Analysis for Verdasco-Mayer (Stuttgart)

New tennis week is beginning and we are back on track for better results. Our first pick is Florian Mayer in his match with Fernando Verdasco. Both players well known each other and Florian was more successful in all their head-to-head matches.

Head-to-head record 0:3

Verdasco-Mayer (Miami 2007) 6:7,1:6

Verdasco-Mayer (Bucharest 2005) 5:7,6:7

Verdasco-Mayer (Wimbledon 2005) 6:7,5:7,3:6

Interesting is, that all matches took place on different surfaces - Mayer was better on hard (Miami), clay (Bucharest) and grass (Wimbledon), all straight sets win. This year is Mayer's most successful season and many of his excelent results took place on clay – for example finals in Braunschweig, Prostejov and Dresden. After loss in second round of Wimbledon (with Nieminen 2:3) he has rested and he didn't appear

in competitive match till yesterday, when he easily defeated Hartfield in Bundesliga match. Verdasco does not have a good year and his biggest success surely is 4th round of French Open and following lost to Djokovic. He has returned to clay after grass intermezzo last week in Bastad, where he defeated unfamiliar Norwegian Tveit and after that he lost in three sets to Soderling. We think, that Mayer is slightly bigger favorite, he will be also driven ahead by home audience. Odds above 1.9 surely have value.