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Andy Murray v Roger Federer

Federer To Win @ 6/5 - BET NOW

Undoubtedly the pick of the semi-finals as the home favourite takes on a man who has made centre court his second home during the last 10 years. Both players have cruised into the last four but I fear the Swiss maestro will have too much for Murray and he looks a superb price at 6/5.

Novak Djokovic v Richard Gasquet

Djokovic To Win 3-0 @ 4/6 - BET NOW

After cruising past Marin Cilic in the last eight Djokovic looks nailed on to reach the final against Richard Gasquet. Gasquet has played a lot of tennis already this week after needing five sets to beat Stan Wawrinka so could be suffering with fatigue. Djokovic leads the head-to-head between the pair 20-1 having won nine on the spin with eight of those nine coming in straight sets.

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Dimitrov (lost)

Tomic (lost)

(advised July 2014)

Article updated - June 22nd -

The fabulous match-up between Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer told us several things. Firstly, that the ‘new generation’ are not quite ready to make their major mark at the All-England Club, but secondly given another 12 months there could be a changing of the guard. Djokovic had to go through a painful mental and physical barrier to land his second title at SW19 and the huge battles he has had down through the years seem to be taking their toll on both his mind and body.

However, he has once again bounced back this season and despite his loss to Wawrinka in Paris, this is a surface he vastly prefers and you cannot argue with his short price in the outright market place.

As well as the Swiss maestro played, that could have been his fond farewell to Wimbledon.  The seven-time champion will be pushing 34 in July 2015 and will probably be running against a steep downhill physical slide in the next 12 months.

If you have a look back at the fifth set in the final, Federer looked to hold all the aces through the first six games, but went from looking in charge to becoming very tired in a very short space of time.

Andy Murray remains an enigma in my eyes, capable on his day, but mentally weak, yet he is the most likely of the ‘Big Four’ to emerge victorious next year at betting odds of 9/2 with Rafa Nadal’s poor recent injury record making the Majorcan vulnerable from an ante-post standpoint.

So of the two Murray is clearly preferred especially when you bear in mind the upward curve of his game following his back operation and his recent form on the clay court circuit and then becoming champion again at Queens. However, top betting odds of 3/1 are slightly on the short side what with the expectation on his shoulders so the bookmakers have him exactly where they want him.

So where else do we go for the value for 2015? Grigor Dimitrov is the obvious place to start having made rapid strides this year, rising from 32 in the world to 9th. There is little doubt had his shot selection been better; he could have beaten Djokovic in the semi-final. However, that maturity will come with time and he is in the right hands to progress further with Roger Rasheed his coach. Blessed with a crushing serve and a better ground game than his fellow big hitting young rivals, Raonic and Kyrgios, and with a Queen’s title already under his belt, betting odds of 10/1 look very fair in circumstances.

Since I wrote that original assessment last July Dimitrov has had an awful year. His best result of 2015 was a staright sets semi-final loss to Federer in Brisbane after which he stated that Wimbledon would be his main aim.

I expect him to up his game again here and having been advised as low as 10/1 he is now available at whopping 40/1! So if you weren't on last year and small investment at that price isadvised.

With Tomas Berdych having reached a plateau in his career, readily beaten by Marin Cilic in the round of 32 at Wimbledon, the likes of Wawrinka and Nishikori not as good on grass as hard courts, the at times brilliant Del Potro and promising Vasek Pospisil both not reliable due to injuries, there could still be some mileage in Bernard Tomic coming to the fore. A hip injury has severely restricted his campaign in 2014 and even resulted in him being on the wrong end of the shortest recorded tennis match in the open era when winning just one game against Jarkko Nieminen.

But the ability remains as his four set loss to Berdych this year demonstrated when he took the world number five to two tie breakers. There are two other problems for the Gerrman born player. Firstly, he needs to ditch his playboy attitude to life, which he has pledged to do and secondly, he needs to find a professional coach, his father having been in charge for the majority of his career.

Pat Cash was approached this year to take over the reins, but declined and Ivan Lendl has been mentioned in dispatches. The Czech maestro would be the perfect set-up for Tomic being a disciplinarian and no nonsense coach. So there are major ifs and buts about his future, but that is built into his betting odds of 150/1. The talent is undoubtedly there, now it’s all about the attitude.