Find out our top tennis play for this Saturday’s action in the ATP 500 Rio de Janeiro Semi-Finals. Bookmakers Review breaks down the fixture below and lists the best available odds from green listed bookmakers.
Ramos-Vinolas vs. Thiem
Dominic Thiem continues his successful journey in Rio de Janeiro with the Austrian booking a place in this stage of the competition after a 6 – 2 6 – 3 triumph over Diego Schwartzman. As we mentioned in our previous analysis, Thiem is now the undeniable favourite to lift the trophy in Rio after Kei Nishikori’s defeat. This is already Thiem’s 16th career apperance in the semi-finals of an ATP World Tour event with the Austrian holding a solid 66.67% winning record on his previous 15 attempts. However, if we look only at his 9 semi-finals on clay, Thiem’s record increases to 77.78%.
It has been a great start of season for Albert Ramos-Vinolas with the 29 years old Spaniard already securing his career high ranking next week. Known for his solid baseline game, Ramos-Vinolas is never an easy opponent to face. Despite his extremely competitive mindset, Albert only won 3 of his previous 27 matches against top 10 opponents. This is Ramos-Vinolas first apperance in the semi-finals of an ATP 500 event with the Spaniard looking for his 4th career final on the ATP World Tour.
This will be the 2nd career meeting between these two players with Ramos-Vinolas winning their previous encounter in Chengdu’s Hard Court last year by 6 – 1 6 – 4.
Despite Albert’s lead on the h2h, Thiem was far from his best on that match after a very demanding season. This time things should be completely different since Dominic has played at a superb level throughout the week. With this in mind, Thiem is the clear favourite to win this match with Pinnacle offering 41/100 for his victory while Ramos-Vinolas is available at 9/4 at 5Dimes.
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