Diary

It’s April already! It will soon be Christmas!

How many players don’t seem to care about Monte Carlo? Lot’s of ranking points available as it’s a Masters 1000 tournament. As I write this, Zverev is 0-4 down in the third set to Garin. He does have title ranking points to defend next week so that could be the reason though he didn’t have points to defend this week so could have picked up a few.

This morning, Medvedev was beaten 6-0, 6-0 by Berrettini. Obviously, he doesn’t care much for clay but did make the third round last season. Berrettini qualified for being a selection on the betting tips trial. I really didn’t think he could get the win but could probably manage 3 sets.

The betting picks are going ok despite me trying my best to cock them up! In the early month or so, they were flying. I got a little carried away and wanted to get as many selections as I could. Unfortunately, that led me to being a bit “flexible” with one of the stats that make up the selection process. It seemed like it was the least important of the stats so if a player led on all the others but not this particular stat, I included the player as a selection. I had 6 losers on one day. When I went back to check the stats, most of them, from memory, I think it was either 4 or 5 of them, would not have qualified to be a selection. To be fair, one of the winning picks would also not have qualified!

So, I gave myself a slap on the wrist and have been much stricter since then. The results recovered well. I suppose that it was better to find this out during the testing phase. There is a link in the menu to the tips test page.

Trading has been quite drama free which is great for me but doesn’t make for a great diary post! The players during live streams have even been behaving themselves. Now that I’ve I said that, I’ve probably jinxed the next stream. It might be carnage! This week’s live stream is on Thursday at 12;00. Come and watch me suffer.

Zverev has recovered from 0-4 to 4-5 in the third set. Will he now get broken after proving that he could have won if he’d wanted to?

I might take an hour off to sit in the sun. Have a good one!

 

This week’s live stream is tonight at midnight. I prefer to get up early and trade from around 4 am but that isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. It’s just after 9 and I have come back to my desk. If I sit watching TV, I’ll just go to sleep. If I’m actually doing something, I don’t feel tired. At least, not until I stop!

The Australian Open has gone quite smoothly. The automated gathering of some of the info for the Trading Tips email really saves time. It also helps that the slams seem to prefer starting on a Sunday now so the first round matches are spread over 3 days instead of the usual 2. Researching 128 matches over 2 days was pretty brutal.

What’s going on with the weather? Surely we are breaking records for the amount of rain. Everywhere you go is covered in mud. Trying to keep the dogs out of it during walks is a losing battle. It’s bad enough in the back garden. I’ll have to put a couple of bags over my trainers when I go to pick up the dog shit from the gravel. Even if you’re really careful it’s hard to totally avoid stepping in it.

The test of the betting picks is showing promise. 49 picks so far and a ROI of 22%. I’m quite happy with that as the first couple of weeks of a season can be tough to predict. Lets see how the selection process works over a couple of months. There is a link to the test page in the footer of this page.

Not really much else to tell you. I’m sure there will be more drama as the season progresses. I’ll go and catch up on what complete bollocks Trump has spouted today. I’m not really interested in politics and wouldn’t know at least half of the UK Cabinet yet I recognise most of the USA administration. I’m amazed there has not been an assassination attempt on Trump. Obviously, I don’t include the fake one where he magically grew back his ear after it was half blown off.

Catch you later.