It hasn't been a lot of fun making picks over the last few days with a lot of poor picks and a little bad luck conspiring against me.
However, even a desperately poor week has every chance of ending with a smile as both Grigor Dimitrov and Roger Federer made their respective Finals at Queens and Halle and both are favourites to win those events.
If that happens, it will actually make this a half decent week after all despite some of the negativity I had been feeling. I would expect Federer to come through and beat Alejandro Falla, but I still think Feliciano Lopez is a dangerous opponent for Dimitrov so will keep the fingers crossed in those matches.
Ana Ivanovic - 5.5 games v Barbora Zahvalova Strycova: As much as I respect the run that Barbora Zahvalova Strycova has had to reach the Final this week, I do think she was given a couple of breaks yesterday that helped her through against Casey Dellacqua.
The first was the horrendous about of easy errors that the Australian made, and the second was the rain delay when Dellacqua had turned the first set around with three games in a row.
Still, as I said, you have to respect the form of a player reaching the Final, except I believe Ana Ivanovic is going to be prove to be far too good for her in this match.
Zahvalova Strycova has had to struggle through a few Rounds, but Ana Ivanovic has dominated through the week and it was more of the same from her in the Semi Final. It will be hard to see past another convincing Ivanovic win in the form she has displayed all week and I don't see that coming off at the most critical time.
The first set may be tight, but I can see Ivanovic running away with the match if she wins that set and force Zahvalova Strycova to feel the fatigue of the week and the Serb should pick up a title after a 63, 63 win.
MY PICKS: Ana Ivanovic - 5.5 Games @ 1,85 Pinnacle (2 Units)
Weekly Update: 9-19, - 20.44 Units (56 Units Staked, - 35.79% Yield)
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