Sony Ericsson Open, Miami (WTA + ATP)

[engineer]

The games from the main draw start today, hope for a good tournament and profitable also


2008 Sony Ericsson Open

[engineer]

Here are bet365's outright prices in the men's event, for information only:

Each-way 1/2 1-2
Roger Federer 2.62 Bet
Novak Djokovic 3.00 Bet
Rafael Nadal 10.00 Bet
Andy Roddick 17.00 Bet
David Nalbandian 17.00 Bet
Andrew Murray 19.00 Bet
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 29.00 Bet
Richard Gasquet 34.00 Bet
Nikolay Davydenko 41.00 Bet
David Ferrer 41.00 Bet
James Blake 41.00 Bet
Mario Ancic 41.00 Bet
Mikhail Youzhny 51.00 Bet
Tommy Haas 67.00 Bet
Lleyton Hewitt 81.00 Bet
Mardy Fish 81.00 Bet
Tomas Berdych 81.00 Bet
Guillermo Canas 81.00 Bet
Fernando Gonzalez 81.00 Bet
Robin Soderling 101.00 Bet
Ivan Ljubicic 101.00 Bet
Ivo Karlovic 101.00 Bet
Juan Carlos Ferrero 101.00 Bet
Juan Monaco 126.00 Bet
Igor Andreev 126.00 Bet
Dmitry Tursunov 126.00 Bet
Feliciano Lopez 126.00 Bet
Radek Stepanek 126.00 Bet
Tommy Robredo 126.00 Bet
Fernando Verdasco 126.00 Bet
Paul-Henri Mathieu 126.00 Bet
Carlos Moya 126.00 Bet
Jarkko Nieminen 126.00 Bet
Philipp Kohlschreiber 126.00 Bet
Stanislas Wawrinka 126.00 Bet
Gilles Simon 151.00 Bet
Sam Querrey 151.00 Bet
Marin Cilic 151.00 Bet
Nicolas Almagro 151.00 Bet
Sebastien Grosjean 151.00 Bet
Marat Safin 151.00 Bet
Janko Tipsarevic 151.00 Bet
Juan-Ignacio Chela 201.00 Bet
Xavier Malisse 201.00 Bet
Hyung-Taik Lee 201.00 Bet
John Isner 201.00 Bet
Andreas Seppi 201.00 Bet
Arnaud Clement 201.00 Bet
Gael Monfils 201.00 Bet
Nicolas Mahut 201.00 Bet
Michael Llodra 201.00 Bet
Jose Acasuso 251.00 Bet
Jurgen Melzer 251.00 Bet
Kei Nishikori 251.00 Bet
Thomas Johansson 251.00 Bet
Agustin Calleri 251.00 Bet
Julien Benneteau 251.00 Bet
Fabrice Santoro 301.00 Bet
Olivier Rochus 301.00 Bet
Kristof Vliegen 301.00 Bet
Marc Gicquel 301.00 Bet
Ernests Gulbis 301.00 Bet
Nicolas Kiefer 301.00 Bet
Juan Martin Del Potro 301.00 Bet
Vincent Spadea 501.00 Bet
Michael Berrer 501.00 Bet
Stefan Koubek 501.00 Bet
Dominik Hrbaty 501.00 Bet
Jonas Bjorkman 501.00 Bet
Florian Mayer 751.00 Bet
Filippo Volandri 751.00 Bet
Simone Bolelli 751.00 Bet
Gustavo Kuerten 1001.00 Bet
Jesse Levine 1001.00 Bet
Victor Hanescu 1001.00 Bet
Potito Starace 1001.00 Bet
Evgeny Korolev 1001.00 Bet
Rainer Schuettler 1001.00 Bet
Dudi Sela 1001.00 Bet
Santiago Ventura 1001.00 Bet
Carlos Berlocq 2001.00 Bet
Albert Montanes 2001.00 Bet
Sergio Roitman 2001.00 Bet
Oscar Hernandez 2001.00 Bet

[engineer]

Later I'll have several small dabbles, can't investigate the fixtures thoroughly so these bets are decided at-a-glance.

Levine to beat Del Potro @2.50 , nobody knows what will the Argie look like after the break period, so Levine has every chance today I reckon.


Lay Wozniacki @1.56 against Pironkova. Tough draw for the Bulgarian one more time, but Wozniacki shouldn't be that big favourite today. Yes, she's in great from, but Pironkova can keep it close and prevail.

Lay Tursunov @1.53 against Korolev. Tursunov had a flying start of the year, but is struggling recently and Korolev won't miss the chance to punish him, so at that short price I won't hesitate to lay Dimitri.


Shaughnessy to beat King @2.40.

[engineer]

Yesterday was a day to forget about - tennis betting wise.

All four games went tits up after a nice start for most of them.

Today's matches are just about to begin, here are my fancies:

Hanescu to beat Troicki @2.24 - 1.5 pts

Cornet to beat Paszek @2.20 - 5 pts, great value!

Llodra to beat Melzer @2.06 - 3 pts

Voskoboeva to beat Zheng @2.16 - 7 pts, great value also!

Also considered to lay Fish after his heroic efforts last week, but Clement is in too shittie form now, can't be trusted in a singles game.

