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Re: Tennis 21st - 27th (ATP Austria, WTA Istanbul and Strasbourg)
Awful looking coupon today in Austria with lots of out of form / poor clay courters matched up. I’d hardly ever recommend backing a player who is W2 L8 in the last 10 but I’m tempted by the odds against on Max Miryni. Miryni is a doubles specialist these days and has a terrible singles record in 2007 but his opponent Moncourt looks to be operating on a much lower level. Miryni is at Evens on BF at the moment but might drift out a bit more.
1.5 Units Miryni @ Evens
Lee – Udomchoke looks a nightmare with two out of form hardcourters playing. Lee leads the H to H 3-2 and has the experience of a doubles match yesterday but even at odds over 2.8 hard for me to make a case for Udomchoke.
Monfils faces big serving Yank Querry but his form and fitness are very suspect. He made the SF at the Zagreb challenger but he’s defending big points from the French Open 2006 and has already dropped 30 ranking places this month so he might be vulnerable here given his attentions might be elsewhere. Querry has no clay record worth talking about however so another no bet.
There are not many more interesting looking possibilities in Turkey or Strasbourg either.
In Turkey Rezai who is 3-12 for the year goes off at 1.5 against Israeli veteran Oblizer. The Israeli has never done anything on clay however so I can’t bring myself to back even a speculative punt.
I’m going to go against you Engineer and say that the weight of money on Govortsova has made her opponent’s rising price a bit of value. Gortosova is in decent form but it is low level form and American clay form. Pirinova made the SF here in 2005 and is a player who has had difficulty in making the jump from ITF to WTA. Her opponent today is a class lower than what she has recently faced and I like her price around 1.80
1.5 Units Pirinkova @ 1.80
In Strasbourg Loit should see off the limited clay courter T.T Sun. Loit slightly off the boil at the moment but she is on home turf and has a respectable clay record. Sun has lost far more than she has won on clay and even a Loit not firing on all cylinders should have too much.
2 Units Loit @ 1.44
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