THE second Grand Slam of the season gets under way at Roland Garros today and Rafa Nadal's status as king of clay is under serious threat.
Nadal has won the French Open nine out of the last 10 years – including the last five on the bounce – and his record is an impressive 66-1. But the Spaniard has struggled for form this season and world No.1 Novak Djokovic heads into the tournament as 10-11 favourite at Paddy Power on the back of a 23-match winning streak.
Nadal is 5-1 at Coral at Sportingbet and Andy Murray – enjoying his best season on clay – is next at 10-1 with William Hill followed by Roger Federer (12-1, Stan James), Kei Nishikori (13-1, 888sport) and Stan Wawrinka (30-1, bwin).
On to cricket and England are on a sticky wicket once again as they try to stave off defeat following another dodgy day's play from Alastair Cook and Co.
They head into day four of the first Test against New Zealand fighting to stay in touch at 60 runs adrift after conceding a first-innings deficit of 134. The Kiwis are on 74-2 in their second innings and Coral make them 8-11 for victory with England out to 6-1 at 888sport and the draw 23-10 at Paddy Power.
At the Monaco Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton starts from pole as he tries to win the race for the first time in seven years. The British ace is 3-10 favourite at Paddy Power, with Mercedes team-mate next at 4-1 at Betfred and Seb Vettels 12s at BetVictor.
There's plenty more sporting action on Sunday so post your tips and thoughts here and good luck with your bets.
Euro Basketball Treble
GALATASARAY VS FENERBAHÇE (2pm)
Points Spread: Fenerbahce -4
BANVITSPOR VS PINAR KARŞIYAKA (4:30pm)
Points Spread: Pinar Karsiyaka +9
NANCY BASKET VS JSF NANTERRE (7:30pm)
Points Spread: Nancy +2
Treble @ 29/10 @ Skybet
Good luck!
***POSTED YESTERDAY***
***LOST*** – Houston Rockets +1.5 @ $1.92 (2 points)
***WON*** – Houston/GSW UNDER 114.5 points @ $1.92 (2 points)
***WON*** – Chicago Blackhawks ML @ $1.65 (3 points)
***WON*** – San Diego Padres ML @ $1.61 (3 points)
***Great day on the punt again, only the NBA spread bet getting in the way of a full house (again!). Might stick to totals for rest of NBA playoffs.
^^^correction – LA Dodgers won (not Padres). Was a typo i corrected on my original post
Posted last night on yesterdays thread
Taking a chance on a -1.5 treble tonight
(NBA)Rockets ‐1.5 10/11 (lost)80-115
(MLB)Dodgers ‐1.5 5/4 (win) 2-0
(NHL)Blackhawks ‐1.5 2/1(lost)they won 5-4 in 2nd OT
Treble is 11.89/1 @ Skybet .5 points on it (lost)
Ufc last night couldn’t have gone any better!! And my juicy 11/4 came flying in with a vicous knockout of Travis Browne hope some of you managed to jump on I also called Daniel Cormier to win although I though it would be by a decision. Knew the pit bull had it
@Hunter, what’s your most confident pick in that trebble ? FENERBAHÇE ? I’d like to add one to another acca.
Thx,
Surely Swansea to beat C Palace is the best bet of the day!!
@ Oriaz, FENERBAHÇE were the first pick from my treble so yes I’d go with that! They didn’t fair too well in the euro league but are pretty solid in the Turkey. Their most recent H2H doesn’t indicate that this will be a straight forward win for them but they did win their most recent (3 days ago) convincingly against Galatasary 93-67, and the H2H that they have lost have been close games. Nancy should do pretty well but the French league is more unpredictable.
Good luck today!
What should decide the outcome is Fenerbahçe’s defence… Their defence is pretty solid and the best on the road. The danger from Galatasary will come in the form of former Boston Celtics PG Arroyo, and although he’s getting on a bit, he’s still a game changer. Not too sure if he’s starting yet as can’t find any team news.
Euro Basketball Single
FC BARCELONA VS BC ANDORRA (5pm)
Not really much for these teams to play for and I’m expecting the strong favourites to put on a high scoring show for the home crowd.
Apologies for the slightly obscure bookies, the best price from the top bookies is 1/2 but I’m more than happy to register with a bookie if I feel there’s good value!
First Half Points: Over 76.5 @ 3/4 youwin
Good luck!
