EP36's Tennis Talk

**mistral** · 07-08-10, 06:19 AM

Dulgheru finally come back!

**EaglesPhan36** · 07-08-10, 07:13 AM

Yes. Dulgheru cashes yesterday's parlay!

Rezai up a set, but down a break in the 2nd already. Bacsinszky sucking dong in the 1st set, down 0-3.

**orlandito** · 07-08-10, 07:18 AM

great job dulgheru

**rumple** · 07-08-10, 07:24 AM

Yep Bascinsky is a no show

**Tsonga** · 07-08-10, 07:24 AM

well i had patty and dulgheru in a parlay...but i could have had those 2 and ram to get even more point but ram did the impossible as i'm sure everyone else knows.

**EaglesPhan36** · 07-08-10, 07:25 AM

Bacsinszky is getting crushed by Cornet. Hopefully she'll wake up. Rezai fought back to be on-serve.

**mistral** · 07-08-10, 07:26 AM

timea what r u doing ??

**shari91** · 07-08-10, 07:28 AM

Is anyone watching the match? Just looking from the stats alone I'd either guess Timea's injured or something screwy is going on.

**mistral** · 07-08-10, 07:31 AM

game sucks. first set lost..

**EaglesPhan36** · 07-08-10, 07:31 AM

Nice bagel.

Well it is WTA. Seen matches change quickly from one set to the next and it is Cornet after all, so maybe we can get the presto change-o action no here in the 2nd.

**mistral** · 07-08-10, 07:53 AM

Originally posted by EaglesPhan36

Nice bagel.

Well it is WTA. Seen matches change quickly from one set to the next and it is Cornet after all, so maybe we can get the presto change-o action no here in the 2nd.

EP, u r right

I guess, Timea woke up. Time to fight!

**rumple** · 07-08-10, 08:22 AM

Some fight, she quit again after being broken.

**EaglesPhan36** · 07-08-10, 08:23 AM

Down goes Bacsinszky. She goes up an early break and then serving late in the 2nd, chokes it up and doesn't win another game. Little fishy maybe, but probably just regular WTA shenanigans.

**EaglesPhan36** · 07-08-10, 08:49 AM

WTA DOUBLES: BACSINSZKY-GARBIN [-125]
Yeah I know doubles, you on crack? Probably. But in Bacsinszky & Garbin, you have a pair of players who have teamed up plenty this season and made the finals of a clay court tournament and generally had good results against equal or lesser teams. In Hercog & Chakvetadze, that's what they should find. Hercog has played several doubles tournaments with mixed results, mostly not great, while Chakvetadze rarely plays doubles. They are teaming for the 1st time this tournament and had to fight tooth & nail to escape with a 10-8 win in the super tie break format for doubles. Bacsinszky & Garbin won in straights are are seeded #2, not that that means a hill of crap. I have been winning doubles with several "off-the-board" picks this week, so this oughta be good fade material if nothing else. Starts in 10 in Budapest. Bacsinszky you owe me!

**EaglesPhan36** · 07-08-10, 10:49 AM

Doubles play wins.

**JNic** · 07-08-10, 11:16 AM

always good to get one of those tight 10 point tiebreakers

**EaglesPhan36** · 07-08-10, 11:18 AM

Yeah it was a freaking nightmare for the last set + the tie break. Those ladies blew a break lead and then they alternated breaks, etc. In other words, typical WTA.

**EaglesPhan36** · 07-08-10, 12:08 PM

ATP DOUBLES: GONZALEZ-RETTENMAIER [-115]
The stupidity continues eh? Yes! This team goes up against Mahut & Roger-Vasselin. Gonzalez and Rettenmaier are the more experienced doubles duo and they have teamed up on several occassions this year with their best results on clay. They went 1-1 at Wimbledon, losing a tight 4 set match to Llodra-Benneteau. I believe they have made five doubles finals over the past two years as a team with more of that success on the Challenger level. They won their first match at Newport in straights with strong serving, while Mahut & Vasselin had to go to the super tie break after two tie break sets. May see tight sets again with the serving of both looking pretty solid. Still, I think with the more experience tandem getting a tad bit of a better price [-125 for Mahut/Vasselin], I'll side with them and watch my money flush away. Starts at 1:30pm ET. Giddyup.

