THE seeds are tumbling at the Cincinnati Masters where there's been a spate of shocks.
Second seed Stan Wawrinka was the biggest scalp, crashing out to Grigor Dimitrov, while third seed Rafa Nadal was sent packing by Croat teen Borna Coric and fifth seed Kei Nishikori lost to Bernard Tomic.
Title favourite Andy Murray is still standing, pending his overnight game against Kevin Anderson, who knocked the Scot out of last year's US Open.
The Olympics is entering the final few days and today's highlights include boxing finals plus GB women – 7-2 at bwin for glory – taking on Holland (8-11, Betfred) in the women's hockey final.
Elsewhere there's a Super League clash between Wigan and St Helens plus Test cricket worth a flutter today so let's hear all your sporting tips and chat.
Bolt to break the world 200m record 5/1 paddy power
Not long posted this elsewhere. And glad paddy are still offering 5/1
I see money has come for bolt to break the 200m world record tonight. However, betfair are still offering a standout 5/1.
I feel Bolt is going to come extremely close to nailing this, and although 5’s is relatively short for a world record to be broken, all the signs are there for it to be done.
Bolt has admitted he feels in amazing shape and form right now, and said if it wasn’t for the lack of turnaround time between semi and final in 100m, he could’ve possibly broken that record. He’s got 24 hours between semi and final in 200m. He literally has no competition for the gold, so it’s a race against the clock. If he can get out the blocks as well as he did in the semi, and sprint it out to the line, I firmly believe the record is dead and buried. Bolt has said he’s eyeing it up. If that record is to be broken in the coming years, tonight is the night.
200m world record to be broken 5/1.
Fingers crossed
Think he eased up a bit but still the greatest sprinter of all time !
Olympic games
Handball (women) Thursday
Netherlands v France over 44.5 match goals
Volleyball (women) Friday morning
China v Netherlands over 144.5 total points
Double @ 2.07 with 888 sport – 20 points WIN :)
Unfortunately both Dutch teams lost. The handball game was 23-24 and the points total in the volleyball game was already in the 3rd set. The good news is the ladies of these teams play for bronze on Saturday.
I don’t know if anyone followed the olympic bets I placed. But these are the figures:
Bets: 6
Wins: 5
Lost: 1
Points staked: 87
Points returned: 166
Profit: +79
That’s a great record for you on the Olympics.
I’ve not had as many bets as I’d have liked simply because it coincided with the start of the football so too busy.
Olympic games
Last bet for the olympics.
Handball (women) Saturday
Netherlands v Norway over 52.5 match goals
Volleyball (women) Saturday
Netherlands v USA over 141.5 total points
Double @ 2.11 with 888 sport – 15 points
The Netherlands and Norway both play fast and scored a decent amount of goals in their games at the olympics. Norway scored: 28,27,30,28,28,33 and 31. The Netherlands scored: 14,26,32,29,34,32 and 23. The 2 lowest scores were both against a defensive and very slow playing French team. Both teams should be able to score 27 or more to bring in this bet.
This is the 3rd time I post a bet for overs in Volleybal involving the Dutch team. They play USA in the game for the bronze medal. I really can’t see a 3-0 or 0-3 result in this game. The group game ended 3-2 to the USA and I think we will see another game with at least 4 sets which will easily bring in the points total of over 141.5
Rugby Championship tomorrow and keeping it simple for my 1st bet. Teams may be rusty so don’t go big. Taking a double of NZ to win and Argentina +20.5 at just over 5/6.
The Springboks are still in transition and I don’t expect them to thump Argentina. The All Black game might actually be closer than people are expecting but I still reckon they’ll take care of the Aussies. I’ll be looking at the in-play markets too and will wait for the prices to rise on over 1.5 tries for the Aussies and then will see how the Argentinians go and will look at their total tries market too. Enjoy the games!
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MLB Bet For Tonight
4 Fold @ 8/1 (£10) LOST
Astros ML Lost 13-5
Marlins ML Lost 5-4
Mariners ML Lost 6-4
SF Giants/NY Mets No Runs 1st Inning Yes 0-0
MLB Bets For Tonight
4 Fold @ 7/1 (£10) skybet
Rangers ML
Nationals ML
Diamondbacks ML
SF Giants ML
LONGSHOT
8 Fold @ 84.09/1 (£5) skybet
Orioles ML
Cardinals ML
LA Dodgers ML
Tigers ML
A’s ML
Royals ML
Cubs ML
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