Monte Carlo Rolex Masters Betting: Simple opener for Murray in Monaco

17Apr 2013

ATP Masters 1000

The big guns make the entrances to the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters today and after a good start to the tournament Sean Calvert selects the best bets for Wednesday...

Tuesday was a winning day at the 2013 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters with Grigor Dimitrov landing us a nice odds-against winner.

The young Bulgarian prospect saved set points in the opener and came back in some style to take it on a tie break before easing through the second set against a disillusioned Janko Tipsarevic, who later tweeted that he's taking a break from tennis.

Wednesday at the Monte Carlo Country Club sees Andy Murray, Rafa Nadal and Novak Djokovic scheduled to make their tournament debuts this year and the Scot has a comfortable-looking opener against Edouard Roger-Vasselin.

The pair have met on one previous occasion, at the Australian Open last season when Murray was a comfortable winner. It's hard to see anything other than the same again today.

Murray is playing his first match of the season on clay, but last year he came out and hammered Viktor Troicki 6-0, 6-3 in his clay opener and having won Miami, the Scot is sure to be ready for this.

Vasselin has done well so far this week in not dropping a set in three matches in qualifying and in the first round against Robin Haase, but he doesn't have the weapons to worry Andy.

I would expect Murray to win this something like 6-3, 6-2, so the minus 6.5 games on the handicap looks the call at around 2.32

It's hard to see Nadal being troubled by Marinko Matosevic, although a 7.5 game start for the Aussie looks generous if he can serve well, but Djokovic looks to have the toughest match of the three stars against Mikhail Youzhny.

The Russian has a decent record against Djokovic from a few years ago, but he looks on the slide at the moment and I would expect Nole to win in two, however the ankle has to be a concern for short price backers.