We break down the French Open day 5 fixtures below and lists the best available odds from Green Listed Bookmakers.
Garcia-Lopez vs. Thiem
Looking to the matches scheduled for this Thursday on the men’s competition, one of the highlights goes to the contest between two players with one-handed backhand – Guillermo Garcia-Lopez and Dominic Thiem.
After a four sets victory on the first round against Inigo Cervantes, Thiem will face another Spanish player. The Austrian is a phenomenal player on clay, with his kick serve and heavy spin groundstrokes as his major weapons. Dominic can never be underestimated on this surface, with quality to fight for any trophy on this surface.
Garcia-Lopez is a typical Spanish player with a solid baseline game and never giving anything for free to his opponents. Despite being far from impressive on his debut against Thiemo de Bakker, Garcia-Lopez found a way to emerge victorious by 6 – 4 6 – 4 5 – 7 7 – 6 after almost three hours on court.
Thiem should be too good from the baseline and for that reason, he’s fairly priced as favourite for this contest at 4/25 on Bet365 while Garcia-Lopez is offered at 9/50 on BetVictor. Betting onThiem to cover his handicap or to win in straight sets are two good options to approach this match.
Baghdatis vs. Tsonga
Other of the highlights for tomorrow goes to the contest between the last year’s semi-finalist, Jo-Wilifried Tsonga, and the 2006 Australian Open runner-up, Marcos Baghdatis.
Tsonga reach this stage of the competition after a solid triumph against Jan-Lennard Struff, dismissing the German in straight sets. The world no.7 loves to compete on his home country, especially on this even where he featured some remarkable matches in the past.
Baghdatis is looking to reach the third round of the French Open for the first time since 2010. Marcos is far from a reliable player on clay yet, he was just too solid on his first round match against Gilles Muller.
This will be the 8th career meeting between these two players, with Tsonga leading on h2h by 6 – 1 after winning the previous six matches. Not only is Tsonga the better player on this surface but he’ll also count with a huge support on this match. For all these reason, Tsonga deserves to be considered the favourite at 17/100 on Pinnacle Sports while Baghdatis can be found at 37/10 on Sbobet. Tsonga’s price to win the match in straight sets at 14/1 on Bet365 seems to be a very valuable approach for this contest.