French tour coming to it's final phase. Now I think we know what players can show on court and besides for tipping it will be nice battles in semi-finals. Current no. 11 in ATP Murray will face no. 21 Mathieu who is playing at home, which is quite strong help for him. But for me I hope it won't help him today. It can be helpful against players like Gicquel (7:6, 7:6) or Llodra (7:6, 7:6) but against young and furious Scottish I don't thing he will match. Murray didn't play well against Wawrinka. Or maybe we can say that he could play much, much better. He won 2:1 in sets but still he left not nice to look stats, like 13 break points, but also we got to admit that he defended 8 of them. With French man Mahut he improved his game and faced only one break point and served 14 aces. Nicolas was playing good tennis too but home area and his game wasn't enough to challenge Andy. So one home player down now it's time for Mathieu, which is of course much better player than Mahut but if Andy will focus it is obvious that he is ready to match with player like Mathieu. He is a no. 11 in the world, c'mon! Mathieu easily dominated other French man Gilles but also his stats don't stunned me. In my opinion tie-break that he won against Llodra and Gicquel were a lot of luck and audience aid. With Murray who is world class, absolutely top player don't thing it will work. If these two will show the game that we saw yesterday it's going to be very equal battle. But the thing is that in my opinion Matheu can't play any better in this tour and Andy can for sure. Murray must push hard and don't let Mathieu to believe. I'm afraid because Andy didn't play too good at few moments with Wawrinka and hope he won't do it again. But besides he had won with Swiss, so maybe I shouldn't worry. H2h is 1:0 for Murray, 2:1 win on hard in 2007. I hope Andy will remember how to hit French man and he will use it.

Pick : Murray to win with -3 game handicap
Odds : 2.12
Stake : 8 / 10
Bookmaker : Pinnacle
Date : 2008-02-16
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