US Open Tennis - Thursday

Some interesting ties to be played later today. I've crunched the numbers and picked out some print money 5-folds, a couple of chancey multiples and a monster single.

MEN

My 5-fold for tonight is as follows

FALLA to beat Haas
TSONGA to beat Bubka
FISH to beat Jaziri
GASQUET to beat Karlovic
MONFILS to beat Ferrero

A £10 Acca pays £27.30 with Blue Square

Then a little £0.50 Patent, totalling £3.50
LLODRA to beat Anderson
PETSCHNER to beat Tipsarevic
FOGNINI to beat Berdych

The treble alone pays £78.43 with Sporting bet

The final selection is a cheeky £ at 40/1 with Paddy Power to Carlos Berlocq to beat Novak Djokovic, the world number 1 allegedly has a suspect shoulder and Berlocq has the game to test it out, there are all sort of Spread/handicap markets which should offer large bet value but 40/1 for a one off game for a player here on merit not qualifier etc.. is huge.

WOMEN

I chanced a 5-fold yesterday on the ladies but Marion Bartoli got outplayed and hence lost the bet so a bit of catching up to do.

VINCI to beat Cornet
WILLIAMS to beat Krajicek
PEER to beat Stephens
KANEPI to beat Soler
KUZNETSOVA to beat Baltacha

The Acca here pays £31.10 for a tenner with Victor Chandler

A little £0.50 Luky 15 (£7.50)
SUAREZ NAVARRO to beat Halep (will be happy if this loses, you'll find out in a nimute)
RUS to beat Wozniacki
SCHEEPERS to beat Barthel
MARTIC to beat Pavlyuchenkova

the acca alone pays £80.44 with Sporting bet again.

A player who has really climbed the ranks this year is the Romanian(I think) teen sensation Simona Halep. We saw her give Serena one hell of a game at Wimbledon, and for much of this year she has been unlucky with early round draws and her rapid climb has slowed down a little, she was a very promising junior but never realy hit top gear turning pro, she puts her rise up the rankings down to, unbelievably, a breast reduction that she had at the end of last year. Her quarter of the draw is really opening up with Li and Hantuchova both going out. Obviously Wozniacki is in there but she is never really a factor at Grand slams, although this is her favourite. Sky bet offer 500/1 for Halep which is daft really, her projected route to the final would now be, Suarez-Navarro, Kanepi, Petkovic, Wozniacki, Azarenka. If she meets the World number 1 in the Quarters anything could happen. Come on Simona!