{"id":141808,"date":"2017-05-31T22:18:38","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T02:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/topbet.eu\/news\/?p=141808"},"modified":"2017-05-31T22:20:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T02:20:24","slug":"venus-williams-vs-elise-mertens-predictions-odds-picks-and-tennis-betting-preview-2017-french-open-third-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/topbet.eu\/news\/venus-williams-vs-elise-mertens-predictions-odds-picks-and-tennis-betting-preview-2017-french-open-third-round.html","title":{"rendered":"Venus Williams vs. Elise Mertens Predictions, Odds, Picks and Tennis Betting Preview \u2013 2017 French Open Third Round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/record.tbaffiliate.com\/_y8k7RB3Ll4xutv7iXV6HvmNd7ZgqdRLk\/28\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-143054\" src=\"http:\/\/topbet.eu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Wimbledon-2017-News-banner.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"110\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Venus Williams\u00a0vs. Elise Mertens\u00a0Betting Preview<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Where:<\/strong>\u00a0Stade Roland Garros, Paris, France<\/p>\n<p><strong>When:<\/strong>\u00a0Friday, May 2, 2017, 5:00 AM ET<\/p>\n<p><strong>Line:<\/strong>\u00a0Venus Williams (<a href=\"http:\/\/topbet.eu\/sportsbook\/tennis\/womens-french-open-round-of-32-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>-300<\/strong><\/a>) vs. Elise Mertens\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/topbet.eu\/sportsbook\/tennis\/womens-french-open-round-of-32-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>+220<\/strong><\/a>) \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/topbet.eu\/sportsbook\/tennis\/womens-french-open-round-of-32-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>view all 2017 French\u00a0Open Women&#8217;s Singles lines<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>TV Broadcast:\u00a0<\/strong>Tennis Channel \/ NBC<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Most Recent Articles<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/topbet.eu\/news\/2017-presidents-cup-predictions-picks-odds-and-golf-betting-preview.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2017 Presidents Cup Preview<\/a><\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/topbet.eu\/news\/2017-presidents-cup-purse-and-prize-money-breakdown.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\r\n2017 Presidents Cup Purse Breakdown <\/a><\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/topbet.eu\/news\/nfl-2017-week-4-predictions-picks-and-preview.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NFL 2017 Week 4 Predictions, Picks and Preview<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Betting on Venus Williams\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/topbet.eu\/sportsbook\/tennis\/womens-french-open-round-of-32-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>-300<\/strong><\/a>)<\/h3>\n<p>10th-seeded Venus Williams pretty much coasted through her second-round match at Roland Garros, defeating Japan&#8217;s Kurumi Nara in straight sets (6-3, 6-1).<\/p>\n<p>Williams, who leads all female\u00a0players with 20 French Open apperances in the Open Era,\u00a0found herself in a 3-1 hole during the opening set against Nara. But then she managed\u00a0to storm back by winning the next\u00a0seven\u00a0games\u00a0and ultimately dispatching her opponent after\u00a0an hour and 18 minutes of action. In turn, Williams finished with a massive 30-6 edge in winners.<\/p>\n<p>However, shaky play continues to raise doubts as for exactly how far Venus will make it in Roland Garros this year. She committed 30 unforced errors in that\u00a0previous\u00a0match after tallying a whopping 44 of them in the opening round versus China&#8217;s Qiang Wang.<\/p>\n<p>Williams will now face her toughest competition\u00a0of the tournament yet in Elise Mertens, and we aren&#8217;t too\u00a0confident that she&#8217;ll be able to dominate the Belgian like her past two opponents. Although the 36-year-old WTA Tour stalwart made it all the way to the fourth round of the French Open last year, she&#8217;s only advanced past the second round of the tournament in that one instance over the last five seasons.<\/p>\n<h3>Betting on Elise Mertens\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/topbet.eu\/sportsbook\/tennis\/womens-french-open-round-of-32-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>+220<\/strong><\/a>)<\/h3>\n<p>Make that back-to-back straight-sets wins\u00a0at Roland Garros for Elise Mertens, who eliminated 105th-ranked Richel Hogenkamp with a convincing 6-3, 6-4 victory on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>After stunning 24th-seeded Daria Gavrilova in the opening round, the 21-year-old French Open debutante once again exhibited fantastic form against Hogenkamp. Mertens put 79 percent of her first serves into play and converted five of her seven chances at break points. She&#8217;s now broken her opponents 11 out of 17 times in her first two matches of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>With a handful of upsets already having panned out in the women&#8217;s singles draw (World No. 1 Angelique Kerber and No. 6 seed Dominika Cibulkova just to name a couple), it appears that Mertens is well in line to become another\u00a0dark horse at Roland Garros. The World No. 60 is 7-3 on clay this season, and she nearly won her second\u00a0singles title of the year at Istanbul against scorching-hot Elina Svitolina.<\/p>\n<p>Mertens won the Hobart International in Australia earlier this January \u2013 her maiden WTA Tour singles title \u2013 and that victory somehow\u00a0offsets Venus&#8217; finals appearance at the Australian Open. And as of the moment, the upstart Belgian has committed 20 fewer unforced errors in Roland Garros, and it might very well be her composure that&#8217;ll lead her to the upset over Venus this Friday.<\/p>\n<h3>Writer\u2019s Prediction<\/h3>\n<p>Mertens (<a href=\"http:\/\/topbet.eu\/sportsbook\/tennis\/womens-french-open-round-of-32-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>+220<\/strong><\/a>) does indeed shock Williams and the Parisian crowd with a huge win in three hard-fought sets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/record.tbaffiliate.com\/_y8k7RB3Ll4xutv7iXV6HvmNd7ZgqdRLk\/6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"broken_link\">Create a betting account now<\/a>\u00a0to win big from the second Grand Slam tournament of the year!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/record.tbaffiliate.com\/_y8k7RB3Ll4xutv7iXV6HvmNd7ZgqdRLk\/28\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-143054\" 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