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25th Aug 2013 | US Open

US Open Tennis Tip: Andy Murray

It's deja-vu as the bookmakers have again offered up the Scot at completely the wrong odds.

This time last year I sat down to make my pick for Flushing Meadows and came to the conclusion that Andy Murray was too good to turn down at odds of 5/1. Staggeringly, 12 months on, the now reigning champion and Wimbledon champion is still being offered up at best odds of 21/5 with StanJames.

The argument against Murray is that Nadal (2/1 Ladbrokes) is the man to beat having gone undefeated on hard courts so far in 2013, with a 15-0 win/loss record. Impressive, but I fell for this one at Wimbledon when the Spaniard arrived in equally mesmerising form.  He lost in round one. The fact remains that Nadal hasn’t won a major outside of Paris since 2010 and the jury must remain out until that sequence is ended.

Meanwhile, Djokovic remains world number one and therefore enters all the Grand Slams at shorter odds (9/4 Skybet) than the British favourite. Again, it’s worth remembering that the Serb hasn’t won a Slam outside of Australia since late summer 2011, although admittedly that was here in New York.

But Murray, having withdrawn from the French Open, has won two of the last three Slams he has entered and made the final in the other one. Forget some patchy form since Wimbledon, he is only concerned with the biggest events and his price is all wrong again.

Odds correct at time of publishing: 21:52 25th Aug, 2013 but subject to change

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