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Sad lost for Ofner. The Austrian player was leading the second set 5-0 ...but the adversay, Molcan, was able to win the second set at 7-5... even avoiding 2 match points!
In third set the Slovakian was able to win also tie break.
I don't know if you have seen this match in Austria but has been something "crazy and funny to see" with nice odds for the whole match

Just read that Yibing Wu is also at this tournament. Or rather, was. He was leading 4:1 in his first match and collapsed on the way to the bench. That was the second time. In Wimbledon he collapsed in the dressing room during his match against Tiafoe. It is quite frightening to see that on video. Hopefully it is not serious.


Tiafoe is already through and has won his match in two sets. His next match against Shang should be doable.

Citi Open in Washington is currently in progress. Today we have another round of 32 with
some big seeded names playing, Fritz, Bublik, Felix AA, Evans, Eubanks, Mannarino and
Tiafoe. Andy Murray plays today too and is against Brandon Nakashima, the odds are
close with Brandon slight favourite, I think he is a good price at 1.86, maybe an over bet?

Bublik 1.62 - 2.30 Fils - thats a great price on Bublik provided he has good form.

Well you said it right. And it was quality match between Andreescu and Kostyuk. It was a good comeback from Kostyuk. Even though she lost the first set quite easily, she made a good comeback after that. SHe won the second set pretty convincingly. The third set was very competitive. It could have gone either way. But Kostyuk did well enough and held her composure under pressure.

In case you want to watch some quality WTA tennis Andreescu vs Kostyuk live atm from Washington DC. Andreescu won the opening set easily 6:2, then Kostyuk played flawlessly in the second taking it 6:3. Now in the deciding set, early break for the Ukrainian 2:1 very intense match, pleasure to watch!

Congratulations to Zverev. A very important win for him. He did not lost a set in the whole tournament and winning in his hometown will give him a lot of confidence.
As has already been written here, he did not lay against the top players. But it does not matter in the end because Djere did not make it easy for him in the final. I am curious to see how Zverev will play in the next tournaments.

Popyrin performed really well against Wawrinka. I genuinely had some doubts about him actually being able to win this match. But he did pull it off. The first set was won by Wawrinka. But even in that set Popyrin gave a great fight to Wawrinka. And after that, it was a great comeback by Popyrin. No idea he was able to win the next two sets.

Great performance from Popyrin to be able to win the Croatia open.
Even though I agree with you, that this tournament was not one of the top quality. But I think this was decent. better was expected obviously.

Fair play to Popyrin - he was a set down in the final again and managed to turn it around, even with a knee injury. He deserves the title, his first on clay and second overall.

It wasn't really a high-quality tournament in Umag this season - the tennis was much better last year. But seeing Wawrinka play live is something to cross off my bucket list.
One-handed backhands are slowly dying and seeing the best ones live is a rare treat - considering I play onehanded as well, it was really nice to do that.

You could've expected big performance from Zverev and that's the reason you weren't satisfied with the winning score of 7-5 6-3. Just because Djere isn't a top player, it doesn't mean he can't perform. Every player have got their skills. Based on the statement it looks like an underdog should never play or give competence against any of the top player. Zverev considers it a comeback though it isn't a big tournament.

Interesting discussion, there were 3 top players in Hamburg, Ruud, Rublev and Musetti
but Zverev didnt have to play them - anyway winning any tournament is massive so
congrats to him!

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Wawrinka is currently 1 set up in the final at Umag, he has a fantastic price of 1.65 ATM
which is fantastic.

I was surprised by the final result and the match in general. Sonego Is not a newcomer but wawrinka was seriously at a strong level.
I was tempted to Place a bet on Sonego (!) but the odd @2.0 wasn't enough at least to me

Zverev won the title but I can't say it was the best match of his career or something like that. Far from it actually. In the second set, Zverev broke Djere and was up 4:1 but then he lost his serve game and Djere made it 3:4. Then Djere lost another serve game and it allowed Zverev to serve for the championship, which he successfully did. And Djere is not even a top player. Still, I believe this win will add some confidence and let Zverev play better in the next tournaments.

I think every player should be given the credit today. And I also think that zverev is certainly someone who deserves the credit for even reaching the final.

