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[bitbollo]

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Dimitrov v Sinner - I hope Sinner wins this, could be a tricky one.

Well... I did it!!!! And if Sinner will be able to win the Shangai Master he could reach the 4th position on ATP!
Great result even if this year he has some disappoint (likewise in Roma against Cerundolo...)
Of course the match against Alcaraz will be again a great page of tennis.

[Vaskiy]

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Dimitrov v Sinner - I hope Sinner wins this, could be a tricky one.

Well... I did it!!!! And if Sinner will be able to win the Shangai Master he could reach the 4th position on ATP!
Great result even if this year he has some disappoint (likewise in Roma against Cerundolo...)
Of course the match against Alcaraz will be again a great page of tennis.

Yeah, it is a big page in tennis. Same time Sinner have got the winning history along with him. Alcaraz and Sinner met in the Miami Open and it was Sinner who won the match 7⁷-6⁴ 4-6 2-6. This time predictions were completely different and it was stated that Alcaraz will be winning the match in direct sets.

[bct_ail]

Semi-final between Zverev and Medvedev. This is now the fifth time the two will met. Zverev only won once, in August in Cincinnati. Medvedev is in top form and has also performed well in this tournament. I rather see the advantage for Medvedev.

In the second semi-final, Alcaraz should have no big difficulties against Sinner. But Alcaraz has also lost surprisingly sometimes in the last weeks.

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Sabalenka v Boulter live in Beijing China Open now. The match is surprisingly tight as Boulter is taking her serve games and also fighting hard in receive games. I love her short crosses on receive, she managed to surprise the Belarussian several times with that shot. Tournament's first seed is fighting for literally every point. 7:5, 3:2 Sabalenka so far.

Another matches worth mentioning are:

Andreeve v Pavluychenkova all Russian derby with a teenage sensation Mirra Andreeva who had breezed past Krejcikova in Round 1 6:2, 6:2.

Kostyuk v Jabeur another interesting match between top players. The Ukrainian has been playing really well lately while Ons is not in her best form atm. Taking this into account it should be a close encounter.

[romero121]

Semi-final between Zverev and Medvedev. This is now the fifth time the two will met. Zverev only won once, in August in Cincinnati. Medvedev is in top form and has also performed well in this tournament. I rather see the advantage for Medvedev.

In the second semi-final, Alcaraz should have no big difficulties against Sinner. But Alcaraz has also lost surprisingly sometimes in the last weeks.

For some reason my inner mind said this to be a winning match for Sinner against Alcaraz and Zverev against Medvedev. One of my prediction have is correct as Sinner fought well and won the first set and it was a very easy win in the second set as the scores were 7⁷-6⁴ 6-1

In the other match Medvedev have won it in a much easier way against Zverev 6-4 6-3
I even placed a multibet and lost it, I should've went for single bet.

[aoluain]

Semi-final between Zverev and Medvedev. This is now the fifth time the two will met. Zverev only won once, in August in Cincinnati. Medvedev is in top form and has also performed well in this tournament. I rather see the advantage for Medvedev.

In the second semi-final, Alcaraz should have no big difficulties against Sinner. But Alcaraz has also lost surprisingly sometimes in the last weeks.

For some reason my inner mind said this to be a winning match for Sinner against Alcaraz

Well romero121 your inner mind was 100% spot on - well done on that call, I didnt bet
on that because Sinner won - IN 2 SETS
6⁴ - 7⁷ & 1 - 6 !!

TBH I didnt see that coming, I had predicted a Medvedev v Alcaraz final and by the odds
before the match not many saw it either, nice price romero121 with 3.70.

At least I got half my prediction right, Medvedev also won with 2 sets against Zverev.

I think Sinner has a very real chance against Medvedev in the final!

[bct_ail]

Semi-final between Zverev and Medvedev. This is now the fifth time the two will met. Zverev only won once, in August in Cincinnati. Medvedev is in top form and has also performed well in this tournament. I rather see the advantage for Medvedev.

