Marcos Baghdatis continues to pursue his first ATP World Tour title since Sydney 2010. Despite his disappointing 13 – 17 record in 2017, the 32-year-old is enjoying great success in Chengdu. Known as one of the greatest competitors in the game, the former world no.8 already won three matches this week after dropping the opening set. Adding to this, Baghdatis only allowed one break of serve to Guido Pella in the semi-finals.
Against our expectations, Denis Istomin proved too strong for Yuichi Sugita with a 6 – 2 6 – 7 6 – 0 win over the Japanese in the semi-finals. At the age of 31, the world no.78 is playing some of his best tennis on this tournament with an impressive average of 0.82 aces per service game. On the other hand, Istomin won 87.00% of the points when facing break points in Chengdu.
These two players will face each other for the 5th time in their careers with each of them winning two of their previous four encounters on the ATP World Tour.
As the h2h suggests, there isn’t much separating these two players. The bookmakers think the same with Baghdatis available at 87/100 at 5Dimes while Pinnacle offers 26/25 for Istomin’s victory. Despite Marcos’ higher experience at this level, it’s impossible to find any value on his current tennis betting odds. For that reason, our suggestion is for you to place a bet on the Over 22 at 7/10 at Pinnacle since we can’t see any of them winning this match in two easy sets.
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