USO - Day 4

Nicolas Almagro - Philipp Petzschner: pick Petzschner @5.00 2 units
I fear here is the fan who's speaking.
Two tennis-style facing here: the all-around and vintage tennis of the german, and the baseline top-spinned of the spaniard.
In common there's a solid serve also here for different reason.
The battle will develop on the backhand cross and Almagro's one-handed one could suffer on the long run to lift up Petz's slices. This can affect Almagro in two ways: he'll shift on his left to play the forehand, opening the court so that Petz can play winner with his killer forehand; Almagro can't push his backhand down the line (his best solution)  against the weightless balls he'll receive.
Almagro will play almost from the stands so Picasso needs to be mind-plugged to avoid errors above all if he'll be very high on the court risking to find himself too close to the bounce.

Sofia Arvidsson - Ana Ivanovic: pick Arvidsson @4.00 2 units
Too much high this odd, Ana can't be such a favourite against anyone reacently.
Head to head says 4-1 in Ana's favour but most belong to her best period.
Most of my fear goes to Sofia's service, she has the highest ball lift and windy days affect her, there was a bit of wind in this days.

Yaroslava Shvedova - Roberta Vinci: Shvedova @2.25 2 units
Although it was a bit of friendly match between Shvedova and King (they're double partner), Slava showed a great shape.
She got many point on King's second hitting winning returns (77% points won on King's 2nd serve), King and Vinci second serve are not much different.
Also in the rally she showed skills: preferring to lead with deep groundstrokes from still position on the baseline, she also could play on the run.
Sometimes she couldn't find the right distances from the ball and sticked.
Against Vinci could be tricky for her with the italian old-fashioned tennis that could not to give her the pace she need, though I think on the long run the power and fit of Slava could do the difference as her service is harder to break.

Dominika Cibulkova - Bojana Jovanovski: pick Jovanovski @3.75 1 unit
Great come back in the first round for the young serbian against a Barthel that was said was suffering the hot temperature.
She's improving her ranking and also finding spot in the Fed Cup over player like Jankovic and Ivanovic.
She prefers fast surfaces were her heavy balls can give a bad day to many players.
Cibulkova is one of the best returner in the WTA, since her serve can't be fast enough being very short.
Cibu's matches usually are very nervy, she can insult her opponent for the whole match, but Bojana doesn't look to me one of those drama-player, she's regular and doesn't change her plans at the first difficulty.

Vera Dushevina - Sara Errani: pick Dushevina @5.50 1 unit
Errani could lost to anyone who's little motivated and focused to hit an offensive return yet on the first serve.
Just dropping a set against the young spanish girl Muguruza in the first round is an indication of how she's far from her clay performances.

Galina Voskoboeva - Andrea Hlavackova: pick Hlavackova @1.80 2 units
Nearly even odds for them but season results shows an horrible shape for Voskoboeva, an 11/17 score for her.
Hlavacoka, on the contrary, has found some continuty also as single player, not a relevant result as she starts from the qualies in major tournaments, but anyway some good runs like the one on Cincinnati where she lost 6-4 7-6 from an on-fire Kerber on round of 16 (Andrea played the qualies).