Federer Through to the Finals of the French Open

Made some money on Federer's win over Davydenko.
The odds on Betfair were better than the rest again, as usual.

I'm trying to fine tune the strategy a bit, including taking 10-20% return bets. With appropriate portfolio management, this should turn things in your favor. Even more so where there are opportunities to watch the match on television. It sure makes a lots of difference when you can observe how strongly or how poorly a player is doing.

Today, Federer appeared to do just enough to win, even though he did it in straight sets; nonetheless, his performance wasn't one of his best.

So do we take Federer or Nadal on the Sunday? Looks too close to call, as either player can raise their game on a big day. Will stick to the Canadian Grand Prix instead.

Rafael Nadal Will Win the French Open

I'm back after a long absence.

Have been experimenting with betting on soccer matches as well as tennis matches in-play.
Bet365's in-play betting is simply fantastic. On the fly updates as well as live odds for an amazing multitude of betting options.

But that's not why I'm writing.
I'm writing 'cos I've been watching Rafael Nadal tear through his opposition in the last few matches. And he just did it again over his countryman Carlos Moya in straight sets!! If you haven't watched him play at this French Open, don't miss the semi finals. You have one last chance to watch him in action before deciding to back the house on him to win the championship. Even Roger Federer will not be able to touch him.

The next match is not far away. Rafael Nadal is playing the best tennis we've seen him play.

Hantuchova's Upset Victory

This was the last bet in the last couple of days, from the Pacific Life Open.
I think the players are on a break this week.

Anyway, Daniela Hantuchova pulled off an upset win over Svetlana Kuznetsova, creating another dent in the portfolio.

Drawdown is at 23% after 71 bets.

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Some Good Streak - Roddick does it!

So I won both matches last night - bringing up my bank again.
The streak's going pretty well, so I shan't jinx it by talking too much about it.
Ths sytem's still in testing, when i get to 200 bets i shld have a clue as to how effective it is.... if i manage to keep afloat till then.

Here's the latest bets - Q Finals
Pacific Life Open - Novak Djokovic to beat David Ferrer @ 1.44 WON
Pacific Life Open - Tommy Haas to beat Andrew Murray @ 1.66 LOST


Drawdown has fallen to 15%.

Another Good Run - Thanks to Ferrer and Haas

Great job, guys!
Won 3 out of the 4 matches last nite, with the bet on Nadia Petrova voided by Bet365.

Here're the latest bets (only 2 tonite)

Pacific Life Open - Andy Roddick to beat Ivan Ljubicic @ 1.44 WON
Pacific Life Open WTA - Svetlana Kuznetsova to beat Nicole Vaidisova @ 1.61 WON

Bet Count - 68
Wins - 37
Win % - 54% (still below target)
Drawdown - 20% (steadily climbing)

Can We Keep the Winning Streak Going

We won 3 out of 5 last night, with one still to play tonight. Hopefully the momentum keeps going.

These are tonight's latest bets - Ferrer and Haas favored to win over Moya and Gonzalez respectively.

Pacific Life Open - Juan-Ignacio Chela to beat Michael Russell @ 1.5 WON
Pacific Life Open - David Ferrer to beat Carlos Moya @ 1.61 WON
Pacific Life Open - Tommy Haas to beat Fernando Gonzalez @ 1.61 WON
Pacific Life Open WTA - Nadia Petrova to beat Tatiana Golovin @ 1.57 LOST

Bet count : 66
Win Count : 34 (as at yesterday)

We won 3 out of 5 last night, with one still to play tonight. Hopefully the momentum keeps going.

These are tonight's latest bets - Ferrer and Haas favored to win over Moya and Gonzalez respectively.

Pacific Life Open - Juan-Ignacio Chela to beat Michael Russell @ 1.5
Pacific Life Open - David Ferrer to beat Carlos Moya @ 1.61
Pacific Life Open - Tommy Haas to beat Fernando Gonzalez @ 1.61
Pacific Life Open WTA - Nadia Petrova to beat Tatiana Golovin @ 1.57

Bet count : 66
Win Count : 34 (as at yesterday)

Latest Bets - More Updates

Last night's bets didn't turn out too well - lost half the matches but still ended up with a small negative position overall.

Here are tonite's latest bets

Pacific Life Open WTA - Ai Sugiyama to beat Tathiana Garbin @ 1.57 WON
Pacific Life Open - David Nalbandian to beat Paul-Henri Mathieu @ 1.44 WON
Pacific Life Open - Michael Russell to beat Guillermo Garcia-Lopez @ 1.57 WON
Pacific Life Open - Guillermo Canas to beat Carlos Moya @ 1.53 LOST
Pacific Life Open WTA - Anna Chakvetadze to beat Shahar Peer @ 1.57 LOST

Bet count 62
Won 31 (as at yesterday)

First Home Run Ever!

