April 14th, 2014 Monte Carlo

Among nine matches on schedule, two of them can be treated as available for the Handy strategy. The matches are:

PAIRE Benoit - MONTANES Albert

Paire's performance on clay this year (75% won serve games - 25% won receive games) is quite simmilar to last year stats (75% - 27%). Montanes plays better his serve games winning 80% of them this year (77% last year), but his winning performance in receive games is worse 21% (24% last year). Combining these data in our Handy formula gives Paire margin of 0.007 which is quite enough for betting Montanes for the handicap +1.5 sets. Pinnacle gives odds of 1.377.

ANDUJAR Pablo - ROGER VASSELIN Edouard

Haase, who prefers the clay surface wins 82% of his serve games this year (76% last year) and 39% of his receive games (25% last year) and shows great improvement in his play. On the other hand Roger Vasselin hasn't played any game this year at the clay, and his performance last year was 77%-24%. Using our Handy formula Andujar is the game favorite with a  margin of 0.030 which is close to the decision to bet or not to bet the handicap. Anyway, the margin is still good, so we bet Roger Vasselin for the handicap 1.5 sets at Pinnacle which gives odds 1.498.