I eventually succumbed to boredom and had a minimum bet as mentioned yesterday on big Justin Gimelstob to take out Vinny Spadea in the first round on the grass of Newport, Rhode Island. Sadly, old Vinny stepped up to the plate for his first win in ages and sent JG back to the locker room empty handed in straight sets. I remember Vinny knocking former Newport winner and now BBC commentator Greg Rusedski out of Wimbledon in the first round a few years ago (9-7 in the fifth set I think) after not winning a tour match for months. The ex-Canadian was most displeased as I recall. Very much like myself, Greg talks a much better game than he ever played!
Anyway, back to the red stuff and not entirely unexpectedly, top seed Tommy Robredo found himself dispatched in the first round in Sweden, leaving Ferrer, Moya and my man Almagro at the head of the market. I had another investment on Nicolas when I noticed Tommy R in the brown stuff against Horna, being as they were due to meet in the quarters. Verdasco should be in action for me today in his first round match against some chap called Erling Tviet, a Norwegian ranked 925 in the world.
Over in the Alps, hopefully the rain will clear up and Andreev, Mathieu and Youzhny should play their first round matches today in an interesting bunch of games. It could pay to take a chance on Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo to beat Gasquet at 3 to 1. He's beaten Gasquet both times they played in the junior events and they haven't matched up since. It think it's worth an interest, given Gasquet's exertions at Wimbledon, so a minimum bet of two points is about the only value around today.
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