The Overrule: US Open Women "Viktastic"

By Sports Magician


Victoria Azarenka's impressive tournament victory in Stanford has seen most bookies slash the US Open price for the talented 21 year old. Fortunately, there are still a couple of bookies out there who have decided not to cut Azarenka to single digits for the last Grand Slam of the season. The Overrule identified Azarenka as a future world number one quite a while ago and if you are a regular reader of this column you’ll have heard me say that about 124,756 times. It might be repetitive, but the truth must be spoken until everyone is on board.

Azarenka enters San Diego this week as the tournament favourite and if she puts together another strong week then we should expect to see her price cut even further, to the point where would have to consider whether she is worth backing. At her current best available price, she absolutely is worth backing. And we will add her to our selections for this year’s US Open event - where we already have Kim Clijsters, Maria Sharapova and Svetlana Kuznetsova under our belt at healthy prices, 6.70, 13.00 and 36.00, respectively. 

Given that Serena Williams’s participation is still in doubt, and at the very least, she would go into the US Open with no match practice - we look to have built a very strong collection of outright selections for the women’s event.

PICK: 2*(EACH-WAY) VICTORIA AZARENKA WIN US OPEN (1/2 ODDS 1-2 PLACES) @ 17.00 (WILLIAM HILL)

Sports Magician