So to day five of the Australian Open, and we’ve hit the third round of the men’s and women’s singles.

Nicolas Mahut’s fine effort when injured helped us no end yesterday, and we’re hopeful this can mark a turn around in fortunes. Our first pick is in the battle of the slicers and dicers, with Bernard Tomic up against Alex Dolgopolov. Neither play is relishing facing the other, given the way they like to take the pace off the ball and use slice and spin to disconcert their more orthodox opponents. Two factors seem to come into play though. The first is home advantage for Tomic, who is starting to engage with fans.

The second is Dolgopolov’s fitness. The Ukrainian admitted he struggled in his opener with injury problems against Greg Jones, and was then taken to five sets again by Tobias Kamke. He can surely only put up with that for so long before it takes it’s toll. The early market moves have been for Tomic, so we’ll grab the value left early with Boylesports

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Our other pick is a return to Julia Goerges, who looked nice and efficient against Eleni Danillidou before the Greek player was forced to retire. Goerges is up against clay courter Romina Oprandi, who pulled off a big surprise when knocking out Francesca Schiavone. Consistency has not been a big feature of the Italian’s career and with Goerges getting fitter the German looks good to repay us here.

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