A fairly quiet day on the tennis coupons today, with a sparse selection of matches to choose from, but proceedings got off to a distinctly more profitable start this morning than was the case yesterday.
A four point single on Evgeny Korolev at 10-11 to take care of Sergio Roitman in their second round encounter in Amersfoot came in handily in straight sets and set the tone for a small investment on Juan Ignacio Chela in the middle of his struggle against demonstrative Serb, Boris Pashanski, which the Argentine eventually won in three tough sets. The match in Stuttgart took almost three hours to complete and at least twenty minutes of that time can be contributed to the volatile Pashanski's line call querying, which had the chair umpire on and off court on many occasions to check the ball marks.
Match of the day in Amersfoot promised to be in-form Spaniard David Ferrer against countryman Fernando Verdasco. Their head-to-head stands at two apiece and the most recent of these was won by the unpredictable left hander Verdasco at Roland Garros in four sets. Ferrer is on fire at the moment though and only Nadal has won more matches on the red dirt this season, therefore I had a two point investment on a straight sets win for Ferrer at evens. Of course I picked one of those days when Verdasco hit all of the lines and generally couldn't miss and Ferrer was plagued by double faults and errors. If only Verdasco had played like that last week.
Final bet of the day was a two point win for Robin Haase to take out Nicolas Devilder in Amersfoot. I hoped for a home victory for the Dutchman and it worked out that way eventually after a tough three setter.
Over in Los Angeles, the overnight defeats of number one seed, Fernando Gonzalez and number four seed, David Nalbandian, left the top half of the draw looking open enough for my outside bet Radek Stepanek to have a great shout of significant progress in the event. I backed the Czech at 33-1 and 50-1 and the layers have now trimmed him to around the 10-1 mark. If he manages to beat hard court specialist Mardy Fish in the second round I could have a healthy profit opportunity on my hands.
Similarly, in Amersfoot, number one seed Nikolay Davydenko's defeat and losses for Massu, Almagro and Calleri in the top half of the draw appear to have left Carlos Moya a excellent opportunity to reach the final even at this early stage. In the closing stages of Davydenko's loss, I got on Moya at 5-1 and 11-2 for the tournament and he's now trading at around 3-1.
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