French open
Day 1
Camila Giorgi 2-0 @2.42 3pts
Mikhail Kukushkin 3-0
Roberto Bautista-Agut 3-0
Bojana Jovanovski Treble @6.1 1pt
Giro d’Italia 2015 – Stage 15
Intxausti @15 (should be in the break-away)
Kruijswijk @20
I’m just gonna bet like this every mountain stage from now on. Will pay off in the end!
Just a quick one as time has again been cruel to me and there aren’t actually any matchup ups I really fancy taking on today.
These are the outrights I’m on. Once I’ve had a chance to dissect everything further I might post some quarter winners and there’ll definitely be some upset bets posted over the next day or two.
Needless to say most of the stakes here are small and I’m not expecting to see them again!
Serena @ 11/4
Stosur @ 100/1
Bacsinszky @ 150/1
Pliskova @ 150/1
Federer @ 15/1
Nishirkori @ 15/1
Monfils @ 70/1
Tsonga @ 220/1
Kyrgios @ 315/1
First round Acca:
Kokkinakis
Kyrgios
Jankovic
Bacsinszky
Petkovic
Stosur
Kuznetsova
Pays 4/1
Good luck
French Open 5-Fold (early games):
– Andujar, Granollers, Jovanovski, Giorgio, Garcia (all straight Win)
Acca pays odds of $6.86 (2 points)
Experimental double day 3
(2 from 2 so far)
Padres @ Dodgers
Team to score first wins @ 1.41*won*
Brewers @ Braves
Team to score first wins @ 1.38 *lost*
(Brewers scored first but Braves finished off the game in extra innings 3-2, bit unlucky on this one)
Double @ 1.96 *lost*
Underdog bet
Rangers @ Yankees
Rangers @ 2.45 *won*
Rangers leading after 5 innings @ 2.55 *won*
One stake split 50/50
Rolling bet
Bet 2
Padres @ Dodgers
Team to score first wins @ 1.41 *won*
Attila got on your Blackhawks pick, nice one.
Had it with bet365 @ 1.64 I think, wish I’d have seen yesterday’s thread though, as I have a betway account and would have gone again @ evens!
Harry if your around, I’ve got a big bet on new zealand I can cash out for 200 profit as it is or I hold out for 600. What do you think the chances are of a draw or England managing to rally something spectacular to get back in this?
I’d also add Svitolina to that.
Why do people like Jovanovski today can I ask? Horrible player when she has a bad day, and despite a couple of good recent results she’s not too well suited to clay
Cycling: Giro d’Italia 2015 stage 15
Match-ups, winner in capitals:
CONTADOR v Aru
INTXAUSTI v Reichenbach
Double @ 2.35 with WH
I also have some on Intxausti reddevils. He is going to be in the break-away for sure, did an easy TT yesterday.
Intxausti @ 21.00 each-way with BV.
What do u tennis guys think of Bagdhatis to beat Karlovic? Bagdhatis Evs better head to head beat Karlovic in his home town earlier in the year & surely a better clay courter Karlovic to big to move at 6″11 + Karlovic a lot older if it goes the distance.
Mark, I’d be wary of that matchup. Ivo should be rubbish on clay but I’ve seen him play world class stuff on it before. He took Dimitrov down in straight sets in the first round last year with a sensational performance and Baghdatis isn’t too much of a force these days. He’s also not that happy on clay, his record Indifferent at best. I fancy Ivo to edge a long one.
In play Dzumhur 3-0 evens
Ad – mate, I was reading that Tsurenko is suing with an injury, far from 100% fit supposedly. Plus she’s not been in great form anyways. Jovanovski is just under Evens. Too much vale to ignore especially against an unfit opponent.
*value
@ Dazzler – glad you got on the Blackhawks mate. Took them a double overtime but they made up for throwing away that 2 goal lead. Glad I tipped the ML & not the 60min win…just had a feeling as Ducks always seem to keep it very tight.
AD – I like your Acca. Pays about $5.50 with Svitolina added. My bookie is giving 20% bonus on all 4+ Leg French Open Accas too so if it wins it’ll be more like a $7 winner. Putting 5 points on it, cheers :-)
Cheers Atilla, hopefully we’re both happy with how it all plays out. Good luck with Jovsnovski, Ive been out of the loop and wasn’t aware of the injury situation. A fit Tsurenko would be favourite I imagine
I think I’ll have a break from NBA props, lost way too many. Needed Dwight to get 15 or more rebounds, guess what, he gets 14.
Attila I was watching it on bet365, first time I’ve watched in a long time and is was brilliant.
The commentator said Ducks hadn’t lost in regular time in their last 12 games or something like that? So might bear that in mind for in play bets.
