The fourth round of the Australian Open comes to an end this Monday after Andy Murray’s shocking elimination. Bookmakers Review breaks down the fixtures below and lists the best available odds from green listed bookmakers.
Thiem vs. Goffin
Looking now to the matches scheduled for this Monday in Melbourne, one of the highlights goes to the contest between Dominic Thiem and David Goffin.
Despite his undeniable quality and tremendous firepower, Thiem has been far from impressive on this Australian Open. Dominic reaches this stage of the competition after defeating Benoit Paire. The Austrian was very pleased about his triumph, especially for winning the match in four sets since Paire had a 4 – 2 lead in the 4th set.
Goffin is looking for his second career appearance in the quarter-finals of a Grand Slam event after reaching that stage last year in Roland Garros. Looking now to David’s campaign in Melbourne, the Belgian featured a remarkable performance against one of the biggest servers in the game – Ivo Karlovic.
This match is a perfect opportunity for Goffin to revenge last year’s defeat against Thiem in the French Open quarter-finals. The game conditions in Melbourne clearly suits David’s game style with the Austrian unable to find an answer to Goffin’s counter punching skills. Therefore, David is the main favourite for this match with Pinnacle offering 3/4 for his triumph while Thiem is available at 11/10 at William Hill.
Bautista Agut vs. Raonic
After Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray’s elimination, Milos Raonic’s goal of winning a Grand Slam events seems much more likely. However, there is still a long way ahead of the Canadian. Milos has been very solid throughout the entire tournament with three solid victories. Even though Raonic is famous for his outstanding serve, we have to highlight his return to serve with Milos winning 22.90% of his opponents’ service games – which are very good stats for him.
Roberto Bautista Agut is for the seventh time in the 4th round of a Grand Slam event; however, the Spaniard never made it into the next phase. Roberto reaches this stage of the competition after an epic 4-hour battle against David Ferrer. Despite his astonishing victory against Djokovic last year in Shanghai, Bautista Agut only won 16.22% of the matches played against top 10 opponents.
Raonic clearly holds the edge between these two with a solid 4 – 0 lead on the h2h. As we mentioned before, the Canadian is breaking his opponents quite often which might be the key to his success in this match. The bookmakers also expect an easy win from Raonic with Ladbrokes offering 1/4 for his victory while Bautista Agut is available at 333/100 at Bet365. Due to the low price on Milos’ money line, we recommend you to take his -1.5 Set Handicap at 1/2 at SBOBET as the best betting approach for this match.
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