June 6 - June 12

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Denis Kudla (-1.5 sets) to beat Dusan Lajovic for a 7/10 stake at 2.00 with Bet365

Saw Kudla playing against Yen-Hsun Lu in Manchester and the guy has a great game for grass and if his first serve is working Dusan wont have a chance here. A small problem would be that Kudla may have a low percentage of wins on second serve so if he misses the first serve his opponents get a good chance to win the point like against Yen-Hsun Lu. When Kudla started to miss his first serve he was in trouble. But hopefully that wont happen against Dusan who is not even near as good as Yen-Hsun on grass.

Marcos Baghdatis (-1.5 sets) to beat Jan-Lennard Struff for a 7/10 stake at 2.00 with Bet365

One of the best grassplayers outthere in his first match on the surface against an inferior opponent in Jan-Lennard Struff who just lost the final in Fürth on clay in straight sets. Seeing how he lost that final in straight sets does'nt inspire confidence to see him taking a set in this match since he'll have to quickly adapt to grass which I suspect he will have problems doing. Facing Baghdatis in your first match in a grass tournament is not ideal if you lack practice on the surface.

Alison Riske (-1.5 sets) to beat Mona Barthel for a 7/10 stake at 1.72 with Bet365

Alison just won the ITF tournament in Eastbourne on grass and comes to Nottingham fully prepared. That's nothing you can say Mona has even if she's had some time to train on grass after she went out early in RG at the hands of Irina Falconi. Head to head reads 1-0 Alison after an easy straight sets win in the US open 2013. With these circumstances I have to take Alison to win in two.

 

Got to try these three since I think they should have a reasonable chance of all coming in.