The Deuce Club, 1.15 & AO Suicide Pool

By Peter BodoPublished January 15, 2010

By Jackie Roe, TW Social Director

Australian Open '10 Suicide Pool Announcement

This is a reminder that the Australian Open '10 Suicide Pool (SP) is on at TalkAboutTennis.com. If you have played it before, you know what to do. Click here to play.You should find the instructions and the thread for the first day (after the OOP is announced) at that link. If you don't know how to play the Suicide Pool, read on.

The basic idea of the Suicide Pool is to pick, for each day of the tournament (in this case the AO), one player from the OOP who you think is going to win his/her match. If he/she wins his/her match 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, in that you can only pick a player once for the entire tournament (so, for instance, you might want to save Federer for a later round).

There are separate games for the ATP and WTA singles draws and you can play one or both of them.

Additional rules:

You have to be a registered member of TAT, which you can easily become by registering here for free.

We will be keeping track of the fortunes of the TWibe. If you want to 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:

Thomaz Bellucci

ptenisnet

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.

You have to get your picks for each day, not round, before play starts for the day. The entry deadline into the contest is the scheduled start play on Day 1 of Australian Open.

Hope you all play, and enjoy the AO!