Results for tag: tennis betting
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Betting.Betfair
on Nov 24, 2011 at 12:09:16 PM
[b]One of the few players who looks to be fully fit, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, faces in Rafael Nadal a player who is anything but fit. Side with the big-serving Frenchman to send Nadal home, says Sean Calvert.[/b]
As I said yesterday, there's every chance of you getting a game if you take your kit and hang around the O2 long enough and it just got weirder at the World Tour Finals on Wednesday.
After having had a match point, first alternate Janko Tipsarevic fell over when match point down to my tip Tomas Berdych and left the court limping and defeated.
And then we saw David Ferrer beat Novak Djokovic in straight sets - the first time that's happened in a year and the worst performance by the Djoker all year in, his own words.
Regular readers might recall that I backed Ferrer to...
Posted by:
Betting.Betfair
on Nov 18, 2010 at 12:01:29 PM
[b]It's been a year of ups and downs on the WTA Tour. But what were the most important moments? In the first of a two-part series, Guy McCrea selects five highlights from the opening half of the 2010 season ...[/b]
[b]Things looking up Down Under[/b]
The optimism of January 2010 seems so far away now. With Kim Clijsters (currently priced around 4.7 favourite to win the 2011 Australian Open) and Justine Henin 9.6 both back, Maria Sharapova 15.5 recovered from injury, the Williams sisters as imperious as ever and a crop of youngsters poised to breakthrough, there were genuine hopes that this would be one of the best WTA seasons in living memory. Alas, it didn't quite turn out that way.
For that, we can partly blame Serena Williams 5.3 and Justine Henin for producing such a high-quality...
Posted by:
Betting.Betfair
on Nov 7, 2010 at 09:48:25 PM
The announcement last week that[b] Elena Dementieva[/b] is to retire with immediate effect has had the scribes falling over themselves to dish out gushing praise about the Russian's career, but hang on a minute - where were the majors?
The fact that most of the career obituaries concentrated mainly on Dementieva's perceived [b]wonderful personality[/b] and character, which I have no reason to doubt, having met her just the once, and less about her actual achievements tells the story though.
Zero Slam wins and just two Slam finals in 14 years on tour is a poor return for the former world number three, whose main career success appears to be her [b]Olympic[/b] title in 2008.
OK, so it's fantastic to be an Olympic champion and more so for a nation with a proud Olympic tradition such...