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US Open Show 2022 | The best Tennis Tips and Predictions

Speaker 1:

Welcome to the BetUS golf, horse racing, and tennis show. We’re off to the final grand slam of the year in tennis. We’re off to Flushing Meadows, where it’s the US Open, where 100 and… What was it? So, +15000, which is 150 to one in owed money, was your winner last year, in the Brit, Emma Raducanu, not seen since, to be fair. And Medvedev was +450, so just have a little look to see how they compare. Now, before I get my state side and European experts involved, we’re going to remember that we are America’s favorite sportsbook , so we’d like you to subscribe and also, we’d like you to ring the bell. Ring the bell means, we’ll notify you and you’ll never miss any content again. Also, I’d like you to follow @betustv because all sports are covered there and that’s the place you need to be. From state side, I have Alex Christenson, better known as @_Noops and from Europe, I have Snize, who’s Sebastian [inaudible 00:01:08]. Sebastian, I want to come to you first because last year we… Oh, first of all, is this the one competition and one surface where we can expect to get good value?

Snize:

Yeah, I think the US Open is the major that is the most unpredictable as really we saw last year, where we had a +15000 and a +20000 final. So both players came out of absolutely nowhere and this is a tournament, it’s late in the year, people are banged up, they are tired, fatigue. It’s always hot and humid in New York. So it is one for value seekers, as far as the majors are concerned, anyway. So very excited to be once again, returning to Flushing Meadows and hopefully, cash some big tickets.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, we love that. So let me give you a little rundown. We’re going to go with women’s contenders, women’s outrights, men’s contenders, men’s outrights, a Q and A, so get yourselves in the chat if you want, but this is the very early value show. Noops, men’s side. It all revolves around someone who’s probably not even going to play.

Noops:

There’s a lot yet to be determined. There’s a lot of talk back and forth, but given the way things have gone for Mr. Djokovic, I think it’s going to be really tough for him to enter the country, let alone the city of New York, where requirements have been a little more stringent. He’s still posted in the US Open tennis odds , he says he’s still practicing and who knows? I mean, things change here day to day. I mean, it’s just last week, the CDC came out with some big changes, so maybe, who knows? Something magical happens, but yeah, that is the big story. Will Novak back be there? I don’t think so, but I also think there is a greater than 0% chance he is.

Speaker 1:

Okay. Well, we’ll cover that when we get to the men’s. Let’s kick straight off and not waste anybody’s time. Remember, you will have your opportunity to ask any questions when we get down to the bottom. Okay, let’s start off with the women’s and Noops, you can go first because the first one we’re going to look at is obviously Swiatek. We’re looking at obviously, grand slam wins at two, but really all I’m interested in is US Open best round of 16, which then tells me, alarm bells are going off and best odds to win at +275. We saw her earlier on, I think it was at the French at -110.

Noops:

Yeah, you guys talked about value here in this time of the year and this is the reason why we have some value. To talk about the season, maybe in general, these women have now played eight months plus of tennis, really competitive, traveling all over the world, constantly in different cities and different time zones. It is brutal and if you go back and look at the end of the season, things look much different and who’s playing well, who’s playing poorly and Iga Swiatek, although a short career here as a really great WTA player, just about two, maybe three seasons with that much pressure on her, starts the year very well. Has a great early hard court season, blasts through clay, which is a really great surface for her. We even see some good grass results for her.

And then, things really tick down. For whatever reason, she’s struggled in North American tournaments. You see there, her best finish is the round of 16. That means she only won two matches at the US Open, that’s her best finish here. At +275, I understand what the books are doing here. She’s the number one player in the world, she’s incredible, of course, she could win this tournament, but given all the factors, given all the fatigue, looking at her past year, I am happy to put that number aside and look further down the board.

Speaker 1:

Okay. That’s your first woman’s contender. Let’s go to number two, because number two is one that obviously a lot of us were interested in when we got to… [inaudible 00:04:40] Simona Halep fell at the semi-final stage. Again, US Open best semi-finals, so she’s not no stranger to Flushing Meadows, but +650. Snize, is that value? She’s small and it’s hard hitting, this court.

