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OK, so anyone out there reading this will know that I haven't updated for a long time. Well, it's been going OK. But, I'm going to get going next week with this blog the way I intended it in the first place. Please keep reading, it will be good! Starting on Monday there is 3 months of tennis in Europe ending at Wimbledon and I'm going to be very aggresive and hope to make loads of dough :). Probably end up with nothing, might end up with a lot. Hopefully it will be entertaining!

Davis Cup/WTA Paris

Ugh, shocking week. Didn't have many plays, but struggled all week. Davis Cup was very annoying, backed Serbia pretty big but then the Russian mafia poisoned Djokovic and Zimonjic which made it almost impossible to win with Tipsarevic out with an ankle injury. Made a bit of that back on the Sunday, laying Djokovic @ 1.04 when he was 2 sets and a break up. He looked knackered at that stage and duely retired at the end of the third so that was really good. Still the stake on that was small compared to other losses, and definately a week to forget!

Week 5 - Vina del Mar

Good week, which is a bit of a surprise considering there was only one small tournament down in Chile!! Started the week going 6-0 hitting some decent dogs including Roitman @ 2.87, Horna @ 2.37 and Fognini @ 2.89. Faded a little after that mainly down to favs losing final set tiebreaks which was a little tough but still ended up well up. Weekend was boring with a couple of short priced favs in the semis I didn't want to oppose and Monaco getting injured in the semis so we didn't get a final.

Looking forward to next week with Davis Cup over the weekend which I always enjoy!!!

Week 2 + Australian Open

Oooopssss!!!

OK, so I forgot to post anything the last few weeks. Let me break it down quickly....

Week 2 was boring. I couldn't be bothered staying up all night for the little bit of action so just had some punts and traded the first matches on in Auckland. Missed a couple of big trades by a couple of ticks - being greedy!! - which was frustrating but the punts did OK so quite happy with the week.

For the Aussie Open I was staying up through most nights and going to bed around midday after the night session finished. I just got completely knackered and brain functions were pretty limited :).

I had quite a few disappointments during the tournament, backed a lot of dogs who took it to a 5th set then lost (off the top of my head remember Safin, Gremelmayr, Haase, Koubek). The one that really turned it around for me was Hewitt against Baghdatis but that should never have gone to 5!!

Had a nice day with Cilic beating Gonzalez and Ferrero beating Nalbandian very comfortably. Also played a lot of handicaps and over/under total games which surprisingly went pretty well. Sure a couple of bookmakers will be keeping an eye on my during the next slam with these markets :).

Had a really nice end to the tournament. Backed Djokovic against Federer pretty big which was extra sweet as I love beating Federer. Backed the Bondarenko babes in the final of the ladies doubles which was also very enjoyable.

Also need to talk about Tsonga. WOW!!! How good was this guy? Cost me a lot of money as I backed Gasquet, Youzhny (big) and Nadal against him and Tsonga crushed them all. Backed Tsonga to win the 1st set in the final which worked out well but still lost out on him during the tournament.

Obviously I haven't mentioned everything, I've tried to forget most of the losses! Ended up making a decent profit, but had a few bumpy days along the way.

Happy with the way this year has gone so far, and I've got a huge plan ready for the French/Wimbledon part of the year. So anyone out there, please keep reading!!!!!

Week 1 - Sunday

That went well! Youzhny wins 6-0 6-1 against a clearly tired Nadal and that brings the end of a good week. Kept the stakes small this week, satisfied with a profit, and looking forward to bigger and better things in the forthcoming weeks!

See you next week!

Week 1 - Saturday

Interesting day today!

Backed Azarenka in the final @ 2 to beat Li, she won the first set then had some injury issues and lost in 3 sets. I was asleep so couldn't do anything about it! Backed Llodra who won comfortably and Tsonga, who was pathetic and lost really tamely!

Then the interesting bit was this afternoon, I got in after playing tennis and saw Nadal and Moya going into a third set. Wow! Didn't quite expect that, so started watching a bit. At 2-2 Nadal was serving, 0-15 and the price was 1.54. Thought he was playing well so had a piece of that. Then he gets broken and Moya is around 1.35-1.40 which was a disaster. Didn't want to take the big losses so let it ride, Moya got to 5-3 up but back came Nadal. He broke back to get to 5-5 then won the breaker in a 4 hour war. Vamos Nadal!

Would have been another bad day if he'd lost, but turned out OK. Tomorrow only Nadal game interests me, trying to make this a positive week, starting off with a decent lay of Nadal @ 1.49.