Tennis - 14-20 November

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Sport	Tennis
Event	Aljaz Bedene - Grega Zemlja
Selection	2
Strength	10/10
Date	15/11/2011
Bookmaker/Price	Bet365 @ 2.25
Reasoning	In the first round of the of the Salzburg challenger (Austria, indoors/hard) two slovenians will meet, two players of similar height, both righties with 3 years between, Aljaz Bedene (22) and Grega Zemlja (25). Bedene, 161st in the world is quite new even for this challenger level on indoors/hard playing mostly in futures tournaments and prefering clay. Even though with 14-4 on the year in indoors/hard this season, most of his matches were played in futures, counting out of course his previous 2 tournaments, last time reaching the semifinals at the Loughborough challenger where he lost in three sets to Cipolla. He has a challenger title at Barletta (clay) when he went pass some decent players like Ramos, Rosol and Volandri in the final. Zemlja, 123rd in the world, he also having claycourt tournaments as the first choice but unlike Bedene he has played way more matches on hard, indoors (36-33) and outdoors (92-67), actually he has played more then his fellow countryman period with more experience overall in the ATP circuit. He got a title early on at the Caloundra challenger (hard) when he beat in the final the hard server Tomic in straight sets. Either then that he played another 2 challenger finals on clay. This will be his 5th indoors (hard) tournament of the season, coming with a 3-4 record this season, a surface that has`t been that kind, but still he managed to get pass the first round 3 out of 4 times. This will be the 4th official meeting between the two with Zemlja leading 3-0 after the first three, all played on clay, 2 times in straight sets and one time be retirement. Their last one was just this season at Ljubljana when Zemlja took it 6-1, 7-5. So counting the fact that both prefer clay as their main surface and Zemlja beat Bedene every time they met, meetings which happen to be played just that, I will give this to Grega who like I said has the more experience in the circuit and in these condition, even though he had more success outdoors then indoors this year. Win Grega Zemlja.

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