2025 Pacific Championships Round 1 Preview

2025 Pacific Championships Round 1 Preview

• Will Evans

The 2025 Pacific Championships get underway with a bang this weekend, as Fiji Bati and Cook Islands Aitu square off in the opening Bowl clash in Port Moresby on Saturday and stacked New Zealand Kiwis and Toa Samoa line-ups do battle in Auckland on Sunday.   Fiji vs Cook Islands Saturday 18th October 2025 3:00 PM Tip: Back Fiji to Cover the Line (-16.5) @ $1.90  Fiji and Cook Islands lock horns for the third straight year to kick off the Bowl division of the men’s Pacific Championships in Port Moresby.   Fiji scraped through for a 22-18 win at the same…

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Daily Tennis Tips - Wednesday October 15th

Daily Tennis Tips - Wednesday October 15th

• Will Evans

See below for our expert daily tennis tips and best bets around the courts for Wednesday 15th of October 2025! RINKY HIJIKATA VS FLAVIO COBOLLI BACK COBOLLI TO WIN 2-0 @ $2.00 Australian Rinky Hijikata takes on third-seeded Italian Flavio Cobolli in the Almaty Open’s Round of 16.   Cobolli won their only previous clash, a four-setter in the first round at Wimbledon last year.   After chalking up straight-sets wins over Jakub Paul and Ugo Blanchet in qualifying, world No.114 Hijikata outlasted Timofey Skatov 7-6 2-6 6-3 in the first round.   The 24-year-old is now searching for two main draw wins…

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Daily Tennis Tips - Tuesday October 14th

Daily Tennis Tips - Tuesday October 14th

• Will Evans

See below for our expert daily tennis tips and best bets around the courts for Tuesday 14th of October 2025! TRISTAN SCHOOLKATE VS ADAM WALTON BACK WALTON TO WIN @ $1.80 Australian duo Tristan Schoolkate and Adam Walton square off in the first round of the Almaty Open in Kazakhstan.  The compatriots have met seven times at Challenger level and in qualifying matches since the start of 2023. Schoolkate leads the count 4-3, including two wins in 2025.   World No.96 Schoolkate is searching for his first main draw win since beating Lorenzo Sonego at the US Open. He went down…

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Daily Tennis Tips - Monday October 13th

Daily Tennis Tips - Monday October 13th

• Will Evans

See below for our expert daily tennis tips and best bets around the courts for Monday 13th of October 2025! SOFIA KENIN VS MCCARTNEY KESSLER BACK OVER 21.5 TOTAL GAMES @ $1.85 An all-American showdown in the first round of the Ningbo Open sees 26-year-olds Sofia Kenin and Mccartney Kessler square off for the first time. World No.28 Kenin has won her last three first-round matches and is coming off a second-round loss to Liudmila Samsonova at the Wuhan Open. Consistency has been an issue since a strong clay swing. Kessler, ranked 33rd, made an impressive Round of 16 run…

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Daily Tennis Tips - Friday October 10th

Daily Tennis Tips - Friday October 10th

• Will Evans

See below for our expert daily tennis tips and best bets around the courts for Friday 10th of October 2025! ARYNA SABALENKA VS ELENA RYBAKINA BACK SABALENKA TO COVER THE GAMES HANDICAP (-1.5) @ $1.85 World No.1 and defending champion Aryna Sabalenka resumes her frantic rivalry with eighth seed Elena Rybakina.   Sabalenka holds a 7-5 lead over Rybakina, who has won five of the last eight encounters – and the last three on hard courts. The 2025 ledger is square one-all: Sabalenka won a marathon Berlin Open quarterfinal, while Rybakina powered to a 6-1 6-4 win in the Cincinnati Masters…

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Daily Tennis Tips - Thursday October 9th

Daily Tennis Tips - Thursday October 9th

• Will Evans

See below for our expert daily tennis tips and best bets around the courts for Thursday 9th of October 2025! ARYNA SABALENKA VS LIUDMILA SAMSONOVA SGM – BACK SABALENKA TO WIN AND SAMSONOVA TO COVER THE GAMES HANDICAP (+5.5) @ $2.31 World No.1 Aryna Sabalenka takes on 16th seed Liudmila Samsonova in the Round of 16 as she chases a fourth Wuhan Open title.   Sabalenka leads the head-to-head 3-2, winning the last two encounters at the 2024 Cincinnati Masters and 2025 Indian Wells Masters.   Defending champion Sabalenka overcame Rebecca Sramkova 4-6 6-3 6-1 in the Round of 32, her first…

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Daily Tennis Tips - Wednesday October 8th

Daily Tennis Tips - Wednesday October 8th

• Will Evans

See below for our expert daily tennis tips and best bets around the courts for Wednesday 8th of October 2025! MAYA JOINT VS KATERINA SINIAKOVA BACK JOINT TO WIN @ $1.91 Aussie young gun Maya Joint takes on Czech veteran Katerina Siniakova in the Wuhan Open’s Round of 32.   Nineteen-year-old Joint has climbed to a career-high No.35 after beating Sofia Kenin and Clara Tauson on her way to the Korea Open semis, and accounting for another top-20 star in Diana Shnaider at the China Open.   Joint defeated Lin Zhu 7-5 7-6 in the first round in Wuhan.   Doubles No.1 Siniakova…

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Daily Tennis Tips - Tuesday October 7th

Daily Tennis Tips - Tuesday October 7th

• Will Evans

See below for our expert daily tennis tips and best bets around the courts for Tuesday 7th of October 2025! GIOVANNI MPETSHI PERRICARD VS HOLGER RUNE BACK MPETSHI PERRICARD TO COVER THE GAMES HANDICAP (+2.5) @ $1.73 Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard is aiming to eliminate a second straight top-10 seed in the form of Holger Rune.   The head-to-head is one-all, with Perricard winning their Basel Open semifinal last year and Rune prevailing at the recent Canadian Masters.   World No.37 Mpetishi Perricard has emerged from a lean run of results to beat Luca Nardi (6-3 7-6) and fifth seed Taylor Fritz (6-4…

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5 Lessons Learned - NRL Grand Final

5 Lessons Learned - NRL Grand Final

• Will Evans

One of the most unpredictable, absorbing NRL seasons on record concluded with a Grand Final to match – a game to echo through the ages.   Brisbane Broncos ended nearly two decades of heartache with a 26-22 triumph over Melbourne Storm, who became the first team in more than two decades to lose consecutive deciders.  Amid all the drama and interweaving narratives, however, it was a wizard in the No.1 jersey destined to command kilometres of headlines courtesy of one of rugby league’s all-time great individual performances.   Simply one of the best  The Holy Trinity of rugby league Grand Finals –…

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Unlikely NRL Grand Final Heroes

Unlikely NRL Grand Final Heroes

• Will Evans

Pre-match attention understandably focuses on the likes of superstars Reece Walsh, Cameron Munster, Harry Grant, Adam Reynolds, and Jahrome Hughes ahead of Sunday night’s 2025 NRL Grand Final blockbuster between Brisbane and Melbourne But Grand Finals have a knack of producing unlikely heroes – unheralded types who sew their name into the fabric of rugby league history with a memorable performance on the game’s biggest stage. 1942 – Lin Johnson (Canterbury) Played on an SCG quagmire, the 1942 decider between Canterbury and St George was locked 9-all in the dying stages when Berries fullback Lin Johnson lined up a penalty…

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