Djokovic, del Potro post wins at Masters Cup

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11/11/2008 - Shanghai, China (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic and rising Argentine Juan Martin del Potro were Tuesday's round-robin winners at the $4.45 million Tennis Masters Cup.

The second-seeded Djokovic reached the semifinals here by outlasting fourth- seeded Russian Nikolay Davydenko 7-6 (7-3), 0-6, 7-5 on Day 3 on the indoor hardcourt at Qi Zhong Stadium.

Djokovic topped Davydenko in 2 hours, 18 minutes by breaking the Russian on four occasions and firing eight aces. Davydenko could manage only two breaks in defeat.

The 21-year-old Djokovic is 2-0 and leads the four-player Gold Group, while Davydenko dropped to 1-1 for the week. The Serb is 1-1 lifetime against the gritty Russian, with both meetings coming this season.

Up next for Djokovic will be sixth-seeded Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, the Aussie Open runner-up to the Serb back in January, while Davydenko will face the seventh-seeded del Potro. Tsonga and del Potro are making their Masters Cup debuts this week.

Thursday's Davydenko-del Potro winner will join Djokovic in the semis from the Gold Group.

The 6-foot-5 del Potro edged out Tsonga 7-6 (7-4), 7-6 (7-5) on Tuesday. Del Potro is now 1-1, while Tsonga is out of semifinal contention at 0-2.

Del Potro topped Tsonga in 1 hour, 50 minutes and withstood a 17-ace barrage from the talented Frenchman. The lanky Argentine is now 2-0 all-time versus Tsonga.

Red Group action will be staged here on Wednesday, as top-seeded Swiss Roger Federer (0-1) takes on fifth-seeded American Andy Roddick (0-1) and third- seeded Brit Andy Murray (1-0) meets eighth-seeded Frenchman Gilles Simon (1-0). Simon shocked Federer here on Monday, while Murray got past Roddick on Day 2.

Murray and Simon, like Tsonga and del Potro, are Masters Cup rookies. The U.S. Open runner-up Murray has won 15 of his last 16 matches overall, including titles in St. Petersburg and Madrid.

The 13-time major champion Federer has won this event four times, including the last two years. He topped Spain's David Ferrer in last year's finale in Shanghai.

Federer is a lopsided 15-2 lifetime against his fellow former world No. 1 Roddick, but the American is 1-0 this year, with the surprising victory coming in Miami back in April. The Swiss is a perfect 3-0 in their Masters Cup encounters.

The reigning five-time U.S. Open champion Federer is the only former Masters Cup champ in this year's field.

Murray and Simon will meet for a fourth time, with the Brit holding a 2-1 career advantage. Murray is already 2-0 against the Frenchman this year.

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Michael Vick is back, Brett Favre isn't and the NFC East remains the best division in the NFC, maybe in all of football.

As players start to gather for the start of another season, some things change and some stay the same in the world of the NFL.

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The NFC East has been the dominant division in the National Conference for a while, despite limited playoff success, save for the New York Giants surprise Super Bowl win two seasons ago.

Hell, there's a generation of kids in Texas who have never seen the Cowboys win a playoff game (last win was in 1996).

But collectively, the Giants, Eagles, Cowboys and Redskins (well, maybe not so much the Redskins) are as good as a division gets in an NFC conference that has struggled to stay competitive with the AFC side.

Sports bettors have both acknowledged the NFC East's dominance, as one glance at the NFL future odds menu will show.

Looking over the NFL betting odds at online sports book MySportsbook.com we see the top three teams listed to win the NFC Championship are all from the NFC East:

Dallas Cowboys - 7 - 1

Philadelphia Eagles - 13 - 2

New York Giants - 9 - 2

Slotting in behind these three are two teams from the NFC North: the Minnesota Vikings (15-2) and the Chicago Bears (10-1).

Again, despite the lack of recent playoff success, the Dallas Cowboys are popular with the sports betting community, as they hold 14% of all the money wagered on who will win the NFC Championship.

So far, the New York Giants are the bettors' favorite to represent their conference in the Super Bowl, as they have 24% of the overall NFC Championship betting volume.

And what about the Philadelphia Eagles? For the most part, the Eagles had a very productive offseason, the kind that could bring them back to the top.

They had a good draft adding the likes of WR Jeremy Maclin and RB LeSean McCoy.

Unfortunately, the team received a blow when long-time defensive coordinator Jim Johnson passed away on Tuesday.

But this team will make a real run at the division title this year. Going into the regular season, Philly is listed at +240 to win the division.

Last season the Eagles were 9-6-1 SU and 10-6 ATS.

Teams from the NFC East will play teams from the AFC West in the regular season and the Eagles haven't really been a good bet in the last 20 games against the likes of San Diego, Oakland, K.C. and Denver, only going 8-12 ATS.

Two seasons removed from that Super Bowl title, the New York Giants see themselves listed as the odds-on favorite in NFC East championship futures at +162.

Plaxico Burress is gone and with him all the bad publicity surrounding the gun in the sweatpants incident, but can they replace him in the offense?

Last season the Giants were a very reliable bet going 12-4 ATS.

In the Giants' last 20 games against fellow teams from the NFC East; they are 13-7 ATS.

Dallas is listed at +240 to win the division.

Dallas went 9-7 SU and 7-9 ATS last season and with the amount of talent the Cowboys have, a similar performance won't do.

The Cowboys have been atrocious against divisional rivals, going 6-14 ATS in their last 20.

The Washington Redskins are longshots to win the division at +550.

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