{"id":5445,"date":"2009-09-02T17:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T22:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/tennis-betting-top-seeds-struggling-on-womens-side\/"},"modified":"2009-09-02T17:20:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T22:20:00","slug":"tennis-betting-top-seeds-struggling-on-womens-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/tennis-betting-top-seeds-struggling-on-womens-side\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis Betting &#8211; Top Seeds Struggling On Women&#8217;s Side"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=Section1>\n<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Calibri'>It seems like the first few rounds of the US Open are flying by but bettors should take notice of what&#8217;s happening on the women&#8217;s side. Most people are focused on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betonline.com\/sports-betting\/football\/nfl\" title=\"NFL betting\">NFL betting<\/a> and the upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betonline.com\/sports-betting\/football\/nfl\/nfl-week-1-matchups\" title=\"NFL week 1 odds\">NFL week 1 odds<\/a>, so they haven&#8217;t bothered to notice that some of the top seeds on the women&#8217;s side are not only struggling but have already been ousted.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Calibri'>&nbsp;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Calibri;font-weight:bold'>No. 11 season Ana <span class=SpellE>Ivanovic<\/span> Ousted <span class=GramE>In<\/span> First Round<\/span><\/font><\/b><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Calibri'>&nbsp;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Calibri'>Ana <span class=SpellE>Ivanovic<\/span> won the 2008 French Open but nowadays, that feels like it was a decade ago. <span class=SpellE>Ivanovic<\/span> has been absolutely brutal this year, not making it past the fourth round of any of the four Grand Slams this year. At the Australian Open, she only made it to the third round and at the US Open, <span class=SpellE>Ivanovic<\/span> had her most <span class=SpellE>embarassing<\/span> loss to date with a first-round upset. <span class=SpellE>Ivanovic<\/span> crashed and burned at the hands of <span class=SpellE>Kateryna<\/span> <span class=SpellE>Bondarenko<\/span> in three sets, losing in a third set tie breaker. She didn&#8217;t look good from the start, losing the opening set before bouncing back in the second set.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Calibri'>&nbsp;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Calibri;font-weight:bold'>No. 1 <span class=SpellE>Dinara<\/span> <span class=SpellE>Safina<\/span> Barely Hangs On<\/span><\/font><\/b><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Calibri'>&nbsp;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Calibri'>A lot of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportsbetonline.org\/\" title=\"sports picks\">sports picks<\/a> had <span class=SpellE>Dinara<\/span> <span class=SpellE>Safina<\/span> finally breaking through and getting her first Grand Slam win at the US Open this year but a lot of people are wondering how far she can really go after barely getting past the No. 167 player in the first round. Olivia <span class=SpellE>Rogowska<\/span>. The 18-year-old Australian pushed <span class=SpellE>Safina<\/span> to the break and even led 3-0 and 4-2 in the third set before <span class=SpellE>Safina<\/span> came back. <span class=SpellE>Safina<\/span> eventually won the finally four games of the match to survive. As she moves on, she&#8217;ll have to serve and perform much better if she hopes to survive.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Calibri'>&nbsp;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Calibri;font-weight:bold'>No. 3 Venus Williams <span class=GramE>Survives,<\/span> Bounces Back<\/span><\/font><\/b><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size: 11.0pt;font-family:Calibri'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Calibri'>&nbsp;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Calibri'>No. 3 Venus Williams looked slow, sluggish and hurt when she faced Vera <span class=SpellE>Dushevina<\/span> in the first round. Venus was down in the second set and just two points away from losing the match when she finally woke up. Williams was ripe for the picking but <span class=SpellE>Dushevina<\/span> couldn&#8217;t handle the pressure of potentially winning. A lot of people wondered how healthy Williams was\/is after that match but she looked much stronger in her second-round win over American <span class=SpellE>Bethanie<\/span> <span class=SpellE>Mattek<\/span>. She won in straight sets 6-4, 6-2. She&#8217;s not a good <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportsbettingsystem.net\" title=\"betting system\">betting system<\/a> pick to win it all as she doesn&#8217;t look quite right as of now.&nbsp;<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>OffshoreInsiders.com<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems like the first few rounds of the US Open are flying by but bettors should take notice of what&#8217;s happening on the women&#8217;s side. Most people are focused on NFL betting and the upcoming NFL week 1 odds, so they haven&#8217;t bothered to notice that some of the top seeds on the women&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/tennis-betting-top-seeds-struggling-on-womens-side\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tennis Betting &#8211; Top Seeds Struggling On Women&#8217;s Side<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}