Don’t miss our top tennis play for this Friday’s action in Eastbourne with two French players – Richard Gasquet and Gael Monfils – fighting for a place in the decisive match. Bookmakers Review breaks down the fixture below and lists the best available odds from green listed bookmakers.
Gasquet vs. Monfils
Gael Monfils continues to pursue his first career title on grass. Despite his undeniable quality, Monfils is far from a grass-court expert with a poor 58.49% winning record on this surface. Nevertheless, the 31-year-old French is already in the semi-finals after a straight sets victory over Bernard Tomic. Besides not dropping a single service game on his previous two matches on this event, Monfils fired an impressive average of 0.89 aces per service game in Eastbourne.
The 2014 Aegon International runner-up – Richard Gasquet – is just one win away from returning to the Eastbourne final. Known as one of the best grass-court players on the ATP World Tour, Gasquet holds a phenomenal 65 – 28 career record on this surface. Taking a look now at Richard’s campaign on this event, the world no.27 reaches this stage of the competition after two outstanding wins against Kevin Anderson and John Isner.
These two players know each other very well. Not only are they good friends off the court but this is also the 16th career meeting between them.
Despite Gael’s 8 – 7 lead on the h2h, Gasquet won their previous encounter at the Gerry Webber Open last week. Adding to this, Richard is definitely the better player among the two on this surface. With this in mind, the value is clearly on Gasquet’s tennis betting odds to win this match at 91/100 at BetVictor while Pinnacle offers 27/25 for Monfils’ victory.
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