Keep Backing.....

2 out of the bonus 4 won yesterday and 4 of the "Solid" 6.
Ali Carter keeping up his good form took out our selection, Ding Junhui, in the quarter finals yesterday but we'll be taking "Captain" Carter on again today with John Higgins who looks to be keeping up his winning form after yesterdays fairly comfortable dispatching of Matthew Stevens. Higgins has a 2-1 head to head in 2011. In the other semi, Stephen Maguire kept up his bad name in my household by beating last weeks German Masters winner Mark Williams, who we had in our chancey extras. He faces our selection for today, Mark Selby, who reached the final last Sunday but fell a couple of frames short, losing 9-7 to Mark J, hopefully he'll have another final appearance tomorrow to try and make amends.
The Open13 tennis tournament in Marseille has alson reached the semi final stage and after deciding Tursunov wouldn't be making his way to the arena today with Melzer his opponent in the quarters, he duly obliged by beating yesterday's pick in 3 sets. He squares up against another last week winner in Robin Soderling who is playing his best and most consistent tennis of his career. Will fatigue be a factor, hopefully not as Soderling has reached 2 Grand Slam finals which are 2 weeks of consecutive play and even a so-so showing from the tall Swede should be good enough to make another final appearance tomorrow.
The other Open13 semi sees Marin Cilic line up as the outsider v Mikael Youznhy who saw off another of our selections yesterday. Their head to head doesn't read to well for our pick either as Youznhy holds a 4-0 record, but Youznhy has been on court a lot in the last fortnight, reaching the quarters last week and playing two 3 setters the last two days where as Cilic has seen off dangerous opponents in straight sets.
As for football, I've gone for strong home favourites with good head to head records with their respective opponents:

SERIE A FIXTURE INTER MILAN
LA LIGA FIXTURE VALENCIA
LA LIGA FIXTURE REAL MADRID
LIGUE 1 FIXTURE OLYMPIQUE MARSEILLE
ENGLISH F.A CUP CHELSEA
OPEN13 TENNIS ROBIN SODERLING
OPEN13 TENNIS MARIN CILIC
WELSH OPEN SNOOKER JOHN HIGGINS
WELSH OPEN SNOOKER MARK SELBY

35.71 Stan James 34.57 Paddy Power 28.57 SportingBet 14.75 BetFred
(at time of writing BetFred hadn't priced up their tennis matches)

Aside from these I'm having a footy acca from the English League action taking place today:

CHAMPIONSHIP SWANSEA CITY
LEAGUE ONE PETERBOROUGH UNITED
LEAGUE ONE CHARLTON ATHLETIC
LEAGUE ONE COLCHESTER UNITED

7.93 BetFred 7.57 Paddy Power 7.30 Stan James 7.02 SportingBet

Best of British!cont....

With Charlton making their recent results look stupid against Exeter and Chelsea immediately falling under the "Torres = No Trophy" curse, I've gone back in on tonights action, using matches that hadn't yet kicked off and adding a couple of guesses:

Welsh Open Snooker Mark Selby
Engage Super League fixture Huddersfield Giants
Bundesliga Fixture Bayern Munich
Serie A fixture Palermo
Serie A fixture Inter Milan
La Liga fixture Valencia
La Liga fixture Real Madrid

I'll try and post some odds via Twitter(rudgey76)
This sports following is expensive, fingers crossed.