Day 5 at the Western & Southern Masters in Cincinnati, Ohio was a bit of a mixed bag, with my bet of the day getting thoroughly beaten, but my outright bet rolls on.
It appears that I underestimated the form of Nikolay Davydenko in this tournament yesterday, but in my defence, I'm betting blind, as I can't use the interactive service until the US Open; the streams are crap and Sky have arbitrarily decided not to broadcast the night matches live until tonight. Therefore my total views of Davydenko this week have been zero. I'm still extremely cynical about the Russian's 'foot injury' and I'm of the opinion that he's about as trustworthy as Tony Blair in full grin mode.
That's the excuses out of the way - now down to business and basically any chance of profit this week boils down to one of two events occurring: -
1) Lleyton Hewitt overcoming a 0-10 recent head-to-head record with the Fed-Express and somehow removing the Swiss legend from the tournament this afternoon.
2) James Blake improving his 5-0 all time head-to-head over Mr Suspicious Betting Patterns to 6-0 tonight.
Frankly, I'll settle for the second event occurring, but Federer has been relatively poor by his own ridiculously high standards this week and even Nicolas Almagro took a set off him yesterday, giving an in-form Lleyton Hewitt a squeak of victory in hopefully boiling temperatures in Cincinnati's early afternoon sunshine.
Hewitt won't get a better chance than this to beat Federer, so I'll be checking the position on Betfair Mobile later on and no doubt simultaneously gravely offending the bride in the process at a wedding that I must attend, which rather thoughtlessly has been scheduled for 3 o' clock on a Saturday afternoon! As usual at these functions, I can foresee a situation arising where I become embroiled against my will in a lengthy conversation with the bride's Uncle Dave right in the middle of a set-point moment.
Meanwhile, James Blake saw off the not entirely unexpected tricky challenge from Sam Querrey in three sets in last night's late match and must be confident of reaching the final and making me some loot.
As the Blake v Davydenko encounter is scheduled for a 1 am start, I should be soundly inebriated by the time I crawl in to watch it and hopefully this will dull the pain of defeat, should it occur. Either that or I'll start trading, fall asleep and leave a big bet up for someone to take, as happened recently in the Isner v Monfils match in Washington.
Blake and Hewitt - I'm counting on you two - don't let me down!
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