100/1 update - first post from Down Under…

Monday 15th January 2018

In your Ones to Watch email today:

• Aussie Open underway…
• 100/1 update…
• Price watch…

Aussie Open underway…

The first Grand Slam of the year is up and running, and for me that means one thing in particular:

I become nocturnal.

As the rain lashed the window last night (or was it this morning…), I watched the first batch of 1st Round matches unfold on my screen.

Last summer I had the pleasure of visiting Wimbledon. No trip to Melbourne at the moment though…

100/1 update…

Coffee in hand, here’s a little update on our five big-priced outsiders from last week’s free Australian Open 2018 – Ones to Watch report.

On the eve of the tournament all were around the 100/1 mark. If one or two or these have a good run over the next week or two, we’ll be doing good…

• Andrey Rublev – made hard work of his 1st Round match, but the 20-year-old Russian led for most of his almost-four-hours against the battling 35-year-old David Ferrer, eventually getting through 6-2 in the 5th & final set. Next up for this exciting young player, another veteran – Marcos Baghdatis…
• Roberto Bautista-Agut – hits the ground running, having won the ATP Auckland title at 9/1 on Saturday. The Spaniard has seen the biggest Aussie Open price cut of our five players since our report came out. He starts his campaign tonight, and is a dark horse in the 3rd quarter of the Men’s draw – where Novak Djokovic is the leading name but also on elbow ‘injury watch’…
• Anastasija Sevastova – plays in the 1st Round tonight. Should she win, we could be in for a rematch with Maria Sharapova in the next round – Sevastova knocked Maria out of the US Open last year…
• Katerina Siniakova – our friend Siniakova (already a 20/1 winner and 22/1 finalist for us in the last six months) got through a tight opening match by 2 sets to 1 last night. She will be the underdog against Elina Svitolina in the 2nd Round but that match could go close, and should be good to watch. Svitolina can get a little nervy on her second serve…
• Daria Gavrilova – the one Australian representative on our list and she got home billing as the last match on the main court on day one. Dasha was a comfortable 6-1, 6-1 winner there; much tougher challenges lie ahead, but as I said in our pre-tournament report Gavrilova is a momentum player who could get something going in Melbourne. She’s been one set off the quarter finals two years running…

Price watch…

Talking of big prices, the ‘double-figure odds’ theme continued last week with no fewer than six of the eight finalists in the four ATP & WTA events going off at pre-tournament prices of 10/1+…

That included a 20/1 title winner and 25/1 and 33/1 runners-up. View the full calendar & price list here.

And remember, over half of finalists in the whole of last year AND the year before were at double-figure prices. That’s why we concentrate on those kind of players & prices on our Ones to Watch lists.

Oh, and the Aussie Open had a 100/1 finalist last year and a 50/1 winner the year before…

Enjoy the tennis.

P.S

Today’s bets at 9pm…

A quick note to say you still have time to get on board for my DAILY Australian Open coverage – if you snap up your Free Trial today…

I’ll be posting my Bets of the Day email at 9pm, ready for the overnight matches from Melbourne.

We’ll be on the hunt for shocks, upsets and value prices in the match betting markets. As well as targeting attractive Each Way prices in the Outright Winner market…

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Best wishes,

OnesToWatch