{"id":686,"date":"2012-03-15T12:35:56","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T16:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavytopspin.com\/?p=686"},"modified":"2012-03-15T12:35:56","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T16:35:56","slug":"2012-indian-wells-projections-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/15\/2012-indian-wells-projections-quarterfinals\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 Indian Wells Projections: Quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago, I wrote about how <a title=\"The Winter of Mardy\u00a0Fish\" href=\"http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/13\/the-winter-of-mardy-fish\/\">the cluster of players after the big four<\/a> was itself cementing its hold on the next few ranking spots. \u00a0Since then, Ferrer, Berdych, and Tsonga have all lost. \u00a0Oops!<\/p>\n<p>Of that group, only Juan Martin del Potro has survived, and according to my numbers, he poses a serious challenge to Roger Federer tomorrow. \u00a0But that isn&#8217;t the tightest match. \u00a0That honor goes to Isner\/Simon, the most dramatic contrast of playing styles in the quarterfinals. \u00a0They&#8217;ve played once before, at last year&#8217;s US Open, when Isner won in four sets, including three tiebreaks. \u00a0It was even closer than it sounds&#8211;Simon won more than half of the points that day.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the full odds for the rest of the tournament:<\/p>\n<pre>Player                       SF      F      W\n(1)Novak Djokovic         84.8%  69.0%  44.5%\n(12)Nicolas Almagro       15.2%   6.7%   1.6%\n(13)Gilles Simon          48.1%  11.5%   3.4%\n(11)John Isner            51.9%  12.8%   4.0%  \n\n(9)Juan Martin Del Potro  44.6%  21.0%   8.9%\n(3)Roger Federer          55.4%  29.2%  13.9%\nDavid Nalbandian          23.3%   6.5%   1.8%\n(2)Rafael Nadal           76.7%  43.2%  21.9%<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago, I wrote about how the cluster of players after the big four was itself cementing its hold on the next few ranking spots. \u00a0Since then, Ferrer, Berdych, and Tsonga have all lost. \u00a0Oops! Of that group, only Juan Martin del Potro has survived, and according to my numbers, he poses &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/15\/2012-indian-wells-projections-quarterfinals\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2012 Indian Wells Projections: Quarterfinals<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forecasting","category-indian-wells"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}