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    Racing Post
    July 6, 2005, Wednesday

    TENNIS: VETERAN SARGSIAN LIVING ON BORROWED TIME IN GSTAAD

    by PAUL KEALY

    Sargis Sargsian Lucky wnnner


    IT looks like a day for favourite backers in Sweden and Switzerland
    with most of the secondround matches featuring hotpots that are hard
    to oppose, writes Paul Kealy. Some may be tempted to get with
    rapidly-improving youngster Gael Monfils against Tommy Robredo in
    Bastad following his straight-sets demolition of Jonas Bjorkman
    yesterday, but today's challenge represents a much stiffer task.

    Bjorkman has always been at home on faster courts, while Robredo is
    one of the world's finest clay-court exponents, as he showed when
    making the French Open quarter-finals in May.

    The Spaniard also hammered Monfils on a hard court earlier this year
    and it may be too much of an ask for the teenager to turn the form
    around at this early stage of his career.

    Those who like short-priced accumulators have a choice of plenty,
    with Rafael Nadal, Juan Carlos Ferrero, Carlos Moya and Gaston Gaudio
    all looking nailed-on against inferior opposition.

    Those who like a bit more meat on their prices should consider
    little-known Razvan Sabau at 8-13 with Stan James to beat Sargis
    Sargsian in Gstaad.

    The Romanian can hardly be called an improver at the age of 27, but
    he has won a couple of clay-court Challenger events this year, but he
    has beaten Sargsian once before and is almost certainly playing him
    at the right time.

    The veteran Armenian had won just two main-tour matches this season
    before this week and though he took his tally to three yesterday, he
    was mighty fortunate. Opponent Nikolay Daveydenko, who pulled out
    with a wrist injury at Wimbledon, did so again having won the first
    set 6-1.

    Recommendation R Sabau 3pts 8-13 (Stan James)
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