In the second semi-final, Alcaraz should have no big difficulties against Sinner. But Alcaraz has also lost surprisingly sometimes in the last weeks.

For some reason my inner mind said this to be a winning match for Sinner against Alcaraz

Well romero121 your inner mind was 100% spot on - well done on that call, I didnt bet
on that because Sinner won - IN 2 SETS
6⁴ - 7⁷ & 1 - 6 !!

TBH I didnt see that coming

I did not expect it either, but as I wrote before, Alcaraz surprisingly lost some matches. That is why I do not see him as number 1 yet. Toronto, US Open, Rome, for example, are tournaments where he did not reach the final. For me he is not yet a player on whom I would always bet 100% for a win.

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Semi-final between Zverev and Medvedev. This is now the fifth time the two will met. Zverev only won once, in August in Cincinnati. Medvedev is in top form and has also performed well in this tournament. I rather see the advantage for Medvedev.

In the second semi-final, Alcaraz should have no big difficulties against Sinner. But Alcaraz has also lost surprisingly sometimes in the last weeks.

For some reason my inner mind said this to be a winning match for Sinner against Alcaraz and Zverev against Medvedev. One of my prediction have is correct as Sinner fought well and won the first set and it was a very easy win in the second set as the scores were 7⁷-6⁴ 6-1

In the other match Medvedev have won it in a much easier way against Zverev 6-4 6-3
I even placed a multibet and lost it, I should've went for single bet.

Well, to tell you the truth my bets were exactly opposite to yours: Medvedev and Alcaraz was my prediction. I didn't place a combo though and managed to break even. Anyway, in tomorrow's final my bet will be on the Russian. Not sure why, but I think Sinner is not mature enough for such a title.

[vennali]

Seems like Carlos has a kryptonite in Sinner. Sinner becomes the only player to beat Carlos Alcaraz 4 times in the ATP.  Medvedev must be happy that Sinner took out Alcaraz as Meddy struggles against Carlos.

[aoluain]

Seems like Carlos has a kryptonite in Sinner. Sinner becomes the only player to beat Carlos Alcaraz 4 times in the ATP.  Medvedev must be happy that Sinner took out Alcaraz as Meddy struggles against Carlos.

Yes and he has a handy record against Sinner but nothing lasts forever and Sinner will
be able to beat Medvedev at some stage.

In my mind Medvedev plays a patient game and likes to play long rallys, we have seen
against Alcaraz that Sinner doesnt have a problem with that either and as he gets
stronger these battles with Medvedev will become even more epic.

The odds are Sinner 2.5 - 1.53 Medvedev
Again a nice price on Jannik!

[bitbollo]

Seems like Carlos has a kryptonite in Sinner. Sinner becomes the only player to beat Carlos Alcaraz 4 times in the ATP.  Medvedev must be happy that Sinner took out Alcaraz as Meddy struggles against Carlos.

Yes and he has a handy record against Sinner but nothing lasts forever and Sinner will
be able to beat Medvedev at some stage.

In my mind Medvedev plays a patient game and likes to play long rallys, we have seen
against Alcaraz that Sinner doesnt have a problem with that either and as he gets
stronger these battles with Medvedev will become even more epic.

The odds are Sinner 2.5 - 1.53 Medvedev
Again a nice price on Jannik!

Interesting odd for Sinner today! I am tempted to place a small bet on him ....
I think that much probably this high odd is linked to his health condition it's a big "wild card" for today match. 
In any case he has now reached the 4th place of ATP thanks to this victory.  It's clear now why NIKE has invested around 100 milion of usd on this guy....

[serveria.com]

Some surprising results from the WTA draw: Ostapenko eased past Pegula 6:4, 6:2 (who could have guessed?), Samsonova defeated Kostyuk in a 3 set thriller 6:4,6:7, 7:5.

