Balls To The Wall: Week of Oct.6
Winding down the season with only about 4 weeks left. Events in Russia, Austria, Indonesia & Sweden this week. Some of these matches are during the night, but it looks like there are more this week that will go off in the early morning hours rather than while we're sleeping!
ATP - Kremlin Cup
Chardy -125(Starace)
Two guys here who prefer playing on dirt, but take to the indoor hard surface in Moscow. That should favor Chardy who got a little more experience on the surface last week in France, losing a hard first round match against Tipsarevic. Chardy has at least tried to play on the surface, 21 matches in the past year, while Starace has avoided it like the plague - just one match on the indoor hard court in the last year. And only a handful on hard courts at all in 2008. Chardy should be acclimated to the court better rather than Starace who is coming off a clay court tourney. Chardy must do the job on-serve and avoid double faults (Achilles Heel in losses). He won't be worried by a massive serve like last week, which should allow him time to concentrate on his own serve & the return game. Starace could be getting fatigued as well here at the end of a long season where he has played in 29 tournaments since February. Chardy has played in just 20 during that same span.
ATP - Kremlin Cup
Chardy -125(Starace)
Two guys here who prefer playing on dirt, but take to the indoor hard surface in Moscow. That should favor Chardy who got a little more experience on the surface last week in France, losing a hard first round match against Tipsarevic. Chardy has at least tried to play on the surface, 21 matches in the past year, while Starace has avoided it like the plague - just one match on the indoor hard court in the last year. And only a handful on hard courts at all in 2008. Chardy should be acclimated to the court better rather than Starace who is coming off a clay court tourney. Chardy must do the job on-serve and avoid double faults (Achilles Heel in losses). He won't be worried by a massive serve like last week, which should allow him time to concentrate on his own serve & the return game. Starace could be getting fatigued as well here at the end of a long season where he has played in 29 tournaments since February. Chardy has played in just 20 during that same span.
Gonna spend another unit on them.
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