The predictibility of a Henman match and a profitable win courtesy of Melzer

/ Sean Calvert / 14 August 2007 / Leave a Comment

Sean Calvert takes us through yesterday's tennis betting

There are but two things certain in life - one is that Tim Westwood will never grow out of listening to rap music (despite pushing 50 years of age) and the other is that Tim Henman will lose a tennis match in three sets.

The latter happened again yesterday in Cincinnati and Henman might as well start to consider a career next to Greg Rusedski in the commentary box, debating how close they came to that elusive grand slam title.

Yes, as predicted, Chela took care of our Tim in three sets, thus denying the possibility of a very poor advert for British tennis in round two. A way past his best Henman against an injured Andy Murray would quite literally have been painful to watch.

On a brighter note, it was back to business for me, as my bet of the day - Jurgen Melzer - cruised past Ivo Karlovic by way of two tie breaks and has now won an astonishing 11 consecutive sets against the 6'10" Croatian! I also made a bit on Amer Delic, who was trading at in excess of 3.15 pre-match against Ivan Ljubicic, which was too good to miss and after an easy first set for the American, a simple lay-off was the order of the day, before Ljubicic came back to take the match.

All told, a very enjoyable first day at the Western & Southern Masters. Sadly there are no such straightforward opportunities today and I don't fancy anything enough for a bet of the day.

Robby Ginepri would be a lock to beat Jonas Bjorkman at 1.75 if he could find his old form, but he looks a million miles away at the moment.

Jarko Nieminen tempts me at 2.6 to take out Tommy Robredo, however the Spaniard is 4-0 on head to heads, so that puts me off.

Murray is a decent price at over 3.1 against a patchy Marcos Baghdatis, but I don't trust the Murray wrist enough to invest at the moment, so no wagers today.