Daily Result: £66.03
So it turns out I was wrong earlier and I'm simply incapable of reading a tv guide as Eurosport were showing some of the games from the Ordina Open live. Well, I say live - there was just about enough time to cancel bets before they were picked off by Dutch terrestrial viewers and those at the event. Evidence enough anyway to once again prove we don't need an 8-second in running delay in tennis as some are campaigning for on the Betfair tennis forum. Heaven help us all if their bleating gets listened too. Liquidity would disappear. Effectively we would be trading games and not points.
Anyway, made just under £20 on the Sluiter v Vik game. Nothing spectacular really. With either the match or the trading.
But the following game, Ancic v Qureshi, was an absolute cracker. Don't mind admitting I'd never heard of Qureshi before. Ranked 400 and something or other he's from Pakistan and wouldn't you know it - had a great old fashioned grass court game. It may have gone out of fashion but it was a timely reminder how difficult a powerful serve and volley game can be to beat. He won and lost a tie break and lost the match on a service break while trying to hold to make it 6-6 in the third.
Great game to watch and you have to take your hat off to Ancic too. I've mentioned before how impressive his tenacity is when he's up against it and there's several tour players you could think of who would have just folded against the persistent Qureshi.
Anyway, made just under £50 on that. To be honest a braver trader than me - or one less risk averse - could have make an absolute killing on that game. 1.02 nearly turned over. And I'm sure there were some serious brown trouser moments for those who'd lumped on Ancic at both the start and after he'd won the first set without laying off.
Going to switch to the cricket tomorrow. 2nd ODI between England and Sri Lanka and looking forward to it.
Why not check out this World Cup Betting Centre, or see how the Smiling Assassin's World Cup is going?
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