Wimbledon may be over but tennis never stops, and Andy Schooler is back with 3 tasty tennis tips looking at this week’s tournaments in Bastad, Gstaad and Los Cabos.Read below for his exclusive first round fancies, spready over Monday & Tuesday.
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Tasty Tennis Tips: Arthur Cazaux v Nikoloz Basilashvili (Mon)
I reckon Basilashvili might be a touch of value here as the underdog. He qualified at Wimbledon and then beat seventh seed Lorenzo Musetti in the main draw. That following a claycourt campaign which saw him qualify at Roland Garros and finish runner-up at the Bordeaux Challenger. OK, he’s not operating at the levels he once was – the Georgian is a former world number 16 – but his current form could well be good enough to see off Cazaux.
The Frenchman also won four matches at Wimbledon but, significantly, he didn’t play much during the clay season due to injury so he may be a tad rusty in terms of the surface. The 1,000m-plus of altitude may help Cazaux’s decent serve but Basilashvili has enjoyed the conditions in the Alps before. His last ATP title came in the foothills in Munich (520m up), while he’s also made the final in Kitzbuhel (762m) in the past. Sadly, he’s already been cut in since I started writing this but we’ll still have a try.
Tasty Tennis Tips: Aleksandar Vukic v Emilio Nava (Mon)
I’ve mentioned Vukic in recent columns, highlighting the number of narrow defeats he’s suffered this season. Well, he managed to get the winning feeling a bit more during the grasscourt season, going 5-5 at all levels, and I feel he’s a decent price ahead of this contest, which will be played on a hardcourt. Vukic’s big first serve should get a bit of cut-through on what is a sluggish Solflex surface – Sam Querrey and Ivo Karlovic are former champions here – while I’m not convinced his opponent will be massively keen on this one.
Nava plays most of his tennis on clay these days and hasn’t played a hardcourt match since Australian Open qualifying in January. He’s contested only five matches against top-100 players since. His career hardcourt record at tour level is a woeful 3-13 and this will be his first such match since March 2024. Only one of the wins came against a top-100 player – a soon-to-retire John Isner in 2023 (you guessed it, two tie-breaks). For me, Vukic will be worth backing when prices go up (none available at time of writing) as long as he’s in the predicted 1.7 to 1.8 range.
Tasty Tennis Tips: Camilo Ugo Carabelli v Cristian Garin (Tue)
They play down at sea level in Bastad and the slow conditions should be familiar to these two South Americans. However, the pair arrive in contrasting form. It seems a long time since Ugo Carabelli was making claycourt semi-finals in Rio and Santiago. He’s now lost nine of his last 11 matches with the last five all being lost without winning a set.
Garin, however, is 20-5 since late April and while most of those have come at Challenger Tour level, his confidence is going to be considerably higher. Two Challenger titles on clay have been won in that run, with two other semi-finals reached by the Chilean, who was once used to contending for this sort of title – he’s a former top-20 star with five ATP titles to his name (all on clay). Admittedly, Garin is only 5-5 at tour level in 2025 but he looks capable of improving that stat in what will be his first meeting with the Argentine.
Tasty Tennis Tip: Monday Best Bets
Basilashvili to beat Cazaux @ 1.98 with kwiff
Vukic to beat Nava @ 1.72 with kwiff
Garin to beat Ugo Carabelli @ 1.68 with kwiff
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