2025-07-03
Game Week 18 results
2025-06-29
FTL Cup update
Congratulations to everyone who won in the latest round of FTL Cup ties.
We are now down to the last 16.
The next round of fixtures will be held during Game Week 21
2025-06-27
WIMBLEDON DRAWS AND DARK HORSE BREAKDOWN
I have attached the Wimbledon Main Draw (FTL Version) and the Dark Horse Breakdown. The Qualifying for both the Mens and Womens events was completed on Thursday, and as a result, both the Mens and Womens Main Draws were posted with the Qualifers and Lucky Losers already added.
Do not forget to select your Dark Horses for both the Mens and Womens events! and just a reminder that Wimbledon starts playing Round 1 Main Draw Matches on Sunday (June 29th)
If you want a copy, click on the link, WIMBLEDON DRAWS Once you do so, click on FILE, and scroll to MAKE A COPY, and call it whatever you want
2025-06-24
Game Week 17 results
2025-06-22
WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH A SECOND CHANCE?!?!
Everyone always bemoans what could have been, and in FTL, you always hear the decisions that someone would have and should have made. So what would you do if a second chance was actually available!?!?
FTL has always been a 1-n-done scenario where things are either going well or they aren't. Yes, things can come full circle and your season can change on a dime, but WHAT IF you could actually start over?
Well for the first time, the FTL is giving everyone that opportunity! Starting at Wimbledon, everyone will have the opportunity to pick a team from scratch and start the season over!
Because this has never been done, some of the details for future seasons are incomplete and as a result your feedback (both positive and negative) will be invaluable.
Lets help everyone out and answer some FAQ's
1. If the season starts at Wimbledon, when does it finish?
- Similar to the typical FTL Season, the season will end at the ATP Year End Finals
2.How much? Prizes?
- The first trial will be a demo and as a result will be free to enter. Sadly as a result of this, prizes won't be available.
- In Future seasons, we are looking at having 2 options just like we've had typically, except the prices would be 10USD for Option 1 and 25USD for Option 2
3. Players Values? Price Changes?
- Players values and price changes will 100% coincide with the typical FTL Season.
4. Initial Salary Cap? Trades?
- The starting salary cap at the AO has always been 100.000 and this will continue.
- The number of trades has always been capped via a simple calculation (2 X # of GW's) and capped at 3 trades for any given week. In this demo however, the number of trades for the season will coincide instead with what we had for a full season (68) - as a result, trades will not be an issue (unless you wanted to use more than 3 trades in any given week)
- For future seasons, the number of trades for the season will be properly capped tho.
5. Does my 2nd Chance team have to coincide with my normal team.
- No.
6. Can I have 2 teams on the same account? How do I get started?
- Currently, you cannot have 2 teams on the same account. In future years, you will be able to have both a team for the full season and a 2nd chance team on that account, but not for the initial demo.
- Sign in via E-Mail, Google or Facebook, and then input your Name and Team name. If you want to make life easy on yourself, you can easily mark your Name as John Doe 2nd Half.
- From that point, you make your team like you always have
- then join the Public League - 2nd Half Masters
2025-06-16
GAMEWEEK 16 RESULTS
I'd like to offer a huge kuddos to our winners this week - Tatjana Maria, Gabriel Diallo, Elise Mertens and Taylor Fritz
The week following a slam is always tough. The week following a slam where they change surface is virtually impossible. I'd like to tell you that you could look at how a players fared over the past couple of events and that would help give you some insight as to how they might do in such a scenario - but I can tell you this flat out - it didn't LOL.
Lets start with Tatjana Maria. Her victory in Queens might be one of the most hard to figure results in years. Coming into the week, Tatjana had a total of 6 WTA Tour Level Main Draw wins since Nottingham (thats a full year) of last year! She came into the week on a 9 match losing streak, and then somehow won 2 matches in Qualifying and then beat 5 top 30 ranked players and won the title!!!! She lost 1 set all week (Karolina Muchova) as she managed to dispatch Leylah Fernandez, Karolina Muchova, Elena Rybakina, Madison Keys and Amanda Anisimova. Lets add a little bit of context to these results, Muchova, Rybakina and Keys are 3 of the top 5 or 6 faves to win Wimbledon! Another crazy fact is that it had been over a year and a half since she beat a single player ranked inside the top 50 LOL.
