Tennis Betting Tips: Raducanu to race into US Open third round

Tuesday's 5/1 treble began well as Sorana Cirstea ousted Solana Sierra in straight sets, but after taking their first-round matches to a deciding set, Jessica Bouzas Maneiro and Gael Monfils were unable to get the job done against Donna Vekic and Roman Safiullin, respectively.

I return with Wednesday's Tennis Betting Tips, which you can check out below, looking to go two better than yesterday...

Set Betting - Ben Shelton (USA) 3-0 vs Pablo Carreno Busta (ESP) @ 4/5

Canadian Open champion Ben Shelton appeared to experience burnout at the Cincinnati Open earlier this month, losing 2-6, 2-6 to Alexander Zverev in the quarter-finals, but after an eight-day break, he was back on top form on Sunday, beating Ignacio Buse 6-3, 6-2, 6-4 in the US Open first round.

Next up for the No. 6 seed is a second-round encounter with Pablo Carreno Busta, who defeated fellow Spaniard Pablo Llamas Ruiz 7-6, 6-4, 6-2 to book a second career meeting with Shelton.

The American emerged triumphant from their first head-to-head earlier this year, beating Carreno Busta 6-3, 6-3, 6-7, 6-4 at the Australian Open on January 16.

Shelton held his serve in all four sets, only suffering a mini-break in the third set tiebreaker, and his reputation as one of the sport's strongest servers has only grown since then. Buse was unable to get the better of his hammer serve on Sunday, and it's unlikely Carreno Busta will be able to either.

The Spaniard has endured a tough season, with fitness issues plaguing his progress, and he hasn't won back-to-back matches since a Challenger tournament in mid-June in Lyonnais, France.

The 34-year-old's last six losses have been in straight sets, and Shelton, who has only dropped a set in one of his last six victories, looks likely to inflict another defeat of that nature on him at Flushing Meadows.

Match Betting - Benjamin Bonzi (FRA) to beat Marcos Giron (USA) @ 1/1

After one of the most astonishing tennis matches I have ever watched - for all the wrong reasons - Benjamin Bonzi eventually booked his ticket to the second round in the early hours of Monday, beating Daniil Medvedev 6-3, 7-5, 6-7, 0-6, 6-4. The Frenchman had match point in the third set when a photographer bizarrely stepped on to the court, seemingly believing the tie was over. Bedlam ensued as the umpire handed another first serve to Bonzi - who had failed with his initial attempt - a decision that went down like a lead balloon with the Russian and a baying crowd.

As Medvedev raged and supporters demanded the second serve to be reinstated, Bonzi waited, waited, and waited, with a delay of six minutes and 24 seconds between serves. The 29-year-old, understandably, lost focus, saw his match point disappear, and lost the set, before he was bagelled in the fourth.

Credit to Bonzi, though, as regained his concentration in the fifth to set up a second-round meeting with Marcos Giron, who had earlier been involved in five-set thriller of his own against Mariano Navone (6-0, 7-5, 4-6, 5-7, 6-4).

Heading into Wednesday's match, just four places separate Bonzi (46th) and Giron (49th), who have never faced off previously, in the ATP Live Rankings, and there doesn't appear to be a lot between the two players.

Bonzi is in better form, though, having won three times en route to the last 16 of the Cincinnati Open earlier this month, while Giron was knocked out in the first round in Washington, Toronto, Cincinnati and Winston-Salem - losing three of those matches in straight sets - before ending a five-match winless streak against Navone.

It will be an entirely different test for Bonzi on Wednesday, but the momentum he has built up after beating Lorenzo Musetti, Stefano Tsitsipas and Medvedev, all top-30 players, should see him through to the third round, in my opinion.

Set Betting - Emma Raducanu (GBR) 2-0 vs Janice Tjen (INA) @ 4/5

British No. 1 Emma Raducanu made light work of Ena Shibahara in their first-round match on Sunday, beating her Japanese counterpart 6-1, 6-2 in an hour and three minutes to register the quickest Grand Slam main-draw victory of her career.

The 22-year-old now moves on to the second round, where Indonesian qualifier Janice Tjen lies in wait.

Tjen upset the odds in her opening contest at Flushing Meadows, beating Veronika Kudermetova 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 on Sunday, and in doing so, earning the first singles win by an Indonesian player in a Grand Slam tournament in 22 years.

The 23-year-old has enjoyed a brilliant year in the lower levels, arriving at the US Open with a 55-10 record that included a 27-match winning run in the ITF, which saw her collect five consecutive titles.

Tjen has built up some serious momentum, with No. 24 seed and Cincinnati Open semi-finalist Kudermetova proving no match in the first round, but Raducanu could halt her progress on Wednesday.

Raducanu has enjoyed a positive season herself, on a much higher stage, and holds a 9-4 record since the start of Wimbledon (7-3 on hard courts). Two of those defeats since the start of July have come against World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka, who, despite beating the Brit at Wimbledon (7-6, 6-4) and the Cincinnati Open (7-6, 4-6, 7-6), was pushed extremely hard for her wins.

The 2021 US Open winner's last nine victories have come in straight sets, and while Tjen is likely to pose her a few problems, I expect Raducanu's superior talents to come to the fore to get this contest done in two.

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