The French Open men’s semi-finals takes place at Roland Garros on Friday and we take a look at both games from a betting angle.

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Top seed, Carlos Alcaraz is the 13/20 favourite to win the French Open ahead of his semi-final opponent, Novak Djokovic who is priced at 21/10.  You can get 8/1 Alexander Zverev and Casper Ruud is trading at 9/1.

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Carlos Alcaraz v Novak Djokovic

Carlos Alcaraz is the top seed and has certainly played well enough to justify that seeding losing only 1 set on route to the semi-final.  After a straights set win over Cobolli in the first round he dropped a set against Daniel in the 2^nd round although only dropped 4 games in the 3 sets that he won.

Shapovalov was the next to be despatched in the 3^rd round as the 26^th seed was bundled out in straight sets before the 17^th seed Musetti was given similar treatment in the 4^th round.  Tsitsipas was blown away in the first 2 sets of the quarter-final before Alcaraz closed the match out with a 3^rd set tie breaker.

3^rd Seed Novak Djokovic has also dropped just the 1 set and that came in his quarter-final against Khachanov where he dropped the 2^nd set on the tie breaker.  He had comfortable straight sets victories over Kovacevic and Fulsovics in the 1^st and 2^nd rounds before been pushed hard by 29^th seed, Davidovich-Fokina, winning the first 2 sets on tie breakers before taking the 3^rd, 6-2.  Unseeded Varillas offered little resistance in the 4^th round and as mentioned above he won his quarter-final in 4 sets.

Head-to-Head

Alcaraz and Djokovic have only met once and that was in the Madrid Open in 2022 where Alcaraz came out on top of the 3 tight sets, 6-7, 7-5, 7-6.

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Carlos Alcaraz 40/85

Novak Djokovic 17/10

When you consider that last time these two played there were 38 games in the match and it was only a 3 setter, I find myself leaning towards the overs in games in this one.  Djokovic will have to lift his game to stay with Alcaraz, but I wouldn’t be surprised if this one went to a 5^th set and I am betting that we get 40 games or more.

Suggested Bet:  Over 39.5 games at 1/1

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Casper Ruud v Alexander Zverev

Casper Ruud, 4^th seed has dropped 3 sets on his way to the semi-final.  He opened his campaign with a comfortable straight sets victory over Ymer before been pushed hard by Zeppieri in the 2^nd round eventually winning the 4^th set 7-5.  He went down a set to Zhang in his 3^rd round before coming back  to win comfortably in 4 sets and his 4^th round clash against Jarry was also tight with a 7-6, 7-5, 7-5 score line.  He faced his first seed in Rune in the quarter-finals where he won the first 2 sets comfortably before dropping the 3^rd eventually closing the match out 6-3 in the 4^th.

Zverev the 22^nd seed has played better than I have seen him in sometime and has only dropped 2 sets on his way to the last 4.  He was given a stiff test by South African, Harris in his 1^st round winning 7-6, 7-6, 6-1 before comfortable straight sets victory over Molcan in the 2^nd round.  12^th seed Tiafoe took the first set against him in the 3^rd round before Zverev came back to win, taking two crucial tie breakers and he then romped past 28^th seed, Dimitrov in straight sets in the 4^th round.  The quarter-final was a competitive affair against unseeded Etcheverry and with a tie poised at 1 set all, Zverev pulled clear to win the 3^rd and 4^th sets.

Head-to-Head

These players have met 3 times with Alexander Zverev holding a 2-1 record.

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Casper Ruud 1/1

Alexander Zverev 5/6

Zverev is playing some excellent tennis and this should be another thrilling matchand I am backing the 22^nd seed to get the job done and make the Final.

Suggested bet:  Zverev win at 5/6

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