W15

Phew... Guess that's all there is to say. Terrible week. Lots of bad calls on odds. More often than not I got on the wrong side of every trade and had to work hard to cut losses. So I guess I have to be quite pleased with a €7 win for the week. It could have been MUCH worse. Need to be much more focused next week. Maybe it's been to easy so far recording 15 straight weeks with green numbers at the end of each week. Must do better in the coming weeks or else there will be a red one sooner rather than later.

Sharapova - Na

Finally a decent trade this week. It's been really tough to get matched and the few times I have been matched odds have generally shot off in the wrong direction. Much of the week's trading has been spent trying to cut losses. It's been somewhat successful and with the weekend coming up I'm €7 up but that's been really tough work that has also included some live trading, which is always a risk of making things worse instead.

This marked had Sharapova at 1.69 last night and it was quite obvious the market loved Maria so I backed her quite heavily and had about €300 matched. Closed out at 1.65 for a €7.5 profit.

Ouch!

Bad bad trade on Delbonis - Lopez. The latter has been completely out of form and is a quite poor clay court player. Delbonis at 1.68 this morning looked like a good bet to get out  from in the low 1.60's before match start. Then it got all wild an just flew up to 1.79 like a rocket and forced me to take a €10 loss. The week didn't start off as well as it seemed last night. Oh, and obviously Lopez won after failing to break for two whole sets he broke twice from 2-2 in the third to end affairs when Delbonis' game completely vanished. Market right... me wrong.

W13

Another week another 20. More standard trading this week and returns more according to the long term trend. Last week was much better than expected and I never had hopes to repeat it again so soon. Still a solid return. Also had an outright bet on Berlocq to beat Berdych at 5.67 this afternoon which was nice even if it was just for 1 euro on my Pinnacle account.

For next week I've already secured €7 on Anderson v. Stepanek backing the South African at 1.83 and selling off 10 points lower. Also matched on Gulbis at 1.32 with a lay bet at 1.28 to get out with about €5. Should that happen next week is already off to a flyer. Madrid next!

Berlocq - Gimeno-Traver

Got stuck with a small loss on this one. HH was 5-1 in Berlocq's favour and he's been looking all good this week including a big win over Raonic who's not by any means a natural clay courter but a very good player and not at all lost on the surface. DGT on the other hand qualified for the tourney and did it well but beat no nastier opponent than Granollers who has been quite awful all year. So naturally I backed Charly at 1.66 when odds came out at low 60's last night, expecting to get out at low sixties or even in the high fifties. Instead I woke up to the fact that the match traded at 1.68. Decided to get out and back again at 1.70 but then it got even worse and climbed out to 1.73 which I believe was the highest traded pre match odds. Could then red out a €3.50 loss at 1.72 and after some trading in play the net result was a negative €1.50. I'll live but it still sucks to lose money, especially when I was right all along. Berlocq won in straights and DGT has still not been in an ATP-final.

Levante - Atletico

Got some matched at 1.30 the other day. 150 euros, had hoped for more but ok its a fairly safe bet. Could be around 1.25 on match day which still gives a decent return. Most Epl and Ech matches are not important so I've had to look at Spain and tennis this week.

UPDATE: Never got more matched at 1.29 which I decided to drop my back to. Instead my lay at 1.27 was taken during the evening giving me a €3.50 profit for the match.

Berdych - Mayer

Ok so the T-bird wasn't at his best v. Devvarman but still only lost five games. Mayer is better but is still ranked in the worse part of top 100 and has never been a top 50 contender. One can be suspect of Birdman in small tournaments but it makes no sense to grab a wc and then go lose to the likes of Mayer. Backed at 1.175 avg. And hope to get out at 16.

Update: Doesn't look like it will drop much. Out at 17 and EUR 2 on all outcomes.