The no.1 seed – Roberto Bautista Agut – continues to pursue his first ever title in St. Petersburg. After two consecutive defeats in the semi-finals, the world no.13 is trying to go a step further on this year’s edition. Taking a look now at Roberto’s campaign on this event, the 29-year-old reaches this stage of the competition after a 6 – 4 4 – 6 6 – 0 win over Rogerio Dutra Silva in the previous round.
Known as one of the best servers in the game, the fast court conditions in St. Petersburg are perfect for Viktor Troicki’s powerful serve. Adding to this, Troicki is also an exceptional Indoor Hard Court player with a terrific 62.25% career record on this surface while his overall record is only 57.83%. As usual, Viktor’s serve has been the key to his success on this event with an impressive average of 0.64 aces per service game so far in St. Petersburg.
This will be the 4th career meeting between these two players with Troicki still looking for his first win over this opponent.
As the h2h suggests, Bautista Agut is a terrible match-up for Troicki. For that reason, it’s not surprising to see Roberto as the heavy favourite to win this match at 8/25 at 5Dimes while Coral offers 11/4 for Troicki’s victory. Due to the low price on Bautista Agut’s tennis betting odds, our suggestion is for you to place a bet on the Spaniard’s -3.5 game handicap at 77/100 at Pinnacle as the best betting approach for this encounter.
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