French Open Betting / Jamie "The Pacman" Pacheco / 04 June 2008 /

Dinara Safina matched at [1.02] or lower for the second time in two days. Next up Kuznetsova.

Long odds backers on women's tennis will be singing the praises of Dinara Safina for the second time in three days after she was matched at [150.0] on Betfair to beat Elena Dementieva in the quarter-finals of the French Open. On Monday afternoon she drifted to [50.0] on Betfair before beating Maria Sharapova, who was matched at Betfair's minimum price of [1.01].

In this afternoon's match, £169 was traded on Safina at odds of [150.0], whilst £170k was matched on Dementieva at [1.02], £606k at [1.03] and £362k at [1.04]. Dementieva was leading 5-2 in the second set and had a match point at 5-4. At this stage Dementieva was matched at a low of 5.2 on the winner market.

Safina fluctuated from a price around the [9.0] mark at the start of the match to [150.0] on the winner market when in trouble. Marat Safin's younger sister is now the third favourite at [4.7] to be crowned champion on Saturday afternoon. Ana Ivanovic is the [2.52] favourite, her semi-final opponent Jankovic is [6.2] and Kuznetsova is [4.2].

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