Snize:

I don’t think it’s value, but Simona Halep is absolutely going to be there fighting for the title. Showed some real encouraging signs of form after coming back from injury problems. Did well on the grass, semi-final, semi-final, and then again, semifinal at Wimbledon, lost to eventual winner Rybakina, that was also a +15000 winner, talking about value. She won Toronto, The Masters there. So in great touch coming in here, but that price, as always in the WTA, just a bit too low to really want to attack, but she will absolutely go deep here and with a good draw, she could be in there for the title as well.

Speaker 1:

Okay. Talking about the draw though, do we expect that whatever the draw is, the biggest price you’re going to see is +650?

Snize:

Yeah. I don’t think it’s going to drop much. The top of the market, they’ve already come in to kind of the price range where you’d expect them, whereas we see the players outside the [inaudible 00:05:53] range are moving much more in the +22000 to +4000 range. Those are the odds that are going to be moving based on draw. We won’t really see much movement on these market leaders.

Speaker 1:

Okay, let’s go and have a look at contender number three, because Noops, this girl, she burst onto the scene at this event and will have the whole of the nation cheering her on, it’s Coco Gauff and at +1600. Is she a live contender? And also, at +1600, that’s probably worth a bit of a wager.

Noops:

It is really close to a wager for me. Like Snize just talked about, some of these players at the top of the market don’t move too much once the draw comes out, so I will wait to see what her draw looks like, but she is on the top of my list to check once that happens. She is one of the best players in the game and more impressively, somehow continues to get better. We talked about her earlier in the year and even last year, struggling with her forehand. It’s still not the best forehand in the WTA, but she continues to work on it, continues to find ways to improve her game. Her fitness is almost unmatched by anybody on tour at this point.

She plays great defensive tennis and I think on these courts, will do well. And though it may be… She kind of has the double edged sword of being in the United States, she’ll have a ton of support, but maybe there’s also some pressure from that. I don’t expect the pressure to be too much of a problem for her. She seems to have the mentality that you need to win for two consecutive weeks in your home country. So I think it’s a great opportunity for Gauff and I’ll wait just to see how the draw goes, but that’s a good number if we get it again.

Speaker 1:

Okay. Then obviously, you have to keep Coco Gauff on your side because there’s always a little bit of romance at these grand slams and that would be the definite number one on the women’s side of the competitions. Let’s go to tennis number four and obviously, it’s our Wimbledon champion and we had problems with this, but now I think I’ve absolutely… It’s Rybakina. It’s Elena Rybakina. So obviously, for the last two months, I’ve been practicing it. Snize, best odds to win at +1100. Now this court, it doesn’t take a genius to know that if she’s on form with her power and her serve, she is going to be one to beat.

Snize:

Yeah, absolutely. The conditions here should suit a massive server and hitter as Elena Rybakina is, but as always in the WTA, I am a bit apprehensive to back first time major winners, especially in the same year. The drop off is usually steep and really can be disastrous for some players. We have players like Sonya Kenin, who’s barely been seen at the top of the game after she won Australian Open. Osaka’s had her struggles and it’s just so, so tough for someone to back that up and at this price, incredibly short price. It’s way, way, way too short for me. Though, I think she’ll still be dangerous, I have a hard time seeing her go all the way this shortly after her first huge win.

Speaker 1:

Okay. There’s a couple that I want to mention a little bit later, but for the fifth one, Noops, it’s Kudermetova. And I mean, it’s at a +5000, is this one that she gets an easy draw is obviously going to shrink in price? But her US Open best is round of 128, that’s before you even get to the US Open.

Noops:

Yes, talking about more of a value pick here, just to be clear, this is not our fifth favorite to win the tournament, of course, but Veronika Kudermetova has the profile of a player that can do very well at this tournament. I like the form that she’s building up, making a semi-final in San Jose, did lose in the third round in Cincinnati, but in a great match against Ajla Tomljanovic. Yes, her best finish here is appearing in the first round, but if you go back and look at those matches, especially the last two years, she loses in two sets to Iga Swiatek, there’s a long list of women that have had that problem. And then, loses in three sets last year to Sorana Cirstea. Cirstea was in fairly good form at that point and it was a tough three set match.

