French tennis player Jeremy Chardy has been moving up the rankings within the top 100 quite impressively lately. 

Still only aged 22 years, Chardy is at a career high on the ATP tour with a rank of 32.  At about this top last year he was barely hanging on to a top 100 position as he was 97th in the world.

Chardy's credentials on tour this year include a recent title in Stuttgart, Germany where he beat 5 top 50 players and only dropped 2 sets during the entire event.  Earlier in the year at Johannesburg, Chardy made the finals and lost a tightly played match to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.  Also, Chardy has victories this year over Radek Stepanek, Igor Andreev, David Ferrer, Tommy Haas, and Marin Cilic.  At Wimbledon, Chardy got a little unlucky with a very unfavorable first round draw against eventual finalist Andy Roddick.  That said Chardy did manage to take a set off of Roddick and that was significant given how outstanding Roddick was during the fortnight.

Chardy is now the 5 seed at Gstaad and the best player in the field, by ranking, is Stanislas Wawrinka.  At +700 (7/1; bet365) to win outright at Gstaad, Chardy looks like he certainly has value and he is our recommendation to win at Gstaad.