ATP Valencia / Houston 10th-16th April

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Valencia: DAVYDENKO Nikolay vs HERNYCH Jan GARCIA LOPEZ, Guilermo vs LOPEZ Feliciano STARACE Potito vs DLOUHY Lukas MARTIN Alberto vs VERDASCO Fernando FERRER David vs Q RAMIREZ-HIDALGO Ruben vs SEPPI Andreas SIMON Giles vs VIK Robin SANGUINETTI Davide vs TURSUNOV Dmitry VOLANDRI Fillippo vs Q ZIB Tomas vs PAVEL Andrey Q vs PHAU Bjorn Q vs FERRERO Juan Carlos ANDREEV Igor vs SAFIN Marat COSTA Albert vs PASHANSKI Boris MAYER Florian vs BURNIOL Guilern SLUITER Raemon vs GAUDIO Gaston Houston: (1)RODDICK, Andy USA vs CAPDEVILLE, Paul CHI MARACH, Oliver AUT vs MARIN, Juan Antonio CRC WASKE, Alexander GER vs VANEK, Jiri CZE HERNANDEZ, Oscar ESP vs (5)HAAS, Tommy GER (4-WC)BAGHDATIS, Marcos CYP vs (WC)WITTEN, Jesse USA SPADEA, Vincent USA vs BERLOCQ, Carlos ARG SCHUETTLER, Rainer GER vs QUALIFIER (WC)FISH, Mardy USA vs (8)MONACO, Juan ARG (7)GOLDSTEIN, Paul USA vs TIPSAREVIC, Janko SCG QUALIFIER vs QUALIFIER SABAU, Razvan ROM vs BEHREND, Tomas GER MONTANES, Albert ESP vs (3)GINEPRI, Robby USA (6)HORNA, Luis PER vs DANIEL, Marcos BRA MELZER, Jurgen AUT vs MINAR, Ivo CZE REYNOLDS, Bobby USA vs VICENTE, Fernando ESP QUALIFIER vs (2)BLAKE, James USA

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Re: ATP Valencia / Houston 10th-16th April

Sport	Tennis
Event	ATP Valencia
Selection	VERDASCO v Martin
Strength	10/10
Date	10/04/2006
Bookmaker/Price	Betfair @ 1.83 (Back)
Reasoning	I've been thinking about this one for ages, and now I've decided to go for it. Martin had a good week on clay earlier this year reaching the final in Costa do Sauipe but apart from that has had some tame losses. He reached the final of a challenger on hard but let's not read anything into that. Verdasco has struggled so far this year but a couple of losses to Roddick in the MAsters events aren't that bad. Now he comes into a tournament he clearly loves, having won here in 2004 and reaching the quarters last year before losing to Costa. Costa was so inspired that day to win in 3, but before that Verdasco had lost 4 games in 2 matches. Back in 04 when he won he beat Ljubicic 6-4 6-4, Ferrer 6-2 6-3 and Ferrero 6-2 6-1. I think this is a great chance for him to get his season going. H2H is 2-0 to Verdasco but both on hard so not too interested in that stat. Books close at 12pm I think but it'll start quite a bit after that.