Madrid Masters - Day 1

milkshock · Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 11:59 pm Post subject: Madrid Masters - Day 1

Hello - some of you may remember me, to others I will be a completely new poster.

Madrid is the penultimate Masters Series tournament of the season before the Masters Cup in Shanghai and as usual there are some decent bets to be found

Mardy Fish has been in decent form this year , and had a very good run in the US Open where he took a set from Rafael Nadal before succumbing in the quarter final.

Steve Darcis has come through qualifiers here, and although by no means a terrible player, is the level of opponent that Fish has been putting away consistently this year. The faster court won't hinder either player, although it's clearly Fish's favoured surface.

Fish 1.62 at Betfair is a price I will be backing.

Tomas Berdych has just come off an excellent tournament win in Tokyo, where he dug very deep to beat Andy Roddick in 3 sets in the semi final, before dispatching Juan Martin Del Potro with ease in the final. His confidence will be sky high, and although Rainer Scheuttler has caught a second wind in the second half of this season, he will be outgunned here.
Traditionally players who have not necessarily performed well in the first part of the season produce the goods in the later stages of the year, and I think Berdych falls into that category. He will have something to prove after underachieving for much of the year and at 1.24 at Betfair is a reasonable bet.

stephenbriant · Group 3 Class Joined: 12 Sep 2008 Posts: 95

Can you delete this thread! Use ATP tournaments commencing 13th of october for this Mad

ballamboy · 2yo Joined: 13 Oct 2008 Posts: 6

Great shout son.

I also believe over priced and a good bet today.

Smile

veggie · Group 2 Class Joined: 23 Jul 2008 Posts: 240

Hi Milkshock,

Glad to have you back here. There have been a few changes since you were here last.

Can you please put future postings in either the Mens ATP, or Womens WTA weekly threads. You may like to cut n paste your tips into the relevant thread as well

Many thanks

There are a few brief guidelines contained in a "sticky" at the top of this Forum for users info.

Good luck for the future

milkshock · Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 10:06 pm Post subject:

Can you delete this thread! Use ATP tournaments commencing 13th of october for this Mad

i think you need to chill out mate to be honest

stephenbriant · Group 3 Class Joined: 12 Sep 2008 Posts: 95

I am chilled. But there was a debate about this and we come to a conclusion and just to see someone break it within a day is quite annoying. Also when you come to the tennis forum do you not see the post for ATP tournaments commencing on 13th october? its not hard to see that and post your comments there rather than just making exactly the same thing in a different post, and before you question me and say it aint the same thing, it is because Madrid is only ATP tournament this week. Smile

milkshock · Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 10:28 pm Post subject:

well i wasnt here when these rules were made, and i would guess that any newcomer/returning poster like would have the same issues. seems like a bit of a strange rule to me tbh, but hey its not my forum and i will follow everyone else.