I think that part of the reason, honestly, we’re getting some value here is that she hasn’t performed too well, but I talked earlier about timing your season and being able to peak at this time. She looks like someone who’s on an upward ascension and just might have just the right timing to do very well in this tournament. So at 50-1, I’m grabbing that number now.

Speaker 1:

Okay. Let’s have a little look at all the odds we… Because that’s what we like. I mean, obviously, we’re interested in what the boys have got to say, but our eyes light up when we see numbers. Now Snize, Madison Keys there at +3000, that jumps off, but I’ll tell you what, it’s about time she did actually do something and get us paid.

Snize:

Yeah. Madison Keys is a player that’s been rounding back into form at a good time, just before the major. She’s been in the final here before, of course, in 2017. Lost that to Sloane Stevens in an all American final. Hasn’t been back at the final since, but she is a player with a massive serve and a massive game and she has every opportunity to go real deep and get back on top. Comes from a semi-final in Cincinnati, strong, strong showing there. Beat Rybakina, straight sets. Iga Swiatek, straight sets. Jelena Ostapenko, straight sets. That’s three grand slam winners right there on the trot. And at this price, which I think will come in if she gets a good draw or really, more players starting to take note that Keys may be back in form again, former world number seven, definitely love the +3000 there. That is one of the big value bets that stand out to me right now on the women’s side.

Speaker 1:

Noops, the bottom one, Zheng, if I’ve pronounced it right. Listen, it’s my show, I can pronounce them how I like, but at +6000, I mean, there’s a reason she’s on my list.

Noops:

Another long shot. Someone, again, with all due respect to her, I’m just going to call her Qin Zheng, because I’m not going to try to make a mess of her first name there, one of my favorite young players on tour. Just a ball of potential, has had some really nice results, really liked her performance in Toronto, making the quarter finals and pushing Pliskova to a third set there. Again, thinking about the profile, I’m looking for generally younger player on an upward ascension, who can take advantage of maybe the fatigue of some of these players and I think her game matches up here nicely and at some point, she’s going to win a tournament like this. Maybe it’ll be this year. We definitely won’t get a chance at a number this big again, I don’t think.

Speaker 1:

Snize, what about Ons Jabeur? What’s happened to her? Because I thought that when I saw her at Wimbledon, I might just be interested in you in New York.

Snize:

Yeah, that’s a good question, but I think it’s really the story of Jabeur’s career once again catching up to her. Her Achilles’ heel has always been the fitness. Now that she kind of got the fitness under control, the other big, bad part of her is rearing its ugly head and it’s the mentality. It’s the mental fortitude. It’s the choking and it’s always been there, throughout her entire career. She’s always been prone to disappear when it matters the most. And we saw that against Rybakina. She barely could hit the court after the first set. She was up a set, remember, in that final. And since then, I think the hangover has been immense and she hasn’t really looked the same since, but of course, still a sensational player, but I have a hard time seeing her replicating anything like the Wimbledon run right now. So it’s unfortunate, but yeah, may have peaked, for now at least, Jabeur.

Speaker 1:

Okay. Let’s have a little look at one name on there that you never thought you’d see at +3000, it’s Serena Williams, Noops. Is it one of those where we can basically go against her very early on in this tournament?

Noops:

I’ll just say this. If you want to bet Serena Williams, DM me, I’ll give you a better number than this.

Speaker 1:

Okay.

Noops:

She’s a wonderful player. She is the greatest women tennis player of all time, but this is a name price. People are betting Serena Williams because this is going to be her last US Open. There’s just not any value in this number. Again, with all due respect to a really great player, I think we’re going to see her finish her last match early in the first week and enjoy the rest of the tournament with a nice little retirement tour.

Speaker 1:

Okay. That question came from Daniella Lee. Snize, what about Caroline Garcia?

Snize:

Yeah. Caroline Garcia really is flying again, it’s… A sensational player, super talented, massive game, but she’s been struggling for so many years, so it’s a joy to see her back and playing great tennis and she is one that’s really, really turned it on in 2022, starting grass season. She won Bad Homburg, last 16 at Wimbledon, she won Warsaw on clay and now, most recently, she qualified and beat a slew of top 10 players and top 20 players to win The Masters in Cincinnati. So, that’s her third title already this year and with Caroline Garcia, the former world number four, in this kind of form, there aren’t many women in the world that can stop her.

