Tennis Betting Advice - November 2024
Michelsen saves Match Points in Metz...
Wednesday 6th November 2024
The tennis scoring system creates so many ‘nearly’ moments. Matches can turn in a second, and be settled by the smallest of margins…
Such jeopardy helps make the sport such an appealing betting prospect. In-play match trades can be garnered from wild scoreboard turnarounds, for example.
And in our Ones to Watch area of choice, the tournament Outright Winner markets can be blown wide-open by any number of events…
For example, at ATP Metz in France this week. As I write, four of the top five seeds have already withdrawn - citing injuries officially, but largely due to the fact that Novak Djokovic announcing that he’s pulled out of next week’s end-of-season ATP Finals in Turin means the likes of no.1 Metz seed Andrey Rublev have now qualified without needing to earn any more rankings points this week (2nd seed Casper Ruud may yet follow, too). While confirmed Metz withdrawal Grigor Dimitrov gets the chance to go to Turin as a standby.
And on the anything-can-happen-in-a-match front. Our 20/1 - 14/1 pick this week, Alex Michelsen, saved two consecutive match points in Metz last night. Taking on an inspired, soon-to-be-retired 38-year-old home favourite in Richard Gasquet, our 20-year-old American Ones to Watch selection came through via the closest score-line possible in three-set tennis: winning 6-7, 7-6, 7-6.
From the precipice of defeat and elimination from the tournament, in a couple of decisive swings of the racket, our man Michelsen instead goes through to the Metz quarter finals…
And from a top price of 20/1 when we got involved at the start of the week, young Alex is now the 6/1 second-favourite for the title. That’s how fast things can change in this game…
After (another) agonising near miss for us last week. With Karen Khachanov losing in three sets in the Paris Masters semi finals, injured in the final set. Our pick there was so close to landing us a giant half-the-odds Each Way payout or better, having gone in the book at anything from 66/1 - 150/1. Let’s see if Alex Michelsen can ride us into a late-season final this week…
Enjoy the tennis…
Best wishes,
Oliver Upstone