At Last - The tennis kicks off in earnest today!

Firstly though, a big thanks to all of you who have e-mailed me or replied on the Big Mike and SBC forums - your support and encouragement has been greatly appreciated! Heres to a succesful New Year for all of us.

Right, where were we...... TENNIS.  The exhibition tournament of 5 matches on the 1st to the 3rd gave 6 of the top players a chance to warm up, and boy did Murray warm up beating Federer in the Semi and Nadal in the Final! - also gave me a chance to warm-up with 3 matches of the 5 fitting the bill and 3 wins out of 3 taking my winning streak to 25.

A nice start to the Tennis, but have got to be on my guard now as 25 wins on the trot is too many statistically - expecting a correction at any point now as I would have expected to lose 2-3 trades over this period - but hey, whose complaining.

Effectively we have 5 concurrent tournaments this week: ATP Doha, ATP and WTA Brisbane, ATP Chenai and WTA Auckland - so there should be loads of opportunities. Nothing has caught my eye so far, the first day or so is filled with matches that generate little volume, but with some televised games this afternoon, I am hoping to get on 2 or 3 matches today.

For those of you unfamiliar with tennis outside of the grand slams, most ATP and WTA tournaments last for 1 week and run from Monday to Sunday. What i am really looking forward to is the games from Thursday onwards. Friday will bring 20 quarter final matches, Saturday 10 semi-finals, and Sunday 5 finals. These should all be high volume with plenty of swings and plenty of trading opportunities - lets see how it goes.

As far as the horses, only 2 meetings today. I've been through the cards and have only 4 races of any interest, but may well find some opportunities from Big Mike, SBC and NH Portfolio later this morning.

Oh, by the way, it was cold this morning, and it snowed - guess who didn't have to get up and go to work!!!!

I love this job

All the best

Paul

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