So she’s a freight train right now. She’ll have a week now to recuperate for… Depending on how deep she goes in Cleveland anyways, to… I don’t think she’s going to go the… To recuperate for US Open and +2500, sorry, it’s just a fantastic price for her. One of my favorite title contenders, based on form and pedigree.

Speaker 1:

Okay, well, Isaac’s got a question, but Isaac, I’ll ask that when the Q and A session comes up, because I’m interested in that name as well. Okay, so there’s the women’s but remember, on Friday, 5:00 Eastern time after the draw, is when we can really start giving you some idea of how we think things are going to break down. So there’ll quarter final winners to appear in their quarter final, semi-final, finalists, and maybe we can also identify someone who is going to be around that +25000. Okay, let’s go for the men’s contenders.

Are we going to show the women’s picks first? I thought we was going to show them at the end, so it’s my fault. Kudermetova at +5000 and Qin Zheng at +6000 for Noops. Keys, +3000 for Snize and Caroline Garcia at +2500. So any one of them for… Just go small, but there’s a chance that they get the right type of draw, that they’re going to be a lot shorter come next Monday when we start off. So now, we’ll get to the men’s because obviously, we got to look at the contenders and normally, we would just go bang, go with Djokovic, but because we don’t think he’s going to play, we’re going to go with Daniel Medvedev and his US Open best is a winner. Winner last year, but he started at +450. This year, it’s +225, Noops. I’m not sure that I’ll want to take him at +225 when he was +450 last year.

Noops:

It’s a really tough decision to make, because take a step back, wagering should always be about making value based decisions and this number, at +225, although it’s half of what it was last year, is still not the favorite to win the tournament here. We talked about Novak Djokovic at the top of the show, odds makers still have him listed as the favorite and the minute he is announced out, we’re going to see this price cut in half, maybe even a little bit lower. Now, Medvedev, from the perspective of, can he win this tournament? Yes. Will he? Oh man, it’s really tough to trust him, given his his recent results, especially since losing in the Australian Open final.

He seems to be struggling mentally and maybe this is an opportunity for him to get it back. I mean, he can go through and win this tournament, basically in the same way he did last year, although he was in better form. So at +225, I have taken a piece because I know the number’s going to drop again in half, maybe even lower once Novak is out.

Speaker 1:

And you’ve always got your back door covered then as well, because obviously, if he goes to +125 and you know he’s going to be there at the end, it gives you an opportunity to throw a unit or two at something a lot bigger. Okay, number two is obviously one of the most popular players on tour now, but we’ve still got question marks about him in majors and it’s Carlos Alcaraz. US Open best, quarter finals, that was a great start for him last year. BETUS have got him at +325. Snize, that is very, very skinny and for me, no value at all, but he is a contender.

Snize:

Yeah, he’s absolutely a contender, but still, and we have to keep telling you this, he’s only 19 years old and he’s breaking all kinds of records. He’s the world number four currently, but I think it is still too early. His best chance was really at Roland Garros and he made the quarter final there before Zverev took down in four sets and since then, we’ve seen a fair few chokes from Alcaraz. He choked, I think, against Musetti in Hamburg, though that was a high quality affair. He got absolutely obliterated from a set up in the Umag final against Sinner, lost 6-1, 6-1. Choked against Tommy Paul in Montreal, lost in his first match there and he recently lost against Norrie as a huge favorite, also in Cincinnati. There are just too many players, too many talented players that are able to take him out of the equation, especially over the best of five format. So I think that it’s just no value at +325. He’s a phenom, he’s going to be exciting to watch, but as far as tournament winner is concerned, I don’t think he has a serious shot.

Speaker 1:

Okay, let’s go on to contender number three, because I don’t think I’m being too rude when I say that this gentleman is an enigma. You do not know what you’re getting in the same match, nevermind in the tournament, because it’s Nick Kyrgios and US Open best round of 32, which is very disappointing for a player with his skillset, and the odds to win are at +650. Again Noops, they both look very, very stingy and there’s no value there.

