As we predicted, in his opening Australian Open round, Novak defeated Basavareddy in four sets.<\/a> After that, in the second round, Novak also won against Faria in four sets. Last year in Melbourne, Djokovic lost in the semifinals against Sinner in four sets.<\/p>\nTomas Machac has won four of his last five matches. In the opening Australian Open round, Machac defeated Nagal in straight sets.\u00a0 In the second round, Tomas defeated Opelka in five tight sets yesterday. Tomas trailed 1-2 but stayed calm when it was most important and turned the match around. Last year in Melbourne, Machac reached the third round, losing against Khachanov in four sets.<\/p>\n
Best Bet to Make<\/h2>\n
According to the bookies, Machac is the big underdog, but we disagree. Tomas played well this season so far. On the other hand, Djokovic had a favorable draw but still lost a set in his opening matches. We expect a tight match that could go either way.<\/p>\n
That being said, Machac covering the games handicap is a value bet.<\/strong><\/p>\nValue bet\/ the best odds: Tomas Machac +5.5 games handicap @1.83 @bet365<\/p>\n<\/strong>Main Photo Credit: Susan Mullane-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ATP Australian Open 1\/16-Finals Draper – Vukic: 17.01.2025 10:30 CEST H2H: first meeting Jack Draper has won four of his last five matches. The last match he played before the Australian Open was the previous year in Paris. In the opening Australian Open round, Draper defeated Navone in five sets after spending four hours on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5045,"featured_media":68052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17400],"tags":[12603,11131,5862,1661,844,22,8147,11064,1635],"class_list":["post-78424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-best-bets","tag-aleksandar-vukic","tag-jack-draper","tag-jannik-sinner","tag-jordan-thompson","tag-karen-khachanov","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-sebastian-korda","tag-tomas-machac","tag-tommy-paul"],"modified_by":"David Barisic","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5045"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78425,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78424\/revisions\/78425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}