No Bet Tournaments

For me have it some tennis tournamets which no bet. They have strange results. Any logic. In this tournaments better not kandicap, because can lost money.

It's:

1) Itallian challenger - maybe itallian mafia make money? Here no bet for itallians and no bet against them.

2) USA challenger (hard) - they have it bad site, or no have. Usually it's small tournir with small prize money. And players the same: Taino, Gimelstob, etc.

Need looks for concrete tournir. If have some people, which on the court
and writing reports, here can bet. My dream to travel for something tournirs and bet on the court with notebook.

Time of clay players

Has found at itself one more mistake. Was so if the player playing on a ground came on a hard earlier, at once it heated, since it it is bad on it played. It was earlier, one year ago probably. And then it worked, because clay players on a hard did not play. Now all on another. They began to train. And on some tournaments like to lay down a special hard which is similar on soil. Here then in general problems. And the more they come, the better at them it turns out.

So old methods of forecasting any more do not work. In general it is necessary to look concrete tournament for everyone happens. Simply as argument it it is not necessary take, make a start any more is necessary from many things. Otherwise you will lose money. It I about Montreal. How many was posts from the beginning of tournament which were under construction that "it on a hard year did not play, we kill". It is not killed. GG, Puerta, Rafa, Mathie - what under forecasts should lose in the first circles to the more hard to opponents.

I tried to kill Gaudio Karlsens. It has not turned out. Understand to what I drive. Do not repeat my mistakes. Here already on the foreground there is a quality of game first of all. And the further there is a week, the this rule is stronger. Players get used to a covering. Well as it is usual from Thursday on Sunday we shall be noubet. DimOK has well told.

Rogers Cup

Last week I have understood, that last year's results of the player on any tournament do not mean, that in it will be too most. Very often it prevented to do objectively to me the rate. As so, I thought, time in the past has reached up to 1/2, means and in it will be so. Alas and ah, now so put only usual handicapers. Ok! Let's go to next week. New week, new rules.

Qualys is rules. For me, in monday like:
+ 3.5 Wawrinka, because Greg in first game will be to adjust the gun

I have ceased to put on all successively, now only one rate in day, but very assured. There is a truth what even one is not.

Legg Mason report (friday)

Friday, August 5th:

Totally different atmosphere today with the short-timers arriving for the big matches on the weekend. There's a different shift as the number of players are dwindling & even the practice partners & what not are heading on to Montreal or elsewhere. (I saw Sebastien Grosjean & his family outside the transportation trailer packing all their stuff into the car.)

I arrived shortly before 12 & watched a bit of the Paradorn v. Horna match. The Srichaphans were at about half there usual number today (maybe they couldn't get off work?) & most of the ones there were younger kids. Horna literally melted down. He had the trainer out there giving him icepacks every changeover (& someone questioned why they don't play day sessions in the early rounds?). I walked around a bit to check out the practice courts. Hanley was jumping rope while Huss practiced with a coach. Jamie Delgado was practicing with a random guy. I met a female player (Stephanie Dubois from Canada) I had met earlier in the week for lunch & we watched the rest of the match on the closed-circuit t.v. It was interesting to hear what life is like for week-in, week-out for a lower-ranked player.

The main attraction was the Roddick v. Karlovic match. There was actually a pretty good crowd for 3:00 p.m. Karlovic is the worst returner I've ever seen play. It was obvious that he wasn't going to break Roddick. Roddick just had to wait for the break points & converted them when they came. There was just a feeling in that air that Roddick was going to break when he did in the 2nd. The crowd (& Roddick) were pumped & he carried the momentum into the 3rd. Karlovic started wilting in the third & really fooling around between points (he got called for a time violation at one point). For such a serve-fest it was a fairly entertaining match. (I told my friends last Sunday that they would be able to see Roddick with the extra Saturday day session tickets I managed to get for them, so I'm glad I was able to correctly predict both the results & the schedule.)

There was some time to kill before the evening matches so we just walked around & then got dinner. (The meals today were the best all week.) We started off watching the Tomas Berdych v. Bobby Reynolds match in the grandstand. Berdych has looked good all week, but Reynolds was really matching him shot for shot. Very few errors from either player in this match. Both of them were consistently hitting 100+ mph returns. Reynolds finally sailed one return just long to lose the first set tiebreak. (I noticed Dean Goldfine in the stands checking out the competition.)

By that time, James Blake was already up a set on Arnaud Clement in the stadium. (Tonight was the first session that was completely sold out & pretty much every seat was full.) Right as we walked in, Blake broke Clement in the second. Clement was just not serving well & hit a number of double faults on key points. When Blake went up a second break it the third, the crowd went wild. After Blake left the court (signing autographs in the corner for a long time), Wayne Bryan got on the court again & did another game (the exact same one I saw him do with some little kids a few days ago.)

We went back to the grandstand to catch the end of Berdych v. Reynolds. They had traded breaks, but were back on serve & went to another tiebreak. Reynolds came up with some amazing winners to save several match points (Berdych contributed a double fault), but after missing a first serve at 10-11, he tried to throw in a first serve on his second serve & double faulted.

By then, the Bryans v. Hanley/Huss were underway in the stadium. This was a much more entertaining match than the one the other night. Lots of good rallys--Huss had some sharply angled returns--but the Bryans were too good. In the second it looked like a thunderstorm was brewing, but the Bryans managed to break & close out the match right before the rain started.