I took over 0.5 goals between 10-20 minutes in play as well and Blackhawks scored in the 19th after a ref had tripped up an opponent. Had me jumping out my chair at 2am this morning lol.
What a great week back on the site, one bet and one winner for yet another winning night.
I knew the bookies had that Yankees line wrong, CC Sabathia is the most over-rated pitcher in baseball and Texas bats are finally waking up (still never expected a 10-run 3rd inning though!)
I’m not sure I’ll have time to put anything up today (not even looked at the card yet) but check out Dazzler and Attila’s MLB picks and you won’t go far wrong.
Good luck with whatever you are on.
Youzhny just retired. Hardly injured. Just gave up!
Dzumhur 3-0 -void-
Dont know if its been mentioned before but new Coral customers can get 5/1 on Hull to get relegated
maximum bet £5 and if it loses you get £20 of free bets
you can even back Newcastle to get relegated at 5/1 with Bet365
So if Hull get relegated you get £30 for your £10 stake
If Newcastle get relegated you get £30 for your £10 stake + £20 in free bets
Guaranteed profit for new Coral customers
Tom unlucky on that prop they rested him for most the game I think he only played 8 minutes of the second half , my harden bet got tucked up aswell , although he was playing poor he still had 17 and played only 30 minutes ridicolous they gave up in the 4th and played the bench
Jovanovski taking some heavy money, dropped from $1.91 down to $1.70. Tsurenko’s supposed injury must be well known now then :-) Prob end up as a retiremenr
NBA bet
James harden over 28.5 points @ 5/6 (double stakes) **LOST**
There best player played 30 minutes they rested him at the end of the 3rd and he didn’t play in the entire 4th quater ridiculous
Golden state Warriors -24.5 @ 4/5 (double stakes) **WON**
These guys are unreal
Anyone who went for curry on the points match bet with harden you can call that a winner in my my books
Playoff series match bet (most points scored)(double stakes)
Steph Curry vs James harden
Steph Curry @ 11/10 **PENDING**
after currys performance yesterday he is already on 106 points in 3 games while the beard is on 83
Euro Basketball Double
ZARAGOZA VS SAN SEBASTIÁN GIPUZKOA (5pm)
Points Spread: Zaragoza -1.5
TORINO VS LATTE BRESCIA (5pm)
Points Spread: Torino -2.5
Double @ just over evens William Hill
Good luck!
NBA bet
Atlanta Hawks @ Cleveland Cavaliers
Under 191 total points @ 10/11 (double stakes)
These playoffs are getting tough!
Looks like Tsurenkobwas faking Her injury, lol, smashing Jovanovski
@ Picksix, think that’s the way to go for me! The last couple of games I’ve gone for unders. Been struggling to call a winner, never mind the spreads!
HUGGY`S MAINBET
rockets +1 ( ha ha )
prop bet HARDON OVER 29.5 POINTS ( double stake ) ( HARDON , FLACCID TART )
OUT OF FORM KLAY THOMPSON under 26.5 points ( medium stake )
(25 WINNER !!! )
brose baskets inplay -15.5 £50 on (99 -66 WINNER !!!)
gsw in 4 , would never have seen it as a walk over
Jovanovski now destroying Tsurenko after a poor 1st. All other legs in Acca are also on course atm.
She’s cooked. Cashing out as my bookies voids retirements
That’s what you call a turnaround! Well done chaps
Hunter it’s the only thing standing out for me on that game i would take Lebrons points but if they blow the Hawks out they will rest him as as what happened in the last two props I bet , Teague got rested and so did harden yesterday as both teams have up on winning the game so I’m not taking that risk again
Il be on your hoops bet
Huggy a flaccid tart ? Haha quality mate
Wahey a nice start to the French Open.
Ad thanks for the advice u know your stuff & had that 1st set gone ivo’s way it could’ve been different. I like my tennis & footy bets but seem to be alot better at tennis I like the total match game markets I’ll have a study & see what’s what.
Cheers mate, and well done. Glad I didn’t put you off Baghdatis.
Guys , kept losses to a minimum with a few inplay euro bets and a couple of prop bets , but v disappointing my spread picks are awful over last 2 nights.
i`m at a loss again tonight , where`s the boys money going tonight ?
p.s think we all know we`re all on GSW to win it , thinking thats banked guys , p.p.s i gotta feeling Curry may win MVP PLAYOFFS …… AWESOME !!!!!
