The recent loss of a day's play due to rain led to the main protagonists in the Pilot Pen having to play their third round matches and quarter final matches on the same day, leading to some surprising results and the odd choke.
My outright bet, Ivo Karlovic bludgeoned his way through to the quarters, despite losing the first set to Thomas Johansson and set up a meeting with Igor Andreev, who also came from behind to take care of David Ferrer.
The most profitable match for me came courtesy of a timely and not entirely unexpected choke by Agustin Calleri, who wasted three match points on serve against James Blake and who I layed at 1.02. Blake went on to win the set and ran through the next for a comeback win.
Another nice little profit was gained on the Fernando Verdasco v Jarko Nieminen 3rd round match, when neither player could hold serve in the first set - Verdasco finally holding one to take the set. Nieminen came back to win the second and a nice match for trading ensued.
My lay of the day was Tommy Robredo at 1.72 against Stanislas Wawrinka, who had been playing well in wins over Ancic and Monfils and who had easily too much for the Spanish wannabe model in a straight sets victory.
The quarter finals took place at around 6 o clock local time after a few hours respite for the players and Ivo Karlovic didn't seem adversely affected by the extra toil, serving at an incredible 92% first service points won in a final set breaker victory over Igor Andreev.
The Croatian behemoth fired 28 aces past Andreev and didn't face a break point in the match, despite being taken the distance and big Ivo will fancy his chances of reaching another final today, when facing Mardy Fish (4-0 h2h Karlovic).
Today's other semi will see Blake take on Paul-Henri Mathieu for the first time, but I'm happy with my money on Karlovic for the title, assuming that yesterday hasn't exhausted him.
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