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Sports Blog 25/01/2018: Tennis Preview – Australian Open 2018, Thursday 25th to Sunday 28th January 2018



Will defending champion Roger Federer reach a record 30th Grand Slam final by beating Hyeon Chung in their Australian Open semi-final on Friday?

The Aussie Open has been an odd one, especially on the men’s side of the draw. Andy Murray couldn’t compete due to a hip injury; Rafael Nadal had to retire during his quarter-final; and, at the hands of Chung, Novak Djokovic suffered his first straight sets defeat at the competition for more than a decade, resulting in a shock 4th round exit. And that’s not to mention the likes of Alexander Zverev, Dominic Thiem, David Goffin and Stan Wawrinka all suffering premature exits.

Roger Federer Hyeon Chung Australian Open Semi -final January 25th Match Spreads Spreadex Sports Spread Betting

All this allowed for 2 unseeded players, Hyeon Chung and Kyle Edmunds, to reach the Australian Open semi-finals, the first time such a thing has happened in a Grand Slam competition since Marat Safin and Rainer Schuttker did the same at Wimbledon in 2008. And while Edmund faltered in the face of Marin Cilic, losing 6-2 7-6 6-2, Chung is still in with a chance of nabbing a scalp even bigger than the one he took off Djokovic.

Of course, on paper at least, his chances of doing so are pretty slim. Federer is yet to drop a set, breezing past Aljaz Bedene, Jan-Lennard Struff, Richard Gasquet, Marton Fucsovics and Tomas Berdych with nary a blip. He’s so clearly the frontrunner that, despite Cilic already being in the final he trails the Swiss superman on Spreadex’s Outright Index, with the Croatian at 45-47 to Federer’s 48.5-50.5 (Chung is at 24-26).

As for the semi-final itself, the 5-time Aussie champ is at a comfortable Federer/Chung Match Supremacy spread of 14-17, with a Total Sets spread of 3.6-3.76, a Total Games spread of 37-39 and a Total Points spread of 233-240.

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