{"id":836,"date":"2012-08-01T08:16:17","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T12:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavytopspin.com\/?p=836"},"modified":"2012-08-01T08:16:17","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T12:16:17","slug":"2012-olympics-round-of-16-forecasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/01\/2012-olympics-round-of-16-forecasts\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 Olympics Round of 16 Forecasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are my forecasts for the remaining 16 players in both Olympics singles draws. \u00a0Note that Djokovic has opened up a bigger gap over Federer. \u00a0Novak is aided by Berdych&#8217;s upset, while Federer is still likely to play the top seeds in his half.<\/p>\n<p>On the women&#8217;s side, the third quarter is a crowded one, with Clijsters, Sharapova, and two dangerous floaters in Ivanovic and Lisicki.<\/p>\n<p>For more background, you can see my<a title=\"2012 Olympics Men\u2019s\u00a0Projections\" href=\"http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/26\/2012-olympics-mens-projections\/\"> initial<\/a> <a title=\"2012 Olympics Women\u2019s\u00a0Projections\" href=\"http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/26\/2012-olympics-womens-projections\/\">forecasts<\/a>, (almost) <a href=\"http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/jrank\/atp.html\">current rankings<\/a>, and <a title=\"The Official JRank\u00a0Reference\" href=\"http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/28\/the-official-jrank-reference\/\">methodology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Men:<\/p>\n<pre>Player                       QF     SF      F      W  \n(1)Roger Federer          85.3%  64.5%  45.1%  25.7%  \nDenis Istomin             14.7%   5.0%   1.5%   0.3%  \n(10)John Isner            53.5%  16.9%   7.5%   2.4%  \n(7)Janko Tipsarevic       46.5%  13.5%   5.6%   1.7%  \n(4)David Ferrer           63.3%  36.3%  16.2%   6.7%  \n(15)Kei Nishikori         36.7%  16.0%   5.2%   1.6%  \n(12)Gilles Simon          32.3%  11.7%   3.3%   0.8%  \n(8)Juan Martin Del Potro  67.7%  36.0%  15.5%   6.2%  \n\nPlayer                       QF     SF      F      W  \nSteve Darcis              39.5%   8.9%   1.5%   0.3%  \n(11)Nicolas Almagro       60.5%  18.1%   4.2%   1.3%  \nMarcos Baghdatis          22.7%  11.9%   2.7%   0.7%  \n(3)Andy Murray            77.3%  61.1%  29.8%  16.4%  \n(5)Jo-Wilfried Tsonga     67.5%  23.3%  12.0%   5.4%  \nFeliciano Lopez           32.5%   6.9%   2.4%   0.7%  \n(WC)Lleyton Hewitt         4.6%   0.6%   0.1%   0.0%  \n(2)Novak Djokovic         95.4%  69.3%  47.3%  29.7%<\/pre>\n<p>Women:<\/p>\n<pre>Player                 QF     SF      F      W  \nVictoria Azarenka   78.9%  53.3%  28.2%  18.0%  \nNadia Petrova       21.1%   7.9%   1.9%   0.6%  \nVenus Williams      16.8%   2.5%   0.3%   0.1%  \nAngelique Kerber    83.2%  36.3%  14.8%   7.6%  \nSerena Williams     75.9%  56.2%  36.9%  26.2%  \nVera Zvonareva      24.1%  11.5%   4.4%   1.9%  \nDaniela Hantuchova  36.2%   9.1%   2.9%   1.1%  \nCaroline Wozniacki  63.8%  23.2%  10.6%   5.3%  \n\nPlayer                 QF     SF      F      W  \nKim Clijsters       62.5%  33.2%  20.3%   8.9%  \nAna Ivanovic        37.5%  15.4%   7.4%   2.5%  \nSabine Lisicki      36.8%  15.7%   7.7%   2.5%  \nMaria Sharapova     63.2%  35.6%  22.2%  10.0%  \nPetra Kvitova       65.5%  45.7%  23.9%  10.2%  \nFlavia Pennetta     34.5%  18.9%   7.0%   1.9%  \nMaria Kirilenko     47.5%  16.2%   5.0%   1.2%  \nJulia Goerges       52.5%  19.3%   6.6%   1.8%<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are my forecasts for the remaining 16 players in both Olympics singles draws. \u00a0Note that Djokovic has opened up a bigger gap over Federer. \u00a0Novak is aided by Berdych&#8217;s upset, while Federer is still likely to play the top seeds in his half. On the women&#8217;s side, the third quarter is a crowded one, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/01\/2012-olympics-round-of-16-forecasts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2012 Olympics Round of 16 Forecasts<\/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":[40,81,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forecasting","category-olympics","category-wta"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836","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=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}