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3* Stefan Koubek +230 over Jeff Morrison
You can throw odds like this at me. Morrison now 0-5 YTD and has now lost his last 7 matches overall. Losses to Gasquet, Dancevic, Dupuis, C. Rochus and the young Monfils shows me Jeff isn't that stunning, not now or ever. He's American, that might be one of the few things he has going for him here. Koubek on the flip side is a better player but has missed the last 5 months due to a ATP ban, he hasn't played since early November of last year. BUT, in comparison to Morrison, at 80% Koubek can probably win, imo. Koubek late last year was on quite a run beating Ljubicic, Gaudio and Srichaphan all at a single event. Other wins include Gonzalez, Schalken, Rusedski and Henman. It's been shown he can handle a good serve and will likely face one tonight in Morrison. Tricky lefty here I feel has a strong chance to beat Morrison. The line reflects Koubek's time off, I can't put too much into that here.
3* Antony Dupuis +170 over Victor Hanescu
Another battle of the average tennis players, odd thing here is Dupuis (although older) is a better hardcourt player than Hanescu. Victor's only win was against Fillipo Volandri (very weak hardcourt player) at the Australian Open, other than that he's been very flat on the surface. Although Antony isn't a great player, he has shown some very strong results on the surface, wins against Spadea, Chela, Calleri and close matches with the likes of Max Mirnyi. Hanescu doesn't impress me at all and is 1-8 in his last 9 matches on hardcourt. Just can't trust the guy here. Dupuis has traded service games with some pretty good players in the past, Hanescu not to their level, I'll try here.
Both these guys can win, I don't get these lines.
GL!
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