WTA Swiss Pro Cup, Exhibition

It’s an exhibition so you’re advised to use reduced stakes.

They have allowed less than an hour for each match so they are using a changed format. Flashscores indicate that they are using the fast 4 format. First to 4 games with a tie break at 3-3. They probably won’t play Advantage from deuce so at 40-40 the next point wins the game.

Bencic (1.3) v Teichmann (3.2)

Due to start at 2:30 pm

Bencic won their only previous meeting. That was in November 2017 in an indoor Challenger quarter final. She won in straight sets.

Overall results strongly favour Bencic in the last 12 months and also in 2020. Her indoor results are a little better.

Teichmann has only played 3 matches during lockdown. They were on clay. Bencic has played 3 matches on clay and 2 on hard courts. She only lost 1 of those matches which was on clay against Schmiedlova. She beat Vondrousova and Martincova on hard courts in straight sets. In both those matches she won the opening set 6-0.

Bencic can often start slowly if her opponent puts her under pressure. She should control this match but i don’t want to enter at 1.30. Back her if Teichmann gets the first break or if she somehow takes the first set.

Voegele (2.1) v Golubic (1.67)

Due to start at 3:20 pm

Voegele has won both their previous meetings. The most recent was in April 2019 on clay. She won easily in 2 sets. The other match was indoors in 2016. She won in 3 sets.

Their 12 month overall results are quite even but Voegele has stronger results this season. Both players have decent indoor results. Golubic has not played indoors since April 2019. Voegele had 4 wins in qualifying rounds indoors in October last year.

Golubic has played just 2 matches during the pandemic. Both were on clay earlier this month. She beat Svitolina and Teichmann.

Voegele played 2 clay matches during lockdown. She narrowly beat Teichman and Simona Wiltert in 3 sets. She lost on a hard court to Kristyna Pliskova last week.

Golubic has beaten stronger opponents indoors but her best results were in 2018.

This could be a close one. Some value on Voegele. We have a decent chance of 3 sets. I will be backing whoever gets broken first. I give Golubic a slight edge and would prefer her to make the slower start. Anything over 2.20 to 2.30 is a decent price to back her. Lay the set 1 winner.

Hingis (1.83) v Schnyder (2.2)

Due to start at 4:10 pm

Patty Schnyder won both their previous matches. Both were in 2017 on a hard court and a clay court.

Hingis last played on the main tour in 2015. Schnyder last played in 2018, mainly in ITF events. She played mainly on clay that season.

There really is no way to assess accurately who is in better shape. For all we know they have been bingeing on donuts and chocolate. It will be an interesting one to watch but personally I won’t be placing any bets on this match.

Hingis has the better pedigree and if i had to pick a winner it would be her. I’d wait for 2.10 or better before entering.

 
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TradeShark Diary, 24th July 2020

The tournaments in China have been cancelled.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daniellerossingh/2020/07/24/cancellation-of-china-tennis-swing-huge-blow-for-fans-players-and-tours/

Face masks became mandatory in shops today. As there seems to be a lot of people against being “muzzled” I wasn’t sure how many people would have a mask on in the local Tesco. Most of the retail companies have said that they won’t enforce the wearing of face coverings and the police have also said that they don’t have the resource to patrol stores.

Twitter is rarely an accurate representation of what is happening. People often make big statements from the safety and anonymity of their keyboard or mobile phone. There were a few reports of shoppers in some stores not wearing them. I had some shopping to do before I picked Sue up from work. Whilst I was happy to wear a mask it felt a bit odd walking from the car. Everyone that I saw coming out had a mask on and everyone entering at the same time as me wore one. In fact I didn’t see a single shopper without a mask on. Even young kids had them on even though under 11’s are exempt.

Masks are not mandatory for shop workers and again the mighty Twitter was full of complaints of staff without masks on the shopfloor while picking the online shopping orders etc. Every member of staff that I saw on the shopfloor had a mask on. Only the checkout operators didn’t have one on.

There were just a couple of matches that looked like offering a decent trade. There were actually other good looking ones but not all of them were covered by Betfair.

The tournament I chose had 4 matches today. Three of them ended in retirement! Both the matches I put on the blog gave good chance of profit.

Sue’s ward is no longer a Covid ward. The bays are currently being deep cleaned. Any more Covid patients will be taken to the respiratory ward apparently. From a purely selfish point of view that is great news. She won’t be dealing with Covid positive patients any more.

During the lockdown I have been trying to decide whether I need 4 screens plus the 2 laptops. I didn’t think I did but one of the screens is not a widescreen one. I held off from replacing it as if I was going with 4 + 2 screens I would have got another twin monitor set like the one I already have. Those are 24 inch screens. I have replaced the old monitor with a 22 inch widescreen one. More than enough screen space as you can see.

Trading set up
Ready for the restart

All 5 screens use the same mouse which is handy.

Stay safe.

 
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