Young Gun Parlay: Raonic + Nishikori

Kei Nishikori came through his debut match in Buenos Aires against Florian Mayer with a solid 3 set win as the big under dog. Today against Henescu he comes in as a big favorite, and should take care of the Romanian journeyman in quick order today.

In Memphis, last week's San Jose champion, Milos Raonic, will take on Ernest Gulbis who although is capable on his day, has been in awful form since the second half of last year. His only wins since October have come against lowly ranked Egypt in Davis Cup 2 weeks ago.

Kei Nishikori -225 vs Victor Hanescu
Milos Raonic -440 vs Ernests Gulbis 

Parlayed for $1.73 (-130) at 5 Dimes

Good luck!

Raonic Wins Back to Back San Jose Titles

Evening Tennis Parlay for $4.34

After the morning parlay wins I may be getting a touch over confident with this one.

4 leg chalky parlay for the evening matches;

1. David Nalbandian $1.20 (-495)  vs Filippo Volandri
2. Milos Raonic $1.54 (-185)  vs Kevin Anderson
3. Julien Benneteau $1.43 (-235)  vs Steve Darcis
4. Andy Roddick $1.65 (-155)  vs Denis Istomin

To pay $4.34 at 5Dimes

 Milos Raonic - Rising star

Del Potro with Almagro $1.86

Del Potro $1.26 will be too classy for Troiki today, who has not been in his best form anyway. But at that price we need a parlay partner for our 'sure thing'.

For me, Almagro looks the next best good thing today at something near value odds.

Del Potro $1.26 (-384) over Troiki
Almagro $1.48 (-208) over Berlocq

Parlayed for odds of $1.86 (-116) at 5Dimes

Benjamin Mitchell $1.42 vs Joshua Milton at Coloundra Challenger

Big Ben Mitchell playing a lot closer to home this week should improve on his impressive Burnie tournament by advancing to the 2nd round past Josh Milton today.

Benjamin Mitchell $1.42 (-240)  vs Joshua Milton at 5Dimes

 Joshua Milton of Great Britain

Udomchoke $1.77 and Sugita $1.50 to Make Burnie Final

Danai Udomchoke comes up against the resurgent Jimmy Wang in the first semi-final today. Although I have been impressed with Wang's progress he will be facing a player that will not commit a lot of unforced errors in Udomchoke, unlike his previous matches.

Yuichi Sugita was my pre-tournament tip for the title, and I will continue to follow him today against the big serving Australian Groth.


D Udomchoke $1.77 (-130) v Danny Wang at 5Dimes
Yuichi Sugita $1.50 (-200) vs S Groth at 5Dimes

 Danai Udomchoke Winning Asian Games Title

Online Streaming Tennis Live from Burnie Now

Probably should have mentioned earlier that the Burnie International tournament organizers are streaming all centre court matches live for us this week.

http://www.burnieinternational.com.au/index.php/tournament/live-streaming

Enjoy. The Lu v Udomchoke match is on now.

Today's Matches Live




Full Replay of Centre Court Matches from Yesterday

Sugita $1.35 and Mitchell $1.77 at Burnie Challenger

Quarter finals day at the Burnie International and we have four matches as potential betting chances!

To start the day we see Thailand's Udomchoke up against #1 seed Lu. Lu would seem like the obvious choice but his odds of $1.50 (-200) make the bet bad value. On the flipside Udomchoke is capable of beating Lu on his day, and is in fine form this campaign. You might do better than the $2.70 (+170) currently on offer if you wait until closer to match time.

Then we see young Ben Mitchell opening as favorite for the first time this tourney against the little known Jimmy Wang, who has played a grand total of 10 matches over the last 4 years (following injury in late 2007). That said Wang has comeback strongly this campaign, taking a set from Sugita in Chennai in his first match in over 12 months. He did drop a set to love in the first round here but came out and demolished Look 6-1 6-2 yesterday. Almost seems to me this is a bigger tossup then his previous two rounds as underdog, yet the bookies send Mitchell out as favourite today. I'm well ahead on him for this tourney so will keep following, but without conviction.

Then we have the clash of the Aussies, Groth v Millman. Millman is the better player, but like Lu, the odds are too short to take him here.

The last quarter should be the match of the day, with Chinese journeyman Ti Chen sure to make Yuichi Sugita work hard to progress. But progress he will.

D Udomchoke $2.70 (+170) v H-Y Lu at Bovada
Benjamin Mitchell $1.77 (-130) vs Jimmy Wang at 5Dimes
Yuichi Sugita $1.35 (-290) vs Ti Chen at 5Dimes

I am also parlaying Mitchell/Sugita for $2.07 (+107) at 5Dimes

Danai Udomchoke