ANDY MURRAY'S hopes of retaining his Olympic title have received a huge boost with world No.1 Novak Djokovic sent crashing in round one.
British No.1 Murray is now odds on at 10-11 with Sportingbet to seal singles gold with Rafa Nadal – making his comeback after two months out with a wrist injury – next in the betting at 8-1 followed by Djokovic's conqueror Juan Martin Del Potro at 9-1 and Kei Nishikori at 10-1.
Murray plays his second-round match today against Argentina's Juan Monaco – who is 12-1 at Betfair for a shock win, while the Scot to progress in straight sets pays 3-10 at Sportingbet.
Nadal will hope his wrist holds up when he takes on Andreas Seppi and the likes of David Goffin and Gilles Simon are also in action.
There's loads more sporting highlights today from Rio and beyond so let's hear all your tips and chat.
Laszlo cseh 13-8 to win the men’s 200m butterfly at hills.
All the focus is on Phelps v Le clos.
Maybe it should be on the battle of Hungary, cseh v kenderesi.
13-8 and 14-1 be a nice reverse forecast.
But cseh win only for me
Men’s 200m Freestyle
Sun Yang @ 4/6 @ Bet Victor – 6 points ***WIN**
Cycling: Olympic games time trial (men)
Primoz Roglic to win @ 34.00 each-way @ Stanjames / Ladbrokes
A lot of question marks around all the favourites for the time trial. Froome looked a bit cooked in the road race, Dumoulin has a wrist injury, Tony Martin has a knee problem, Dennis hasn’t had a decent TT all year, same goes for Kiriyenka and the course looks to hard for Cancellara.
Roglic did really well in the road race, finishing 26th in front of all other TT specialists. He won the long TT in the Giro this year and I really can see him getting a medal on Wednesday, let’s hope he can get the gold one.
Cycling: Olympic games time trial (men)
Match-ups:
Cancellara to beat Martin
Roglic to beat Phinney
Double @ 2.85 with 888 – 15 points
I already tipped Roglic to win this. Phinney haven’t had a very good season and there is not any indication of good form. He is one of the heavier guys in this race and that really doesn’t help with the amount of climbing in this time trial.
Cancellara abandoned the Tour de France early to focus on this race. He looked really strong in the road race and was impressive on the climbs to help his Swiss team mates. I think we will see a good performance from him in his last racing season. Tony Martin was the best in the world in TT’s, but that form is gone for a long time. He had to abandon the Tour de France in the last stage with knee problems after a crash, we haven’t seen any form in the road race and course should be a bit too hard for him.
Tennis
– Sugita – Simon – 1st set under 9.5 @ 1.80
– Paire – Fognini – Fognini to win @ 1.75
– Cuevas – Bellucci -over 22.5 @ 1.81
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Basketball
– Spain – Brazil – Spain (-6.5) @ 1.78
– Lithuania – Nigeria – over 151.5 @ 1.88
– Argentina – Croatia – Croatia (+3.5) @ 1.80
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Combo @ 1.80 (NAP)
– Spain – Brazil – Spain to win @ 1.35
– Paire – Fognini -Fognini (+1.5 set) @ 1.33
Ice Hockey – about to start in 5min
Switzerland U18 – USA U18
– 1st period over 2goals(TA) @ 1.80
– USA over 5 goals (TA) @ 1.74
Unibet
*Posted Yesterday*
MLB Bets For Tonight
Reds @ Cardinals
Reds Starting Pitcher Cody Reed has had a poor 1st inning in half his starts this season so taking a chance on it continuing.
Cardinals 1st inning winner @ 9/4 (£10) LOST 0-0 end of 1st inning
5 Fold @ 16.05/1 (£10) LOST
Brewers ML Lost 4-3
Astros ML Lost 3-1
Rangers ML Win 4-3
Orioles ML Lost 3-2
Tigers ML Lost 3-0
MLB Bets For Tonight
5 Fold @ 8.5/1 (£10) skybet
Nationals ML
Blue Jays ML
Red Sox ML
Cubs ML
Orioles ML
Longshot
6 Fold @ 80.5/1 (£5) skybet
Red Sox -1.5 RL
Marlins ML
Diamondbacks ML
Braves ML
Twins ML
Tigers ML
Michael phelps mens 200m butterfly 6/4 @hills
WON