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Old 08-16-2002, 04:48 AM
ChuckyTheGoat ChuckyTheGoat is offline
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Default Are Tennis bettors Technicians or Feel Bettors?

Something I've looked at only briefly. But I have seen quite a few decent tennis cappers. Wondering what the key variables are in tackling tennis:

* Record on specific surface would jump out to me. But seems that everyone knows pretty well what a guy's specialty is. ie, Ferrero and Kuerten are clay court specialists.
* Current form? Is a strong recent run enough to supersede a deficient record on that surface?
* Tough draw? Does having to come through a tough side of the bracket, w/ multiple long matches have a cumulative effect?
* Nagging injuries? Clearly, some of these enter these tournies at less than 100%. And I'm not sure the line always accounts for it.

Am I on to anything here? Do any tennis bettors have a quantitative approach w/ such variables that lets them create their own line? Or is the anlalytical approach way off, w/ good tennis bettors being able to identify lines that just "look wrong"? Again, I'd understand if certain aspects of this answer are not something that people would want to discuss in a public forum.

GL, all.
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