Andy Murray has managed to dodge a quarter-final with Jo-Wilfried Tsonga after Kei Nishikori beat him in a gruelling five-setter on Sunday night, but can the Japanese spring another surprise?

It looks unlikely.  Dave Kelner chatted to Sky Sports’ tennis commentator Nick Lester live on In-Play Radio on Tuesday afternoon to talk about that match and the other quarter-finals scheduled to take place on Wednesday morning (UK time).

He comes up with some quality bets.

Enjoy.

The weather continues to scupper the 2011 US Open in New York and we move into Wednesday’s action with a number of quarter-finals still yet to be determined.

To listen to Nick Lester’s preview of the postponed matches, please click on the link below and that will direct you to the previous tennis podcast.

This edition of the podcast features four match previews as Sky Sports’ Nick Lester looks at Novak Djokovic v Janko Tipsarevic, Roger Federer v Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Caroline Wozniacki v Andrea Petkovic and Serena Williams v Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.

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Marion Bartoli produced some scintillating tennis on ‘Magic Monday’, beating Serena Williams in straight sets and she’s rewarded with a quarter-final against German, Sabine Lisicki.

Sky Sports commentator Nick Lester correctly predicted Serena’s elimination and he’s got some more betting gems for us ahead of the quarter-finals.

Nick previews both the men’s and the women’s quarters, offering a set score in each match.

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Recorded at 9.15am on Tuesday morning, Sky Sports commentator Nick Lester previews the French Open quarter-finals.

Nick has some top bets for us in each of the matches and particularly intriguing opinion on the clash between Rafael Nadal and Robin Soderling.

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Estoril, Portugal – The ATP Estoril Open has served up a couple of blockbuster quarterfinal matchups that tennis-betting fans worldwide will spot – the showdowns between Robin Soderling and Juan Martin Del Potro and Fernando Verdasco and Kevin Anderson.

Monte Carlo, Monaco – The ATP Masters Monte Carlo reaches the quarterfinal round and through to the final-eight are the top four seeded players – six-time defending champion Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, Andy Murray and David Ferrer.

Monte Carlo, Monaco – Six-time defending champion Rafael Nadal is through to the quarterfinals and, surprisingly, so is No.4 seed Andy Murray. Nadal and Murray are slated to collide in the semi-finals of the ATP Monte Carlo Masters presuming they both win their quarterfinal encounters today.

Casablanca, Morocco – In the city immortalized by the unfulfilled romance between Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in the American movie Casablanca, a minor tennis event is underway this week and, curiously, in some ways, the storyline has been as upsetting as the movie was in that some of the key protagonists didn’t deliver on their promise.

Miami, Florida – World No. 1 Rafael Nadal is set to bid for a spot in the ATP Miami Masters today when the last men’s quarterfinal match takes centre court this evening. Standing in Nadal’s way is Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic, a top ten player and a legitimate threat but also a player that he owns a healthy head-to-head edge over.
Such a positive run of form against…

Miami, Florida – Novak Djokovic continues on a tear through the season as he reaches the ATP Miami Masters quarterfinal on the back of another convincing win over his whipping boy (and pal) Viktor Troicki in the R16. This last win extends Djokovic’s incredible run to 21 straight matches (23 if you include the two wins at the tail end of last season), and for many tennis enthusiasts…