As today's title would suggest, things went very badly awry on Wednesday, particularly in Gstaad and this is how it happened.
First up, Davydenko strolls on court to complete his match against Monfils after saving the match yesterday and promptly loses the first two games to slump to a first round defeat and simultaneously downs my five point multiple within a quarter of an hour. The stats on this one are especially galling, given that the Russian had an astonishing 19 break points in three sets and failed to convert all but three of them!
Multiple gone, I had a look over at the adjoining court and noticed Mikhail Youzhny on his way to an embarrassing defeat against local(ish) journeyman Stefan Koubek in straight sets and so my bottom half of the draw saver goes down in the first round. Not very impressive work Mr Youzhny.
Concurrently on the main showcourt, my minimum bet Ramirez Hidalgo was presented with ten break points by a typically profligate Gasquet, but failed to take all but three of them and a straight sets defeat was soon forthcoming.
This thoroughly depressing start was punctuated by Igor Andreev's rain delayed victory and consequently I'm still in with a decent shout of the victory from either the Russian or Paul Henri Mathieu, whose second round match against Lopez didn't make it on court today due to more bad weather in the Alps.
Over in Sweden it was better news as Nicolas Almagro thumped veteran home favourite Jonas Bjorkman in straight sets 4 and 2 and now takes on Luis Horna for a place in the semi finals against probably Carlos Moya, against whom Almagro would be looking for his first victory. Of course he must take care of Horna first who he has not played so far in his career. I'm confident of victory in that match though.
Better news from Newport's grass tournament with Nicolas Mahut arriving safely into the last 16 thanks to a straight sets win over Adrian Garcia of Chile, despite a nervy first set which ended in a tight breaker. The draw looks on paper to be very straightforward, with nobody of any note left in Mahut's top half and he really should reach the final against most likely veteran countryman Fabrice Santoro or fellow veteran Vinny Spadea.
Given the way my finances have disappeared into Betfair's satchels this week so far, I could do with Mahut doing the business and my hopes of a decent profit on the clay are still alive and kicking, so I shall take today's reverses on the chin and hopefully bounce back tomorrow with some better results.
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