Tennis: Miami :22 March - 4 April

[IAmGooner]

Another Masters event after Indian Wells. Qualifiers starting today. Early thoughts............. Mello to beat Capdeville.....Mello is a better player and is in much better form. Had a decent run on dirt a few weeks back and won 3 matches at IW last week losing to Montanes in 3 sets. Capdeville lost to Im, Lindahl, Okun and Poerschke on hard this year. Mello leads 2-0 h2h aswell. Koubek to beat Zverez......Koubek in some decent form...3rd round at the AO, beaten Lopez, Devvarman aswell this year and got to 1/4 final at last week Sunrise Challenger beating Chardy and Phau before losing to eventual winner Flo Mayer. Zverez got out of his terrible slump a while back with his run in Marseille indoors but has since easily lost to Fish, Almagro, Berrer and got bagelled by average Daniel last week before winning in 3. Still not convinced by him. Also outdoor hard is not a great surface for him...much prefers indoor or carpet. Never won a match in Miami (0-3 record although Koubek's is pretty bad aswell at 4w-10l). Think Koubek has more in his favour here. Haven't seen the prices yet so will see if any value in these picks.

[IAmGooner]

Re: Tennis: Miami :22 March - 4 April So, Mello is 4/9 to beat Capdeville Koubek 8/11 to beat Zverez Mello is short-ish but he's 4/11 and 2/5 in some places which seems about right so will take him at 4/9. Koubek is priced about right...had him somewhere between 1.7-1.9...so i'll take him. Any shorter and it's not worth it.