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Govortsova v Szavay

Szavay seems to be struggling at the start of this season to recapture her form of last season. Her two tournaments so far this year have seen her lose in the first round to players ranked outside the top 100.

2007 saw Govortsova rise from 248 in the rankings to 48th, and while I don't know much else about her, with the doubts over Szavay's form at the start of this season, I think it's well worth opposing Szavay at this kind of price.

Lay Szavay @ 1.27 liability 1pt

Kvitova v Medina Garrigues

Medina Garrigues in decent form so far this year. Has taken sets off of Davenport and Dementieva, and last week beat both Schiavone and Pennetta in straight sets in Italy in the Fed Cup. Has a reasonable record here in Paris, 8-5, and has never lost here to a player ranked below her.

Kvitova appears from her results to be a very promising youngster (still only 17) climbing rapidly up the rankings, with 4 ITF tournament wins and 2 further final appearances last year, seeing her climb from 773 at the end of 2006 to 150 at the end of 2007. However, even towards the end of last year she was still capable of losing in straight sets to the likes of Vongsouthi, world no. 480. Came through qualifying here, beating both Pironkova and Bremond in straight sets. Think this is going to be too much of a step up for her at the moment though, and Medina Garrigues should be able to win this one comfortably.


Medina Garrigues @ 1.615 4pts