The third round of Australian Open continues in the early hours of Saturday morning and there are a couple of games which should be tight affairs and set betting could work out to be profitable for punters. Firstly, in the men's event a tasty match between local hero Lleyton Hewitt and arguably the finest sportsman to come out of Cyprus, Marcos Baghdatis. Both of these players have reached the final of this ranking tournament and both are also in good form . Hewitt has been methodical in his two victories only dropping one set so far, whilst Baghdatis - after a comfortable win in his opening match - was involved in arguably the best match of the tournament thus far beating former Champion Marat Safin in five brutal sets. The pair have strangely only met once before in a ranking event and that came at last year's Wimbledon Championships when the Cypriot came out on top in four sets. Neither of these players have a massive serve so there could be plenty of long rallies in what I expect to be a marathon contest and it could be another tight affair with Baghdatis coming out on top in five sets.
 
In the ladies event, even at this stage there are not to many matches where you could predict a shock, there is one game though, which I think could be a close affair and that is between Sania Mirza of India against Venus Williams. Willams has looked a fraction below her best so far, particularly in her second round game against Camillle Pin of France, she served plenty of double faults and against Mirza who is the best paid sportswoman in her country and should get plenty of support from a big Indian community in Melbourne. I can see her taking a set from the six-times Grand Slam winner.
 
Selections Baghdatis 3-2 Hewitt:    Venus Williams 2-1 Mirza

Wayne Halliday is a professional sports writer who blogs on tennis betting at Betfair.