Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
The Second Round of the Swiss Open is completed today on the Gstaad clay.
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Top seed Mikhail Youzhny (pictured) is among the players you can watch today via BWin – just sign up for an account and make a deposit and you can see the tennis for free – you don’t have to place a bet.
Mikhail Youzhny (3/100) vAlexander Sadecky (8/1)
Jeremy Chardy (11/25) v Jarkko Nieminen (79/50)
Michael Lammer (17/2) v Nicolas Almagro (1/50)
Youzhny is ranked inside the top 20, while Sadecky, the local wild card has justified his special entry with a win in Round One – he has a world ranking outside the top 400. The two usually operate on different levels and you can’t see this match going any other way.
The tightest match on the featued courts, with improving Frenchman Chardy up against the Finnish veteran Nieminen. Chardy knocked out Paul-Henri Mathieu to no one’s surprise, while Nieminen survived a 3-set match with Thiago Alves of Brazil. Although Nieminen has won their only meeting, Chardy has improved since then and we fancy him to make it into the last 8, though it might take him 3 sets. Chardy is 11/25 with BWin to progress.
Another meeting of might versus minnow as Almagro, the Swedish Open winner takes on Swiss wild card Lammer. Lammer did well to beat the big hitting Jamaican Dustin Brown in his first match, but Brown does not get good results on clay. Almagro does, and surely must here. He’s worth backing at 1/5 with BWin for a straight sets victory.