Among the remaining round of 16 matches I'd like to draw your attention to Andreeva v Rybakina encounter. Russian teenage starlet is on fire (Krejcikova and Pavlyuchenkova out) and yet to lose a set in this tournament. Will be interesting to see her play against a top10 player.

Quarter final match Ostapenko v Samsonova looks very promising too, but I won't be betting on this one. Ostapenko is much too unpredictable. Would recommend as a great watch though.

[rdbase]

Seems like Carlos has a kryptonite in Sinner. Sinner becomes the only player to beat Carlos Alcaraz 4 times in the ATP.  Medvedev must be happy that Sinner took out Alcaraz as Meddy struggles against Carlos.

Yes and he has a handy record against Sinner but nothing lasts forever and Sinner will
be able to beat Medvedev at some stage.

In my mind Medvedev plays a patient game and likes to play long rallys, we have seen
against Alcaraz that Sinner doesnt have a problem with that either and as he gets
stronger these battles with Medvedev will become even more epic.

The odds are Sinner 2.5 - 1.53 Medvedev
Again a nice price on Jannik!

Interesting odd for Sinner today! I am tempted to place a small bet on him ....
I think that much probably this high odd is linked to his health condition it's a big "wild card" for today match. 
In any case he has now reached the 4th place of ATP thanks to this victory.  It's clear now why NIKE has invested around 100 milion of usd on this guy....

What health condition does Sinner have? This might be the reason why he is not the favorite to win in this finals since he beat the highest favored one in Alcaraz already and the odds reflect that.
He did look very tired and was breathing heavily after any long rallys during the games yesterday.

The same could be said for the women's side with Pegula getting beat in straight sets against Ostapenko.
She was the heavy favorite being almost 3 to 1 in the odds department for Jelena to win being the #13th ranked player and Jessica being #4th.
She looked drained even in the first set and none of her shots where landing. Especially her first serve, they almost all landed into the net with a 43% accuracy rate compared to Ostapenko's at 62%.

[Strongkored]

Among the remaining round of 16 matches I'd like to draw your attention to Andreeva v Rybakina encounter. Russian teenage starlet is on fire (Krejcikova and Pavlyuchenkova out) and yet to lose a set in this tournament. Will be interesting to see her play against a top10 player.

In the first set, Rybakina had difficulty, she lost the set, entering the second set, she still seemed to be struggling to find the right strategy to beat the young player, but the experience gave her many advantages and managed to take the second set and the third set became easier for her because Andreeva seemed unable to control the game well.

A good game from Jannick Sinner, and Medvedev really got tough resistance from this Italian tennis player. If Medvedev manages to win the second set then this final will go through a deciding set and it is still quite difficult to guess who will win because both of them played quite solidly, but Sinner is 0-6 against Medvedev and maybe this will be his first win over Medvedev.

[BALIK]

Among the remaining round of 16 matches I'd like to draw your attention to Andreeva v Rybakina encounter. Russian teenage starlet is on fire (Krejcikova and Pavlyuchenkova out) and yet to lose a set in this tournament. Will be interesting to see her play against a top10 player.

In the first set, Rybakina had difficulty, she lost the set, entering the second set, she still seemed to be struggling to find the right strategy to beat the young player, but the experience gave her many advantages and managed to take the second set and the third set became easier for her because Andreeva seemed unable to control the game well.

Maybe Pegula is in a bad mental state after losing the final? I don't know, but as one of the best in the world in women's tennis, she should be able to handle these things without too much problems. Anyway, the loss was definitely surprising.

Rybakina made a really good comeback in this match. After losing the first set, which she actually lost quite easily. In my opinion, she was able to make a good comeback. She was able to win the next two sets, pretty convincingly.

A good game from Jannick Sinner, and Medvedev really got tough resistance from this Italian tennis player. If Medvedev manages to win the second set then this final will go through a deciding set and it is still quite difficult to guess who will win because both of them played quite solidly, but Sinner is 0-6 against Medvedev and maybe this will be his first win over Medvedev.

