February 13 - February 19

[CzechPunter]

[LePapo]

all of this week finalists are playing next week. gasquet zverev dimitrov and goffin are playing in rotterdam and lorenzi and estrella burgos in buenos aires. as rotterdam is a 500 tournament there will be no byes in first round. in buenos aires there are four byes but just to the main 4 seeds but none of them is. so matches will be played on tuesday at last i think. what's more all of these players have started as favourites. 

zverev / thiem

gasquet / troicki 

goffin / kuznetsov 

dimitrov/ zverev mischa

estrella / monteiro

lorenzi / melzer gerald

gasquet is known for struggling after having played a final the week before and troicki is a decent player odds on him seems quite high given the circumstances. (h2h is 2-2) 

monteiro seems an interesting option as well. hes facing estrella burgos who will play quito final later and then will have to head to buenos aires to play. flight is around 7 hours from quito to buenos aires. so he'll be a bit tight with time. also conditions are different, ball flies in quito and this conditions clearly suit EB as he has an excellent record in quito, while buenos aires is more like a normal clay court, slow ball long rallies and after playing a lot this week it should be interesting to know what he has left in the tank ... same can be applied to lorenzi

thiem seems a viable option too. opens as an underdog against zverev who is playing both finals today. 

these matches are interesting to analyse further and given this week finalist are all favourites in their matches i think there's a good chance to have one or two underdog winners in the first round. if not, keeping an eye on them this week might give some profitable results too. 

good luck for this week