**EaglesPhan36** · 07-08-10, 12:27 PM

Arn pretty well sucked after a tight opening set. Dabul will make up for that if he holds on.

**Tsonga** · 07-08-10, 12:28 PM

dabul is a lock

**Tsonga** · 07-08-10, 12:29 PM

watch out for the retirement though

**Jrod124** · 07-08-10, 12:29 PM

Good Luck with Fish today man. I hoping you have the Fish-Rochus final!

**EaglesPhan36** · 07-08-10, 12:32 PM

Fish plays tomorrow I believe. Rochus today. Not really sure why they did that schedule. Seems like tomorrow's winners get screwed with no rest.

**JNic** · 07-08-10, 01:09 PM

haha you shoudl stop playing doubles, the breakpoint at deuce kills the sport, the 10 pt tiebreaker isnt that bad, but why have breakpoint at deuce also.
just as i speak gonzo/rettenmaier lose a deuce, its just a bunch of bs

**Tsonga** · 07-08-10, 02:10 PM

rochus is so sharp today - your future EP looks good.

**JNic** · 07-08-10, 02:14 PM

haha good job with another doubles picks, 2 10 pt tiebreakers

**Tsonga** · 07-08-10, 02:19 PM

wow - believe it or not hasse was pretty darn good in the 2nd set....rochus had to play sensational to take the set. you are looking very good with rochus and fish.

**JNic** · 07-08-10, 02:24 PM

you mean klaasen not haase

**JNic** · 07-08-10, 02:25 PM

but yea the final should be rochus vs fish, haha your futures would look great

**EaglesPhan36** · 07-08-10, 02:34 PM

Yeah I'd be freaking excited if it got to that. I did that one other time at the US Open two years ago. Had Serena & Jankovic in futures and they played in the final.

Love that super breaker win. I think weeks like this when there isn't a ton of action, I get time to actually look at doubles rankings, results, etc. In the bigger tournaments, there's just too much going on the singles draws to worry about it.

**EaglesPhan36** · 07-08-10, 02:49 PM

CHALLENGER PLAY

RAMIREZ-HIDALGO [-140]
Am I sick, probably. This one is simply about form. Ramirez-Hidalgo is almost exclusively a clay court player. This tournament in Spain marked his 1st hard court match since the US Open last year when he lost to James Blake in straights. His Belgian opponent, Deslein, has been mostly a Challenger level player with poor results on all surfaces. I'm quite uncertain how Deslein is ranked in the Top 180 with the results I have looked at. Ramirez-Hidalgo looked okay in his 1st rounder here after having a shoulder issue in his last clay tournament prior to this. He had made a semifinal and a final on clay in June, so his form was good - just needs to transfer onto a harder surface. Neither guy is really a hard court "specialist" - but I'll side with the Spaniard in Spain at a modest price. Starts at 5pm ET. Money goes down the drain at 5:01. Choo choo.

**Jrod124** · 07-08-10, 03:01 PM

Dig the challenger play. What are your thoughts on the France-Spain Davis Cup tie? can France advance without Tsonga?

**EaglesPhan36** · 07-08-10, 03:11 PM

The indoor surface should help Llodra's game especially, but damn it - Monfils is so untrustworthy right now and their back-up I think is Gilles Simon who is just as poor right now. Thing that could work for them though is that Verdasco and Ferrer are both pretty average at Davis Cup on this surface. If they can split the first two ties - either Monfils over Ferrer or Llodra over Verdasco, I think they can win the doubles and then would need Monfils or Llodra to win once more.

You see odds anywhere on just picking a country to win this weekend? That'd be what I prefer probably to picking matches.

**shari91** · 07-08-10, 03:19 PM

Sportingbet here in Australia.

**EaglesPhan36** · 07-08-10, 03:22 PM

I'm thinking 5Dimes will have it, but all they have right now are outrights to win it all.