Tennis - Australian Open

[edtkh]

As the time for the first Grand Slam of the year has arrived, I thought I'd post up some outright prices for starters. ;) Prices for the men's and ladies' tournaments are taken from William Hill and Gamebookers respectively. Men's Tournament : R Federer - 1.66 L Hewitt - 8.00 A Roddick - 8.00 M Safin - 11.00 A Agassi - 17.00 J Johansson - 26.00 G Coria - 26.00 D Nalbandian - 26.00 T Henman - 34.00 C Moya - 34.00 T Haas - 51.00 F Gonzalez - 51.00 Ladies' Tournament : S Williams - 4.50 M Sharapova - 5.50 L Davenport - 6.50 A Mauresmo - 6.50 A Molik - 10.00 A Myskina - 10.00 V Williams - 13.00 S Kuznetsova - 13.00 V Zvonareva - 51.00 N Petrova - 51.00 Notice the priced has dropped quite a bit over the past week for Federer from 1.72 - 1.80 to the 1.61 - 1.66 found at most places now. Fitness permitting, I don't think there really will be too much holding back Federer from winning his 5th career Grand Slam. I personally don't see any value in backing any of the top seeds on the opening day - anyway, for those who are interested, Federer is 1.03 against Santoro, Henman 1.23 against Saulnier and Hewitt 1.10 against Clement. :sad

[swooperman]

Re: Tennis : Australian Open 2005 Now I know I'm putting myself open to ridicule here, but isnt Henman a good bet? Racing Post seems to think so, but they quoted 50s with somebody else. Presumably hes retired from Davis Cup to give himself more chance in comps like this. Stop laughing......