GW4 DRAWS AND DARK HORSE BREAKDOWN

I have attached The Doha Main Draw (FTL Version) and the Dark Horse Breakdown.  I've also attached the 3 ATP 250 level events in DelRay Beach, Buenos Aires and Marseille .  Plz note that the Qualifiers have only been placed in Doha and sadly the Lockout for GW4 starts before the Qualifiers will be finalized in all 3 ATP level events.

 

Do not forget to select your Dark Horse for the WTA event in Doha!

 

If you want a copy, click on the link, GW4 DRAWS  Once you do so, click on FILE, and scroll to MAKE A COPY, and call it whatever you want

Good Luck :)

Game Week 4 - preview Early Lockout, Dark Horse and FTL Cup!!

 Hi folks

A lot going on next week so I thought it would be worth doing a blog post to try and make sure that everyone is up to speed.   If you don't read the blog, you only have yourself to blame. 😜

Ok, first things first - lets look at the events next week.   

WTA 1000 Doha

This event is a Sunday start so its an early lockout for this week.  Make sure to keep an eye on time timer on your team page to ensure that your team is set up and time.

As a 1000 event as well, you will also be entitled to use a dark horse in your team.  Please note that its only a dark horse for the woman this week as the men are playing lower tier events so you will have a team of 9.

ATP events next week in Marseille, Delray Beach and Buenos Aires

Marseille

Delray Beach

Buenos Aires

FTL Cup

The first round of fixtures of the FTL Cup will take place in Game Week 4.  Everyone in level 1 and level 2 is included in the event and you will have been placed in a group of 4.  You will play every other team in that group over the course of three game weeks.  (Game Week 4, Game Week 6 and Game Week 7)

All groups and fixtures are available at the following link.

FTL Cup draw     it will be under the following tab (FTLCup - Group Stage R1 - GW4)

As usual you can check the following spreadsheet for an up to date player schedule which may be useful if you are looking to plan ahead with regard to your trade ins.

Player schedule    -

(for anyone playing me in the cup - don't rely too much on the tab with my team details - i might throw you a curve ball)   😜

Everyone can of course view their opponents current squad (prior to GW4 trades) using the app.

Right - that's enough from me just now,  i have a few draws to review and a strategy to plot for my cup tie against Abhishek!

Good luck everyone!

Game Week 2 Roundup

The FTL Season is now very much up and running with the 2nd game week now behind us.  How is your team doing so far this season?

We had three events in play this week.

WTA Singapore

It was an impressive week for Elise Mertens as she took the title in Singapore beating Ann Li 6-1, 6-4 in the final.  Elise only dropped one set all week (against Tatiana Maria in the 2nd Round)

Elise and Ann will both be getting a hefty price increase in Game Week 3. A worthwhile trade for this many manager for Game Week 3 even if they aren't actually playing.

Top seed Kalinskaya still seems to be plagued by injury issues and had to retire from her semi final against Ann Li.  Honourable mention for up and coming Thai player Manachaya Sawangkaew who had a great run to the quarter finals.

ATP Montpellier

FAA is always a good bet at an Indoor Tennis event and so it proved in Montpellier where he claimed his 7th Tour Title.  Remember when FAA was 0 and 8 for tour finals.  He is now 7 and 10 so definitely going in the right direction.

Player of the week however has to go to his opponent American qualifier Aleksandar Kovacevic who looked outstanding in his wins over Bublik and Rublev before running FAA pretty damn close in his final.  (Bublik was so exsasperated at his opponent's amazing level that he sent on the ball kid for a point to see if he could have any better luck).  Kovacevic is back in action in Rotterdam this week.

Honourable mention to another qualifier Jesper de Jong who had a great run to the semi finals.

WTA Linz

Ekaterina Alexandrova bounced impressively back from a pretty woeful 1st Round exit at the Australian Open to take the title in Linz.  She had an impressive win over Karolina Muchova in the semi final to set up a final against Dayana Yastremska who had beaten Clara Tauson.

Alexandrova took the first set against Yastremska before her Ukranian. opponent pegged her back and was only a couple of points away from winning the title herself in a hard fought final.

Here is the Global Fantasy Tennis League Table for the Game Week.

Congratulations to USA tennis who top the table this week with an incredible score of 501 points beating Forever Losers into 2nd place by over 60 points!

Here is the head to head between the two top teams

USA Tennis were starting afresh from this week so were a bit of an advantage over those of us with an Australian Open focused squad but that being said, they made some incredibly good choices this week.

They had all three winners in FAA, Mertens and Alexandrova as well as semi finalists Tauson, Kalinskaya, Muchova and Rublev.  Its difficult to see how they could have done any better!

The weekly prize always goes to a Level 2 team and our two top level 2 teams were Acehammer56 (Demy) and Nadal's Forehand (Dragan).  Congrats to both on a great week. 

Here is the winning Level 2 team. 

 

Demy had the perfect captain choice in FAA and also had Singapore winner Mertens.  Yastremska, Tauson and Potapova weighed in with plenty of points in Linz to give Acehammers6 a total score of 407.724

And after two game weeks, we also completed our first month of the season so the first monthly prize was up for grabs.  Here are the final standings.

Bibek's impressive performance at the Australian Open was always going to set him up with a great chance of scooping the January prize as well.  In the end however, the Commisioner and his value picks ran him tantalizing close with only 1.5 points separating the top two teams in the global league.

Bibek finished week 2 in an excellent 21st place in the Level 2 league which consolidated his place at the top of the leaderboard,  New Cal Aces continue to be the closest challenger in the Level 2 League. 

GameWeek 3 Draws - FTL VERSION

 ABU DHABI OPEN

ROTTERDAM

 

 

DALLAS

 

 

TRANSYLVANIA OPEN