If you like parlays, today is your lucky day. We like world No. 23 Lorenzo Musetti to win a set off world No. 4 Casper Ruud, and world No. 21 Frances Tiafoe to do the same against world No. 25 Alex De Minaur on Thursday at the Rolex Paris Masters.
If you were to jump on those bets separately, you’d have to lay a lot of juice on each individual player to cover. But when you combine them together, you get it at plus-money odds. And considering we think both players have legitimate chances to win outright, the value is just too hard to pass up.
In the last month or so, Ruud just hasn’t been playing his best tennis. The 23-year-old has lost to Yoshihto Nishioki, Jaume Munar and Stan Wawrinka in that time. He also had quite a bit of trouble against Richard Gasquet in his first match in Paris. All in all, it’s just a far cry from the level we saw Ruud reach in making the final at both the French Open and US Open.
Meanwhile, Musetti is coming off wins over big hitters like Marin Cilic and Nikoloz Basilashvili. The Italian can be really dangerous when he is locked in and swinging freely, and we think he will be in this late-season matchup.