Tennis 23-29 July

[Morris]

Kitzbühel, Austria July 23-29, 2007 €786,250 / 48 Draw Clay
Main Draw Singles Order of Play	Main Draw Doubles Qualifying Singles Draw

Indianapolis Tennis Championships Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.A. July 23-29, 2007 $525,000 / 32 Draw Hard
Main Draw Singles Order of Play	Main Draw Doubles Qualifying Singles Draw

Croatia Open Umag Umag, Croatia July 23-29, 2007 €353,450 / 32 Draw Clay
Main Draw Singles Order of Play	Main Draw Doubles Qualifying Singles Draw

[Morris]

Re: Tennis 23-29 July Strength 8/10 - Guccione To beat Rochus - Ladbrokes - 11/10 Christophe Rochus has had a poor year and has failed to make an impact in any tournaments since last years ATP Masters series in Miami (15th May 2006). Wheras Chris Guccione has been having a breakthrough year, where he has finally got intop the worlds top 100 with good perfoirmeances on the grass court season. Although this is not on grass, I fancy that Guccione's big serve and good play can take him through to the next round against a poor Rochus who has only once this year got past the 1st round on the ATP circuit and has been performing poorly on the challenger circuit. H2H is 0:0. Strength 10/10 - Gaudio To beat Ramirez Hidalgo - Coral - 11/8 Gaudio is not a bad player, but has suffered a slump in form. He played magnificent at the French Open where I saw him take apart and dominate Hewitt for the first 2 sets. He has a great backhand would not look put of place within the top 20 of the rankings. But, he is said to be diillusioned with Tennis and looking to retire which is worrying when you go to back him. He is going to give it one last push before he actually hangs up his racqet and I think this is the ideal oppurtunity to get his career going back in the right direction As for Ramirez Hidalgo, he is solid clay court player, but I doubt he is a quality player and he has never broken into the worlds top 50, wheras Gaudio once had a world ranking of 5, 2 years ago. H2H is 2-1 in favour of Ramirez Hidalgo, but in the most recent encounter, Gaudio won on the hard courts in Florida. Strength 8/10 - Benneteau To beat Querrey - Stan James- 13/8 Julien Benneteau is another solid Frech player who has been putting in solid performances all year and IMO is a better player than Querrey. They have had two meetings this year on hard courts which Querrey has won, this is why Benneteau is the outsider, but I think that he has much more quality than Querrey and can avenge those defeats and beat him this time. Benneteau is ranked 31 places higher than Querrey in the rankings and is by no way a bad hard court plater. I think the odds are way too good to turn down a Benneteau win. Querrey is a player who is on the way up and is only 19 years old, and I think that he might one day be a good player on the circuit, but at the moment I think he is too inconsistent and will be defeated by expiereince in this match-up. Strength 8/10 - Berrer To beat Ginepri - Bet Direct - 13/8 Two players who have had contrasting years. Berrer has started to make significent stides in his career by putting in good performances on all surfaces. He has been playing a mixture of challenger and ATP events and has been performing welll in both. Wheras Ginepri has had little to shout about and has maintained his position of mid 40's in the rankings for all of the year. He has not been playing well at all. I think that the odds flatter a off-form Ginepri and that this could well be a Berrer win as he trys to improve upon an already good year for himself. H2H is 0:0