Tennis

With dozens of high profile men’s and women’s tournaments held each year, Tennis provides punters with a unique sport betting opportunity throughout the whole year.

Played on a relatively small stage, this global game enables punters to develop and implement complex tennis betting strategies and to take advantage of the excellent odds and diverse betting options facilitated by this sport.

The ante-post odds on offer can be quite high, allowing punters to back multiple players, thereby increasing their chances of generating a payout from these bets.

The intense focus is usually on three of the more top profile tournaments:

The ATP Tour – A Global professional men’s tennis tour comprised of over 50 different tournaments in four categories.

The WTA Tour – A women’s tennis tour travelling to locations around the world with a four different tournament tier structure.

The Grand Slams – Probably the most heard of, it consists of the four biggest and most prestigious tennis tournaments of the year., The Australian Open, The French Open, The Championships Wimbledon and The US Open. This tournament is the only tennis tournament co-sanctioned by the WTA and ATP, with players from both tours contesting major titles at a shared venue and receives the most extensive media coverage.

The most popular betting options for Tennis are:

Match Betting: the most basic of betting options. Punters make a selection in any given match based on a player form or odds and then wait patiently for the match results.

Set Betting: Punters can bet on individual sets in a few ways. The first set betting option is to bet on the winner of a specific set by backing a specific player.

The second bet option available requires a prediction of the final tennis scores in the match according to the number of sets each player wins. This variant of set betting tends to offer higher odds.

Betting on a tournament winner: Opportunities to be on a tournament winner are usually available some time in advance, usually months before the most prestigious tennis tournaments.

Ante post odds on offer can be quite high, allowing punters to back numerous players, and increasing their chances of generating a payout from betting.

So far, highlights of 2009 tennis has been:

Wimbeldon 2009 saw Roger Federer collect his 6^th Wimbledon and a record 15^th Grand Slam title after a thrilling men’s final.

In the ladies event, Serena Williams defeated her sister Venus for the third time in a Wimbledon Final.

US Open 2009 came to a conclusion with two new champions and a small gaggle of new stars to admire.

Juan Martin Del Potro stole the show, eventually, by beating Roger Federer in his first grand slam title. Del Potro did what no man had ever done before, beating both Rafael Nadal and Federer in consecutive matches at a major championship. Federer, aiming to win his sixth consecutive title, had not been beaten since 2003 and Del Potro stole the show, and the Swiss’s strangehold on the tournament.

And next year will be one not to miss.