"A game born from friendship, spreadsheets, and a love of tennis."
The Beginning
It started over a decade ago with a simple idea: a tennis player and his long suffering coach wanted to make Grand Slams more exciting. What if you could pick your own dream team and compete against your friends?
Armed with nothing but enthusiasm, they roped in friends. Then those friends told friends. Before long, 30+ managers were battling it out four times a year — arguing over seeding strategies, submitting teams while at drunken hen nights, celebrating unlikely upsets, and sending far too many WhatsApp messages about first-round exits and the minus 16 points that come with them.
The Evolution
For over ten years now, we have tracked every tournament. We've refined the system. We've tracked new stuff like which highest ranked player was left unpicked (because we're stats AND tennis nerds). Bonuses coming from backing unseeded underdogs acheived legendary status. Spreadsheet versions came and went and thanks to the magic of GoogleSheets some automation happened! We argued about it all — and loved every minute.
Now we want to share it with you.
Why the smashed racquets in the GSFT logo?
Because we've all been there. You craft the perfect team. You agonise over seed 17 vs seed 24. You back that unseeded floater who's been playing lights out in the warm-up events. And then... Round 1 carnage. Your squad crumbles. You're staring at the wreckage, trying to predict your way out of trouble from R4 onwards. It's enough to make you go full Rublev.
Celebrating the Chaos
Here's the thing — we celebrate the chaos as much as the glory. The "Wooden Spoon" (last place in the league) is as feted and dreaded as lifting the trophy. There's something beautifully tennis about that — the agony and the ecstasy, all in one game.
One of our originals has played 40+ Slams without a single win. Forty. We love him for it.
Whether you're a casual tennis fan or a stats obsessive already calculating whether the 76th-ranked player in the world can take out the 32nd seed...
...there's a place for you here. Welcome to the GSFT community.
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