Favs continue to struggle

Only 3/5 favs won in Pattaya, Chan and Dushevina losing, a surprising loss by Dushevina, who is usually very solid against the lower ranked players. And only 2/5 won in Paris, with Rezai, Schiavone and Schnyder perishing. Looks like the Fed Cup form just never translates very well to main tour events, as Safarova and Petkovic had poor results at the weekend but have come out and done well in Paris. I'm also quite surprised at how easily Patty appears to have lost to Oudin, though she often takes a set to get going so perhaps the 1st set scoreline isn't wholly representative. I had anticipated the wily old campaigner, who had played well in her 1st match, to have too many tricks for the youngster who would never have played anyone of Patty's ilk before.

Had another good day with a few in running bets on the tennis coming in. I did let a bet on Patty run too long and may have got a bit ego-bound as she was the tip of the day. You cannot afford to let the need to be right affect you, and thinking back as dispassionately as I can I was probably guilty of that. Cost me a chunk of the day's profits! May have to re-examine doing the tip of the day experiment if it's going to mess with my head like that.Again some very interesting matches today. Was seething when Eurosport didn't cover the Schnyder match last night - hopefully they will cover all 4 qf's today. They didn't even have it on their much advertised subscription stream player. What a shocking channel ES is. They have their exclusive WTA deal but really do mess about with the coverage. The WTA must look at better options when the deal comes up for renewal, as the ES coverage doesn't do the sport justice.