ABN Amro World Tennis Tournment Final Federer v Del Potro: Head to heads are 8-2 in Federer’s favour. He has won both their recent matches (last 2 years) in straight sets, both on hard courts. Fed’s price opened at around 1.60 but moved out 10 ticks pretty quickly and has remained around 1.70 since (other [...]
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Friday’s matches, 17th Feb
Brazil Open 14:00 Almagro v Berlocq: 1st seed takes on 5th seed. They have played just once before which was in May last year. That was also on clay and a very tight match went Almagro’s way in 3 sets. Berlocq is extremely consistent on clay and is able to win Challenger events almost at [...]
Thursday’s matches, 16th Feb
Brazil Open 14:00 Starace v Berlocq: Starace leads the head to heads 8-0! In Fact Berlocq has only taken 1 set in those 8 matches. Berlocq’s game has improved a great deal since their last match in 2010. In cont5rast Starace is sliding lower from around 45 12 months ago to his current 76. Both [...]
Wednesday’s matches, 15th February
Doha 12:30 Benesova v Halep: Benesova has made a great start to 2012. She made the quarter finals in Brisbane and the 4th round of the Oz Open losing to eventual champion Azarenka. In the first round here she made a slow start but came back strongly to win in 3 sets. Halep started 2012 [...]
Monday’s matches, 13th February
Qatar Total Open 2012 Keothavong v Paszek: Head to heads are 2-0 to Paszek. She is yet to record a win in a main draw match this year although she was underdog in all 3 matches ( to Williams, Ivanovic and Goerges). She also lost in the first round of qualifying for Sydney to Jovanovski. Keothavong [...]
WTA Paris Semi Finals
Late blog post (again) but the site was unavailable earlier. Zakopalova v Bartoli: Both players had to stage a comeback in ther quarter finals. Zak was being outplayed by Goerges but the German was unable to take the chances in the second set. When Zak got a chance she was able to take it. [...]
Davis Cup, 10th Feb
There are scoreboards and stats here… http://live.daviscup.com/livescore.aspx?tid=100017645&lang=en Pretty much a full day of Davis Cup matches. Always a chance of players being changed at short notice which can then leave you with a brand new market right at the start of the match with no money in it. Czech Republic vs Italy – Indoor [...]
Australian Open 2012 – Women’s Final
Azarenka v Sharapova: I hope they leave the roof open for this one. This will be the noisiest final we are likely to see. I wonder how long it will take for the Aussi crowd to start mimicking the grunts, groans and squeals… Even though its a Grand Slam Final there is more at stake [...]
Australian Open, week 1 – Friday night’s matches
Tipsarevic v Gasquet: Can’t wait for this one! Two of my favourite players go head to head. Previous matches both went to the Frenchman but they were years ago and virtually irrelevant. Tipsarevic is now world number 9 and he has developed into one of the game’s toughest opponents. Gasquet is one of the most [...]
Australian Open 2012 – week 1, Wednesday night’s matches
Chela v Andujar: Hard courts is neither of these players’ favourite surface. Andutjar has lost 9 of his last 10 on hard courts. This is the first time since 2007 that Chela has reached the second round and this is Andujar’s first time past the first round. Chela leads the head to heads 3-2 although [...]
