LA Wrap and Olympic/Washington advice

As I think I said at the start of the Countrywide Classic, it's not an event to stake too much cash on and I'm very glad that I didn't.

My long shots were beaten in the first round and with the Olympics about to begin, my interest in the tournament dwindled to very little very quickly.

Incredibly, Juan Martin Del Potro won his third straight title by beating Roddick in straight sets in the final and his turnaround in form has been little short of amazing over the last couple of months. The Argentine has now won his last 14 consecutive matches.

As far as the Olympics are concerned, my outright bets and long shots can be found on the Betfair site here: - http://betting.betfair.com/olympics-beijing-2008/tennis/

The gist of it is small stakes on Fernando Gonzalez [126], Stanislas Wawrinka [160] and David Nalbandian [55]and my possible first round upsets can also be found there.

Amidst all the excitement of Beijing the tournament in Washington has been rather forgotten and to be frank there's not much to get excited about in the event.

The protagonists are more or less the same as LA and quality looks sparse, but the layers make Roddick favourite over Del Potro, which is surely an error on current form.

It's a lot to ask for Del Potro to win again, but he's so hot right now that he's hard to ignore in a poor event at [4.0].

As for long shots, the only one that raises a slight amount of interest is the in-form Denis Gremelmayr at [41.0] and he could be worth a very small investment, but other than that Washington looks one to skip.