Australian Open 11.01.20087

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Dmitry Tursunov vs. Chris Guccione Chris Guccione made 4 surprises through the final and this is the last stop.. He is again in the final after 1 year in his own country.. LAst year he played final in Adelaide and lost to Djokovic with 3 sets.. Last week he lost to Mathiue in the second round but here he is all different and he beat Hewitt , Stepanek ,BERDYCH, Tomas with all 3 sets.. He must be so tired now and i dont know if he can handle this final or not.. Dmitry Tursunov lost to Davydenko last week but here he is all different too, he beat 1st seed Gasquet with 3 sets, beat last weeks finalist Wawrinka beat frenchmans Grosjean and Santoro with straight sets.. Tursunov plays so good here and when he plays that good , he can beat any player .. I dont think that he can lost this final but the question is can Chris Guccione win one set ? I think he can win the first set but he cant make it all cos he is so tired.. I pick Dmitry Tursunov to win 2 - 1, good luck to Dmitry Tursunov, good luck to you all.. Pick: Dmitry Tursunov to win 2 - 1 Odds: 4.33 Stake: 6 / 10 Bookmaker: Bet365 Robin Haase vs. Simon Stadler Robin Haase ranked 103 at the tour and he had 14/15 ytd won/loss recod for last year and he played so good tournements last year ,he won one challenger last year on carpet , and also played good matches on hard courts and beat such good players like Berdych, Tomas , Calleri, Safin, Llodra ,Serra.. This year he also started strong and beat Baghdatis, Marcos and Zovko in Chennai and lost to Cilic with 3 sets.. Here in the qualifying, he beat Go Soeda and Julien Reister with all straight sets.. Simon Stadler beat Pavel Snobel and Alex Bogdanovic in this qualfying round. He leads 1-0 at challengers.2006 Great Britain F8 Edinburgh Clay S Stadler 6-1 0-6 7-6(4).. Robin Haase is a rising star from Holland and he will play much more better plays this year and will make so many surprises to us.. He beat Bagdatis with easy 2 sets last week , he can easily beat Simon Stadler 2:0 in my opinion and i pick Robin Haase to win 2:0 with the highest stakes.. Good luck to Haase , good luck to you all.. Pick: Robin Haase to win 2:0 Win Odds: 2.1 Stake: 10 / 10 Bookmaker: Bet-at-home Karanusic vs. Kudryavtsev This is last round in qualifying, so battle is on for main draw position. And again bookies are underestimating Kudryavtsev. He beat Rochus and Devilder in first two rounds in straight sets. His game is really working there. I believe this success come, because he is working with Vadim Davletshin ( former tennis player). And Alexandre game is absolute different right now - serve is very powerful and regular, also massive forehand can finish rally with one shot. In my opinion He really deserves to be in main draw. His opponent is Roko Karanusic. 25 years old Croat is playing in tour for while, although never had any big success (just one challanger title over 5 years). I think main problem for him is inconstancy he plays one good match and after that disappointment in next one. I can't see much perspective in him, because He has never been higher than 130 place in pretty long career. Absolute mediocre player. Another interesting fact is that this is his 17th attempt to get in Grand Slam main draw from qualies. So his record in past is far from impressive - He succeeded only 6 times of 16 attempts. So all in all I can't see Kudryavtsev as underdog. He has talent to play in top100 for sure. And I expect him to reach Grand Slam main draw in first time in his career. Pick: Kudryavtsev Lost Odds: 2.31 Stake: 8 / 10 Bookmaker: Betandwin