18:00 - GAIS v Trelleborgs - 2.48 GAIS

Draw, Win, Win last 3 home matches.
3 of 4 defeats came away.
Tend to score v 7th and lower and failed to score v 4th and higher. What will happen v 6th?

I would favour Trelleborgs today. GAIS have failed to score v top 4 but score v 7th and lower and play 6th today.
I would lay GAIS if they scored first given Trelleborgs have scored 4 goals in 2 separate matches recently.

FRENCH OPEN

25th v 5th.
Interestingly Navarro have won the last 2 head to heads on clay albeit one was a walkover. It is in fact 5/5 on clay for Carla v Simona.
Both players have a perfect 2-0 record so far in this French Open.
I think that we will see a 3-setter today if Carla remembers that she has a perfect clay record v Simona.
I would prefer Simona to win the first set as her odds will be shorter to lay than Navarro's.

13th v 369th.
On rankings alone, surely this is Svitolina's?
Head to heads from 2014.
Martic went through qualifiers to get here.She beat the likes of Madison Keys in 3 sets and beat Sevastova 6-1 6-1 - 26th in the rankings.
With Linette taking Svitolina's 2nd set to 7-5 I think we will see a Martic fight back if Martic loses the first set, at least enough I'd hope to see an odds move.

1st v 56th.
No head to heads.
3 tie breakers for Murray in his last 2 matches. He has been made to work and that boy Karen may make him work today.
3 tie breakers v John Isner for Karen.
Karen beat Berdych in 3 straight sets. Berdych does tend to get beaten consistently by Murray.
For me Andy is layable at 1.17 odds. Far too short against a Karen who simply won't go away. We lose little laying at such short odds. Murray's odds v Del Potro exceeded evens so remember that.
I would also lay Andy if Andy wins the first set. Odds will be even lower.

Note the odds. Similar to Raonic yesterday and he struggled.
Expectation from the market is for same today.
36th v 7th.
3 consecutive recent Nishikori wins in head to heads.
5 setter here in France last year, and 2 tie breakers last head to head, one won by Nishi, one won by Verdasco.
4 sets, 3 sets (1 tie breaker), 5 sets for Nishikori. Impressed by his win over an in-form Chung and a note for us that Nishikori's odds are likely to be higher than 1.63 in play.
5 sets for Verdasco v Herbert.
I cannot see a 3-0 today. With Nishikori and tie breakers being possible we saw last head to head, that both players won a tie breaker.
I would lay any 2-0 or 2-1 leader.
Nishi's odds may be too high to lay off the bat. I would lay at 1.3 and would back at evens or so.

66th v 8th.
Head to heads from 2014. Still relevant? 4 sets US Open Cilic win and prior to that, both players won a tie breaker each in another Cilic win.
What does this hint at? 1.3 may be too short for Cilic?
Anderson has battled so far this French Open. He will not be winning 3-0! 2 tie breakers first match; 4 sets v Kyrgios; 5 setter v Edmund as I suggested in research (2 tie breakers and a 7-5).
3 3-set wins for Cilic who is yet to be tested. He has been class apart so far. 40th, 93rd, 169th are the ranked players cilic has beaten.
No Cilic match has gone above 6-3.
An interesting match with Anderson clearly up for the fight.
7th ranked Nishikori beat him in 3 sets (first to 2 sets format).
I do think Cilic will win today and on that basis any significant rise in his odds I will back.

3rd v 17th.
Head to heads come from 2011 so not really relevant.
This is the shortest odds so far between these 2.
Stan has had a tie breaker in each of his 3 matches which suggests he could be in with a chance of losing a set if Gael Tilsley can get him to 6-6.
Gasquet retired v Monfils so an easy time of it last round.
Tough to call as Monfils is one of a dwindling number of Frenchies left. My hope will be that Stan's odds rise at some point to enable a back at reasonably high odds.

We saw with Sam Stosur yesterday that this should be a 3 setter. It happened yesterday and 1.81 odds suggests a tight match.
24th v 41st.
2010 head to head is irrelevant.
Cornet was excellent v Radwanska who arguably didn't turn up.
She has beaten 2 top 20 players (one was top 10) so I think Cornet will be very competitive today.
Garcia has beaten largely high ranked players.
Despite her surname, she is French and this battle of the Frenchies should be a 3 setter.
Lay the first set winner.

105th v 3rd and again such a rankings differential should see shorter odds for Pliskova.
2 consecutive 3 set matches for Royg so she should not be winning 2-0 if winning the first set.
69th, 88th, 83rd ranked players have lost to Pliskova. In 2 matches the first set went to 7-5 so a hint that the first set should be a tight one.