3 trades for me over night

 2.00 - Kerber (1.90) - Barthel (2.10) - WTA Hobart (Semi finals)
Two German girls in semi-finals in Australia. Kerber breezed over her opponents to reach Cirstea who she won 6-0, 3-6, 7-5, but it was much harder then it looked, as Kerber totally collapsed in 2nd set and was close to retiring because of a wrist injury. Cirstea was winning 5-2 in 3rd set and had a couple of MP's but Kerber saved them and won the match. This will be already 8th match for Barthel in this week, but regarding her age fatigue shouldn't be the problem. They will start at evens, mainly because of Kerber's injury. I believe Kerber is the better player, but question is how much will she want to win this match, so we must be very careful, because she just might give this win away to her fellow German player, which would mean that would be her first WTA finals in her career. They are both solid on serves, have nice shots, it will just be the competition who would made more UEs. I think if Kerber is doing ok it's good to back quite fast as she will try hard she will win. If she won't then Barthel will be dominating and it could be a quick and easy straight match for Barthel. If Kerber wins first, it's always good thing to lay her, as Barthel won't give up if she gets set behind, thou Kerber will, I believe. Barthel to win in 2 sets.
Update:My fatigue because of lack of sleep in last days really knocked in this night and I was not able to wake up for this game at right. What a shame, because, obviously Kerber just let Barthel win first set, then she decided she'll try anyway, but was too late. She wanted to win in TB, but it was too late and Barthel was more focused. Barthel won 6-0, 7-6.


5.00 Baghdatis (1.57) - Benneteau (2.72) - ATP Sydney (Semi-finals)
Baghdatis is really in cracking form. He played one of the best matches of his career yesterday against Argentinian big guy Del Potro and won in straight sets. His serve is helping him lately a lot. And his backhend was very accurate and deadly, thou he will need to do more against Benny to win points, as Benneteau will catch more balls then Del Potro. I believe better serving from Baghdatis will grant him more free points which would be the key to this match. Benneteau played decently vs Bogomolov which was quite poor. Definitely not to go from a start on Baghdatis, since he can relax too much, as he thinks this is the easier opponent then Del Potro. But if he'll try enough he has all the skill to win this match + he has a big support from the crowd. Baghdatis to win in 2 or 3 sets.

Update: Trading tennis would be amazingly simpler and easier (probably too much) if players would be showing at least similar if not the same level of skill two days in a row. Our opinions are judged based on how the player(s) played one day ago because it's highly likely that he or she will continue in that manner. Well, that couldn't be far more away from the truth this week. Baghdatis started very poor, his level of UE's was astronomical and was soon two breaks down in first set. He then showed some style from yesterday and he broke back twice levelling the score. He was broken back to 6-5 immediately and lost the set. I made decent profit with him coming back at that time and I closed the trade. I didn't watch the 2nd set, but I read it was an early break from Benneteau that was crucial. Benneteau won in straight sets.

9.30 Azarenka - Li (still to follow)