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Zaragoza 3-0 up and you could get 1.09 or lay Barca at 40 ???

Chances of Barca scoring 4 and Zara not scoring had to be bigger than that statistically surely ?

If Burton were 3-0 up v Man U at home after 35 minutes then the above odds would have looked generous so easy money or not ?

Federer - Kiefer just starting on 410 Eurosport UK. I do like these sociable hours matches :-) Can't be doing with these all-nighters.

Laid Fed 1.08 on break in 1st set - looking to scalp

I'm watching but only have half an eye on it, as I have a conferance call starting in five minutes. Kiefer has taken a set from Fed several times I think so a Fed lay is a real possibility for me at some point, certainly at short odds.

Morning All

Only have the scoreboard to go by so can't see how well Fed is playing but seems to be OK

Just checked the head to head stats which show that they've played 4 times in 2005 with Fed winning all but Kiefer only taken 2 sets.

Fed v Kiefer head to head

Apparently, it's Kiefer's first time in the semis of a grand slam.

Mrs C certainly picks her time to call home with a puncture. Covered my position. Hopefully back for the fun and games later :-(

Small question over Kiefer's ankle. Could spoil things for him now.

Morning all

Federer breaks - should be all over now?

Fed break in 4th. All value gone.

I grabbed 10% on the fed drift while on this call but glad to have closed out.

Edward

Kiefer's dodgy ankle...Was that the reason for losing 6-0 in the 3rd set?

Don't know Bak, was fixing Mrs C's car :-)

Saw him favouring his ankle after couple of slides in 4th set. More value in resource stocks this morning - off to play them instead.

Now its game over

and Fed was 2.74 for that game :-)

Early start sunday morning for the final then

I owe you a large drink for that Steve. You drew my attention to the game market and I got a decent sized bet on Fed to serve out at 1.11 :-))

Looking forward to the final which I think should be on BBC2 proper.

So if you're trading it don't be trading the delay on Eurosport!

I live in a valley and can't get a watchable picture on terrestrial service but IMHO it's not an issue on the tennis.

Edward

no probs - i managed to get a profit out of the last 4 games :-)

Bak

8.30am start on BBC2 i believe

Crazy race at Fakenham this afternoon - they dolled off the last fence but the 1st 2 jockeys didnt see the flag so jumped it and subsequently were disqualified (after a 30 min delay) - the eventual winner was matched at 100+ in running and both the disqualified horses traded below 1.3 - a painful race for some

also seems like undeterred is missing a leg in 15.30 at Wolv - gone from 3.5 to 8.4