Game Week 16 results

 

Here are the ATP and WTA winners in Game Week 16

ATP Stuttgart

Jack Draper won his maiden ATP title defeating Matteo Berrettini in the final

ATP Libema Open

Alex De Minaur continued his amazing year defeating Sebastian Korda in the final.

WTA Nottingham

And when Alex wins, the love of his life, Katie Boulter tends to win too!   Katie retained her Nottingham title defeating Karolina Pliskova in the final.

WTA Libema Open

Luidmilla Samsonova won the title defeating Bianca Andreescu in the final.

Here are the FTL standings for the week

Congrats to One Hip Wonder (Lou) for the game week win.  Lou finished on 453 points which was 12 points clear of Bagels and Breadsticks (Sam Glanz) in 2nd place.

Bennay (Ben Cosgrove),  The Champs (Mark Sab) and Abdi Pasha (Augusto) make up the top 5.

Here is the head to head between the top 2 teams.

Both Lou and Sam had a great week with 3 champs in their teams.  Lou had Boulter, De Minaur and Samsonova as well as semi finalists Raducanu and Griekspoor.   Lou had De Minaur, Boulter (as captain) and Draper.   

Pretty impressive selections guys.

Monthly Standings For May

 

De Minotaurs (Paul)  had a terrific month and top the standings for May beating the rest of the pack by over 60 points with a healthy total of 2151 points across the 3 game weeks.

Here is a breakdown of how the top 6 teams did in May.

De Minotaurs finished in the top 20 in each of the three game weeks with their best performance being a 3rd place finish in the Rome Masters. 

Congrats to all the other teams in the top 6 on a great month.  Nadal's Forehand win the level 2 monthly prize.  Congrats Dragan!

French Open results

 

These two brush up pretty well don't they and both of them brushed up the opposition on the claycourts of Roland Garros.  

Iga Swiatek seemed a safe bet for the title but it could have been soooo different as she very nearly lost to an inspired Naomi Osaka in her opening match.  Naomi could and probably should have won!  That was perhaps the fright that Iga was needing though and there was no looking back after that as she cruised through the competition in double quick time making light work of Jasmine Paolini in the final.  Reaching the final itself was a huge achiement for the likeable Italian who is having an inspired season and is now a top 10 player. 

There was a lot of concern about the fitness or Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner for the French Open prompting many of us to leave one or both out our teams.  We needn't have worried as both looked fresh and on form from the off and would ultimately set up a semi final showdown where Carlos was to prevail.

Alexander Zverev went into the final with high hopes of winning his first Grand Slam final and looked in a great place when he was leading 2 sets to 1 but Carlos took total control in sets 4 and 5 to win his first RG final. His 3rd Grand Slam at such a young age.

So to FTL and here are the final standings for the French Open where of course some big points were to be made in the ranking chase.

Congratulations to Adnan (Advantage Infinity) for winning the RG slam.  It was a closely contested slam with less than 15 points separating the top 6. 

Jenny (Ospreys) was only 4 points in 2nd place. TonyTonicTeam, The Champs, Thunder Turkeys and the Macedonian make up the top 6.

Here is the head to head between Adnan and Jenny.

This was a week where you needed a strong team and you needed your dark horses to perform and Adnan had exactly that.  He had Iga as Captain and Carlos as a KP and also had finalist Alexander Zverev.  He also had 3 semi finalists in Gauff, Ruud and Sinner and quarter finalists Tsitsipas and Rybakina. Adnan also had Ons Jabeur who was the pick of the dark horses (making the quarter finals) and a half decent return from Sebastian Baez as well.  

 

Game Week 14 results

I think we are a bit behind on our Game Week updates so these are going to be short and sweet i'm afraid.

Game Week 14 saw the following champs

Casper Ruud defeated Tomáš Macháč in the final of Geneva.

Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard defeated Tomas Martin Etcheverry in the final of Lyon for his maiden title.

Madison Keys defeated Danielle Collins in the final of Strasbourg

Peyton Stearns defeated Mayar Sherif in the final of Rabat.

Here are the final game week standings

A belated congratulations to Olya Parrish (Russian Warship GFY) for the game week win. She was well clear of the pack with her score of 438 points with Jim Ackerman (Dallisvolleys) taking the 2nd spot on 410 points. Durky's Aces, No AO No Problem and CooCoo for Coco Gauffs make up the top 5. 

Lets take a look at the head to head between the top 2.

Olya had a terrific team with 2 champs in Ruud and Stearns and 2 finalists Sherif and Collins.  Darderi and Djokovic both weighted in with some decent points too.

The level 2 game week winner was Shane Reader (CooCoo for Coco Gauffs).  Congrats Shane!