talkSPORT betting tips – Best tennis bets and advice for French Open Wednesday

The 2024 French Open will be in full swing on Wednesday when second-round matches involving the women’s top seed Iga Swiatek and crowd favourite Gael Monfils should attract plenty of attention.

We have picked out a four-fold accumulator that features wins for both players.

French Open Tennis Tips

• Iga Swiatek -6.5 handicap v Naomi Osaka @ 20/23
• Sofia Kenin to beat Caroline Garcia @ 7/5
• Gael Monfils to beat Lorenzo Musetti @ 11/10
• Stan Wawrinka to beat Pavel Kotov @ 6/5
• Accumulator pays 20/1 if successful.

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Swiatek can swat Osaka aside in style

Defending champion Iga Swiatek is expected to come through her second-round assignment against four-time Grand Slam winner Naomi Osaka on Tuesday.

The Japanese star is still regaining her old match sharpness after a long period off the court and is not quite as mobile or confident as she once was. 

Osaka overcame world number 67 Lucia Bronzetti in three sets, despite a slight hiccup after going 4-0 up in the final one.

But there is a world of difference between the Italian and the top-ranked player in the world right now.

Swiatek has won 13 straight games on clay after taking both the big warm-up tournament titles in Madrid in Rome before Roland-Garros.

11 of those victories were in straight sets and nine of them covered the -6.5 game handicap she has been assigned for Wednesday’s clash against Osaka. 

Kenin knows how to get the better of Garcia

Sofia Kenin is widely considered a more dangerous unseeded player than Osaka on clay and the 2020 French Open finalist can go toe-to-toe with number 21 seed Carolina Garcia in what should be a close match.

Kenin defeated Germany’s Laura Siegemund in three sets after her flow was interrupted by the rain when she was serving for the second set. 

The American, who has a 73% win ratio at the French Open, will fancy her chances of making further progress when she takes on a player who has often failed to deliver on her promise in front of her home fans in Paris.

Garcia has won 57% of her matches at Roland-Garros and has failed to get past the second round in each of the last three years

Kenin can also take inspiration from her 2-0 record against Garcia in past meetings, although neither of them were recent or on clay. 

If Garcia suffers another bout of stage fright in front of the Paris crowd, Kenin will be ready to pounce for a minor upset.

Paris crowd will expect more Monfils magic

Last year Gael Monfils came into Roland-Garros with a lowly ranking of 394 after an extended injury break and produced an extraordinary fifth-set comeback to beat Sebastian Baez for his first Grand Slam win in more than a year in front of a cacophonous Court Philippe-Chatrier crowd.

His fans will be out in force again on Wednesday, but this time they will arrive with more belief than hope as 12 months later Monfils is the world number 37 with 13 tour wins and a 2024 semi-final appearance under his belt. 

The 37-year-old’s opponent is 15 years his junior, has three times as many clay court wins this year and is ranked a handful of places higher.

Lorenzo Musetti also beat Novak Djokovic on clay last summer, having lost from 2-0 up against the Serb at Roland-Garros two years before, so the Italian’s pedigree is enough to make him a worthy favourite,

But the tale of the tape won’t count for much in this contest with an inspired Monfils under the lights on a Paris stadium court about as tough a second-round draw any male seed could get.

Stan can still be the man

Time and injuries finally appear to have caught up with Andy Murray, but the Briton’s first-round conqueror Stan Wawrinka still has designs on going deep in this tournament.

The 2015 French Open champion next takes on Pavel Kotov, who beat British number one Cameron Norrie in five sets on Monday.

Kotov had to dig much deeper than Wawrinka for his win and that should help the 39-year-old’s powers of recovery as he bids to reach the third round for the first time since 2020.

He still holds an impressive Roland-Garros win ratio of 73% and should have too many tricks up his sleeve for a player who is coming off his first-ever win at the French Open. 

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