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Nothing interesting in Shaq's tweets today? It's tough to get through the day, but the beautiful thing about an event like the U.S. Open is the chance to sneak in some real sports during work hours.

Sure, you may not know a Galina Voskoboeva from a Tsvetana Pironkova or a Gavrila Derzhavin (only one of them is a Russian poet), but that shouldn't stop you from enjoying the opening rounds.

Venus Williams' late night notwithstanding, most familiar names breeze through first-round matches, but we're asking you to take your best guess at who will have the most trouble. Of course, we would never condone wagering lunch with your coworkers or classmates on who makes better picks. That would be morally wrong. Unless you live in Nevada. Or unless, as best we can understand, you live in Delaware and bet three lunches at once.

Which seeded player will lose more first-round games?

• Vote: No. 1 Dinara Safina or No. 4 Elena Dementieva?
• Vote: No. 6 Svetlana Kuznetsova or No. 9 Caroline Wozniacki?
• Vote: No. 11 Ana Ivanovic or No. 29 Maria Sharapova?
• Vote: No. 2 Andy Murray or No. 4 Novak Djokovic
• Vote: No. 7 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga or No. 22 Sam Querrey
• Watch: Live matches on ESPN360.com, beginning 1 ET | Chat: Live from U.S. Open, 4 ET

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Looking forward to POVA's opener; w/ that serve its hard tell how far she will go until it gets more consistent; - its kind of ironic that the Finals of Montreal could be the third round and the OPEN; Elena vs. Maria. - Hopefully Maria's seeding will improve to prevent early round big games;

” -- GHVentura

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Tennis is alive and well. It hasnt been this interesting since Sampras, Agassi and Becker left the tour.

” -- Jamal22066