Tennis: Olympics & ATP Washington 10th - 17th August

[Mr Intensity]

[Mr Intensity]

Anyone looking forward to the Olympics Tennis? New courts, loads of smog, matches starting at 3:30am, not sure who cares, not sure if there is a scoreboard

[Mr Intensity]

Nothing for me tomorrow. Want to see the conditions/courts. Think it's going to be weird with so many courts for this event - will there be any people there?

[keliot]

Yeah nothing grabs me in this round and I'd prefer to see how things play out. But on the ladies side I've taken a few outsider outrights, the main one being Wozniacki @ 38.00 who could go deep and it seems that a few of the favourites have injuries or form problems. I'm hoping she smashes Sfar good in the 1st.

[tenebrosh]

Livescore:
http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/EN...08-08-10.shtml

Wta: maybe, a lot of dogs

GL

[WinningTipster]

Hi guys,
the following bet for Olympics:

WTA TOUR, OLYMPICS
ZHENG TO D SZAVAY @ 1.51 at pinnacle
Szavay has huge potential (much more than Zheng) but is lacking any consistency. Zheng defeated Szavay very easy at Wimbledon 3 weeks ago and with home crowd support must be a favorite.

[Mr Intensity]

Originally Posted by Mr Intensity

Anyone looking forward to the Olympics Tennis? New courts, loads of smog, matches starting at 3:30am, not sure who cares, not sure if there is a scoreboard

...and the rain, how could I forget rain

[harke]

loads of player going down like flys!!!pollution?heat??humidity???wat's wrong....

[yves]

guys there are so many matches i am really surprised that our experts dont write any pick, is there a special reason ?

[Mr Intensity]

Originally Posted by yves

guys there are so many matches i am really surprised that our experts dont write any pick, is there a special reason ?

All of the reasons I wrote above. First round of this is really not for me.

[Mr Intensity]

Just check out this Murray match - crazy

...and he's saved by the rain

[keliot]

Originally Posted by tenebrosh

Livescore:
http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/EN...08-08-10.shtml

It's a bit rubbish isn't it? Like something from 1996.

Originally Posted by harke

loads of player going down like flys!!!pollution?heat??humidity???wat's wrong....

Nah, quite a few players have been carrying injuries going into it and don't want to make things worse before the US open.

[Mr Intensity]

Just got 2.20 on Nestor/Niemeyer against Murray/Murray. This is a good doubles team and Andy might struggle in the conditions after a tough loss earlier. Nestor to dominate.

[Mr Intensity]

No good

[dj_fish]

davy-mathieu 2 2,45 7/10
davy said last night in interwiev for eurosport that he is tired from tennis, he stoped to train, lack of fitness, simply feeling deppresed for a while. altought he beated gulbis he didnt enjoy. he dont expekt any good result in china.
seems to be a clear win for mathieu

[dj_fish]

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/10082008/58/beijing-2008-disil lusioned-davydenko-moves.html

[Pit026]

Caroline WOZNIACKI @ 2,37 bet365 - Caroline is now in really good shape! It seems she feels nice in Asia Her last match against Hantuchova, though not in blood-shape so far, convinced me to take it. I saw some recent matches and especially that against Radwańska showed how much talented player Caroline is. Of course, Elena is always very demanding player to pass her through but I think that her 'Asian Voyage' will end 2morrow

[Mr Intensity]

SIMON @ 2.37 Will Hill. This looks a pretty obvious play to me, especially at this price. H2H is 1-0 to Blake just a couple of weeks ago in Cincinatti, but that was after Simon had a couple of really tough weeks and we all know Blake is at his best in the US. Bottom line is Simon is in cracking form, and he's continued that here beating Soderling and Canas comfortably. Blake has been poor the past few months, and losing quite a few matches you'd expect him to win. He doesn't have the edge and the destructive game he had a couple of years ago, and I really expect Simon to grind this out. Blake struggled past Hrbaty in the last round and that doesn't look good on paper.

LU @ 2.37 Will Hill. Lu has been really good this tournament. He was excellent against Murray and backed it up with a solid win over Calleri. He seems to be inspired playing in this part of the world and I think he'll come through this one. Melzer had a very tough win over Daniel, then a very good win over Wawrinka, but looking at the scoreline it seems like the Swiss had a problem. I find it really hard to trust Melzer as a fav, and I don't like him in this one.

KIEFER @ 1.83 Stan James. Since Hamburg Kiefer has been playing really well, and I fancy him to come through this. He had a tight match against Anderson, but the young South Africa can be very good on hard courts. I like Kiefer in the big situations, and I fancy him for a good run here. Mathieu was having a poor run coming into this tournament, but has got good wins over Lapentti and Davydenko. Davydenko has been struggling lately and has made some very negative comments, so not sure how much to read into that result. If this gets tight, I know who I'd rather be on.

[Mr Intensity]

ZHENG @ 4.5 Sportingbet. For those who don't remember Zheng she is the Chinese girl who made it to the semis of Wimbledon. She hasn't played since and perhaps needed a break with her troublesome ankle that has blighted her career so far. She's struggled a bit so far needing 3 sets in both her matches which is a bit of a worry. However, she'll have massive support here and the Chinese athletes are really stepping up so far. Safina is in stunning form, since Berlin at the start of May she is 30-3! However, a couple of her losses were really unexpected, against Tanasugarn and Peer on grass where she showed quite a lot of the Safin temprament. This will be a tough atmosphere for her and perhaps she won't handle it too well. Zheng has the game to be effective here and all things considered I think this is a pretty big price.

[Abbo22]

Berdych 7.0 @ Bodog This price is nuts considering Federers recent form. I watched his match vs. Arevalo and he was spraying the forehand once again and dumping volleys into the net against the world number 441. Berdych had a solid win over Seppi who hes had trouble w. in the past. And of course Berdych took out Fed at the last Olympics when Fed was in his prime. Excellent price here to take a shot.