Wednesday, January 24, 2007

AUSTRALIAN OPEN TENNIS ........... WOMEN'S SEMI-FINALS


We now have the line up, MARIA SHARAPOVA - KIM CLIJSTERS and SERENA WILLIAMS-NICOLE VAIDISOVA.


Pretty much a tournament organiser/ sponsors dream, both are scheduled for tonight, so not too much rest for Sharapova and Clijsters, who both battled through scrappy quarter-finals, in the early hours of this morning. I am, of course, using European times here.


Kim leads the h2h 4-2, all have been on hardcourts, 3-1 outdoors. The Russian has won the last two, which both came last year, only one really huge meeting, which came in the 2005 US Open, the Belgian progressing in 3 sets.


We took two outright bets at the start of the tournament ...........

5 points Kim Clijsters 5.23 Pinnacle // 5.10 exchanges
2 points Nicole Vaidisova 19.5 exchanges.

details of which can be found here .....



The choice is up to you, actually it is ALWAYS up to you, but a nice profit is there, if you wish to take it, Clijsters can be layed at 3.05 and Vaidisova at 6.20 with Betfair.


Even if you just layed enough to get your stakes back, you would have a potential, 11 point and 26 point profit respectively, with absolutely no risk. For the purposes of the blog, that is my recommendation. You could choose to hedge more and ensure a profit either way, or not to hedge at all.


I will cover these games briefly tonight, but will be approaching them, as though we had no outstanding bets. Think that is the fairest way, in case we have any newbies, or readers that missed out on the outright bets.


Some nice football action today, including a full round of Ligue 1 matches in France. Will be concentrating on the "beautiful game" in the next couple of posts.


Check back.

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