Bet of the day: Tsonga beats Almagro 2-1 in Argentina Open quarters

Sam Barnard, Assistant Sports Editor | February 12, 2016

Coral’s bet of the day

• Tsonga has won each of last six meetings
• Four of those battles have been close
• Almagro no pushover being a former champion here

Tsonga 11/4 to beat Almagro 2-1

As the Argentina Open tennis tournament reaches the quarter-finals, Coral have picked out a price for our bet of the day, which involves two 30-year-olds Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Nicolas Almagro.

Take terrific odds of 11/4 for the Frenchman to win 2-1, and read on to find out why…

Tsonga has beaten Almagro in all six of their meetings to date, including three times on clay, the surface in Buenos Aires.

While four of those were in straight sets, two of them were incredibly close (7-6 7-6 and 7-6 7-5), and the Spaniard happens to now be playing in one of his favourite competitions.

Almagro to test Tsonga this time

Almagro has won this event before in 2011, and reached the final in the following edition, while a Spanish star has lifted the title in Argentina’s capital in each of the last seven years.