Really competitive final between Medvedev and Sinner. It was a match of two sets. But both of the sets were really competitive and Sinner had to work really hard to win both sets. Even though a lot of people thought that this match was going to go to the third set, I was not disappointed to see how this match was played.

[aoluain]

Seems like Carlos has a kryptonite in Sinner. Sinner becomes the only player to beat Carlos Alcaraz 4 times in the ATP.  Medvedev must be happy that Sinner took out Alcaraz as Meddy struggles against Carlos.

Yes and he has a handy record against Sinner but nothing lasts forever and Sinner will
be able to beat Medvedev at some stage.

In my mind Medvedev plays a patient game and likes to play long rallys, we have seen
against Alcaraz that Sinner doesnt have a problem with that either and as he gets
stronger these battles with Medvedev will become even more epic.

The odds are Sinner 2.5 - 1.53 Medvedev
Again a nice price on Jannik!

Interesting odd for Sinner today! I am tempted to place a small bet on him ....
I think that much probably this high odd is linked to his health condition it's a big "wild card" for today match.  
In any case he has now reached the 4th place of ATP thanks to this victory.  It's clear now why NIKE has invested around 100 milion of usd on this guy....

Those nice odds are even nicer for the ones who backed him big or small bets.

He got the job done in 2 tie breakers, I was right with my reckoning that it could
be a close match. Looking at the stats apre match kind of backs that up but the
stand out is Medvedev's 4 double faults kind of stand out.

Interestingly thats Jannik's 1st win over Daniil, its now 1-6

That is some investment by Nike, they obviously have backed a winner in Jannik.

[bitbollo]

Finally Sinner has won the first match against Medvedev in his career!
6 - 1 :O impressive this score for the Russian player...

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Interestingly thats Jannik's 1st win over Daniil, its now 1-6

That is some investment by Nike, they obviously have backed a winner in Jannik.

Probably he will be the only player (actually) able to fight against Alcaraz.

[Vaskiy]

Finally Sinner has won the first match against Medvedev in his career!
6 - 1 :O impressive this score for the Russian player...

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Interestingly thats Jannik's 1st win over Daniil, its now 1-6

That is some investment by Nike, they obviously have backed a winner in Jannik.

Probably he will be the only player (actually) able to fight against Alcaraz.

As said Sinner had won it in a much easier way. In similar situation the match between Alcaraz and Djokovic used to be that hard and finally Djokovic won the match. Here Sinner won the first set on a tie breaker and the second one in a much easier way as the scores were just 6-1

The match between Medvedev and Sinner looked like the match between Alcaraz and Djokovic. A great final as the scores were close and both the sets were decided through a tie breaker.

[aoluain]

Finally Sinner has won the first match against Medvedev in his career!
6 - 1 :O impressive this score for the Russian player...

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Interestingly thats Jannik's 1st win over Daniil, its now 1-6

That is some investment by Nike, they obviously have backed a winner in Jannik.

Probably he will be the only player (actually) able to fight against Alcaraz.

I think Sinner is one of only a few who is and possibly will be able to compete and
win against Alcaraz. Going into the semi final their head to head was 3-3, obviously
Jannik has taken the lead there. As for Medvedev I think for future meetings Jannik
will be able to win again.

He definitely has more developing to do and actually looking back on the match
Jannik was definitely more creative with his play. The future is definitely very interesting
for him.

[serveria.com]

At Beijing WTA two quarterfinal matches are ready to be played: Ostapenko v Samsonova and Garcia v Swiatek.

Two more to go: Rybakina will find out who her opponent will be after today's match between Sabalenka and Paolini. It's going to be a tough fight for a tiny Italian. Sabalenka winning this one will result in one of the best and already considered classic duels against Rybakina in a semifinal.

Two remaining spots will be taken by either Sakkari or Wang and Kudermetova or Gauff. Lots of quality womens' tennis action today!