Euro Basketball Treble
GALATASARAY VS FENERBAHÇE (2pm)
Points Spread: Fenerbahce -4
BANVITSPOR VS PINAR KARŞIYAKA (4:30pm)
Points Spread: Pinar Karsiyaka +9
NANCY BASKET VS JSF NANTERRE (7:30pm)
Points Spread: Nancy +2
Treble @ 29/10 @ Skybet **LOST**
Good luck!
The dreaded early tipoff sinks the treble at the first hurdle! Probably one of the worst bball matches I’ve seen. Seems the Fenerbahce players were already on holiday falling 5 points short of the spread! Tempted to add my other two selections to my double!
Euro Basketball Single
Rio Natura Monbus Vs Labrol Kutxa (5pm)
Points Spread: Monbus -4.5 @ 10/3 William Hill
Only for the brave!
huggy`s long list for interest , all £20 bets
cavs over 99.5 team points
cavs – 9
shumpert 11/1 First Basket / Winner Double
ova 47.5 2nd Quarter Total Points
lebron ova 30.5 points
jr smoth ova 14.0 points
last one £30 bet shumpert ova 11.5 points
TOTAL £150
good luck guys
Gonna throw a speculative 2.2 points on Over 105 1st Half Points in the Rockets/Warriors game @ 10/11 @ WillHill **LOSE** 99
Rose Namajaunas VOID
Joseph Benavidez WIN
Travis Browne LOSE
John Dodson WIN
6/5 @ WillHill – 2.5 points **LOSE**
Add Donald Cerrone and Uriah Hall for a 23/10 sixfold – 1 point **LOSE**
Warriors Over 24.5 3rd quarter points @ 10/13 @ 365 – 6.5 points **WIN**
Points staked 46.3, points returned 57.64
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Tonights bet
Cleveland Cavaliers Over 50.5 1st Half Points @ 10/11 @ WillHill – 4.4 points
MLB for tonight
Experimental double
(2 from 3)
Rangers @ Yankees
Team to score first wins @ 1.42
A’s @ Rays
Team to score first wins @ 1.35
Double @ 1.93
Underdog bets
Rangers @ Yankees
Rangers @ 2.15
Phillies @ Nationals
Phillies @ 2.5
Rolling bet
Bet 3
Rangers @ Yankees
Team to score first wins @ 1.42 (£20.40 on this one lol)
MLB bets for tonight
Single
St Louis win @ Kansas city 1/1 2 points
Treble
Texas win @ Yankees 5/4
St Louis win @ Kansas city 1/1
Phillies win @ Nationals 11/8
Treble 9.69/1 1 point
Well the safety car and Mercedes pitting Hamilton cost me a fortune this weekend after Hamilton was 21s ahead of the field! At least won some back on Hamilton qualy winner!
Aaaaghhh why didn’t I tip Sela v Kukushin?! 8/1 was just a stupid price but I completely talked myself out of it after going over his past clay court performances. kicking myself now.
A couple of upsets I will be chancing tomorrow:
Sock d Dimitrov @ 3/1
Seppi d Isner @ 12/5.
Dimitrov continues to fall short of fulfilling the potential so many have seen in him since be first burst on to the scene, and it’s been a particularly unconvincing year from him so far. He should win this really, but I have lingering doubts over him and Socks got enough about him to upset the favourite, who was dumped out at this stage last year by Ivo Karlovic.
Seppi has faded since some superb early season form, but on clay I just don’t see him as a 12/5 underdog against Isner. The big mans form has been good lately so it wouldn’t be a surprise to score another win here, but he’s not at his best on clay and these odds jumped out at me, and when that happens it’s normally for a good reason.
Euro Basketball Single
FC BARCELONA VS BC ANDORRA (5pm)
Not really much for these teams to play for and I’m expecting the strong favourites to put on a high scoring show for the home crowd.
Apologies for the slightly obscure bookies, the best price from the top bookies is 1/2 but I’m more than happy to register with a bookie if I feel there’s good value!
First Half Points: Over 76.5 @ 3/4 youwin **WIN**
Good luck!
80 1st half points! :)
Jordan is that ur nap for the basketball broski ?
F*ck this. Kukushkin ruins all my tennis bets. Lowest odd, (1.09!!!) so typical…
Not my best bet of the day as such David but one I’m confident enough to stake 4.4 points on mate.