I can tell you this flat out, that Tatjana has looked like she hasn't belonged on the Main Tour for quite some time, so for her to win a 500 level event, is beyond hard to fathom. With this new found confidence, its safe to say that the top ranked players won't be hoping to see her in Round 1 at Wimbledon!
Gabriel Diallo came into the S'Hert event without a single career ATP Tour Level Main Draw grass court win. 1 week later, he has 5 and came away with his first career event victory! On his way to the title, he beat 3 of the faves to win the title - Jordan Thompson, Karen Khachanov, and Ugo Humbert. Diallo's game has come a long way over the past couple of years (the positive results on the dirt was shocking btw), but this result was hard to see coming. His ranking (44) is now up to a career high, so it will be interesting to see if his ranking continues to rise as the season goes on. He could cause some problems at Wimbledon.
The last time everyone saw Elise Mertens, she shockingly lost in Round 1 at the French Open!!! She wasn't considered a threat to win the French, but its normally a safe assumption that she'll at least win 2 or 3 rounds! Elise received a tonne of flack for losing to a French Wild Card that was ranked outside the top 300, and in all honesty, it felt warranted! Crazily enough, as each day passed the loss starting making more n more sense, as Boisson reached the SemiFinal as she beat 2 top 10 players (Jessica Pegula and Mirra Andreeva) in the process! Coming into the week, you had to wonder just what Elise's head space was going to be and if that shocking loss was something that could snowball on her. Instead Mertens won 5 matches and won the title. I'd like to tell you that it was an easy win, but in her SemiFinal match with Ekaterina Alexandrova, Elise held off 11 Match Points in the 2nd set!!! YES, YES, I did say ELEVEN! I'd like to tell you that Elise did something special, but this was more a matter of what Alexandrova didn't do and that was keep the ball in the court lol - in the process of saving those 11 match points, Elise only hit 1 Winner! The craziest thing about this victory for Elise, is that she joined a small group of players that have won 10 events on the WTA Tour!!
Taylor Fritz has had one of those years that he'd like to forget. The year started great where he helped his team win the United Cup, but he got injured during the final against Hubert Hurkacz, and just hasn't looked right ever since. Since Miami, he's won 2 matches in an event only once and hadn't beaten a player ranked inside the top 40 in the process. To make matters worse, just like Elise, he lost in Round 1 at the French Open. Amazingly enough he won 4 matches this week in Stuttgart without losing a set. When he beat Felix Auger Aliassime in the Semi Final, he must have laughed hard with his team when he saw that he was going to have to play Alexander Zverev in the Final. Last year he reached a career high (4) in the rankings and a big part of that success was due to his 4-0 record against Zverev in huge matches. One interesting development in the week for Fritz was his success in the tiebreak - he won 3. I know this doesn't sound like a big deal, but he had lost his past 7!!!
In terms of FTL, the week was tragic for many of our managers. Many of the top traded in players, Ludmilla Samsonova, Elena Rybakina, Hubert Hurkacz, Daniil Medvedev, and Daria Kasatkina either lost in Round 1 or were vanquished before the end of their Second Match. But, it wasn't all bad news for everyone!!!
In fact Tony (Dreamteam) accumulated an incredible 355.45 points as he came away with the Victory! You know that it was a tricky week, when even the winner still had a player lose in Round 1 (Samsonova) and had 2 other players lose in Round 2 (Medvedev and Navarro). BUT you can get away with this thanks to having 2 winners (Fritz and Diallo), a finalist (Zverev) and a SF (Keys).
There were 2 other managers that finished within 10 points of Tony! John O (Wasaga Beach Warriors) lost by 3.558 points and is victorious if Zverev finds a way to beat Fritz. I'm sure that was a rather crazy feeling for Tony as he was hoping against his Captain!!! Pretty amazing that both of them had Diallo!! Elaine (evjlkstennis25) also finished just 8.908 points back and ends up being victorious if a heavily favoured Anisimova beats Tatjana Maria in the Final!
Game Week 18 results
Apologies for being a little tardy with the update for Game Week 18. To be honest with all the crazy results going on at Wimbledon in the...

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