Noops:

Well, I have give kudos to my other guest here, Snize. He grabbed Kyrgios at much bigger numbers a long time ago. Congrats to him and everybody else, because this number is much too short. I would probably have this closer to 10-1 and the best way to describe Nick Kyrgios is entertaining. I don’t know if that’s a compliment, but he’s just tremendous. When he is at his best, he is as good as any player on tour in terms of serve and volley, in terms of his mental approach to the game. He can really be fantastic and play a creative, entertaining brand of tennis, but the market is now over adjusted to what we saw in Wimbledon. He won a title in Washington, which was really nice, but beat Marcus Giron, Tommy Paul, Riley Opelka, Francis Tiafoe, Ymer, then, Nishioka. With all due respect, I don’t really care. Those are all nice wins and you got to beat whoever’s out there, but I don’t know if he’s shown us enough even this year to warrant this price, let alone, if you take a look at his career.

Speaker 1:

Okay. Snize, moving on to maybe a bigger price now, because the bigger price of the next contender is one of those where maybe we see him go deep, but can we actually see Jannik Sinner win when his best is only round of 16? But we are getting +1400.

Snize:

I think, again, this is much too short for Jannik Sinner.

Speaker 1:

Do you think the books are just basically going very defensive until they get the draw?

Snize:

Yeah, I think the books are just going mostly on name recognition and ranking alone, pricing up the big, big names, short, so as not to risk too much exposure until they get to draw and know better, because Jannik Sinner, he’s played some good stuff recently and I was high on him a couple of weeks ago, really. He was super impressive when he won against Alcaraz at Umag, but then, he’s kind of dropped off a little bit, lost against Carreno Busta in straight sets in Montreal, a tournament I fancied him to win, lost against Auger-Aliassime from a set up in Cincinnati, so… I mean, he’s won a title this year but… And he has had some decent runs, quarter final runs, but that’s also just like Alcaraz, still 21 years old, still a young player, can have his days off and still a player that can be beaten by many of the talented between 15 to 30 ish ranking in the world and at these short prices, you want someone that has preferably won a major before, that is preferably within the top three in the world and that’s just not it for Sinner, unfortunately.

Speaker 1:

Or maybe it is contender number five because contender number five is going to be Dominic Thiem. And Dominic Thiem, grand slams wins, one. That’s a tick in Snize’s box and odds to win at +3000. Noops, is that a tick in your box?

Noops:

Yeah, it is. I mean, I played this at a little bigger number. I don’t mind 30-1 now. This is a ticket that’s either going to be really fun and last a couple weeks or flame out by the middle of week one. Dominic Thiem is coming back off some long injuries and has sort of, as a result, inadvertently set himself up for the ascension that I’m looking for. He’s building some form, won some nice matches during clay season, now we’ll see how he does in the smaller lead up tournament here and we’ll need some help in the draw, but if he has the opportunity to build his fitness, to get back into a little bit of form, we know he is someone that has the game for this surface, generally a little bit of a slower hard court and can succeed here. He’s had success in grand slams before, and I think maybe people have just tucked him away a little bit since it’s been a while since we’ve seen him.

Speaker 1:

And is that not the type of profile that we want to see after a long, hard season? Someone that’s not actually been in the trenches for the best part of eight months?

Noops:

Yeah. That’s exactly what I’m looking for. Somebody that might have fresh legs here, whether it be because they hadn’t been playing a lot earlier in the year or whatever, but yeah, fresh legs we want.

Speaker 1:

Okay. Let’s have a little look at numbers now then, because we’ve got the contenders and now, let’s have a little look at the outright prices to actually win the fourth grand slam of 2022. And obviously, we’ve got Djokovic up there at +150, but we’re not expecting him to play, but there is a bit of a caveat there, because Medvedev is at +225. I’m going down there and I’m looking at Zverev at +1400, Snize.

Snize:

Sorry, what was that?

Speaker 1:

Alexander Zverev.

Snize:

Oh, yeah. Alexander Zverev. He’s been confirmed out as of today. I expected it because he suffered a gruesome… I think it was a triple tear in his foot of ligaments in that Roland Garros semi-final against Nadal.

