Round 1 plays (2pts):
Victor Dubuisson to beat Daniel Chopra +110 @ Paddy Power
I'll take the Frenchman at these odds. In his last two starts, he has opened with rounds of 68 and finished in the top-10 in Qatar. Chopra has also shown some form on the Web.com Tour in South America over the last three weeks, but it is rather a long journey from Chile to India so fatigue may be an issue early on. He is here, presumably, as this was the country in he was born, but he doesn't have a particularly good record here. In the last ten years, he has played four times in India without a top-20, missed the cut twice and broken 70 on just occasions. And on three of those four events, it was played at Delhi GC, his home course as a youngster. If he can't play well there, I don't see why he should be favourite on a course on which he has never played.
Joel Sjoholm to beat Jonathan Moore +100 @ Stan James [also available @ BetVictor]
Again I'll take plus-odds in a first round matchup. Sjoholm showed good form last time out in the Tshwane Open - 5th at the cut - whereas Moore has yet to display this form this year - he hasn't recorded a top-30 finish in 2013 whereas he had 8 top-20 finishes in 17 starts last year.
Victor Dubuisson to beat Daniel Chopra +110 @ Paddy Power
I'll take the Frenchman at these odds. In his last two starts, he has opened with rounds of 68 and finished in the top-10 in Qatar. Chopra has also shown some form on the Web.com Tour in South America over the last three weeks, but it is rather a long journey from Chile to India so fatigue may be an issue early on. He is here, presumably, as this was the country in he was born, but he doesn't have a particularly good record here. In the last ten years, he has played four times in India without a top-20, missed the cut twice and broken 70 on just occasions. And on three of those four events, it was played at Delhi GC, his home course as a youngster. If he can't play well there, I don't see why he should be favourite on a course on which he has never played.
Joel Sjoholm to beat Jonathan Moore +100 @ Stan James [also available @ BetVictor]
Again I'll take plus-odds in a first round matchup. Sjoholm showed good form last time out in the Tshwane Open - 5th at the cut - whereas Moore has yet to display this form this year - he hasn't recorded a top-30 finish in 2013 whereas he had 8 top-20 finishes in 17 starts last year.
