Tennis - 11-17 July

[Atko]

Another busy week on the tennis front. Let's have a look at the women first. Two international events take place in Europe on clay. We've got Palermo, where Kaia Kanepi looks to defend her crown. She's the top seed, and the girl she beat in last year's final, Flavia Pennetta, is also in attendance. Usual glut of Italians and European clay courters are in attendance. The other event is in the Austrian town of Bad Gastien, where Julia Goerges heads the line-up. For the men, it's also a clay-fest, with a couple of 250s to get our teeth into it. Bastad is a mightily popular event with the guys and it's a pretty classy field for a 250, with Robin Soderling, Nicolas Almagro, Tomas Berdych and David Ferrer all playing. Stuttgart is headed up by Gael Monfils and Jurgen Melzer in a field that looks fiercely competitive. Your Challengers this week are in Bogota (clay), Sopot (clay), Aptos (hard) and Granby (hard). Good luck :ok

[cristianoronaldo]

Re: Tennis - 11-17 July 1. Brown to beat Desnieres de Veigy / 1.85 in Bwin Brown is close to be TOP100 again, but if want do it, must make nice result in main draw here.. Brown in 2009 played against de Veigy, at the Samarkand Challanger on clay surface, won in two sets. de Veigy is not TOP250 player, at this moment is 268! Lucky draw in first two matches, two players with worse position than TOP900. On the serve not look great. Brown is big server, at Bastad courts can play good tennis. Brown go to the MD in Bastad! 2. Sorensen to beat Donskoy / 3.55 in Bwin Great odds on Louk Sorensen. Sorensen is Irish, but have residence in Stuttgart and play on this courts many times, talking very good in Germany language. Donskoy is the biggest seed in Q in this moment, not must win this match - if one player from main draw out from tournament. In Q don't play great, lost set in first round. Sorensen play great match against Hernych(nr6) and won 6-2, 6-2. 3.Marti to beat Veic / 2.55 in Bwin Veic - 195 on the world, seed nr 4 in Q for the main draw, against Marti, 221 on the world, seed nr 5. Look like close match.. Both are good servers, but Javier Marti advantage is first serve % in courts, always on the very good level, over 70%. Veic sometimes have under 50%. Marti is dangerous returner. Marti is better player from the baseline and this is next advantage. Maybe Veic made better results in this season, but Marti is very good, young clay player from Spain. With this odds I must play it. 4.Montanes to beat Simon / 2.65 in Gamebookers My bet in this match is Albert Montanes from Spain. Monday, first rounds, not too much matches to play, but this game is really good, my reasons for it: - Montanes in this year play against Simon, bookies giving 2.00 for Albert win, today 2.65, why? - Montanes defending title from last year!!!! Champion from 2010 and lose in first round? - Montanes have very good balance at the Germany courts - Simon in last year lost in second round and have bad balance at Germany courts 5.Hofmanova +1.5 sets against Benesova / 3.04 in 188bet Few reasons for this bet: - Odds, Hofmanova can make one set here. - Hofmanova is young, telented girl, 91' - Hofmanova play at home, supports give fire for this girl - Benesova in last year here lost in first round 0:2 - Benesova in last weekend lost in first round in Basad, won only 2 games.. Hofmanova can make upset in this game.