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Kaia Kanepi – Tamarine Tanasugarn 1 Kanepi has not played since Wimbledon, so maybe it’s risky to bet on her, but she has a quarter-final from last year to defend,…
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Kaia Kanepi – Tamarine Tanasugarn 1 Kanepi has not played since Wimbledon, so maybe it’s risky to bet on her, but she has a quarter-final from last year to defend,…
Andreas Haider-Maurer – Sergei Bubka 2 Haider-Maurer has played two matches on hard court since January, and he has lost them both. He comes here with four defeats in a…
Magdalena Rybarikova – Lucie Safarova 1 Safarova is better ranked, but it is not particularly great that she lost out in the first round at U.S. Open for the last 3 years.…
Marcel Granollers – Xavier Malisse 1 The odds on Granollers was rising steadily while writing this, so I take into account a possible injury to the Spaniard and places the bet…
There is of course litte doubt as to who is the major favourite to win the last tennis Grand Slam-tournament of the year in the men’s competition. Novak Djokovic has…
Robin Haase – Julien Benneteau 1 Yesterday Benneteau was forced into a long and nerve-wracking match for the second consecutive day. The day before yesterday he won only in the tie break in…
Monday sees the start of the final Grand Slam tournament of the year in tennis. As usual played out in Flushing Meadows, New York, and this time with a quite remarkable favourite…
Sergey Stakhovsky – Julien Benneteau 1 Benneteau has come all the way through the qualies to get here, but he had to fight Andreev hard yesterday and I think he’s…
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova – Roberta Vinci 1 Both players had to fight through 3 sets in their opening match and neither has ever passed the 2nd round here in New Haven,…
Udinese – Arsenal (asian handicap +0,25) 2 Arsenal has a lot of problems at the moment, not least with injuries, and in the absence of Fagregas it certainly would have helped…