By the way, the match between Djere and Zverev is finally over. Of course, the winner was Zverev as expected. He did not give much of a chance to his opponent. It was genuinely a great performance from him.

I don’t understand why people are saying that he had an easy match in the finals. Why people do not want to agree that almost every final match is going to be 50-50.

Anyway, I don’t think you should care too much about the haters. He got a great win in the final and he should celebrate it.

Is this Zverev's "comeback" when he wins a tournament that was almost only played by inferior players? Ruud and Rublev seem to not have taken it too seriously and now Zverev can win the 348k and 500 ATP points. I checked how many points this tournament is worth and honestly, comparing the line-up of this one to some of the other ATP 500 tournaments, these 500 points would probably be the some of the easiest he has ever earned if he wins it. But let's first see if he freaks out again before the game ends.

cheering for Stan in Umag, Popyrin is good, but Stan should win this one, especially after good match against Sonego

Zverev meets Djere in Hamburg, pretty much surprisable final, have to be on Djere side, but not sure if he can pull this one out

In Atlanta, Vukic is in final, seems that his win over Eubanks boosted his self-confidence, and at least set against Fritz is probably a good bet, since Fritz is a big favorite there

Zverev should actually be able to win this match against Laslo Djere.
In this final match, it is widely acknowledged that the ranking assigned to each player holds little significance, a fact that we all comprehend. Because after all it is the final match of a competition. So the chance of each player winning the match is genuinely 50-50



I really don’t understand if the presenter was not manageable enough about this thing. I personally don’t know how this works. But I expect someone who actually has good knowledge about Dennis is going to do the presenting. But in this case it seems like he/she(I don’t want to misgender anyone and also do not want, butthurt people saying that to me) was given a piece of paper and was told what to say.

Alexander Zverev - Laslo Djere

I even laughed a little when I saw on a TV channel the way the news presenter was talking about this game, because the presenter said that this season Alexander Zverev reaches a final of a relevant tournament for the first time and that this would be an excellent chance for Alexander Zverev to get a trophy from a relevant competition this season. finally it will be a game in which the number 19 will be against the 57 that is being a big surprise in this tournament; well, Alexander Zverev, who currently occupies the number 19 position in the ATP ranking and who last year managed to reach the number 2 position in the ATP ranking, had an injury that contributed to his drop in position, but in this tournament he is showing that he wants to regain top position

in case of a victory he will reach an impressive mark of 20 relevant trophies during his entire career, with an impressive performance in this tournament, Alexander Zverev had no difficulty beating any opponent, so he comes as a favorite in this game. on the other side we have Laslo Djere who currently occupies the position number 57 of the ATP ranking, but a few years ago he was already in a better position having reached position number 27 reaches his fifth final of a relevant tournament, in case of a victory he would reach a milestone of 3 major tournament trophies, he also had no trouble beating his opponents. my guess is that Alexander Zverev will win, the bookmakers also place Alexander Zverev as a favorite, looking at the history of the two athletes and this odd value, I think that Alexander Zverev will win

Yup both favourites move on to the final today, At this stage and at his home tournament
you just have to back Zverev. He played well today against Fils who was also quite good.

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Over at the Atlanta tournament, its looking like Humbert could to be playing Fritz in the final
which is a bit perplexing, where has he come from? I know he has been around for a while but
has really only played well at home in France.

He is currently up 1 set over Vukic who beat my man Eubanks yesterday

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Delighted for Stan who faces Popyrin in the final at Croatia, If he wins this it will be a great
reward for battling to get back to fitness.

Sonego is definitely a tough opponent for Wawrinka. But it is a semifinal match. We are getting exactly what we expected.


To lift the trophy, he will have to fix the Sonego problem, first. I don’t think it is going to be easy for him. I feel like I am repeating myself. But even though I believe the bookmakers are actually favouring Wawrinka in this match, he might lose very easily. And let’s be honest, any match in the semi-finals of the competition is going to be a 50-50. No matter who is playing against who.

we will probably be in it together, also having plans to put some money on Stan
not that I think it has value (he is actually favored by bookies), but he has more experience, and I would like to see him lifting a trophy

other from him, my less experienced and younger picks, as Ruud, Eubanks, Musetti, are all out from competition this week, better than to have them losing day-by-day, all in a same day out is better