Seppi vs Davydenko

French Open - France, 1st round

 

Surface - Clay court

 

Andreas Seppi (ITA) - Nikolay Davydenko (RUS)

 

(25) ranking (47)

 

1355 points 920

 

(2) previous meetings (3)

 

I'm really close to put the maximum stake to this bet, because 36.5 games is really low line for match like this. But I should be careful since yesterday I was also convinced about over in Krajinovic - Devilder match, still it finished with fiasco for Serbian player. However, Krajinovic and Devilder are far from world top, they are not even close. It was match between players from 300th and 600th ATP positions. Matches like that is never easy to predict. So, I am not too much worried, today we have something different, this will be completely different level of tennis.

 

Andreas Seppi is on top form right now and quite rightly will enter this match as favorite. Still he is not a player who usually wins easily. Just look on his recent results: in Rome where he was in QF, Seppi in four rounds played even three times had to play the 3rd set. There is high tendency of over games matches at this player.

 

On the other hand, Davydenko is already veteran now. Surely his tennis is not anymore on highest level, yet he is still awkward opponent. We should not forget about his two semi-finals on this tournament. It would be huge suprise if he lose today in straight sets, I'll be even more surprised if he wins 3-0.

 

So, 4+ sets is what is expected in this match and over 36.5 games seem very tempting. 8 units stake this time. Good Luck!