Cheers Jordan that will do me brother
LeBron James to record a double double
Queretaro no clean sheet/Pachuca to score
13/10 @ 365 – 1 point
Gutter Jordan can’t get that 50.5 points first half with bet 365
Gutter Jordan can’t get that 50.5 points first half with bet 365
David mc u can get it on 365 but not until about 5 mins before the game starts , I don’t know why they do that
Hunter good stuff
Cheers picksix
Cavs ml at 1/4 worth a big stake?
Picksix, any idea what happened in the Torino game? Can’t find the score and bet is unsettled!?!
Torino won 91-86 after overtime, result on flash score
Euro Basketball Single
Rio Natura Monbus Vs Labrol Kutxa (5pm)
Points Spread: Monbus -4.5 @ 10/3 William Hill **LOST**
Only for the brave!
Pretty close game in the end but no cigar!
Euro Basketball Double
ZARAGOZA VS SAN SEBASTIÁN GIPUZKOA (5pm)
Points Spread: Zaragoza -1.5
TORINO VS LATTE BRESCIA (5pm)
Points Spread: Torino -2.5
Double @ just over evens William Hill **WIN**
Good luck!
96-84 Torino. :)
Ok I’v had a study & tomorrow’s match J Monaco v F Delbonis looks very even the total match games is 39.5, I think it’ll go over this at 4/5 they played twice last year 1 win each Delbonis winning quite comfortably on clay so maybe even a win for him at 11/10 but Monaco is decent on clay. What do you think Ad?
Thanks Dazid, was getting some conflicting results but either way it’s been settled by Willy Hills!
No problem Hunter, good win for you
Jordan….skybet go 11/10 that cavaliers will score over 51.5 1st half points. Do you think they should cover this handicap also? Thanks
MLB bets for tonight
Single
St Louis win @ Kansas city 1/1 2 points
St Louis win 6-1 (winner)
Treble
Texas win @ Yankees 5/4 (pending)
St Louis win @ Kansas city 1/1 (win) 6-1
Phillies win @ Nationals 11/8 (lost) 1-4
Treble 9.69/1 1 point (lost)
Going to do Texas as a single later now
Bwin have a special on Cavs and warriors to win the next games @ EVS its 4/6 everywhere else
Jordan cheers buddy for that spot on william hill yesterday , with the warriors winning game 3 there is no argument on there side now anyway so looks like a winner there
US SPORTS SINGLES:
MLB:
– Texas Rangers ML @ $2.28 (5 points)
NHL:
– New York Rangers WIN (60mins) @ $2.18 (5 points)
NBA:
– Atlanta Hawks +8.5 & UNDER 190.5 @ $3.68 (2.5 points)
On all 3 attila, hoping for some overnight profit. Was on the tennis acca aswell, couldnt believe it, thought it was in the bag when she went a set up
@ Thereddevils – I know your pain. My $7 5 Fold was let down by Garcia, she was the shortest leg at $1.14 and even won the 1st set. Other legs were all around $1.59 or Evens and won easy. Knew I shouldn’t have added her as I was doing it.
@ Del – hope they win for you mate! Such a shame Garcia wrecked that Acca, I was so confident of it and it was really cruisin until that last leg (should have cashed out, argh!)
Btw, not super confident of the Hawks to cover but their season stats are good when away off a home favourite loss, plus it’s their last chance to have a crack at the series really so am think it’ll be a close and low scoring grind
Mark- that’s definitely a match that says overs to me. You never can be sure of course, but smells like a five setter
On something similar to you Attila
(MLB) Texas win @ Yankees 11/8 2 points single bet
Treble @ 8.93/1 1 point
(NHL)NY Rangers win includes OT @ 4/6
(MLB)Texas win & Over 6.5 Runs @ 9/4
(NBA)Cavs/Hawks Under 191.5 @ 5/6
All odds with skybet
Tennis Pick for me today
Juan Monaco
Victor Troicki
Irina Begu
Nick KYRGIOS
Gilles Simon
Andy Murray 3 – 0
All win
Football Pick
AEK Athens
Basel
Pribram FK
Odds BK
All win
Good Luck
+ First time on here
LeBron is dancing on the court while warming up. He means more business tonight haha
lebron 0 from 9 1st quarter nil points
wat a turd !!!
A flaccid turd haha
They are shocking . gonna kill all my bets
3 from 16 , thats absolutely crap !!!
The suspense on this flagrant call is killing me I need 4 points hahaha
NY Rangers down 2-0, crap. Need a 3 goal 3rd qtr from them, not liking the chances of it.
Oh ffs!
Cleveland Cavaliers Over 50.5 1st Half Points @ 10/11 @ WillHill **LOSE** 48 – Only shot 32% too…