This is the earliest I've gotten out of there all week. Big day tomorrow.
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Legg Mason Report

Thursday, August 4th:Today was the last day that I'll have the run of the grounds in the daytime without the masses (day sessions on Friday, Saturday, Sunday). I arrived again around noon. Ivo Karlovic & his coach got dropped off right when I did so we walked in at the same time. Since all the singles players had matches today most of them practiced earlier so mostly doubles guys were on all the courts. The exception was Robby Ginepri who always practices at the hottest time of day (1:00 p.m.). Someone who appeared to be Bobby Reynolds (the most anonymous player left in the tournament) was also practicing in the stadium. Wayne Bryan was out on the very dry clay courts running another kids clinic, this time with Travis Parrott. "Travis Parrott is a professional tennis player. He can hit the ball like you've never seen before." Mr. Bryan at one point told the kids that if Parrott couldn't hit back 50 straight returns, he [Parrott] would buy them all lunch from McDonald's. Of course, he was getting them all back and when he was in the 40s the kids started screaming "miss, miss." More impressive is Mr. Bryan's ability to toss the balls & yell into his handheld microphone at the same time.Later in the day, I watched a little of Muller v. Clement and then Andy's Roddick's practice session on one of the practice courts. Today he was on the left court which is the closest to the main entrance so there was quite a mob there. These two little boys near me weren't convinced it was really Roddick. When they finally agreed that it was, they then argued over whether or not the person he was practicing with was James Blake. (It was Dean Goldfine.) They were having a much more serious practice than any of the other ones I've watched this week. (Roddick did take time to check out the female player who came to practice on the court next to his & stopped practicing to ask the doubles guy that came off that court who she was.) When the practice was over, he totally psyched out the mob waiting for him outside the gate by pretending to retrieve a ball and instead just walking across the other two courts & out the far gate. Just a few minutes later Chela & his team walked by (presumably to use the same court).I ran into someone I knew & didn't get back to the Clement v. Muller match until it was nearly over. Muller had been up when I left, but Clement came back to win the match. Muller looked very tired all week. I went to meet my guest & we picked up dinner. We looked in on Berdych v. Grosjean. The French guys that had been supporting Clement moved over to cheer for Grosjean, but it wasn't enough.We settled into the stadium to watch the entire Roddick v. Chela match. Tonight was the fullest I've seen the stadium thus far. (Some of the Srichaphans stuck around & were supporting Roddick.) In the second game of the match, Roddick was 30-0 up in Chela's service game & suddenly stopped playing. The umpire & the crowd were confused for a while (I thought at first it had something to do with the flashes going off), but Roddick had noticed some sort of commotion in the upper deck behind the umpire. It turns out someone was having a seizure & the umpire had to alert the EMS to come & take them out. (Roddick to the rescue again!) The match was a lot more onesided than the score might suggest. Chela was playing fairly poorly & hit a lot of double faults. They had a few good rallies in the 2nd with Roddick really showing some wheels running down Chela's drop shots. Roddick only faced two break points the whole match (both in the first), but one return that was barely out in the tiebreak cost him the 2nd set. He stepped it up a notch in the third & quickly converted a break point (& had five break points to go up a double break) before finishing off the match with a spectacular drop shot. After the match Wayne Bryan got on court again to run another game with Andy for Nautica. It was the return Andy's serve contest I've seen them do before in Washington with the exact same sequence of events: Roddick bombs in the first two serves (garnering gasps from the crowd) & then throws in a 75 mph the contestant can easily get back. When the female contestant has a turn, Mr. Bryan says if she can get it back she wins a date with Roddick so he serves the next serve underhanded.By this time, the Ginepri v. Horna match was over. A guy who watched it told me that Ginepri seemed to be playing better as the match went on & came back from 2-6 down in the tiebreak only to lose it 8-10. He seems to be a player that gains an advantage by playing at the hottest time of the day so 7:00 p.m. may have taken away his edge. We watched the first set of the Knowles/Stepanek & Karlovic/Hernych doubles match in the grandstand (& could look over into the other doubles match with Black/Ullyett & Kerr/Oliver). Then it was back to the stadium where James Blake was already up a set on Tomas Zib. It was a fairly short & unremarkable match. More than half the stadium had cleared out, but there were some particularly fervent Blake fans in one section that kept everyone from falling asleep. Blake looked pretty pumped when he broke in the second.We checked back in on the Knowles/Stepanek & Karlovic/Hernych match to find them now in a third set. It didn't take us long to figure out that the people in front of us were the family of Knowles (parents, wife/girlfriend, & three other friends). They cheered loudly the entire match (particularly Knowles's father). We watched a little of the last doubles match (Bhupathi/Damm v. Beck/Berdych) before heading home for the day.
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Sopots fixed match

Amusing today the case was in Sopot. Played Zabaleta and Mayer. Till a dinner the line was almost in all bookmakers following: 1.4/3.3 Zabaleta went as a favorite. The line is Literally in some minutes begins to vary aside Mayer and in the majority offices a match simply remove from a line. At us in city a match offices except for the Marathon have removed all. The final line 2.4/1.5 became seems. Already Маеr was a favorite. Has begun to smell hot. Whether a trauma, Zabaleta has decided to merge game. Then there is a post in a Bettingadvice forum from comrade from Poland where passes the given tournament. It spoke, that Zaba really is going to lose. As result became really loss Zaba.





Legg Mason Tennis Classic

Today started tennis tournament in Washington. It's big tournament. On the MensTennisForums one guy every day posted report, he getting there.

Live Score

OnCourt have main draw and double draw. Just click "Compare two players" and all information (Head-to-head, matches at past years here, etc.) in one place. Even there is predict, but me not pleasant.