Tennis is a very special sport for sports bettors. Most players bet on football and come to tennis betting as a dilettante. However, it is not the most obvious sport, especially in these times. If you are reading this article in 2050, this part is no longer relevant. Tennis is dominated by three players: Federer – Nadal and Djokovic. Women’s tennis is much more open.
An individual sport: pros and cons
Tennis has the distinction of being the most popular individual sport for online bettors. First of all, you have to determine your profile as a tennis bettor. If you are a casual tennis bettor, professional tennis may seem easy enough, especially with the current dominance of the three ATP players. But if your tennis is at the heart of your online betting strategy, you’ll have to work hard. Why? It’s an individual sport. While in a team sport, the failures of some can be compensated by the good days of others, in tennis it’s as poker players would say “head to head”. There are therefore a number of objective and subjective criteria that come into play.
Pros: In tennis there are no surprises! The favourite will win his match against the underdog. A Rafael Nadal is rarely beaten by a guest or qualifier. Rarely doesn’t mean never, but playing the underdog is clearly not profitable in a long term betting strategy.
Let’s take a simple example: one month before the French Open, the winner of the tournament is quoted at
- Rafael Nadal 1.40.
- Dominic Thiem 9.00.
- Novak Djokovic 10,00.
A good example is better than a great speech. On a tournament with 34 days to go, you have ridiculous odds for a bet that is ultimately far away. This is the peculiarity of tennis in general and especially at the moment. Three aliens are fighting for the major titles in a discipline that is often plagued by long reigns. To bet on the tournaments, you will have a choice between clearly identified favourites with a minimum risk of surprise.
The obvious advantage, but one to think about when considering whether or not tennis should be the basis of your online betting strategy, is that for tennis many of the criteria disappear compared to betting on team sports: no strategies, tactics, team composition.
That’s a lot of difficulties that disappear.
Obviously you will find another problem if your goal is to beat the bookmaker. Find the right odds!
The right reflexes to win your tennis bets
Tennis players have favourite surfaces: Take Federer who is one of the greatest players in the history of professional tennis, he has won only one Roland Garros tournament. The Swiss player suffers too much on clay and has to face Rafael Nadal who has won 10 of them so far!
The surface is a determining factor and can be enough to guide you in your bets.
The ATP rankings of the two players
If the top of the ranking gives a picture of the year’s form, beware of the errors of this ranking which does not take into account injuries, the choices of players to skip such or such tournaments. The deeper you go into the ranking, the more you have to look at the history of the players.
The weather
Rain, wind, cold, heat can put a player in the hard if he is not used to the weather conditions he can undergo. For example, the Australian Open is played in a heat wave that can reach 50 degrees in the sun on the centre court. And when you know that Federer plays most of the time in the early evening, in the cool… An example to show you that knowing this kind of detail can help.
The tournament
The tournaments are more or less endowed. Don’t play in the minor tournaments, they have some weird stuff going on and the ATP has recently announced that this is their biggest problem. Another scourge on tournaments is players chasing bounties who will give up once they reach the expected winnings.
- The profile of the two players.
- The latest results of the head-to-head matches.
- The current form of each player.
Players’ goals
Tennis is a particular sport that will require you to know all these factors to develop your expertise and why not your bankroll! You also need to know how to choose the right bet to optimise your winnings, especially if the match is unbalanced.
The different types of bets on tennis
- The exact score.
- Winner of the match.
Will there be a tie-break during the match?
- Which player will win the 1st set.
- Total number of games.
- Final score (sets).
- Number of games in the 1st set.
- Total number of games.
- Number of sets.
- Exact score of the 1st set.
Set difference
Remember the overall rules on all bets. If the odds are too low for a major player to win, try combination betting to maximise your odds and therefore your winnings.