Austria, Croatia & Indy - Day 1

Ahhh, Izaak Newton.. what a great man. The whole apple thing; the man called it correctly. What goes up must come down and indeed after the heady heights of Sunday night, little Robby Ginepri brought me back down to earth by being dumped from Indianapolis in round one after being a set up against Germany's improving Michael Berrer. Still, stakes were small and all in all I had another decent day yesterday.

The putrid English summer weather for once came in handy, assisting India to a scarcely deserved but most welcome draw at Lords and added funds to the Calvert coffers simultaneously. The odds on this one were all over the place on Monday afternoon, with punters basically gambling on if and when and for how long it would rain, so the sensibles backed high and layed low on the draw and came out with a healthy profit.

The unfortunate readers of the RP will soon be forming an orderly queue outside the poor house if recent events are to be continued. Their tennis chap tipped Davydenko for the Croatian tourny and for the third week running the busy Russian was dispatched in the first round. Happily for me, I backed Gilles Simon to achieve the win and spared a thought for those poor souls blindly following the RP.

My 'once in a blue moon' tip, Olivier Patience, proceeded comfortably to round two in Kitzbuhel with a straight sets win, however now faces dodgy Russian Igor Andreev. Drawing parallels with the Dutch Open, Steve Darcis also was a huge price and had to beat Andreev on his way to victory. Lightning couldn't.... could it? Worth a tiny punt at this morning's 140-1 though.

So, coffers swelled, but a man down in Indy, I will wait and see what happens with Roddick. I may get a break like last week's brief show of 3-1 about Nadal if the A-Rod struggles at any time. Don't see it happening tonight against Kuznetsov and in any case it will happen at about 2 am, so I'll be patient I think.

Over in Kitzbuhel, my tentative punts Starace and Eschauer kick off tomorrow, so I will have a look at today's coupon shortly for potential profit opportunities.