Focus on Australian Open Tennis and Betting Systems…

Well the action is well and truly rolling in the Australian Open.  As I write this (on the Friday of the first week), there have already been some cracking matches with the usual share of upsets.

And biggest upset of all must surely have been the demise of US Open Champion and comeback queen, Kim Cleijsters.

We are getting used to Kim surprising us.  Firstly, her comeback from retirement was totally unexpected but nobody would have believed that she could have walked away with the US title in her first big tournament.  And now that she was expected to do well she bows out in the 3^rd round.

But it was not just the fact that she lost, but the manner of her defeat, a crushing 6-0 6-1 to Petrova.   We might have expected 6-4, instead we get this in a football match (The 6-4 win by Villa over Blackburn).

One wonders know whether the new Belgian comeback queen, Justine Henine, can do a Cleijsters?  How irritating would that be for Kim?

It’s a reminder of just how fickle sport can be.  And we need to bear this in mind with our trading as well.

With this very much to the forefront of my mind, the spurt of matches in Melbourne has given me further opportunity to test out 2 betfair-articles/test-results-for-tennis-systems/”>tennis trading systems.

Whilst on the subject of testing systems, I have written a tutorial which explains how you can apply simple statistical principles to not only testing of trading systems, but to your own trading performance.

Returning to the tennis, I am very much looking forward to the 2^nd week.  Last time I asked the question, of Andy Murray, Dare we hope?.  I have come up with an answer: Yes we dare! as has progressed to the fourth round without even coming close to dropping a set.  But before we get carried away, he has a very tough match coming up against Isner, who showed his mettle in the last round by defeating Monfils, never an easy opponent.

But I am hopeful Andy will get through this, though I will not be placing any of my hard earned on this.  (By the time you read this you will probably know if I am right!)

I am so confident, in fact, that I have decided to modify that last answer to read:

Yes we dare hope that Andy is going to give Federer or Nadal a really tough fight in the semi-final or final and will outplay them both….before losing in 5 sets

Now that’s what I call positive thinking!