Tennis Picks July 15th

This post is a little later than usual as I wasn't going to make a pick from the first two Finals that were to be played at Bastad and Stuttgart respectively.

The whole week's success or failure can be determined this week as two of the outright picks have actually got through to their respective Finals and both are favoured to win the matches.

Juan Monaco did his very best to not reach this stage as he blew a 5-0 lead in the final set against Guillermo Garcia-Lopez before winning 7-5, but he has just started his match against Janko Tipsarevic in Stuttgart.

Marin Cilic is the other player that was picked at the start of the week and he is a big favourite to take care of Marcel Granollers in the Final at Umag. My only concern was that Cilic lost at this stage last season at his home event when he was also favoured to win the match.


Lleyton Hewitt + 2.5 games v John Isner: Lleyton Hewitt has shown some decent form here in Newport this week and it is clearly the best form of the season since the Australian Open.

I think he can pose John Isner problems as Hewitt has always given the biggest servers (outside of Ivo Karlovic anyway) some issues and I think the Australian will at least win a set in this one.

He also has won all three previous meetings with Isner and I think Hewitt can at least push Isner to a point where these 2.5 games come into play.

As long as Hewitt doesn't throw in too many poor service games, I expect he may close to winning his first title of the season and moving up the Rankings.


MY PICK: Lleyton Hewitt + 2.5 games @ 1.92 Ladbrokes (2 Units)


Weekly Update: 3-7, - 4.08 Units (16 Units Staked)