After yesterday's Davydenko disgrace in Sopot, which even made the back page of the Evening Standard under the headline 'scandal hits tennis world', one would be entitled to believe that one of the players involved, Martin Vassallo Arguello, would not be dumb enough to try it on again the very next day!
Well, his quarter final match up against Albert Montanes was looking like one way traffic for Vassallo Arguello with the score at 6-2, 4-1 and what do we see the prices at? It should have been about 1-6 on Vassallo Arguello, but curiously his price was a shade of odds on! For a guy a set and two breaks up to be just slightly odds-on is ridiculous and sure enough a wedge of cash came in for Montanes, who coincidentally happened to win the match from that point by the scoreline of 2-6, 6-4, 6-2 and all the while his price was incredibly short. Disgusting and another really poor advert for tennis.
Regarding the matches that appeared to be straight, of which there were few this week it appears, I didn't need to have any individual match bets, as my two remaining bets in Poland were in action today and Jose Acasuso did the business for me in straight sets against Florian Mayer and he now faces Montanes in the semi's. The big Argentine has a perfect 5-0 record in all events against Montanes and he won't get a better chance than this to salvage his ATP ranking and win me some loot at the same time.
My other bet, Igor Andreev, went down in straight sets to Gilles Simon and yet again, the Russian has flattered to deceive in these small tournaments, leaving me in the unenviable position of having to rely on Acasuso for this week's Poland profit.
Over in Washington, where the matches seem relatively normal, the stupidly tall serving machine that is John Isner gave Tommy Haas a barrage of aces in their quarter final match. Isner has been unbelievable all week on serve and I think Henman is the only player to have broken his serve here and that was only once. Most of his sets go to breakers and Haas saved a match point in the second set breaker before winning it 8-6 to set up a decider. Sadly for my bet, Isner took it, however I did have a saver on Isner for the tournament at 20-1 after the first set when it looked like being a tough night for Haas, so I'm still in the game in Washington.
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