We scored the first ever home-run in our short tennis betting career. Using the system-generated bets, we managed 8 wins out of 8 for last nights matches.

This brought our bank back up to 80%, from the 60% it was 2 days ago.

These are tonight's bets.

Pacific Life Open - Dominik Hrbaty to beat Teimuraz Gabashvili @ 1.5 LOST
Pacific Life Open - Mardy Fish to beat Paul-Henri Mathieu @ 1.53 LOST
Pacific Life Open - David Ferrer to beat Luis Horna @ 1.5 WON
Pacific Life Open - Agustin Calleri to beat Jan Hernych @ 1.57 LOST
Pacific Life Open WTA - Daniela Hantuchova to beat Francesca Schiavone @ 1.53 WON
Pacific Life Open WTA - Shahar Peer to beat Lucie Safarova @ 1.57 WON

Bet count - 58

Back After a Break - Numbers Not Looking Good

The finals bets of the previous weekend didn't go to well. Have updated the results from the last post.

Here's some other bets I made in the previous week but didn't update as I've been out of town.
(Not bad - 5 wins and 2 losses, 1 void from 8 matches)

Abierto Mexicano WTA - Flavia Pennetta to beat Roberta Vinci @ 1.61 WON
Abierto Mexicano WTA - Sara Errani vs Kaia Kanepi @ 1.5 LOST
Abierto Mexicano WTA - Marion Bartoli vs Julia Schruff @ 1.61 LOST
Abierto Mexicano WTA - Gisela Dulko to beat Laura Pous Tio @ 1.5 WON
Tennis Channel Open - Jurgen Melzer to beat Michael Llodra @ 1.61 WON
Tennis Channel Open - Benjamin Becker to beat Gustavo Kuerten @ 1.5 WON
Tennis Channel Open - Feliciano Lopez to beat Nicolas Mahut @ 1.53 WON


And these are today's bets for some matches tomorrow nite

Pacific Life Open - Juan Carlos Ferrero to beat Florian Mayer @ 1.61 WON
Pacific Life Open - Olivier Rochus to beat Vincent Spadea @ 1.44 WON
Pacific Life Open WTA - Laura Granville to beat Severine Bremond @ 1.5 WON
Pacific Life Open WTA - Tathiana Garbin to beat Iveta Benesova @ 1.44 WON
Pacific Life Open WTA – Alicia Molik to beat Anabel M. Garrigues @ 1.5 WON
Pacific Life Open WTA - Elena Likhovtseva to beat Olga Poutchkova @ 1.61 WON
Pacific Life Open WTA - Marion Bartoli to beat Tsvetana Pironkova @ 1.57 WON
Pacific Life Open WTA - Shuai Peng to beat Vasilisa Bardina @ 1.5 WON

Bet count - 52
Drawdown - 40%

Justine Henin Did it! Will Andy Roddick Win It

Justine did it in the Memphis Open, beating Amelie Mauresmo!

More bets for the rest of the weekend - but we're almost back to square one from yesterday's betting, as 2 wins barely covered the loss.

Drawdown remains at 35%.

Today's bets - all Finals matches
ABN AMRO World Tennis - Ivan Ljubicic to beat Mikhail Youzhny @ 1.5 LOST
Copa Colsanitas - Tathiana Garbin to beat Roberta Vinci @ 1.51 VOID

And this weekend's highlight, in my opinion -

Memphis - Andy Roddick to beat Tommy Haas @ 1.53 LOST

Bet count : 34

Will Justine Do it This Time?

Am not exactly having the best results here with the betting system. Let's try till we hit a 100 bets, or the bank goes dry.

As at the last result, the drawdown is 35% of total bank.

Latest bets for today -
Dubai Duty Free Open - Justine Henin to beat Amelie Mauresmo @ 1.61 WON
Copa Colsanitas - Flavia Pennetta to beat Roberta Vinci @ 1.44 LOST
Copa Colsanitas - Tathiana Garbin to beat Lourdes D. Lino @ 1.53 WON

Bet count : 31

Weekend's here again

Weekend's here again, which usually means better matches.
However, none of the match odds falls within my betting system's criteria.
So I have only one bet for Friday -

Copa Telmex - Luis Horna to beat Juan Monaco @ 1.53 LOST

Bet Count : 28

More Results - Greater Drawdown

In the hedge fund world, drawdown is one of the measures by which the relative safety of the fund is determined. In our wealthbetting fund, we have unfortunately reached the largest drawdown so far.

