Trading and tennis

Reading my last post again, it was a little heavy so it's no surprise I haven't received any feedback for it. Rest assured this post will be more back to normal!

Yesterday afternoon I dabbled a bit in tennis trading and had a look at the Gasquet v Rosol match from Stuttgart. I was only using tiny units but made a good green, with no bad trades which was very encouraging. Looking back on it I was kind of 'in the zone' which is where every trader aspires to be. I was reading the game well and what I thought would happen ended up happening. Gasquet began at 1.1x, and I thought it was pretty obvious that he would trade higher than that at some point during the game, so I layed him. Sure enough he dropped the first set (despite being 6-1 up in the tiebreak!) and he went up to 1.5x. This struck me as the obvious time to back him, so I did so and all was good. If only all matches could be like that huh.

Talking of Gasquet, I have a little tennis anecdote which my friends will all know anyway but I'll outline it again here. Whilst I was on the tennis team at uni I had an away match in Leeds where I played some French guy who had (apparently) beaten Gasquet when they were both juniors. Needless to say I got beaten 6-1 6-1, but I am proud of those two games I got! The crux is this; if he beat Gasquet 6-0 6-0 or 6-0 6-1, then I am (theoretically) better than Richard Gasquet. So remember this, there is a chance that I am better than a former Wimbledon semi-finalist!

I have a tennis match tonight for the third team at Lowlands, but I have a bit of a cold at the moment and have a horrible feeling I'm going to get stuffed. If my serve goes alright and I have a decent partner then maybe it will be ok, but otherwise I don't feel up to much.

So what am I up to before tennis.... I had a brief look at the first England v South Africa Test, but I don't have a clue what to bet on. There's a strong possibility of a draw with all this crappy weather at the moment and I hate betting on cricket when such is the case. I'll probably leave that alone. I just played a bit of poker and it went pretty well, so I'll probably do a bit more of that.

From time to time I like looking back on my calendar from last year to see what I was up to. This time last year it looks like I had just gone on holiday to Gran Canaria with the boys - I cannot believe that was a whole year ago! It was a really influential holiday that has shaped our banter ever since and it really doesn't seem like that long since it happened. There are too many memories to look back on right now, but maybe I'll do a separate post reflecting on it!

That's all for now

-J