The action continues in Vienna with the semi-finals taking place this Saturday. Bookmakers Review breaks down the fixtures below and lists the best available odds from Green Listed Bookmaker.
Tsonga vs. Karlovic
Taking a look now to the matches scheduled for this Saturday in Vienna, a very interesting contest is expected between two outstanding servers – Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Ivo Karlovic.
Despite his age, Karlovic is still a very dangerous opponent due to the quality of his serve. The Croatian is for the first time on this event’s semi-finals after a 6 – 7 7 – 6 6 – 3 triumph over Karen Khachanov. The fast court conditions in Vienna clearly suits Ivo’s powerful serve with the 37 years old firing an average of 1.73 aces per service game.
The 2011 ATP Vienna champion – Tsonga – is just one win away from returning to the final on this event. The French loves to play on this game condition with 8 of his 12 career titles achieved on Indoor Hard Court. Tsonga reaches this stage of the competition after three straight-sets victories over Benjamin Becker, Philipp Kohlschreiber and Albert Ramos-Vinolas.
This will be the 4th career meeting between these two players with Karlovic leading on the h2h by 2 – 1.
As we mentioned before, both players are famous for their powerful serves, which makes this a very close contest. Looking now to their previous encounters, 70.0% of the sets they played went to a tie break. With this in mind, the value is definitely on the underdog, Karlovic, with the Croatian available at 2/1 at Bet365 while Coral offers 2/5 for Tsonga’s victory. Despite the value on Ivo’s price, our recommendation is for you to take the Over 25.5 at 19/25 at Pinnacle as the best approach for this contest.
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