Speaker 1:

Yes, I’ll say.

Snize:

Playing the best tennis of his life, really.

Speaker 1:

Snize, I remember shout at the telly in that game and going, “Oh, you’ll be all right. Strap it up.” And here we are four or five months later, still struggling.

Snize:

Yep. That’s just a brutal, brutal injury and it’s one that you really… We don’t know, frankly, if he’s ever going to recover and come back to the same level that he was. That’s a career altering injury potentially, but Zverev isn’t going to be playing this tournament. So again, that makes all of these prices more valuable because a big name is going to be gone from the odds board, sooner rather or later. So yeah, hurry up and snap up some other prices before they inevitably get discounted because of his withdrawal.

Speaker 1:

Noops, if you’re going to snap up some of them prices, who’s going to be top of your list?

Noops:

I love those couple names at the bottom there. PCB, Pablo Carreno Busta has success here every single year. Just in general, I think being a Spanish player, the market underestimates his hard court abilities. He really thrives here in these conditions. That’s a nice big number. And then, Borna Coric. He’s back to playing great tennis. He’s someone that about a year, year and a half ago was, I think, someone on everyone’s list of someone who’s going to rise up and we were excited to watch. He’s finally got some form. Good, it looks like he’s tied down his serve a bit. So again, let’s focus on big numbers, all three of those down there at the bottom look good to me.

Speaker 1:

Snize, you want to add to that?

Snize:

Yeah. So, the two names that really stand out to me here, they are Borna Coric and Pablo Carreno Busta. I’m on both. So Coric at +3000 and Carreno Busta at +6000. I got even better numbers earlier than those, but those are still good to me. [inaudible 00:27:00] Borna Coric is a player that’s obviously former world number 20 or world number 12 even, a top 20 player, and he’s always had the talent, but injuries, serious injuries have derailed his career. Just come back from a year out with of a shoulder injury and at 300-1, he won the Cincinnati Masters. No one expected it. He beat Rafael Nadal in the second round, Bautista Agut third round, Auger Aliassime quarter final, Cameron Norrie semi-final and then, Stefanos Tsitsipas in the final. He only dropped one set and that was against Nadal. Completely dominant and it was incredibly impressive.

And if he can just keep that up, the improvements in this game that I’ve seen, the serve is much stronger and obviously, he’s always been one of the fitter guys on tour when he is on the court and not injured. So, that’s a tick. Relatively fresh, that’s a tick. Just so many check marks that he’s fulfilling right now and if you can keep up the kind of tennis that he showed in Cincinnati, there are very few people in this draw that can best him.

Pablo Carreno Busta is another player that’s been incredibly impressive as of late, also fresh off a Masters title. He won The Masters in Montreal, beating some incredible players there as well, only dropping two sets in the process and Carreno Busta obviously famously… Kyrgios called him… That he wouldn’t even be a top 50 player if you removed clay from the calendar, but funnily enough, Carreno Busta’s done better at US Open then Kyrgios himself. He’s reached a semi-final not once, but twice. So he has good history here at Flushing Meadows and in superb form, full of confidence. I’m expecting him to mount a serious challenge here again and that’s a really big price for such an established player here.

Speaker 1:

Yeah. There’s nothing like a little bit of trolling to give someone a bit of inspiration. This basically reminds me of the US Open though Noops, because Rafa Nadal at +450, we can’t go down there and say, hang on a minute. Can we rule out Rafa Nadal?

Noops:

It’s such a tough handicap because he’s won this tournament four times. He won it the last time he was here, but generally, he has some buildup beforehand. All four of his titles were proceeded by deep runs in the preceding Masters tournament in Canada, whether it be Montreal or Toronto. It’s been a little while since he’s played tennis. I just worry about his form, but it’s Rafa Nadal. We’ve seen him come in totally cold into a grand slam before, build form with some lesser opponents in the first couple weeks, and just take his experience and mental fortitude and have it win the day.

Speaker 1:

And he is obviously one, if Djokovic doesn’t play, then he’s not going to be +450, is he not?

Noops:

Again, that’ll cut in half probably.

