Wimbledon 2008 Roger Federer Betting Odds: In his first round match, Roger Federer who is chasing a 6th consecutive Wimbledon title, looked like… well, Roger Federer. The No.1 player in the world breezed through his first round match against D. Hrbaty, by winning in convincing straight-set fashion (6-3, 6-2, 6-2). SportsBetting.com has the best Wimbledon 2008 Roger Federer Betting Odds.

The fact that Federer hasn’t lost a single match at Wimbledon in more than 5 years doesn’t stop him from playing every point like it’s match point. And in that span the only person that has been able to beat Federer is Rafael Nadal, but he has never done it on grass. Rafa Nadal was also a first round victor in straight sets Tuesday afternoon.

Roger Federer will move on to round 2 of this 2008 Wimbledon to face Robin Soderling Wednesday afternoon from London. SportsBetting.com has Roger Federer -5000 Wimbledon 2008 betting odds favorite to beat Robin Soderling (+1500).

Also in second round action Wednesday will be a clash between two Australian Open Grand Slam winners. It is the great match up between the current Australian Open champion and 3rd seeded Novak Djokovic, taking on the 2005 Australian Open champion Marat Safin.

These two have met just once in the past, actually it was the year Safin won the Australian Open (2005) when Djokovic was a 17 year-old kid. Djokovic took quite a beating from Safin and you can bet he remembers that, as Marat went on to win the Grand Slam in 2005. In this Wimbledon 2008 match, Novak Djokovic is a -1200 betting odds favorite over Marat Safin (+600).

In other Wednesday Wimbledon 2008 second round action:

Lleyton Hewitt (-2000) vs. Albert Montanes (+800).

David Ferrer (-450) vs. Igor Andreev (+275).

Marcos Baghdatis (-600) vs. Thomas Johansson (+350).

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