Tennis Picks – Grass Court Friday

Klara Zakopalova – Angelique Kerber
Kerber has looked really well here in Eastbourne, but Zakopalova has given her trouble before. They have met each other 3 times before, and actually the last time was on grass. Kerber leads 2-1 but Zakopalova has taken a set off the german each time.

Philipp Petzschner – Xavier Malisse
They have never met before and Petzschner is on a really solid run going all the way from through the qualies to get here and even without dropping a set. But Malisse is through to the semi’s for the 3rd year in a row and he must be extremely eager to to just one step further.

Philipp Kohlschreiber – Andreas Seppi
First of all; Seppi is higher ranked. Secondly they are 3-3 in h2h and Seppi won their one meeting earlier this year and quite comfortably too. On top of that Seppi is defending champion. Why is Kohlschreiber considered the favourite here?

Ryan Harrison – Denis Istomin
Istomin has beaten some really good grass players to get to this stage and he leads Harrison 2-0 in h2h both meetings won quite comfortably.

Philipp Kohlschreiber – Andreas Seppi
And then we’re moving all in on there being a tie break in these matches, simply because I think the odds of this outsome are far too high considering they are playing on grass. For instance; there has been a tie break in 4 of Seppi’s last 5 matches here in Eastbourne.

Ryan Harrison – Denis Istomin
Harrison has played 2 matches in Eastbourne and been through a total of 3 tie breaks. There has been a tie break in 3 of Istomin’s last 4 matches.

Marinko Matosevic – Steve Darcis
Matosevic has played 11 matches on grass this year. In 8 of these there has been a tie breaker. In total he’s played 11 tie breaks in those 11 matches!

Fabio Fognini – Andy Roddick
In the first round Fognini had to fight out 3 sets. 2 of these went to a tie break and in the round he took out a fine server like Tomic. Roddick played a tie break in his latest match.