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Sinner today seems the "natural" winner of the match against De Minaur. Just because he has won all 4 previous matches against the Australian player, plus he has one match less during this tournament... For sure an interesting final. The odd of 1.40 Is not really big but not bad at all for this kind of match.

Sinner got the job done alright against Paul 4-6, 4-6 - I'll bet bitbollo is delighted with that result!
Sinner is now favourite against de Minaur @ 1.39 and TBH its hard to bet against him at this stage.

That match serms to have been a bit of a battle, there was a 46 shot rally which Sinner won,
it can be viewed on this link to twitter

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Over on the WTA side of the Canada Open Pegula is looking good IMO for the title,
the second semi final has yet to be played and either Rybakina or Samsonova will
also have to play the final today also, thats tough especially if the semi final goes
to 3 sets.

Well, there results don't surprise me. American players are REALLY good on their home soil (North America to be precise). Even in juniors, most US players don't travel to Europe, they mostly play their local North American tournaments. In WTA Montreal, 3 US players reached quarterfinals: Collins, Pegula and Gauff, with Pegula winning Iga Swiatek yesterday and reaching final! In ATP Toronto, Tommy Paul reached semis (lost to Jannik Sinner), Fritz, Giron and McDonald reached Round 3!

Well Paul had a very strong performance against Alcaraz but ATM its Sinner who
has commanded the first set and its on serve. in the second set.

Earlier today de Minaur beat Davidovic Fokina comprehensively, 1-6 in the first set and
3-6 in the second. I kind of knew de Minaur would beat Fokina who has done well to
get to the semi final but he is just not mentally strong so it was easy enough to back
de Minaur but against either Paul or Sinner I wont back him.

Thats really surprising as he is at his best form after the Wimbledon Title. The loss had happened in a much easier manner without much of fight. Tommy Paul had played really well and I believe he will continue to hold the winning spirit in his upcoming games. Tommy Paul to  play against Jannik Sinner in the semifinals. These days better games and unexpected results in tennis had been a common thing. In every tournament we were able to watch similar matches.

Alcaraz actually lost against Tommy Paul. That was a huge surprise for me. I thought Alcatraz was going to win that match. But I think he is definitely suffering from lack of consistency. And honestly, this has not been something very new for him. He has gone through this type of inconsistency before as well. But it is time for him to actually fix these problems to be honest.

In the next match, Tommy Paul is going to play against Sinner. I am expecting a win for Sinner in that match. But of course surprises can happen just like the last match.

I was having two players with most chances can dominate in future, but sadly both are going down badly with most chances they have no good future ahead of them if they are not going to have change Zverev and Medvedev both are having problems and not able to give their best De Minaur won two sets and now heading for the semifinal, Medvedev have four double faults in second set which give him defeat with the score of the 7 - 5.

Now the line-up is completed for the semifinals as we have Davidovich Fokina vs De Minaur and then Paul T vs Sinner J here I have my personal favorites for the final are De Minaur and Sinner, hopefully things will be OK for these exciting players.

Now we are heading for the new era of tennis as big three's dominance is almost ended Nadal is injured and Federer is retired, and new generation players are not good as we are having in past too many injuries and many other factors are having their own risks for these youngsters with this all most chances we will have too many players with just few successes and then going into background like we have history of WTA even we all understand things as changing.

Recently there were hopes for few players for having better results, but these are not going to fill as expected but most chances they will keep things running in much better way and purpose of entertaining could be not like we have in last generation of legendary players.

I think you're not the only one who think about it .
Basically I see more and more players who manage to win because they are in better physical shape or simply have fewer injuries. Of course players of new generation have a natural advantage...

About Sinner. He is the favorite at this point in the tournament. let's see if he is able to guarantee adequate performance to his ranking 

Yea I had an interest in this because I had Medvedev to win but that result wan not
part of my script at all, well done to de Minaur though, he is doing a bit of a "Dan Evans"
ATM kind of coming from nowhere.

Also I'm delighted that Sinner beat Monfils to get to the other semi final with a match
up against Paul who beat Alcaraz! Sinner is the highest seeded player left !!

Is it me or are the mens tournaments becoming as unpredictable as the WTA?

Yapp, great review, I can add that Kasatkina needs more time for her clever clay-specialist kind of play. Something she won't have against a hard-hitting Rybakina on hard surface...

Swiatek v Collins under way now, I was hoping to see more resistance from Danielle, who was great so far in Montreal, but it seems Swiatek is just too good. The Pole is leading 4:1 in the first...

Kasatkina vs Rybakina. Both players were in great form in the round of 16. Rybakina knocked out Sloane Stephens in two sets and was never seen in great danger, although she fell back sometime in the second set. I can say that Kasatkina won comfortably against Marie Bouzkova, who defeated the fifth seed Caroline Garcia in the previous round. The duo played on the San Jose hard court in North America last year. Kasatkina won the third set 6-0 in that match. This will be an awkward matchup for 2022 Wimbledon champion Rybakina. Kasatkina is probably the best of the round at creating wide angles with her forehand and moving her opponent in the process. Movement is Rybakina's biggest weakness. But many things will depend on how effective Rybakina is in service. A lively and beautiful match awaits us as a pleasure to watch.

