Live Score and Match Commentary/Chat

[FoxMulder]

Finally, a break. hold your penetrating serve you idiot

[Snowball]

umm. just a few months ago Millman was playing the low levels of Challenger
now he's up a set on RF>

[secret007]

any opinion on isner - pavlasek? never seen pavlasek playing before..

[Demonata]

haha fed going to lose to millman.

[Snowball]

Fed figured it out at 4-6 1-3
broke bak
his plan is to make millman run side to side.
probably will win now

[FoxMulder]

Hope Muller holds his serve, that second set Muller @ 3.95 was priceless. Stan is never comfortable when he doesn't start the set serving

[GoBlue77]

Ignored the line movement and still took Ferrer. Dude has had numerous break ops and chokes. Guy is trash ugh

[FoxMulder]

Well done Ferrer. Took Karlovic in the first, rode Ferrer rest of the match. Finally paid off

[GoBlue77]

Finally, made that hard on himself

[FoxMulder]

Bedene

[dect6.0]

Bedene

That cat cost me 2 parlays. First beating Lopez and now beating B-A

[Hardcoar]

Tsurenko @ evens is huge value to me. Also liking Sijsling to beat Kamke @ 2.2.

[Hardcoar]

Well, that lucked out.

Liking Falla @ 2.1. He is the clear favorite IMO.

[Hardcoar]

Hercog @ 2.62. Mayer @ 1.72

[MiddleMan]

In case anyone has forgotten, Australia is in the south, which means it's summer over here.

Don't let the conditions in Sydney fool you.

[GoBlue77]

thank you for retiring after 1st set was complete wozniacki cha ching $$ +290

[MiddleMan]

What is the status of the injury?

she has gone from $14 to $18 on betfair. I didn't see the match so if someone can let me know due to having a bet on her for the Aus Open.

[fcmb]

wrist injury(left hand) if i remember correctly.. It was swollen(it looked like "bone was forcing out of skin").. but i think it is not that serious..

[MiddleMan]

Thanks!

[SirtySree]

Michael Venus @3.3 playing at home against Alejandro Gonzalez is worth a shot in my opinion. Venus has a big serve and forehand and I feel that Gonzalez will lose patience exchanging serves and crumble in the later parts of the sets.

[SirtySree]

Going to a 3rd set some how even though Venus is playing very poorly at the moment. Below 40% 1st serves made and his game is almost purely based around his serve plus he is averaging 2 UE per game.

[SirtySree]

What a match. Back and forth and eventually Venus came out on top saving 3 match points.

[Hardcoar]

Venus picked his shit up then?

Big on Buster @ 3.25 today.

[SirtySree]

Venus picked his shit up then?

Big on Buster @ 3.25 today.

1st serve % went from 39% to 47% so major improvement in the last set. He plays Robredo today and managed to steal the 1st set against him here in 2011. Venus is in his prime now although still not really a good singles player while Robredo has dropped off a bit. Could see him repeating what he did and taking the 1st set as Robredo is playing his 1st match in a while but Robredo should cruise after.

[SirtySree]

Well Robredo just withdrew so Venus is versing Pouille. Not too sure of this matchup so won't be playing anything but should be interesting.

[FoxMulder]

That Kops-Jones / Spears vs Mladenovic/Babos doubles match proved to be very profitable. women double matches rarely end in straight sets, comebacks are very often. free $$$

[FoxMulder]

line judge stole 2nd set from Johnson. that ball clearly caught the line, Johnson should have served for the set.

no hawkeye + terrible linesmen + chair umpire at his 60s is a bad combination.

[girlscoutcookies]

line judge stole 2nd set from Johnson. that ball clearly caught the line, Johnson should have served for the set.

no hawkeye + terrible linesmen + chair umpire at his 60s is a bad combination.

been seeing it for 2 weeks now in auckland. it's a joke.

[FoxMulder]

hawkeye ought to be mandatory on all non-clay surfaces. no exceptions, barring ITF circuit. they barely have a chair umpire anyway

[FoxMulder]

--edit--posted the same message twice for some reason

[FoxMulder]

Vesely finally learned to play on hard court and from baseline. this guy should be top 20 sometime soon

[FoxMulder]

Kudos to Troicki btw, he came back strong. Last year he was pretty inconsistent in any match despite winning some challenger titles, this year he means business.

[FoxMulder]

AO first round : Vesely vs Troicki .. Both recent tournament winners, both in good shape. Pity one of them will head to an early exit. Bloodiest match of the first round , should be a 5-setter

[Dmoneytx]

I always thought VT could of been a top 10 player with more focus. He always had the game to be in the top 20, even 15. I just think people forgo about him bec of his time away. He kept training. He was a cash cow for me this last week. Books will start to adjust more now. I hope Vesley losses that match. He quirks me. But I do agree with you, a blood bath it could be. Both full of huge confidence right now. I lean VT. I hope to see that one live

[Hardcoar]

Well, it's been a rough, slow start for me so far. I even lost on Darcis @ 1.5, despite the amount of chances he had in that match. Going big on Goerges @ evens though. I really think she wins this one.