OTW Extra Email Archive - January 2025
Australian Open tonight: 1st-round combo at 16/1...
Monday 13th January 2025
The first Grand Slam of the year is underway in Melbourne - and today in your free Ones to Watch EXTRA update, we’re heading Down Under…
In search - as ever - of a big-odds payout…
The Australian Open 1st Round concludes tonight and into Tuesday morning, UK time…
There are no fewer than 50 matches on the Day 3 schedule… and we’re taking aim at a modest eight of them…
1st-round combo at 16/1…
With so many matches to shoot at, the early rounds of a tennis Major give us the chance to put together a multi-match accumulator…
This is a speculative business, of course: the combo below pays 16/1 with BetVictor. A win at those odds would be a nice way to kick off 2025, wouldn’t it…
And if you choose to follow the eight-fold below, you’ll be taking an acca that’s been researched by someone who has his head in the tennis form and markets, every day (yours truly).
The early reports are that the courts are playing fast at Melbourne Park. And I rate the eight players named below as the best-suited to capitalise on those conditions, in their respective 1st-round match-ups…
With each and every one of these men and women also having had previous success against their opponents, holding a positive head-to-head record…
In fact, none of these eight players have ever lost on the pro tour to tonight’s opponents. With a combined match aggregate standing at 17 wins to nil.
BetVictor are the best price for this combo as I write, from the firms who go by the ‘bet void’ rule - and void the match-winner line in an acca if a player retires injured during the contest…
Other bookies to keep in mind with that potentially acca-saving rule are Skybet, Bet365, Boylesports, William Hill, and Betway
Here’s the acca. Play starts from midnight, UK time:
(Head-to-Head records in brackets)
Australian Open - 1st Round
Men:
Lorenzo Musetti to beat Matteo Arnaldi (Head-to-Head: 3-0)
Rinky Hijikata to beat Mitchell Krueger (1-0)
Matteo Berrettini to beat Cameron Norrie (1-0)
Denis Shapovalov to beat Roberto Bautista-Agut (3-0)
Ben Shelton to beat Brandon Nakashima (2-0)
Women:
Katie Boulter to beat Rebecca Marino (2-0)
Ons Jabeur to beat Anhelina Kalinina (2-0)
Taylor Townsend to beat Renata Zarazua (3-0)
P.S
Two of those players also feature in my members-only, big-odds Each Way picks for the Australian Open…
If you’re not a member yet, today’s a great day to get onboard…
Get your hands on those tournament-winner selections today - and all my Australian Open stats, analysis & advice this fortnight. Find out more here >>
Enjoy the tennis…
Best wishes,
Oliver Upstone