Tennis Betting Advice - April 2020

Semis for Tsitsipas - and German action tomorrow...

Thursday 30th April 2020

In your Ones to Watch email today:

  • Semis for Tsitsipas...
  • Madrid Open Virtual Pro - concludes today…
  • Tennis Point Exhibition Series - starts tomorrow...

Madrid Open Virtual Pro - concludes today…

Considering we’re on lockdown and the pro tennis tours are suspended until July, we’re having a pleasingly busy week…

The inaugural Mutua Madrid Virtual Open Pro has provided a bit of entertainment. This online Esports tournament concludes today, with the semi finals and then the finals.

At the start of the week we flagged up young gun Stefanos Tsitsipas as one to look out for in the men’s event. Tsitsipas is through to the semi finals.

According to the bookies, the Greek youngster will face Andy Murray in the final. That’s if the results follow the odds, anyway…

Murray and Tsitsipas have both proved to be pretty decent with a Playstation this week, both dropping just two games each so far in the tournament. Murray’s scores have been: 3-1, 3-0, 3-0 in the group stage, then 6-1 in the quarter finals. Tsitsipas’ have been equally dominant: 3-0, 3-0, 3-0 and 6-2.

  • Tsitsipas was 10/1 (11.00) at the start of the week. He’s now 13/8 (2.63). Ones to Watch member Neel emailed in to say he’s on at 10/1 Each Way. I hope Stefanos makes it through to the final for you, Neel!

The Madrid online event continues from 2pm today, with all the matches streamed live on the tournament’s official Facebook page.

Tennis Point Exhibition Series - starts tomorrow...

We also have some real-life tennis to look forward to…

Germany has been dealing with the coronavirus well; so much so, in fact, that some degree of professional sport is back on the calendar already.

The top-flight German football league are expecting an announcement later today. And in the tennis world, the newly-formed Tennis Point Exhibition Series is set to start on Friday…

This event will feature eight local players (to avoid travel issues), and be played behind closed doors with no fans. Dustin Brown is the headline name. He’s got a massive serve, and is always fun to watch - diving around the court and pulling out trick shots.

A total of 32 matches will take place, with a round-robin stage followed by playoffs. The action will be screened live online.

Matches will be played using the ATP Next Gen Finals format using mini sets, which are the first to 3 games, with a tiebreak at 3-3. And no Advantage played at deuce.

This exhibition event will take place in the Rhineland-Palatinate state in the west of Germany, and played on clay courts, and will run over the course of the weekend.

Play starts Friday morning. There are no betting markets up as I write, but I expect that to change come this evening or first thing tomorrow (the first match is scheduled for 8am, UK time).

If any players & prices catch the eye in Germany, I’ll let you know…

Until then, enjoy the Esports tennis today.

P.S

Get some Vitamin D...

I’ll leave you with a simple equation today. Everyone’s on lockdown. We can’t go out as much as we’d like…

Not going out = less time in sunlight.

Less sunlight = less Vitamin D.

My health writer pal Ray Collins has got lots of interesting points on the subject. Now more than ever, we all need to make sure we’re getting a healthy amount of Vitamin D. Ray shines more light on the matter here.

Best wishes,

Oliver Upstone

Tom Wilson

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