Roddick 7-6(4) 6-3. Berdych wont break Roddick, but if he does it will be in the first set

berdych 6-4 7-6

i hope roddick wins this

VAMOS!!!!!!!!

It would be so unfortunate for A-Rod to lose second consecutive finale, but I pick Berdy for this one...Berdy in three...

I do wonder who creates the expert 'handles' ... I see Cheryl is distancing herself from the pack.
I really think Berdych is playing well enough to win the whole thing ... if it comes down to a mind set ... (pun ha ha ... laughing at my own jokes), Roddick has the edge there.

ps How is the leg coming along ? Kelli ?

you have excelled yourselves with the nicknames. i love them :D

berdych to win it in 3. 6-7 7-6 6-4

Very well, smr. Thank you for asking- the cast will be removed on the 15.

This afternoon I am now not so sure about the result. Lol, it's a good thing I stopped myself from putting any portion of the rent money down on it. :)

I pick murray to win 70% of all tournaments for the rest of the year including atleast two grand Slams (one atleast i guess federer will win since Murray cant beat him 3 out of 3 even now, maybe next year he can beat him 3 out of 4)

She shoots and SCORES! :D

Lol, not my fault. I'm still injured. Good to see that 2/3 of us were really, really close today. :D

I am the Roger Federer of picking - I only get up for the big events

Cheryl is the Eduardo Schwank of picking - she only wins bogus competitions

Jealousy is ugly Ricky. Very, very ugly.

i'll loan you my Golden Racket if you just ask nicely.

You won't have to loan it to me. I'll be ripping it from your hands at Roland Garros. Enjoy it now. :D

Ricky: u sound like Elle Mcpherson, u know she won't get out of bed for less than $1000....!!
Gr8 2 c some humour u guys, this site has been incredibly nasty and scrappy at times lately. Resembles a bear pit.

er erm... Ricky, Cheryl... i believe my pick (1st comment) was closer than anyones... ;)

hahahhhahahh ....ricky cheryl and kelli TOOOO GOOOD guys

"and I am the Roger Federer of picking - I only get up for the big events
Cheryl is the Eduardo Schwank of picking - she only wins bogus competitions"

"You won't have to loan it to me. I'll be ripping it from your hands at Roland Garros. Enjoy it now. :D"

EPICC....LOL...i am waiting for the french open eagerly for two reasons : 1.rafa to re-claim his crown and 2. watch ricky and cheryl battle it out for supremecy and look for ricky to DEFEND his prestigious golden racquet :D

TSONGA in 5= golden racket winning pick (awesome pik that was ) :D

"Jealousy is ugly Ricky. Very, very ugly."

"i'll loan you my Golden Racket if you just ask nicely."

cant wait till the french. like to see if fed can defend his title..or if soderling will stop him... jks :)

@ricky
"and I am the Roger Federer of picking - I only get up for the big events
Cheryl is the Eduardo Schwank of picking - she only wins bogus competitions"

LOLL Nice one :D. btw, wth made u pick tsonga...

Miami Sony Ericsson Open Analysis

The first part of the hard-court season is finished with the finals of the Miami Open and the pros are preparing for the clay-court season already.
The tournament in Miami came up some surprise upsets for some of the big names and it also came up with a new name and some very familiar one?s.
Thomas Berdych is for sure the biggest surprise in this tournament. Not only that he beat Federer in a very close match going the distance and into a third set tiebreaker, by fighting off a match-point, he also kept going all the way to the final. This was a new Berdych, we saw in Miami. He was always considered as one of the next big stars in tennis and Nike gave him a huge contract at an early age. But he could never quite live up to his expectations. The one thing fans and experts were missing in his game, was the fighting spirit and the determination that a true champion needs. Too many matches he lost when it got into a deciding set or when the conditions were not easy and comfortable.
But here in Miami a different Thomas Berdych showed up. He grinded out the rallys from the baseline, he was much more patient with his shot selection and most of all he never gave up. If he can keep playing with the same attitude, he will finally silence all his critics and become a top 10 player soon. But it will not be easy to carry the momentum into the next tournaments, since the is a surface change from hard-courts to clay-courts. But his newly found qualities will help him even more on a surface like clay. So, it will be exciting to see how he will do in Monte Carlo when all the clay-court specialists show up.
Not only with him getting better and better, the men?s ranking is getting more interesting, because all the top 10 players a moving closer to each other. Soderling, Tsonga and Roddick are pushing the to 6 players and the top 6 did not do very well in the last to ATP-1000 events. With Daydenko and Del Potro injured and Djokovic and Murray not at their top level, it was only Nadal who showed some signs of form. Even Federer lost some points and opened the door for the other guys (Roger has many points to defend in the next months).
But besides Berdych, it was Roddick who showed the best form and (even with lucky draws in both tournaments) was the talk of the hard-court season so far. We will see how he can carry the form into the clay-court tournaments, if he plays many at all. But it should give him confidence to try a few more clay-court events this year, especially since his game became much more consistent and he lost some weight. This will all help him on the European clay-courts.

On the woman?s side there were not too many surprises even though the top 2 players of the tournament went out before the quarterfinals already. Kuznetsova was injured and for new world No. 2, Caroline Wozniacki, Justine Henin was too big a bite, even though she won a set against the former world number one. So, it wasn?t really a surprise to see Henin and Clijsters in the semi finals. And again they showed their fans a thriller that was decided in a tiebreaker again. Just like in the beginning of the year in Australia. And it was the same outcome as well. Clijsters won again and then went on to take the title from a slightly injured Venus Williams 6:2, 6:1! With this win Clisters stormed back into the top 10 and for sure, Justine will follow her soon, especially considering the fact that we will be playing on clay in a few weeks. Serena was not playing in the tournament and if she is not getting back into shape soon, she will lose her No. 1 ranking. Probably to Kim Clijsters, if she decides to play a few more tournaments.
I think it is great to have the two Belgium champions back on the woman?s tour and I can?t wait to have one of the on the top spot of the rankings again.
But for sure we will see a big shuffle in both rankings, the woman?s and the men?s.
Exciting weeks are ahead of us and on top of that, I think the most interesting matches are played on clay, anyways.
Let?s see what happens and who will shine on the new surface!?

I think it is time to give gomuzza the boot admin folk. Please. Sometimes these posters are funny and can provoke interesting conversations but not in this case, people are being turned off.

expert picks are starting in third round for Monte-Carlo

get readyyyyyyyyyyyy

AWESOME :D

ricky, can i be a guest picker? :P

tj600 - yes but you have to earn it first. Whoever makes the best third-round picks can be the guest picker for the 4th round.

expert picks thing really has added a lot of color to TT...love it :)

and orion is still next in line, but he/she/it has disappeared

Sony Ericsson Open Tennis tickets now available! All sessions 1-24 http://tinyurl.com/4er26zt

I/W wildcards have been given to Milos Raonic, Kei Nishikori, Ryan Harrison, Bernard Tomic and James Blake. Mark Philipoussis has a wildcard for the qualifying round.

One American in the bunch. Outstanding. :D

isn't Ryan Harrison also American?

Cheryl was probably discounting Blake, not Harrison

^^^ LOL! I DID! Holy cow. :D

That was scary, Ricky.