My tennis trading started with losing trade in Verdasco-Gulbis match. I had nice all green in 2nd set but for some reasons I took a chance and placed my money on Gulbis. This man had 9 (!!!) breakpoints in 2nd set but only 1 of them won, Verdasco had 1/1 = 100% efficiency. It says alot.
If...and I say IF Gulbis could take that 2nd set I would be in heaven with huge green. Anyway, Gulbis lost in tiebreak and I lost £19 at the same time.

Before last match for the day I decided to try some of screen capture applications and recorded this video.
So here it is, my first ever trading movie. Remember it's my first try and quality may be not so good. I would love to hear from you what applications/settings you are using.


My Friday result....

I have some spare time to watch live tennis from Barcelona and could not resist ;) Plenty of opportunities in this match and I could not just watch without placing some bets. So I decided do some trading using small stakes just to have fun. I am still not so confident trading this tournament just before 2 Masters and Roland Garros comming in next weeks.

3rd set still in progress with Melzer one break up but Verdasco may be back anytime...so no more bets for me.

Waiting for next match, Soderling-Lopez.

Wish you all good luck.

Rafael Nadal officially confirms his withdrawal from Barcelona Open.

Rafael Nadal has announced his decision to withdraw from the Barcelona Open BancSabadell – 58th Conde de Godó Trophy, organizers have confirmed. The Mallorcan player will hold a press conference at the tournament, which commenced earlier today, at noon on Tuesday in order to fully explain the reasons behind his decision

It's about Verdasco-Montanes. Very strange match with more than £254 000 matched at 1.01 on Verdasco in 2nd set. Just when market expected Verdasco win and GSM, Verdasco wasn't able to win any points. At that time Fernando had 5-1 lead in 2nd set :)

Montanes came back from 1-5 after saving 3 match points and won 2nd set in tiebreak...Verdasco price from 1.01 to about 1.50 and 3rd set to play. This time Montanes couldn't win any points....sorry, he actually won 6 points in 3rd set :)

Final result 6-3, 6-7, 6-0 to Verdasco.....and he will play Djokovic in semi-final tomorrow.

Flavia Pennetta is the winner of this weeks Andalucia Open. 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 against Carla Suarez Navarro.

One week with almost no trading at all for me. Monte Carlo Masters on clay just starting and I will be busy next week due to my day time job. So many trading opportunities but not for me as it looks now. Well, still much more to come on clay before it's time for French Open at Roland Garros 23rd May.

I found something interesting/funny for you tennis traders. Have a look at this movie and you'll understand what I mean :)


My advice is, be careful while trading guys with BIG serve, even when playing on clay court LOL