I got lazy the last 2 days; here're the latest bets and latest results

Proximus Diamond- Kim Clijsters to beat Amelie Mauresmo@1.57 LOST
Brazil Open – Guillermo Canas v Juan Carlos Ferrero @1.61 WON
Copa Telmex - Agustin Calleri to beat Albert Montanes @1.44 LOST
Copa Telmex - Carlos Moya to beat Potito Starace 1.57@ WON
Regions Morgan Keegan Championships – Jill Craybas to beat Meilen Tu @ 1.5 LOST
Copa Colsanitas - Klara Zakopalova to beat Pauline Parmentier @ 1.53 WON
Copa Colsanitas - Conchita Martinez to beat Nathalie Vierin @ 1.57 LOST


Today's Bets

Memphis - Jurgen Melzer to beat Yen -Hsun Lu @ 1.5 VOID
ABN AMRO World Tennis - Florian Mayer to beat Dennis Van Scheppingen @ 1.5 WON
Dubai Duty Free Open - Svetlana Kuznetsova to beat Patty Schnyder @ 1.53 WON
Regions Morgan Keegan Championships - Sofia Arvidssom to beat Meilen Tu @ 1.61 LOST

Bet Count = 27

More! String of losses following a string of wins.

Here's more for the weekend.
Friday nite hasn't been such a great outing, losing (so far) 3 out of 5 new bets in my last post.
The system seems quite stable, but not able to generate profits just yet.

Still trying to see how far my bank can go at a rate of 5% per bet.

Sony Ericsson Championships - Tzipora Obziler to beat Yaroslava Shvedova @ 1.61 LOST
SAP Open – Andy Roddick to beat Andrew Murray @ 1.57 LOST

Bet count : 16

Today's bets - Brazil Open and SAP Open

Didn't do too badly in yesterday's betting - Lost the Arguello match at the Brazil Open.

As matches get into full swing this weekend, these are the latest, hottest bets-

Brazil Open - Juan Carlos Ferrero to beat Potito Starace @1.4 WON
Open 13 - Marcos Baghdatis to beat Mikhail Youzhny @1.61 WON
Open 13 - Richard Gasquet to beat Robin Soderling @1.57 LOST
SAP Open - Mardy Fish to beat Ivo Karlovic @1.61 LOST
SAP Open - Marat Safin to beat Benjamin Becker @ 1.4 LOST

First Week - Full Steam Ahead

Well I didn't do as well as I'd hoped last week, but this looks like the first real week of betting full steam ahead.

Using the same strategies, these are the bets that I've placed with bet365.com

"Open13" - Mikhail Youzhny to beat Fabrice Santoro @ 1.44 WON
SAP Open - Hyung-Taik Lee to beat Simon Greul @ 1.57 WON

Brazil Open - Martin Vassallo-Arguello to beat Potito Starace @ 1.66 LOST
Brazil Open - Agustin Calleri to beat Albert Montanes @ 1.50 WON
Brazil Open - Juan-Ignacio Chela to beat Ruben Ramirez-Hidalgo @ 1.57 WON

SAP Open - Vincent Spadea to beat Feliciano Lopez @ 1.53 WON

Hewitt Screwed it Up!

Not such a great outcome - 1 out of 3 wins in my first attempt at betting on tennis.

2 upsets at the Davis Cup, Hewitt losing to Vliegen, whom he'd not previously met; and Melzer's loss to the Argentine Canas, who is some 50-100 places below him in the rankings.... only Tommy Haas fulfilled the predictions here.

Putting things in perspective, the outcome at 5% per bet of the betting pool, was -15 for the bets, and +7.86 on the win, giving a net outcome of -7.14%.

I've updated the scores on the previous post.

Net position - 92.86%.

Introductory Post

Welcome to my blog on sportsbetting.
Without a system, its gambling and money down the drain.

With a system, it becomes wealthbetting - using sportsbetting as a means to generate semi-passive income to build wealth.


Today I learnt my first system betting on tennis matches.

These are my bets on bet365.com

For tomorrow's Davis Cup Matches
1. Lleyton Hewitt to win at 1.57 agst Kristof Vliegen LOST
2. Tommy Haas to win at 1.57 agst Mario Ancic WON
3. Jurgen Melzer to win at 1.61 agst Guillermo Canas LOST

If this works, it will become another step on my wealthbuilding journey.
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