THE NBA Finals launch tonight and it's a repeat of last year's showpiece with Golden State Warriors against Cleveland Cavs.
Warriors, who set the best regular-season record in NBA history of 73 wins and just nine losses, are 4-9 favourites at the likes of Ladbrokes and Coral to defend their title with the Cavs 15-8 outsiders (Paddy Power).
Cavs, on the road for game one of the seven-match battle for glory, are 15-8 at marathonbet to open with a win while the hosts are 5-12 at Paddy Power.
On the oche it's the start of the darts World Cup in Frankfurt where England defend the title and Dutch duo Michael van Gerwen and Raymond van Barneveld lead the betting at 13-8 with Betway.
Other spoting highlights today include cricket and baseball so as usual let's hear all your sporting tips and chat.
– Duel for the semifinals at Roland Garros between the two players in form – Kiki Bertens won with Angelique Kerber 6-2, 3-6, 6-3, then Darya Kasatkin 6-2, 3-6, 10-8 in marathon matches, Timea passed Venus Williams 6-2, 6-4 and Pauline Parmentier 6-4 6-2 but her opponents were tired in both games even with medical problems. Bertens is a player who often played 3 sets matches I think it will be a very balanced match and we will have a decisive set. Timea Bacsinszky is in the best year so far so Kiki with best performance at RG this time ,I am counting on a long match with probably a decisive set, both players have a similar style of play on the bottom line and prefer long shifts.
Bet : Bertens – Bacsinszky
– over 21.5 @ 1.81 – (9/10)
– over 2.5 sets @ 2.38 – (6/10)
Unibet
I’ll b on these radu
– Serena Williams has at first sight a very easy match against the player from Kazakhstan Yulia Putintseva, she is the No. 1 WTA and is in great form in Paris, not losing any set , last match passed 61, 61 against Svitolina, No. 20 in the world ranking , with 8 aces, this time plays against 60th WTA , so victory should be easy, Serena has an extremely powerful and accurate service and most often wins the game only because collected the points with her service, it worked perfectly with Svitolina and is not excluded that only Serena to cover the 6.5 aces in game, Putintseva has a good service and had three aces in the previous game, with Suarez Navarro. In front of Serena, Putintseva will have to risk more at the serve, and probably many double faults, but i think she’ll have 2-3 and aces.
Bet : Williams – Putintseva – over 6.5 aces @ 1.80 Unibet (8/10)
**Posted Yesterday**
WNBA
Ind Fever @ Seat Storm (00:00GMT)
Under 168.5 @ 1/2 Bet365 – 5pts staked. ***WINNER***
Good luck!
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Final score 75-85
French Open Doubles (10:00GMT)
Lopez / Lopez (Win)
Challenger Tour (10:00GMT)
Ricardas Berankis (Win)
Double @ 21/10 Boylesport – 1pt staked.
Good luck!
French Open
Novak Djokovic v Tomas Berdych
BERDYCH to win 10/1 boylesports
BERDYCH +7.5 games 1/1 NAP ladbrokes william hill
Chance to make free money if my understanding is correct – currently odds of 2.42 for Berdych +7.5 with Marathon Bet and odds of 2.75 for Djoko -7.5 with Unibet inplay (set 3, 1-1)
French Open Doubles (10:00GMT)
Lopez / Lopez (Win) **WON**
Challenger Tour (10:00GMT)
Ricardas Berankis (Win) **LOST**
Double @ 21/10 Boylesport – 1pt staked.
Good luck!
Spanish ACB Playoffs (Game 1)
Valencia @ Real Madrid (20:00GMT)
Under 172.5 @ 10/11 Stan James – 5pts staked.
Good luck!
On it hunter?
I originally had this down as Valencia +12.5 @ 1/2 but taking a big punt on the unders as I think Madrid will play a more defence game than usual. Valencia will try and slow down the tempo so hopefully we’ll see unders with any luck!
I can’t believe this Match, Gosh!
And the dutch destroyer marches on!!
Posted on yesterdays thread kiki bertens to beat timea bacsinszky @2.20 with bet365 (price grew this morning to 2.75 typical!)
Next opponent to be knocked down a peg or two serena williams!
Nice one bud? Bertens turning out to be a real money maker!
Mlb
Detroit Tigers ml @ 2.1 (2.5pts)
On this Dazzler, been looking out for your tips, hope all is well pal
Spanish ACB Playoffs (Game 1)
Valencia @ Real Madrid (20:00GMT)
Under 172.5 @ 10/11 Stan James – 5pts staked. ***WINNER***
Good luck!
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The mighty Madrid take game one of the playoffs with an impressive performance. Final score 82-57 (139 points) ?
@hunter, well done. hoping for more winners from u
NBA Final (Game 1)
Speculative bet here as Warriors looked unusually off the pace in the 1st half of their games against OKC. I expect this to be a close encounter with the Warriors just edging it.
Cavs @ Warriors (02:00GMT)
Cavs HT / Warriors FT @ 11/2 Ladbrokes – 1pt staked.
Good luck!
Follow the oracle hunter the euro basketball king thx again ?