami in 2021.
8. (M/W) Name a country that will have at least 2 different players reaching the 4th round of either Indian Wells or Miami in 2021 (1 male + 1 female would be correct).

To be revealed after Roland Garros, june 7th:
9. (M/W) Name a player who will have earned at least 500 ranking points from clay court tournaments in europe so far in 2021.
10. (M/W) Name a player who had never won a grand slam before 2021, who has won an ATP/WTA level title so far in 2021.
11. (M/W) Name a country that will have at least 10 players in the top 100 of the ATP and WTA rankings (combined) using the rankings updated monday june 7th.

To be revealed after Wimbledon, july 12th:
12. (M/W) Name a player who had never won an ATP/WTA/Challenger title on grass courts before 2021 who will reach the 4th round of Wimbledon in 2021.
13. (M/W) Name a player ranked in the ATP/WTA top 50 on July 12th 2021, who has played at least 10 matches in 2021, and has won at least 85% of their service games so far in 2021.

To be revealed after US Open, monday September 13th:
14. (M/W) Name a player who has reached 2 or more grand slam quarterfinals in 2021.
15. (CMO, M) Name a male player representing USA who will reach the 3rd round of the US Open in 2021.
16. (M/W) Name a player born on or after September 13th 2000 who will have won an ATP/WTA/Challenger title so far in 2021.

To be revealed after Paris masters, november 9th:
17. (M/W) Name a player ranked outside the ATP/WTA top 10 at year end 2020, who has reached the semifinal of an ATP Masters 1000 or WTA Premier Mandatory or Premier 5 tournament in 2021.
18. (M) Name a player who will either qualify for with points, or play at least one match in the ATP World Tour Finals.
19. (W) Name a player who will either qualify for with points, or play at least one match in the WTA Finals.

To be revealed after the ATP World Tour Finals and all WTA level tournaments:
20. (M) Name a player who played at least 30 ATP level matches in 2021 who has won at least 30% of their return games in 2021.
21. (M/W) Name a player who won their first career ATP/WTA level title in 2021.
22. (M/W) Name a player who won 3 or more ATP/WTA/Challenger titles in 2021.

Please look over the questions and let me know if there's any confusion.

Send to me with read receipt, i'll fill mine out and send. Won't view it up the first reveal.

2 entries so far:
krunic
viggorous

For questions 4-6, I forgot to mention that qualifying matches/sets will count.

Posting to subscribe to maybe enter some day...

In.

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First reveal rescheduled for monday february 21st. Subsequent reveals may also need to be pushed back.

4 entries so far:
krunic
viggorous
kingweed
rollos

According to the schedules that have come out recently it looks like the tennis year will start at 1 am eastern US time on saturday January 5th.

Still just the 4 entries, we need some more runners!

Just a couple days left! Come on folks, PEEHS is fun!

The first 3 questions have been decided regardless of what happens for the rest of AO. The first reveal will begin shortly.

Since we have only 4 runners in this, I think the standard scoring system needs to be tweaked slightly. For example, if we have a question with 1 ace and 3 unique incorrects, the score would be 1 point for the ace and 2 points for the incorrects (sheep score of 1 + 1 correct answer). I think it's super lame to have an ace being only 1 point better than incorrects. My solution is to make aces worth 0 points.

I think if I do this next year I'll start it right before AO when more people are paying attention to tennis, and also make the questions a bit less complicated.

I also forgot to mention how team events like atp cup, davis cup, BJK cup are treated. The points and match wins for these events count for the relevant questions but if a player is on a winning team it doesn't count as a title, only individual tournaments count as titles.

My answers were sent to kingweed if there's any need for verification.

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For question #1 we have 3 aces and 1 incorrect.

My pick for this question was an elder statesman of the tour, and former AO champ. He picked up 45 points for a QF at the Murray River tournament and another 45 for a 2nd round exit at AO. That's 310 points shy of the required 400.

My incorrect answer is:

Incorrect scoring:

We have a sheep score of 1 + 3 unique corrects = 4 points for an incorrect.

The 3 aces are 0 points each so I'm starting off 4 points behind everyone else.

Unplayed aces:

Djokovic
Medvedev
Karatsev
Berrettini
Dimitrov

Our first ace earned 65 points for one win at ATP Cup and got himself over the line with 360 points for a QF at AO, for a total of 425 points:



0 points: viggorous

Our 2nd ace earned 115 points at ATP Cup and will face Medvedev in the AO SF. Even if he loses, the 720 points for a SF finish would get him well over the 400 points needed.



0 points: kingweed

Our 3rd ace went undefeated at ATP Cup, good for 310 points, then reached the QF of AO for another 360, losing to his ATP Cup teammate.



0 points: rollos

Standings after question #1:

0 viggorous
0 kingweed
0 rollos
4 krunic

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For question 2 we have 0 corrects and 3 unique incorrects.

We all get 2 points: sheep score of 2 + 0 corrects = 2.

My pick played 3 tournaments, getting 55 points in Abu Dhabi, another 55 at the Grampians Trophy, and 130 at AO for 240 total, which is just shy of half the required 500. And this was the best pick for this question!

2 entrants picked our next incorrect. She made the 2nd round of AO, which was her first tournament in 15 months, good for 70 points. Then reached the SF of the Phillip Island Trophy for another 110, and 180 points total.



2 points: viggorous and rollos

Our final incorrect, and worst pick, lost her first match at the Grampians Trophy, then reached the 3rd round of AO for 130 points.



2 points: kingweed

Unplayed aces:

Brady
Osaka
S. Williams
Muchova
Barty
Sabalenka
Mertens
Muguruza
Halep

Standings after question 2:

2 viggorous
2 kingweed
2 rollos
6 krunic

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