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Behind the Bets: French Open picks

By Chad Millman
ESPN The Magazine

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Three things matter to bookmakers when they're setting the odds for the French Open: 1. How a player plays on clay. 2. How a player is playing right now. 3. What kind of action the player will get from bettors. In the men's draw, for those reasons alone, it's easy to see why the boys at the Hilton have Rafael Nadal going off at 1-4 heading into the weekend. And Roger Federer got a bump, from 10-1 to 6-1, after he beat Nadal on clay in Madrid last weekend. After those two, the Hilton only ...

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