Tag: french open tennis
Soderling vs Nadal – The ninth game
What’s the significance of the ninth game?
In a competitive final you could expect both players to try and play out of their skin. But, you could also expect that both would try do avoid doing anything stupid in the first set. It’s important to get off to a good start, but it’s equally important not to blow it early on. So a game of cat and mouse, probing your opponent and holding serve, is a quite likely occurance in …
Nadal brings bonus
Well that was a surprise, Nadal crashed out of the french open today which opens up the competition dramatically. £1,159,628 was traded at 1.03 on Nadal, Ouch! In all when Nadal came back into the match and traded at 1.08 £9.4m out of £9.5m had backed Nadal. Low backers took a serious, serious thrashing today.
For me it was an unexpected bonus as I had dutched the field, excluding a number of players, with the intention of catching an unexpected …
Murray is 11% better than Starace
Just watching the 2nd round match at the French open. According to the market at the ‘off’ Murray was 11% better than Starace at winning a point on his serve. Currently Murray just lost the second set, but reading the match Murray appeared to lose hope of turning around the second set and effectively just gave it away, probably to conserve energy. With Murray serving first in the third set I may consider backing Murray subject to how the third …
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