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2nd round match at the ATP Australian Open and we have Nikoloz Basilashvili playing against Fernando Verdasco.
This here is a difficul match to choose a winner as both player are very good on this surface, so I'd go with over 3.5 sets.
Basilashvili record at the Australian Open is 4/4, of the 8 matches he's played 6 has reached a 4th set and thats how he has started this year as well. He played against Kwon in the first round and as expected it was a difficult match which he won in 5 sets.
Verdasco winning in straight sets against Donskoy was a little surprising, maybe I expected much better from Donskoy but after losing the 1st set in a tie-break he just gave up. Verdasco is not someone who losses easily or wins easily either, of his last 10 matches only 2 had been won in sets.
They have played each other twice with the results tied 1-1 , basilashvili won at 7:6, 6:4 at Beijing in 2018 while their most recent meeting was at Vienna where Verdasco won 4:6,6:1,6:2 •
The H2H shows both players would give everything to win and with that I think a 5th set is even possible.
Pick: Over 3.5 sets
Odds: 1.57
Bookmaker: ➾ Bet365
Stake: 9 units
Tipster: Journey77
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