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French Open day 8: Five Sunday tips from fourth round fixtures

| 29.05.2016
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Sam Barnard, Assistant Sports Editor | May 28, 2016

2016 French Open day eight

  • Sunday, May 29th
  • First matches scheduled on court: 10:00 BST
  • Roland Garros, Paris
  • Live on ITV4 and Eurosport

Murray finally finds form

We’re now into the fourth round matches at the 2016 French Open, and Coral have picked out five top tips to take from the men and women’s singles draws.

The likes of Andy Murray, Kei Nishikori, Stan Wawrinka, Simona Halep and Garbine Muguruza all feature on day eight of the event on Sunday, so read on to find out how to best back your favourite players…

Murray to win first set v Isner via tie-break

Spain Tennis Madrid Open

Scotsman Murray has finally found his feet in this tournament, after easily dispatching Ivo Karlovic last time out 3-0, having had to dig deep to see off Radek Stepanek and Mathias Bourgue in five sets in the first two rounds.

He now takes on another big-serving giant in John Isner, who only scraped past Teymuraz Gabashvili 3-2 in his last 32 tie.

Murray has beaten the American in each of their five meetings to date, with four of those going to a first set tie-break. Therefore, odds of 7/2 for the Scot to defeat Isner 7-6 in the opener again look highly enticing.

Halep to beat Stosur 2-1

France Tennis French Open

This duo meet after recently locking horns in the Madrid Masters semi-final on clay, where Halep was a convincing 6-2 6-0 victor on her way to lifting the trophy.

However, Sam Stosur has looked good this tournament, having just knocked out 11th seed Lucie Safaraova, while has also defeated Halep on the orange surface twice before.

A closer outcome is expected this time around, with the pair having claimed three wins apiece against each other, so back top Romanian tennis pro Halep at 11/4 to knock out Aussie star Stosur in three sets.

Nishikori to claim four sets win over Gasquet

France Tennis French Open

Frenchman Richard Gasquet may boast a 6-2 winning record over Kei Nishikori, but both his losses to the Japanese star came this year and on clay in straight sets.

Being in front of his home crowd should spur Gasquet on more, but Nishikori is a great 11/4 shout to come through 3-1, following his five-setter with Fernando Verdasco.

Kuznetsova to beat Muguruza

2016 Australian Open - Day Two - Melbourne Park

Venezuelan-born Spaniard Muguruza may be the fourth seed and a quarter-finalist at the French the last two years, but she goes up against 2009 Roland Garros champion Svetlana Kuznetsova, who certainly knows her way round a clay court.

Their only previous tussle ended in a victory for the double Grand Slam-winning Russian too, in the 2015 Madrid Masters, so she is very tempting at 11/8 just to triumph again.

Wawrinka to beat Troicki 3-1

Roland Garros - Stan Wawrinka Wins First Title

After both coming through tight five-setters from 2-1 down in round one, Wawrinka and Viktor Troicki have looked fairly comfortable in their following fixtures, and now go head-to-head for a place in the quarters.

The Serbian has never reached that stage at any Grand Slam before, while the Swiss happens to be the defending champion.

Wawrinka has won all four of their previous meetings, though dropped a set against Troicki once on clay, so is 5/2 to do so and triumph once more.

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Sam Barnard

Sam has been writing for Coral since January 2014, and is the assistant editor of the news site. As well as the main betting sports, football, tennis and cricket, he covers the likes of golf, F1 and darts too, the latter of which has become a particular favourite. Sam enjoys playing as much as writing about sports, but niggling injuries have limited his participation in recent years, so is happy to mainly watch the pros such as Manchester United, Yorkshire CCC, Raymond van Barneveld and even Gibraltar national football team instead.