Perhaps another sensation in the making: De Minaur won the first set against Medvedev! 7:6 the Aussie took the tie-break 9:7. Medvedev wasn't very confident from the baseline and also conceded several double faults including one in the tie-breaker! How unfortunate for the Russian! Let's see how this one will play out...  

Hurkacz played really good and came back so many times when he was out but just couldnt hit the big points in the tie break to try and win the match. Alcaraz keeps on winning after wimbledon and just cannot be stopped by anyone. Too bad about Murray,this could have been a good match.

When Hubert Hurkacz won the first set easily and then proceed to win the games in the second set i did not expect Carlos Alcaraz to bring his top game and win that set and then in the third set Hubert Hurkacz made a rally for the tiebreaker and it was a great match and the odds were moving rapidly with each game.

Tonight he is playing against Tommy Paul and it is better to place a bet live and i am expecting another great match up.

talking about Jannik Sinner, today he plays against Gael Monfils, and I'm thinking of betting on him, but as he only played one game this week and benefited from Andy Murray's injury and also looking at the fact that Gael Monfils despite being in the position number 276 and in this tournament having managed to beat Stefanos Tsitsipas, honestly I see the value of that odd of 1.29 in favor of Stefanos Tsitsipas in case he wins this game as being a very low odd, so I am hesitating to put this game in my bet multibet. Jannik Sinner had more rest time for this game, but Andy Murray is doing well. so I see this odd increasing during the game, if it increases maybe I'll consider making a simple bet on Jannik Sinner to win

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Carlos Alcaraz will play against Tommy Paul, in this game Carlos Alcaraz comes as the favorite, he who currently occupies the number 1 position while his opponent occupies the number 14 position and has not yet won any very relevant competition this season, but he managed to becoming vice champion of the ATP Eastbourne and ATP Acapulco, in this tournament he beat Diego Schwartzman and Francisco Cerundolo and Marcos Giro. looking at the performance of Tommy Paul and Carlos Alcaraz, in my opinion Carlos Alcaraz will win this game, I don't see Carlos Alcaraz having big problems to win

Daniil Medvedev will play against Alex de Minaur, currently Medvedev occupies the number 3 position, he beat Matteo Arnaldi, Lorenzo Musetti while his opponent Alex de Minaur currently occupies the number 18 position and in this tournament he beat Cameron Norrie and Gabriel Dialo and surprisingly he managed to beat Taylor Fritz, so this Medvedev game will not be an easy game, but I don't see Medvedev losing in this game, so my guess is that Medvedev will win this game, when I see odds of 1.33 for high ranking tennis players the first thing that crosses my mind is that it will be a game in which the opponent can surprise and the bookmakers are already looking at that

The second set Hurkacz managed to break Alcaraz's early games but the Spaniard was indeed able to keep playing at his best and troubled Hurkacz, two tie breaks Alcaraz played more solidly and didn't let his opponent get many points, and took both tie breaks well to be able to the quarterfinals and will face American tennis player Tommy Paul.

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The first match today will be an even match, A. Davidovich Fokina vs M. McDonald are both unseeded players, but Fokina made it to the quarterfinals quite impressive because he got rid of two seeded players, and his game yesterday was very good by beating Casper Ruud, I predict this will be a very tight match, MacKenzie McDonald has never won a single title and his best ranking was 48 and that was last year, but his game often troubles top players and he can surprise by putting up a tough fight for Fokina in today's match because on this match Fokina is the favorites.

In the last match of Rune, the loss was really unexpected. When he was able to win the second set after losing the first one, I thought he’s going to make a good comeback. But that did not happen.

Rudd vs Fokina was also very competitive from the start. The same story here. After Rudd was able to win the second set, I thought he was going to make a comeback. But the last set was lost by him, even though it was really competitive.



Luckily, Alcaraz Garfia was able to actually make a comeback happen. He did also lose the first set. But he fought really well to win the second and third set back to back. He deserved the win.



Sinner got a free pass to the quarter-final. And the quarter-final match is also not going to be very hard for him in my opinion.

I am a little surprised that Rune and Rude lost. It was very close with Ruud. Fokina had the better nerves in the end.

It is a pity that Raonic is already out.

For Hurkacz it looked really good against Alcaraz. He won the first set, lost the second set in a tiebreak and in the third set he fought off two match points from Alcaraz at 5:3. And then later even a break. But in the tiebreak Alcaraz was better again and won the match.

Murray unfortunately could not play his match against Sinner due to an abdominal muscle injury. So Sinner reached the quarter-finals with only one match played.

Disgusting to allow Fokina back in after breaking him right from the start of third set. Just as I was beginning to think Ruud's boring consistency might pay off with another strong showing, he slips up to a lesser man (all due respect to Fokina).


Was never putting money on him to even get to the final but at the rate everyone else is dropping like flies...

... maybe de Minaur worth a punt?