US Open Day 7 Betting Tips: Two bets for Sunday's play

Max Saakyan has cast his eye over Sunday's US Open schedule to unearth his top two tips for Day 7.

We’ve nearly completed the first week of the US Open already!

The players are now fighting for a place in the quarter-finals, inching closer to that prestigious Grand Slam title.

I’m sure many players were on the edge of their seats when US Open favourite Novak Djokovic went two sets down to fellow Serbian Laslo Djere, but the World Number one managed to fight through and win.

After analysing 64 matches a day on Monday and Tuesday, we're suddenly down to just eight matches on both the men's and women's side.

The first match where there seems to be some value is Belinda Bencic taking on Sorana-Mihaela Cirstea.

Bencic has found some success on these courts in the past, where she made the semi finals back in 2019, losing to Bianca Andreescu who eventually won the US Open title.

She's been impressive this week, dropping just one set in the first three matches.

The only slight scare was the latest match, where she dropped the second set to Lin Zhu but managed to overcome that hurdle with a strong showing in the third set.

Unlike Bencic, Sorana-Mihaela Cirstea hasn't had any success at the US Open, with her best result being a third round appearance before this week.

She's looked great in her opening two games, beating Kayla Day and Anna Kalinskaya. Then she had a match up against last year's Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina, and caused a huge upset beating her in three sets.

That win has affected the pricing in today's match up, and there is a strong caveat to be made.

Elena Rybakina has been suffering from a shoulder problem, which I'm sure affected her when she was defeated by Cirstea. With that being said, this means there is some nice value on Bencic at -2.5 Games, which can be backed with Uni Bet.

The second match is on the men's side, where we have Taylor Fritz facing Dominic Stephan Stricker.

The two players have had different experiences in this week's US Open.

Fritz has been steamrolling through every single player this week, dropping just 13 games in nine sets!

While Stricker has played 14 long sets this week. He most notably beat Stefanos Tsitsipas as a huge underdog, winning the match 7-5 6-7 6-7 7-6 6-3! Then he needed another five sets to beat Frenchman Benjamin Bonzi, where he came from a set down to secure a place in the fourth round.

To put this into perspective of how much longer Stricker has been on court compared to Fritz: He's been on court for 621 minutes so far this week, while Fritz has just been on court for 269 minutes. In fact, the match against Tsitsipas was nearly as long (250 minutes) as the three matches Fritz has played put together!

I think fatigue could potentially be an issue, and on top of that, the American has just been completely unplayable. I think the game spread here looks to be of value, with Fritz -6.5 Games available at 1/1 with bet365.