French Open-Mens Day 4-Bonus Tips

We've already tipped Zeballos, but after a deeper dive into the stats, we want to add to our portfolia.

Aljaz Bedene might be confused about his nationality, but he's pretty certain of his clay court form coming into the French Open and should approach his match withJiri Vesely in a confident frame of mind.

Bedene has warmed up for this event with a lot of tennis in April after winning two challenger events and then reaching the final of the Hungarian Open. Victories along the way included beating Benoit Paire (at 5/4), Lukas Rosol, Gastao Elias, Robin Haase and Ivo Karlovic, so he'll have been pretty happy with those titles. With a career 227-87 clay record, its easy to see why Team GB wanted to add him to their roster.

Vesely took down Jack Sock in the first round - a considerable scalp - but he has not set the world alight ahead of this event, and the 5/6 on Bedene looks big in our view.

Bedene to beat Vesely at 5/6

Victor Troicki should have the measure of the lower ranked Nokoloz Basilashvili in their match up. The Serbian is ranked nearly 30 places higher, and has collected almost as many clay ranking points in five tournaments as Basilashvili has done in nine.

The pair have never met, so we don't have a steer on the head to head, but Troicki has done enough lately to warrant a small investment. A semi-final in Istanbul was the highlight, and he came through the first round in straight sets against Evgeny Donskoy.

Troicki to beat Basilashvili at 11/10

Finally, Lucas Pouille looks likely to take apart Thomaz Belluci when the pair meet. Up to 17th in the world, Pouille was a relatvie unknown this time 12 months ago, but he looks the real deal and has beaten everyone he should have recently.

A final indoors in Marseille, a semi final in the Monte Carlo Masters, and a title in Budapest have capped an amazing year for the young Frenchman and he should be suitably bouyed by a home crowd.

Belluci is ranked just 62nd in the world, and finding a reason to trust him to stop Pouille is hard. He reached the final of the US Clay Court Championship, but didnt have to beat a great deal in all honesty, and every match went to a final set, so he was hardly convincing.

Pouille to win 3-0 v Belluci at 7/4 Generally

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