Speaker 1:

Excellent. So take your 450 now if you get that opportunity. Let’s have a look at the men’s selections from the chaps, because remember, these are the early value. Join us 5:00 Eastern on Friday and we can go a little bit further into depth. Medvedev at +225 as an insurance policy, because you don’t expect Djokovic to be there and Coric at +3000. Carreno Busta, +6000 for Snize. There will be some others come Friday. Now, before… This is where you get a couple of questions in and one of them I’m really interested in getting the answer to, please subscribe and also, ring the bell. Ring the bell means that we’ll notify you and you’ll never miss any content again and if you are on social media, make sure you follow @betustv because we cover every single sport on there and they also retweet from our guests, from our presenters, and then, you don’t miss a thing. Okay, first question and I’m really interested in this, Snize, you can go with the women and Alex, you can go with the men. Snize, Kvitova, can she go deep here? And we’re going to get a price?

Snize:

Kvitova, it’s just… I worry. I always worry about the heat and humidity that Flushing Meadows is inevitably going to offer, because she is a player that struggles badly in heat and humidity. She just cannot handle it. Her best ever here is a quarter final and she’s been eliminated in the third round or earlier more times than she’s been to the round of 16 or deeper. And for a player that’s a former world number two, slam champion, that’s just not good enough. And so, although she is in great form, I never expect Kvitova to do well in a tournament where there will be heat and humidity present. She’s never been able to do it in her career and I don’t think she’s going to start now. So, although she’s in great form, if I get an elite opponent, I’ll be looking to oppose Kvitova.

Speaker 1:

Okay, and Alex, first of all, turning into the weatherman for me, what’s the weather been like in New York and what we expect over the next two weeks?

Noops:

It’s classic, late, summer New York weather. It’s going to be sticky. It’s going to be humid. I would say the humidity is going to be probably in the 60 to 70% range. It could be as bad as 80% on some days. And again, things can change. You’ll have a day or two where the wind comes in and cools it down, but I don’t think we’ll have a day cooler than 80 degrees Fahrenheit. I’ll let the folks at home do the conversion to Celsius. I’m too lazy, but it is going to be hot, it’s going to be humid. It’s going to be sticky, and it’s tough conditions for again, Kvitova, who has talked often and openly about having asthma and how hard it is for her to breathe sometimes.

Speaker 1:

Okay. So let’s go with the men and John Isner. Obviously, he has such a great rapport with the Wimbledon crowd because it’s bang, serve, move on to the next match. Can he make any type of run here at Flushing Meadows? Alex, did you hear me?

Noops:

Oh, I’m sorry. I missed that.

Speaker 1:

John Isner.

Noops:

It’s someone who, I just… I think John Isner’s chances of winning grand slam tournaments are effectively over. Maybe he sneaks a Wimbledon in if there’s a year where Novak can’t make it and for some reason, everyone’s out, but I think the days of John Isner being a grand slam contender are behind us.

Speaker 1:

Okay. Let’s have a little look at all the picks from the experts, and I’m throwing one in as well, only because I know that I’m almost guaranteed it’s going to half… So Alex is going for Kudermetova at +5000. Qin Zheng at +6000, Medvedev at +225 and Coric at +3000. Snize has gone early with Keys at +3000, Garcia at +2500 and Carreno Busta at +6000. I’m throwing in Rafa Nadal at +450, because I know that I’m not going to get a bigger price and then, just could be that he’s warming up, ready for this. And I wouldn’t want to go against a four time winner, but remember, join us on Friday. It’s 5:00 Eastern time. It’ll be after the draw. You two, I apologize now. You know I’m not really sorry, but I will be busting your balls for all the selections for the quarterfinal winners. And Snize, don’t buy it, because you always buy off that draws only been out five minutes, why are you on me? That’s just because I’m [inaudible 00:34:20] the third one down in the chain that gets the bust your balls. Alex, see you on Friday. Snize, see you Friday. Cannot wait. Get some more meat on the bone and maybe we’ll find the winner of this year’s US Open tennis from Flushing Meadows. Remember, it’s the last grand slam, so it’s the last chance for a few of these. You take care.

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