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Some very old loose ends to tie up here, slipped my mind that I hadn't posted scores all this while.

Firstly, The Daily Forehand's team managed not to come in last in British Tennis' Battle of the Boards competition.  We finished a vaguely respectable 14th of 15, beating the AndyRoddick.com crew.  Individually, Santiago92 was our only entrant to finish in the top hundred, though Tammy did make it into the top three in the first week.

More importantly, the answers and scores are in from our epic 20 Questions - 2009 US Open contest, which are after the jump:

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There are an absolute abundance of prediction contests to play during most every major tennis tournament, and this US Open is no exception.

Here is a quick run down of some of the online contests you can play to test your prognostication skills, or at least to have some fun and a little free vested stake in some matches you otherwise might not care about.

• Firstly, there's the 20 Questions contest going on right here at The Daily Forehand.
  
• There is a team men's bracket competition over at British Tennis which all of you should play for The Daily Forehand's team.  Scroll down and select your team as "DF: TheDailyForehand.com" to show that readers here are the most smartest.
• TalkAboutTennis.com runs a suicide pool for each grand slam, one for the men's draw and one for the women's.  Pick a player who will win each day.  As long as that player wins, you stay alive.  But you can only pick each player once.  It gets pretty insane, and it's fun.
• USOpen.org is running their own bracket competition.
• Tennis Channel's Racquet Bracket competition, men's and women's brackets to fill out.
• And finally, the ATP's Draw Challenge.

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There's a lot of stuff that goes on at the US Open.  There are 254 singles matches and 157 doubles matches, each of which will have a winner.  And there are plenty of contests out there that just have you predict the winners, straight up.

But for this first contest on The Daily Forehand, the 20 Questions you have to answer aren't quite so simple.

All the questions refer solely to the men's, women's, and mixed tournaments (no juniors).  I realize that the doubles draws may not be released by the entry deadline, so just make educated guesses for those questions.

Post your guesses, as well as any questions, in the comments below.  All entries must be submitted by the start of play on Monday, August 31st.

And yes, there will be some sort of prize for the winner.

Here we go:

20 Questions -- 2009 US Open

1. Name a player who will lose in the fourth round in singles?
2. How many of the six pairs in the doubles finals will be made up of two players from the same country?
3. Name a seed who will lose in the first round.
4. Name a player who will lose a five set match.
5. How many combined matches will German players win in the singles draws?
6. Which American player will win the most singles matches?
7. Which French player will win the most singles matches?
8. Which Russian player will win the most singles matches?
9. (Dinara Safina’s Singles Wins) – (Marat Safin’s Singles Wins) = ?
10. Name a player who will win a set 6-0.
11. How fast will the fastest men’s serve of the tournament be?
12. How fast will the fastest women’s serve of the tournament be?
13. How many of the eight women’s quarterfinalists’ first names will end in the letters "-na"?
14. What is the deepest round an unseeded singles player will reach?
15. Will the men’s champion have won a grand slam title previously?
16. Will the men’s runner-up have won a grand slam title previously?
17. Who will beat Svetlana Kuznetsova in singles?
18. How many times will the women’s champion use the word "great" to describe the runner-up’s tournament/match/skills/forehand/personality/necklace/etc. during her acceptance speech?
19. How many of the six doubles champions will have been entered in a singles draw?
20. How many total points will be in the longest tiebreak played? (Singles or doubles)

Tiebreak #1: Who will be the men's singles champion?

Tiebreak #2: Who will be the women's singles champion?