Monday's main DraftKings tennis slate carries 11 matches, with a $50,000 cap and a lock of Mon 11/2 6:10 a.m. ET (3:10 a.m. PT). The card opens with Jodar @ Tabilo and closes with Van de Zandschulp @ Humbert, so there are plenty of pricing angles to work.
At the top, Xinyu Wang is the priciest play at $11,000, with a projection of 73.0 and the highest ceiling among the top plays at 123.9. Rafael Jodar ($10,200) projects at 75.5, the best number among the leaders, with a 116.6 ceiling. Casper Ruud at $9,500 sits at 75.0, and Karen Khachanov projects at 74.6 for $8,700, which makes him one of the better points-for-price options in the top tier. Alexander Blockx ($8,200) is right behind at 74.5.
The value section is where this slate gets interesting. Adithya Karunaratne at $4,200 projects at 71.6, which works out to 17.0 points per $1,000, the best rate among players under $7,800. Alejandro Tabilo at $5,000 projects at 75.5, tied with Jodar for the top projection on the sheet, at 15.1 points per $1,000. Juan Manuel Cerundolo rounds out the group at $5,600 and 72.2, or 12.9 per $1,000. Each of the three carries projected ownership of just 6%.
The crowd looks set to gather around Khachanov, Tomas Machac and Luca Van Assche, who all come in at 25% projected ownership. Wang, Jodar, Ruud and Norrie are each at 22%, so the field is fairly spread out at the top. Those cheap value names at 6% offer a clear way to separate from the pack.
Our model's top lineup spends $49,900 of the $50,000 cap. It starts with Wang at $11,000, then adds Machac ($8,300), Blockx ($8,200), Mattia Bellucci ($7,900), Alex Molcan ($7,800) and Denis Shapovalov ($6,700). It pairs one premium anchor with a balanced middle tier and leaves almost no salary unused.
Lock is Mon 11/2 at 6:10 a.m. ET, so get lineups set before then.
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