[selizi333]

Todays tips from tennis bettor:

Reynolds tb Youzhny at 3.7
Clement tb Almagro at 2.15
Cibulkova tb Schiavone at 2.4
Sugiyama tb Medina at 2.46
Loit tb Ivanovic at 20:-]]]

[selizi333]

last one

Wozniak tb Safina at 4.05..GL

[Martens]

to bet on tennis events, proved to be the most easy way to lose money

if somebody comes and tell me that he makes profit after betting or trading on tennis, i am sorry but i will not take it..

it is a "you never know " kind of sport, everything depends on every individual player's mood, condition, health, and many other parametres, that shouldnt have knowledge of their existence, any of us bettors ,this is a completely blind bet imo,

however, sometimes, with the correct information, you may shot one and make profit, but that is rather the exception of the law i am afraid

see you

[rcgills]

Originally Posted by Martens

if somebody comes and tell me that he makes profit after betting or trading on tennis, i am sorry but i will not take it.

Martens - I'm in profit for tennis so far this year Not much, admittedly, but I am in profit. The way to look at it is to try to take advantage of those parameters you mention, looking to see which players may be suffering from any of those factors you mention. There's very often value to be had in backing the underdogs.

Anyway, a couple for me today. Starting off with a copy and paste from a post I made in the Indian Wells thread:

No denying Wozniacki is a very promising player, and she's had some impressive results in the opening few rounds here, but to date she's come up very short every time she meets any of the top players. Since October, she's lost twice to Venus Williams (6-2 6-2 and 6-3 7-5), 6-1 7-5 to Ivanovic, 6-0 6-1 to Sharapova and 6-0 6-2 to Davenport. That's straight sets every time, and losing by 5 or more games every time. She's still only 17, and maybe not quite prepared yet mentally for the matches against the top players. I'll take Kuznetsova to dish out a similar punishment today.

Kuznetsova did indeed dish out a similar punishment. Substitute Kuznetsova for Venus Williams and apply to today's match. Until Wozniacki's proven she's got the mental strength to deal with the top players, I'll keep opposing her in these games.

Venus 2-0 @ 1.85 4pts
Venus -4.5 games @ 1.833 2pts


I know I've said a few times how I think Peer is over-rated, but I still think she's worth a shot today. We've already seen 3 of the 4 finalists from Indian Wells going out early (Djokovic, Fish and Ivanovic), Kuznetsova is the only one left, and she's struggled this week, losing a set to Chan in the first round and saving a match point against Azarenka who appeared to choke badly, losing 10 games in a row H2H is 2-2, with the hard court meetings being 2-1 to Peer, all since 2007.

Lay Kuznetsova @ 1.48, liability 2pts


Lastly, Sela to beat Acasuso. Seem to be swimming against the tide somewhat with this bet, most places I've looked at people seem to be backing Acasuso, but I really can't justify Acasuso being favourite for this one. He's got a 26-42 record on hard courts, and while he may have had a decent result last round beating Hewitt, Sela has also done well, getting past H-T Lee who must've been high on confidence after a good run at Indian Wells, and the out-of-form Robredo, both in straight sets. He's 49-19 on hard courts for the past year (albeit mainly at Challenger level), but I'd have him much shorter than the price on offer.

Sela @ 2.45 2pts

Now, after telling Martens it is possible to make a profit on tennis betting, watch as all three bets lose in style

[engineer]

Well, not having time to look at the coupon again I'll follow you with Sela and Peer, RC, good luck to us

[engineer]

Sorry, RC, hopefully it wasn't me that jinxed both these...

Good luck with Venus though.

Now have some time at home, the wife bolted to the gym and the baby fell asleep, so I'll take a short investigation at the fixtures.

[engineer]

Ha, it's finished and Venus have won quite comfortably, well done there.

[engineer]

Not many games left for that night, so I'll be going for some nicew value shots, as the games look well leveled to me.

Only my bet365 account is healthy enough at the moment so I'll be placing my bets there.

Almagro to beat Youzhny @2.62 - 2pts

Tipsarevic to beat Johansson @1.83 - 3pts

Sugiyama to beat Zvonareva @3.50 - 2pts

[Beanie]

Nice call on Tipsy engineer and unlucky with Almagro - serving it out at 6-5 final set and deuce, and then this happens...



Youznhy batters his face with his racket, has to stop cos the blood starts running down his face, injury timeout, and then comes back after the doc patches him up and breaks back, before winning the tiebreak.

Hilarious stuff

[engineer]

Hope the players won't start mutilating themselves in a tough situation, especially the ladies (well, in fact some of them can do that)

[rcgills]

That was pretty strange stuff there from Youzhny

Yesterday pretty much typical of my tennis betting this season, scraping a profit but nothing much more.

Only one for today:

Nadal v Mathieu over 20.5 games @ 1.833 (sporting odds) 6pts

These two have met 7 times, and Nadal has won all 7 of them (although the most recent one was by a 2nd set retirement). However, all 6 of their completed matches have gone over 20.5 games (one of them was in a grand slam, but even if it had been best of 3 sets it would still have gone overs). Mathieu has managed to take the first set in each of the last 3 completed matches, and in the other 3 he at least managed to drag one set to 7-5, losing the other 6-4.