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08/12/2010 - Mason, OH (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Fourth-seeded Belgian Kim Clijsters breezed into the quarterfinals with a straight-set victory Thursday at the $2 million Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open, a hardcourt U.S. Open Series event.

The former world No. 1 Clijsters, the reigning U.S. Open champion, took down American Christina McHale 6-1, 6-1 in just 63 minutes. She will now square off against 11th-seeded Italian Flavia Pennetta in the quarters.

In earlier action, top-seeded and defending champion Jelena Jankovic and U.S. Open runner-up Caroline Wozniacki were third-round upset victims.

The former U.S. Open runner-up Jankovic was stunned by Uzbekistan's Akgul Amanmuradova 7-6 (7-3), 6-4 in 1 hour, 22 minutes. Jankovic defeated fellow former top-ranked star Dinara Safina, of Russia, in last year's Cincinnati finale.

Meanwhile, former Wimbledon runner-up Marion Bartoli upended the second-seeded Wozniacki in 6-4, 6-1 fashion on the hardcourts at the Lindner Family Tennis Center. The 16th-seeded Bartoli drove out Wozniacki in 1 hour, 21 minutes by blasting nine aces and tallying four service breaks.

Wozniacki was fresh off her title in Copenhagen in her home country of Denmark last week.

Former world No. 1 star Maria Sharapova reached the quarterfinals here on Day 4. The 10th seed posted a mild upset by leveling seventh-seeded Pole Agnieszka Radwanska 6-2, 6-3 in just over an hour-and-a-half to set-up a quarterfinal match against the French Bartoli. Sharapova broke Radwanska five times on another hot day here.

More upsets came when Pennetta took out sixth-seeded Wimbledon runner-up Vera Zvonareva 6-4, 6-3, 12th-seeded Belgian Yanina Wickmayer overcame eighth- seeded Chinese Li Na 2-6, 6-2, 7-6 (7-4) and Russia's Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova dismissed 13th-seeded Israeli Shahar Peer 5-7, 6-4, 6-4. The Russian Zvonareva was the Cincinnati champ back in 2006.

Wickmayer will meet Pavlyuchenkova in the round of eight.

Also on Day 4, former world No. 1 Ana Ivanovic drubbed Russian Elena Vesnina 6-0, 6-3. Ivanovic will face the 6-foot-3 Amanmuradova on Friday.

This week's champ will take home $350,000.

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It is called the "pointspread."

Many years ago, NFL games, as well as the more popular college games, used straight odds as a vehicle for betting. For example, if the Bears were playing the Giants, and it shaped up as a competitive contest, the Bears might be, say, a 7/5 favorite. If they were playing an also-ran, it might be 10/1. Well, there is a point where a line becomes prohibitive, as far as betting the favorite. And who would waste money betting an underdog that has virtually no chance? Such a setup did not contribute to promoting betting action.

But in modern sports betting, a "pointspread" is used.

A NFL pointspreads are exactly that, a pre-established point difference between the two sides that will, for all intents and purposes, create a handicap that evens things out, and in doing so, produces comparable wagering activity on both sides of that proposition. So in lieu of a odds figure in which to bet the team to win outright, the Bears might be a three-point favorite over the New York Giants, and a 17-point favorite over the also-ran. Now that the team that is the underdog can "get" points, there can be equal action on both sides.

In sportsbooks, this is usually done with efficiency by charging the losing bettors 10% extra - in effect, bettors are laying 11/10 on those games. So they are actually betting $110 to win $100. If they lose, they pay the "vig." If they win, they simply collect.

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