Less is more

Only 7/12 favs won last night, with Errani, Vinci, Cornet, Malek and Zheng losing. Bit surprised about Malek and Zheng, and also Pous Tio returning from her drugs ban to upset Vinci.

After the Hradecka mishap the prev night I decided to cut down on the number of matches I'd bet on and just had the one bet on Hercog. Can't be bothered to make a screenshot. Was also going to back Malek in KL but didn't have enough confidence to put the money down and leave it and failed to wake up.

I also couldn't decide what to do in the CL Inter vs Chelski and just watched. A good game, the sort you could've done your nuts on!

Will continue the less in more approach after the upsets last night. Cue all the favs trotting up!
If any of you use the Geeks Toy betting app you should be aware of the major flaw in the greening up functionality on 2 runner markets when the fav has flipflopped. If you look at the screenshot from the Hercog match you'll see the app is calculating the greening up bet using a back of Cornetto at 2.7 and not a lay of Hercog at 1.13. Hence the figure is wildly incorrect - it should be c£140, not £58. It would work ok if the initial bet had been a back of Hercog and not a lay of Cornetto, but it makes the app unusable for 2 runner markets.

New alarm clock needed!

7 out of 9 favs won overnight in Acapulco, with Kookie and Kerber losing. The latter had played in the final in Bogota on Sunday and it's so often the case that those players do badly in their first match the next week - always worth laying. Last week, Hercog and Deme had both lost. Though having said that, Venus cruised through with no problem. No such thing as hard and fast rules in this game, it's not physics!

All 4 favs trotted up in KL. I missed a couple winners through failing to get up in time dammit. Didn't have enough faith in them to put the money down and just leave it, ah well.

Got done by an unexpectedly rapid collapse by Hradecka. Think of her as quite a solid fighter and of Dulko as a bit of a flaky finisher, so was happy sitting on my bet going into the 3rd set, only for Hradecka to collapse so fast there wasn't much chance to get out of the bet. This then made me a bit leery and I took the cautious route in the Kerber lay only for that one to come in! Mind you, with Kerber winning the 1st set I think discretion was the right play there.
Also had a lay of Barca in the CL but bottled it when Barca equalised. It could've been so much more. More CL tonight and Acapulco back to a 9pm kickoff tonight. What a civilised time that is.

23 Feb

5 out of 7 favs won overnight in Acapulco, with Parmentier and Cirstea losing. Cirstea's poor start to the season continues as she was dumped out by the fast improving Fichmann. Szavay gave me a fright losing the 1st set easily before going on to win. There was a rumour touted on the BF forum about a new back injury and her serve stats did seem to confirm that - jury out on that one, may just have been due to 1st match of the year on clay.

As I type it looks like KL is done for the day, though they did play till a silly hour yesterday so can't be sure. 3 of the 5 matches completed so far were won by the fav, with Voegele and, surprisingly, Tanasugarn losing.

Had a pretty good session last night, and didn't have any bets in KL, partly through not being able to stay awake (!) and partly because there didn't seem like any worth having. The obvious favs looked too short especially as it's 1r, and the others didn't convince.
Acapulco kicks off at 5pm UK time today, so there's the possibility of round the clock tennis. There's also CL footie tonight, so an interesting evening awaits!

The voice of an angel

I came across this while I was searching for the "Loco down in Acapulco" on Youtube. Not entirely sure why or how it also appeared on the search! But it's worth a post. She really does have the voice of an angel.

Going loco down in Acapulco

After a few days off it was back to dodgy scoreboards in Malaysia early this morning. Only had a couple bets and then the sb's froze completely. There was some doubt whether play had been abandoned for the day, so much so I unwound my bets and gave up for the day. As it turned out play was under way, just the sb's were fooked, with one match finishing at 17.30pm UK time which I think translates to 1.30am local!

We can't get too superior and condescending about dodgy sb's in far flung parts of the world - iirc the sb in Birmingham last year was pretty patchy, as was Eastbourne.
It was great to see Pova winning again, though she didn't beat much. Her serving stats were much improved and if she can keep that up then beware!

I also had a small bet on the usual Monday afternoon madcap Greek footie. Away side down to 10 men score, then reduced further to 9 and hold out for the win. Madness!
I'm not entirely sure what time to update the blog - there's one tournie in Malaysia running from 5am UK time through till the afternoon and one in Acapulco that will run from 9pm into the early hours, and could conceivably overlap with the start of Malaysia! Seems the best time is after the end of Malaysia, hence the update now while waiting for the first day's action in Acapulco. It's going to be a tough week!